Anonymous browsing with Tor reduces exposure but still has risks<article>
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You can be tracked and have your data intercepted from many angles, by legitimate and illegitimate actors alike: governments, criminals, personal enemies, corporate spies, children without moral compasses, you name it. Many techniques let you encrypt and shield your data at rest, on your devices and on remote servers, and in transit.</p><p>
But there’s one problem with all the shields you can put up: when you need to use to use a website, you’re giving yourself away, whether it’s from your current location or via a virtual private network (VPN) service that encrypts your request out to a data server location from whence it issues. Tracking which sites you visit or observing VPN end points can reveal a lot, even if the contents of sessions can’t be determined. And websites and VPNs can be
blocked, as activists and average citizens in many countries have discovered.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3152823/security/anonymous-browsing-with-tor-reduces-exposure-but-still-has-risks.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Anonymous browsing with Tor reduces exposure but still has risks
