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Tor Browser Review

by Dark Web Market Consultant
There’s no secret skein of clandestine, Darknet-web fiber that only Julian Assange has the password for. Tor also uses the same servers, the same TCP/IP protocol, and the same encryption algorithms that the normal internet uses. Tor uses misdirection as a technique to relay traffic between communicating parties.

The most common way that people access the Tor network is through the Darknet. The Tor browser looks and feels just like any other web browser that is used in the surface web. But whereas Chrome and Firefox send their internet traffic directly to the websites requested by the user, the Tor browser sends it traffic via the Tor network.

Tor Uses Misdirection to Keep You Safe from Snoopers

When you visit a website using a normal web browser, your computer makes a direct TCP connection with the website’s server. Anyone tracking or monitoring your internet connection or that of the server can inspect your IP packet headers. This will lead to the discovery of the communication that is taking place between the server and you. But if you are communicating using encrypted HTTPS, the snooper will not be able to decrypt the actual content of the message.

In the case when you visit Deep Web Links and Web Sites using the Tor browser, your computer does not communicate directly to the server of the intended destination, what it does is, it constructs a twisty path which consists of three Tor nodes, and sends the traffic over these circuits. The Tor browser starts sending the data packets from the first node which is also known as the guard nodes. The guard node which is by the way is the initial node passes on the data packets to the second node. The second node is also called the middle node. The middle node sends your data on to the third (or exit) node, and finally the exit node sends your data to the website’s server. The server sends its response back to the exit node, which takes care of propagating the response back to you, via the rest of the circuit.

Tor Keeps You Safe from the Tor Networks

Tor’s definition of security is that no one (apart from the Tor end-user) is able to discover the IP addresses of both the origin and destination of a Tor circuit. If this property holds, Tor is secure, even if traffic sometimes flows through relay nodes controlled by an adversary. If traffic flows through an adversary-controlled relay, but does not help this adversary learn the IP addresses of both the origin and destination of a Tor circuit, then the Tor Foundation is grateful to the volunteer for their contribution towards network bandwidth.

Tor Browser Security Review

Tor browser is the pet project of the United States naval Academy and is the public face of the so called Deep web or the Dark web. It is a collection of the Tor .onion directories which are not indexed by regular search engine. Tor stands for the onion router and it is named so because of the security it provides to the user who surf the .onion Links.  The browser is safe and anonymous to its user as it is encrypted with different levels of security details which prevent threat actors from hacking the network. Just as onion has different layers before you can finally reach the crust of it similarly the Tor network is build around the cloak of privacy before the all the searches and web histories or in fact everything that is done on the Darknet through the Tor browser can be unzipped.

There are though two different reasons why Tor is being used. The first and the main reason can be to protect your online privacy and get post the all the barriers. The second reason can be to discover the Deep Web which is interesting and horrific in some way or the other.
 
Unblocking the Internet

The Tor browser is the best way for the safely and securely accessing the Dark web directories and is surprisingly easy to install just like a normal surface web browser like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. The benefits of the Tor network are that it can go through the censored websites that are sometimes blocked in countries and state because of certain rules and regulation. One downside is that there is a place where captcha has to provide by the users but this sometimes allows down the browsing speed.

How Tor Anonymity Works

Tor uses a different methodology or a protocol for nodes to connect top each other when a user is using as a browser to surf the .onion Links. The network carrying the data packets from source to the destination is jumped from one node to the other which makes detection from outside sources very hard and tedious task. The data packets are relayed and passed on by volunteers who are spread across the world and there are more than 6000. Each of the nodes then process and decrypts each of the layer that is attached to data packets. The end user than receives the final message in a decrypted form.

How Secure Is Tor?

Tor browser is the safest and the most comprehensive Darknet web browser that is there. But Tor also has its disadvantages and it also can be tracked and hacked. FBI in the year 2015 had used Tor as a platform to stop criminal activity on the Dark Web Sites. The websites in contention is the now defunct and stopped Silk Road 1.0 and Silk Road 2.0.

Exploring the Deep Web

The second reason for using the Tor browser is you want to surf the Darknet links. The Deep websites pages end with .onion links and are usually are unrecognizable from the surface web address. The web address of Tor .onion directories usually are random picked alphabets with no meaning, it is there to disguise the law enforcement which is also a part of encryption that Tor deploys and has on its networks.

Use Tor at Your Own Risk

Although Tor has its advantages of being easy to download, and is free online but it also potentially dangerous as it hosts a lot of materials and contents that are illegal and are potentially worrisome. So while visiting Tor be safe and stay away from anything you are not sure off.
 
This is pretty much it to the review of Tor Browser. Explore more to know more how you can use TOR for your searches.

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