Home Internet with Anonymity Built In - Technology Review
BY TOM SIMONITE
A router that runs the Tor software prevents Web tracking.
“Many political activists, nonprofits, and businesses use an anonymity system called Tor to encrypt and obscure what they do on the Internet. Now the U.S.-based nonprofit that distributes Tor is developing a low-cost home router with the same privacy protection built in.”
““We want to make anonymity something that can happen everywhere, all the time,” says Jacob Appelbaum, a Tor project developer. “When you are connected to a router with Tor inside, all your traffic goes through Tor without you changing your system at all. It makes it simple to use.”“
