Tor: anonimato on-line
Tor is free software and an open
network that helps you defend against
a form of network surveillance that
threatens personal freedom and
privacy, confidential business
activities and relationships, and
state security known as traffic
analysis.
Tor protects you by bouncing your
communications around a distributed
network of relays run by volunteers
all around the world: it prevents
somebody watching your Internet
connection from learning what sites
you visit, and it prevents the sites
you visit from learning your physical
location. Tor works with many of your
existing applications, including web
browsers, instant messaging clients,
remote login, and other applications
based on the TCP protocol.
Hundreds of thousands of people around
the world use Tor for a wide variety
of reasons: journalists and bloggers,
human rights workers, law enforcement
officers, soldiers, corporations,
citizens of repressive regimes, and
just ordinary citizens. See the Who
Uses Tor? page for examples of typical
Tor users. See the overview page for a
more detailed explanation of what Tor
does, and why this diversity of users
is important.