Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better. Privacy and internet -- sounds like the beginning of a joke, right ...

Tor VPN is free to use but is still in beta and intended for testing purposes only. Don’t use it for high-stakes or privacy-critical work. The Tor Project wants beta testers of its new VPN service to ...

If you seek utmost privacy when surfing the web, the Tor browser is your best bet. This free, open-source browser routes your traffic through multiple volunteer-run servers, scrambling your data and ...

Brendan is a freelance writer and content creator from Portland, OR. He covers tech and gaming for Lifehacker, and has also written for Digital Trends, EGM, Business Insider, IGN, and more. According ...

Android users worried about privacy and anonymity have been able to use Tor on their phones thanks to popular apps made by a group of digital rights advocates for a long time. But Android isn’t the ...

I've been moving more and more browsing over to Tor as a thought experiment. ("What if I couldn't trust my DNS provider?" - TBB uses the exit node's DNS) I bookmarked a news site then wondered - is ...

"Tor" evokes an image of the dark web; a place to hire hitmen or buy drugs that, at this point, is overrun by feds trying to catch you in the act. The reality, however, is a lot more boring than that ...

Browsers are our window into the virtual world. So often though, we forget that just as we are looking outward, companies are looking inward. Every search we perform is logged and tied to our virtual ...

People who want to keep their online activities private are often faced with the question – should I use a virtual private network (VPN) or the Tor anonymity network? What are the advantages and ...