The easiest way to use the digital anonymity service Tor is through the Tor Browser. You download and use it like a regular browser, and it covers your digital ...

Why it matters: If you're a fan of the anonymity that the Tor browser provides, here's some good news: an alpha version of the first official Tor mobile browser app has just launched. The Tor Project- ...

Recently, BoingBoing ran an article about how some librarians in Massachusetts were installing Tor software in all their public PCs to anonymize the browsing habits of their patrons. The librarians ...

Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better. Privacy and internet -- sounds like the beginning of a joke, right ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

A stable Tor Browser 6.0 has been released; it disabled SHA-1 support, got rid of the Mac Gatekeeper problem, and switched its default search results to DuckDuckGo. Tor Browser 6.0 is out. If you have ...

So you want to know what happens in the dark alleyways of the internet? The Dark Web was created by online activists who were trying to share content using the most private methods. Without a doubt, ...

None of that matters, of course, if users are easily duped into downloading a fake product laden with malicious code—something that’s recently become a cause for concern. “People with bad intentions ...

“Tor” evokes an image of the dark web; a place to hire hitmen or buy drugs that, at this point, is overrun by feds trying to catch you in the act. The reality ...