The common misconception about VPNs is that they can render users truly anonymous online and the same goes for using Tor, an onion router that scatters the users' data online. The truth is, however, ...

People who want to keep their online activities private are often faced with the question – should I use a virtual private network (VPN) or the Tor anonymity network? What are the advantages and ...

Although Tor and VPNs both serve to protect privacy, they’re fundamentally different in the way they work. Tor encrypts your data multiple times and forwards it via three independent servers worldwide ...

If I was in high school, tasked with a writing a term paper about online privacy, I might hand in homework that compared and contrasted Tor, consumer VPNs and VPN routers. Something much like the ...

Russia nor Iran could stop Tor's Snowflake. Now it's expanding into its own standalone VPN service called Snowstorm. Credit: Snowstorm As protest and unrest grew in Russia and Iran over the past year, ...

The Tor Project wants beta testers of its new VPN service to help “[tip] the scales toward a freer internet.” Free to use and available in Google’s Play Store, the recently launched Tor VPN is only ...