TOR

[pete_c]

Playing with new easy to install TOR browser.  You can run it on any OS.
 
Sort of virtually traveling this morning....
 

 
Locations via what is my IP...but typically it is an anonymous proxy with no location so you really do not know.
 
A - Kolkata, West Bengal, India
B - Ashburn, Virginia
C - Monrovia, Montserrado
 
Toast speed test
 
Loaded 754,928 bytes in 2.6 seconds from Google Cloud Storage server.
 
I am impressed considering how many hops it takes to test.
 
 

 

[BobS0327]

FYI.  Primary use of the The Onion Router (TOR) is to gain access to the dark web sites such as Silk Road, now referred to as Silk Road 3 Reloaded which is an online black market.  The standard run of the mill browsers such as IE cannot access the Deep (Dark) web. Users attempt to stay anonymous using TOR when accessing these various black markets.  Transactions are finalized using a cryptocurrency such as BitCoin to maintain anonimity.

 

[pete_c]

I was not aware that the primary purpose of the onion router was to gain access to dark web sites.
 
That said:
 
Onion routing was developed in the mid-1990s at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory by employees Paul Syverson, Michael G. Reed, and David Goldschlag to protect U.S. intelligence communications online. It was further developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and patented by the Navy in 1998.

Computer scientists Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson joined Syverson in 2002 to develop what would become the largest and best known implementation of onion routing, Tor, then called The Onion Routing project (TOR project). After the Naval Research Laboratory released the code for Tor under a free license, Dingledine, Mathewson and five others founded The Tor Project as a non-profit organization in 2006, with the financial support of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several other organizations

 

[jeditekunum]

I wouldn't put too much confidence in TOR. The assumption that nobody could possibly crack into that world and trace your activities is a poor one. Sure, on a spectrum of privacy its better than not using it. That's about all one can say with certainty.

 

[upstatemike]

Not a dark web visitor so I don't know for sure but always heard if you want to mess with TOR and the places it can take you then you first need to set up a VPN and take a number of other steps to protect yourself.

 

[pete_c]

Yup; actually I use it mostly out of curiousity watching the way it protects whoever using it.
 
I laugh when I hear about the dark web in commercials by an identify theft protection company that was started by an identity thief...well now owned by Microsoft.
 
Here have used Firefox now for many years on any OS these days with ad blocker and ghostery enabled. 
 
To me it is faster browsing a web site to look more at the content than waste time waiting for advertisement pop ups. 
 
More and more web sites will disable your access if you are using an ad blocker anyhow. 

 

[wuench]

I would comment but I don't want Pete to spend all his Bitcoin taking out a Hit on me on the dark web...

 

[pete_c]

Off on tangent cleaning my Sabbath sticks today and noticed one hand me down that dad (RIP) used frequently a while back. 
 
It is a small wood with markings of Stan Thomson Ginty on it. 
 
Reading some comments on Ginty irons....
 
What did his famous “Ginty” patent actually mean?  
 
“It means the Son of a Scottish brood that keeps getting into trouble only to easily find his way out of trouble!”
 
Some comments relating to Ginty irons....
 
You can see could cause some serious digging issues. 

And if you did not have the exact lie to match your swing could cause issues with the toe or heel diving down at impact.