What About Tor?
Vinh Nguyen
Posted on February 11th, 2012
Tor has caught my eyes recently. It seems to me Tor is great for anonymizing a user, but it’s not so great in protecting privacy unless the user is serious enough and encrypting everything he or she has to send through Tor. Anyhow, I’m new to Tor, and so what I write about Tor in this blog post might need to be revised again in the near future. Suggestions for corrections are welcome! As always, I dabble on! Let work backward a little! Why Tor is great at anonymizing and not protecting privacy? Well, Tor is known for being great at obscuring the identity of the data source. Did I say identity? It’s all about hiding (i.e., anonymizing) the IP addresses of the Internet…