The easiest way to use the digital anonymity service Tor is through the Tor Browser. You download and use it like a regular browser, and it covers your digital ...

If you seek utmost privacy when surfing the web, the Tor browser is your best bet. This free, open-source browser routes your traffic through multiple volunteer-run servers, scrambling your data and ...

In brief: Eight months after its alpha release, the first stable version of the Tor browser for Android has arrived on the Google Play store. With more people now accessing the internet via mobile ...

You can keep websites from watching what your smartphone is doing on the web. Sorry, there's no iPhone version. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better. Privacy and internet -- sounds like the beginning of a joke, right ...

Platforms hope by combining, their reach can be expanded, and that the merger ‘will strengthen both organizations' ability to protect people worldwide from surveillance and censorship’. CISOs of ...

A stable Tor Browser 6.0 has been released; it disabled SHA-1 support, got rid of the Mac Gatekeeper problem, and switched its default search results to DuckDuckGo. Tor Browser 6.0 is out. If you have ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

“Tor” evokes an image of the dark web; a place to hire hitmen or buy drugs that, at this point, is overrun by feds trying to catch you in the act. The reality, however, is a lot more boring than that ...