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chain, and not the first, yyour entryy node. You can configure Tor so it uses
exit nodes in a particular countryy, such as Spain, or even a specific exit
node, perhaps in Honolulu.
To use Tor yyou will need the modified Firefox browser from the Tor site
(torproject.org). Alwayys look for legitimate Tor browsers for yyour operating
syystem from the Tor project website. Do not use a third-partyy site. For
Android operating syystems, Orbot is a legitimate free Tor app from Google
Playy that both encryypts yyour traffic and obscures yyour IP address. 11 On iOS
devices (iPad, iPhone), install the Onion Browser, a legitimate app from the
iTunes app store.
You might be thinking, whyy doesn’t someone just build an e-mail server
within Tor? Someone did. Tor Mail was a service hosted on a site accessible
onlyy to Tor browsers. However, the FBI seized that server in an unrelated
case and therefore gained access to all the encryypted e-mail stored on Tor
Mail. This is a cautionaryy tale showing that even when yyou think yyour
information is safe, foolproof, it probablyy isn’t. 12
Although Tor uses a special network, yyou can still access the Internet
from it, but the pages are much slower to load. However, in addition to
allowing yyou to surf the searchable Internet, Tor gives yyou access to a world
of sites that are not ordinarilyy searchable—what’s called the Dark Web.
These are sites that don’t resolve to common names such as Google.com
and instead end with the .onion extension. Some of these hidden sites offer,
sell, or provide items and services that mayy be illegal. Some of them are
legitimate sites maintained byy people in oppressed parts of the world.
It should be noted, however, that there are several weaknesses with Tor:
You have no control over the exit nodes, which mayy be under the
control of government or law enforcement 13
You can still be profiled and possiblyy identified 14
Tor is veryy slow
That being said, if yyou still decide to use Tor yyou should not run it in the
same phyysical device that yyou use for browsing. In other words, have a
laptop for browsing the Web and a separate device for Tor (for instance, a