Stuck behind a firewall restricting your access to the Internet? You may have already tried HotSpot Shield or various other anonymous proxies with some luck. But what happens when your Internet Service Provider (ISP) finds the server’s address and then blocks it? You’ll have to wait for HotSpot Sheild to change their address or find a new anonymous proxy…
Here’s a better solution: Tor.
Tor is like the underground railroad of the internet. There are an incredible amount of reasons why YOU should be using Tor. Even if you have no problems accessing the social networks, you are being logged everywhere you go: 216.73.216.224.
The way Tor deals with anonymity is by creating a vast network of distributed anonymous relays. Instead of taking your information straight from source to destination, it will instead go through the maze that is Tor, where each relay is another Tor user. This makes traffic analysis very difficult. As well, if you are in Iran or China or someone else that has decided that certain websites are bad for you, there is no one server to block. Every user that decides to be a relay is a server.
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