About Tor
January 20th, 2009
About Tor
By Rebecca MacKinnon, Assistant Professor, HKU JMSC
Licensed under Creative Commons
Tor is an “anonymizing” tool that utilizes an “onion routing” system, sending your requests for web pages and any other data through several “nodes” in many parts of the world. So the Chinese Internet Service Providers will not actually be able to “see” what website you are really trying to visit.
- You should use Tor with Firefox.
- If you don’t have Firefox download it here.
- Then download Tor here (follow the instructions provided).
- Then install Torbutton on your Firefox browser for easy use.
