the.com/tor
the internet wearing a thousand disguises so nobody can point at just one.
means free software that bounces your traffic through encrypted relays worldwide so nobody can trace who you are or what you're looking at.
from grew out of a 1990s us naval research lab project on onion routing, meant to protect government communications; ironically now funded partly by the same government to protect everyone else too.
the acronymoriginally stood for the onion router
layered encryptioneach relay peels one layer, like an onion
dual useshields journalists and dissidents, also hosts dark markets
speed costtriple-hop routing makes it noticeably slower than normal browsing