Friday, December 31, 2010

Internet Privacy Appliance on the Horizon

It looks like TOR is heading toward going mainstream. TOR is a software that bounces your internet requests through a network to heavily obscure where the request came from. It's not guaranteed anonymity but it goes a long way toward hiding the folks who use it.

If this router configuration ends up productized folks won't have to download and configure software on their computer to gain the provided privacy... it'll just happen automatically on their router.

So the downside? I have to believe internet performance when using the TOR network will be slower.

Happy, safe and prosperous New Year EVERYONE!

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