There are various ways to protect yourself from exploitation. Security is a set of measures that protect against potential harm to your online reputation and files. One of these is Tor, which is a network that enables users to anonymously browse the web. If you want to be anonymous, many tools will allow you to do so. In the digital world, you can be anonymous by preventing online entities from collecting or storing data that could be used to identify you, for example, the Anonymous Hacker group.

You can be anonymous in the physical world by covering your face and fingerprints. In short, Privacy is the ability to control what information you allow others to access.Īnonymity is when nobody knows who you are but potentially they know what you are doing. When it comes to online privacy, it’s a matter of how much personal information you can keep to yourself when browsing the internet or using software on any of your devices as Elon Musk is not going to declare his personal Laptop/Phone password to the internet. Privacy is the ability to keep certain data and information about yourself exclusive to you and control who and what has access to it. You could be anonymous, but still not private, or vice versa. It’s important to understand that anonymity and privacy aren’t the same.

Privacy and Anonymity often get substituted for one another and in the wrong context so it is easy to get confused. The two terms are not as interchangeable as you think.

In today’s article, we are going to explore Privacy, anonymity, and security in the TOR browser… When someone asked about TOR, the first thing that comes to mind is Anonymity and full of security, privacy, and protection but is it? let’s uncover some facts.ĭid you know the difference between Privacy, Anonymity and Security? Welcome to another part of the darker side internet! If you are in a world of Privacy & Anonymity then you’ve no doubt heard the word TOR (The Onion Router). Dark Web is a word that makes you more enthusiastic to explore it.

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