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Tor Browser and anonymity: what you need to know | Kaspersky official blog
- Tor Browser provides anonymity to users by anonymizing user traffic through a distributed network of servers called nodes; however, it does not provide complete anonymity.
- German intelligence services recently identified a Tor user through 'timing analysis' in which authorities monitor Tor exit nodes and trace anonymous connections back to the end user.
- The more nodes a country has, the more of them can be state-monitored, increasing the likelihood of catching criminals.
- The Tor Project includes safety tips on their support page, but anonymity online primarily depends on the actions of the user rather than the technical capabilities of the browser.
- If you're using anonymous browsing simply to avoid intrusive contextual ads or for harmless purposes, private browsing mode in any regular browser should suffice.
- Kaspersky's home security solutions include Private Browsing that detects attempts to collect data and logs them in a report without blocking them.
- Kaspersky VPN Secure Connection offers Double VPN that allows you to create a chain of two VPN servers in different parts of the world that provides an additional layer of security and anonymity.
- It is essential to remember that traffic encryption methods are not intended for illegal activities and only conceal personal information from data-gathering sites.
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