


All of that makes it very difficult for anyone to trace your connection from origin to destination-not the volunteer computers relaying your information, not your internet service provider, and not the websites or online services you visit.Įarlier this month, Tor announced an update to its so-called onion services, which use Tor’s anonymizing features to hide not just individual people on the web, but servers too, allowing for so-called dark web or darknet sites and other services that can’t be physically traced to any locatable computer. Tor protects your identity online-namely your IP address-by encrypting your traffic in at least three layers and bouncing it through a chain of three volunteer computers chosen among thousands around the world, each of which strips off just one layer of encryption before bouncing your data to the next computer.
