

This makes it possible for Tor to offer anonymity and a path through Internet censorship and monitoring – people living under repressive regimes with censored Internet connections can use Tor to access the wider Internet without fear of reprisal. (Of course, traffic can be monitored at the exit node if you’re accessing an unencrypted website.) The exit node passes the traffic back along the relays, and the relays don’t know where it ends up. The exit node talks to for you – from the perspective of this site, the exit node is accessing their website. The Tor relays pass your traffic along until it eventually reaches an exit node. Your Internet service provider and local network operator can’t see that you’re accessing this site – they just see encrypted Tor traffic. All traffic within the Tor network is encrypted.Īn example: Let’s say you access through Tor. Even the relays don’t know who requested the traffic they’re passing along.


It also prevents the websites themselves from knowing your physical location or IP address – they’ll see the IP address and location of the exit node instead. This prevents your Internet service provider and people monitoring your local network from viewing the websites you access. To make you "invisible", the traffic travels through several randomly selected relays (run by volunteers like you and your Raspberry), before exiting the Tor network and arriving at your destination. To use Tor, you need a Tor client, which routes all your Internet traffic through the Tor network.
