the.com/tor network
the internet wearing a thousand disguises and swapping them every few seconds.
means a free system that bounces your traffic through volunteer-run relays worldwide, encrypting it in layers so no single point knows both who you are and what you're doing.
from built by the us naval research laboratory in the mid-1990s to protect government communications, tor stands for the onion router, named for the layered encryption peeled back one relay at a time like an onion.
funding ironystill partly funded by the us government it once served
relay countthousands of volunteer relays run in over 60 countries
speed costthree hops of encryption make it noticeably slower
dual useshields journalists and dissidents, also hosts dark markets