Monday, July 11, 2011

How to Use TOR to Beat Crappy Censorware

I think everyone knows how annoying censorware can be. Once, I had to research the Berlin Wall for an assignment. Unfortunately, the network's censorware decided that pictures of the Berlin Wall, either from Google Images or from the search engine we were supposed to use, were inappropriate. This  meant that I was only able to use about 50% of the pictures I saw.
"That's great, but how can I stop this annoying piece of     ?" The answer lies in a little piece of software known as TOR. TOR stands for The Onion Router. This thing was designed by the US Navy, for the purpose of protecting government communications. Now, it widely employed for either protecting data, or for getting around the censorware in countries like China. So, it will probably be functional enough to get around your business or school's crappy censorware.
Installing TOR on a portable flash drive is easy. Here's a short little tutorial.

1) Download the TOR Browser Bundle. In this tutorial, I'm installing the Windows version, as most businesses don't have Macs for its employees.
2) Move the installer to your flash drive.




3) Run the installer. The default extract location should be fine.
4) Wait for the data to extract. This shouldn't take too long.
5) Run the executable labeled "Start Tor Browser.exe."
6) Wait for your computer to connect to the TOR network.
7) Now, you can browse at your leisure. The browser packed with TOR is preconfigured to have TOR enabled. It even automatically goes to the encrypted versions of pages!
TOR is a really useful tool. You can get around almost any censorware. Just use it for good, not evil!
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1 comment:

  1. Go to tor browser download that is where I found the original post it has a good link to the free download.

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