Although Tor and VPNs both serve to protect privacy, they’re fundamentally different in the way they work. Tor encrypts your data multiple times and forwards it via three independent servers worldwide ...

The common misconception about VPNs is that they can render users truly anonymous online and the same goes for using Tor, an onion router that scatters the users' data online. The truth is, however, ...

People who want to keep their online activities private are often faced with the question – should I use a virtual private network (VPN) or the Tor anonymity network? What are the advantages and ...

Russia nor Iran could stop Tor's Snowflake. Now it's expanding into its own standalone VPN service called Snowstorm. Credit: Snowstorm As protest and unrest grew in Russia and Iran over the past year, ...

The Tor Project Inc., the nonprofit team behind the anonymity-protecting Tor Browser, and commercial virtual private network provider Mullvad VPN AB have teamed up to launch the privacy-preserving ...

We've shown you how to use a Raspberry Pi as both a Tor proxy and a personal VPN, but Make shows off how to do both in one unit for truly anonymous browsing everywhere. The build here uses two Wi-Fi ...

When Mike Tigas first created the Onion Browser app for iOS in 2012, he never expected it to become popular. He was working as a newsroom Web developer at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, ...

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