
Tor is open-source software for enabling communications visiting websites, online posts, instant messages, etc anonymously.

While this free software protects you from network surveillance or traffic analysis, your network provider will still know you are using Tor. The acronym Tor stands for The Onion Network, the software’s original project name.

Onion routing was first developed in the mid 90’s by the United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson, computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag.