Tor Network Cloaks Your Browsing From Prying Eyes
You are not anonymous on the Internet. Even if you practice safe surfing by keeping your name, credit card number, and other private data off the Web, your Internet service provider may not be so scrupulous. Many telecom companies and search engines log user activities, and smart snoopers can mine these logs for your IP address and browsing history to figure out where you live, what you like and who you've been talking to.
To maintain privacy while surfing the Web, you need to encrypt the data you exchange with websites and mask where that data is coming from. Enter the Tor Network, a free service maintained by the nonprofit Tor Project and a worldwide network of volunteers dedicated to keeping the Internet free and private.
The Tor Network is an incredibly complicated network of servers designed to anonymize your activities on the Internet. Remember, every time you load a web page your browser sends out a request for the data on that page and returns it to your home computer. When you use Tor, that request enters the Tor Network via an entry point known as a relay. Most relays are servers running a copy of the Tor software, which encrypts the request and sends it through a random series of server relays (at least two) to confuse surveillance and frustrate anyone monitoring your Internet activity.
