Onion Browser: Encrypted Web on the iPhone
In an era when security is at the top of our minds, mobile web browsers seem to be lagging behind. There are few options for secure web sessions on smartphones, but a new iPhone app called Onion Browser is changing that. Onion Browser connects to the Tor network to encrypt all your data.
The Tor Onion router network is essentially a series of virtual tunnels that your connection will bounce through before reaching the destination. While connecting through Tor is slower than a non-tunneled connection would be, it has the upshot of making it almost impossible to monitor your activity online — it’s the closest you can get to anonymity online.
A website you visit using Onion Browser won’t know your real IP address, and you can circumvent most firewalls while using it. Not even your ISP will be able to make heads or tails of your web usage. Onion Browser allows you to manage local cookies dynamically. If you want to block all or some of them, that option is just a tap away. Of particular interest is Onion Browser’s New Identity feature, which clears the local cache and pulls down a new IP address immediately.
