But more importantly, it’s pedigree is highly respected, having been written originally in the US Navy and based on the onion routing protocol which was funded by DARPA (part of the US govt). Tor was made famous by Edward Snowden & Mr.

Tor is technically built on Firefox, but acts as a separate installation, so you can have your standard Firefox and Tor. This is a separate application, so requires changing your browser. Tor Browser: If you are truly interested in running as anonymous a browser experience as possible, you should download the Tor browser. I use a lot more extensions than these in my day to day browsing but we will concentrate on privacy and security extensions today. So in an effort to help out my friends, family and also the wider SMB environment I put together this list of the extensions that I personally use to make me more secure AND to guard my privacy while online. Checking email is one thing, but using our phones to pay bills, pay employees, order supplies and the other million things we use the net for means we need to do more to make those devices secure. This becomes an even more important thing as we start to use our own devices for work. That’s not necessarily a problem but running a browser with its default settings in place means you aren’t being protected from the many malicious and accidental issues on the net. This is also true on their phones with most people just using Safari on their iPhones or the built in Chromium on their Android device. When I ask if they’ve customized or secured their browser I get blank looks. When I watch one of my friends of family members use their computer I usually see them using the default browser like Safari or Internet Explorer/Edge on their computers.

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