TOR

The name "TOR" is an acronym for the phrase "the onion router".
TOR is a giant network of proxy-servers, which is used by a large number of people,
for the purpose of protecting their internet-privacy.
TOR creates a chain of three proxy-servers between a TOR-user and a website.
Most of TOR's proxy-servers are located in Western Europe and Anglo-America.
However, there are ways of circumventing TOR, so TOR is not as anonymous as
people typically assume that it is.

TOR can be fully circumvented via the same methods which
can circumvent any other proxy or VPN.
Namely, those things which circumvent TOR include javascript, flash,
other browser plug-ins, particular types of stylesheets, and probably one or more other things.
The TOR browser has a bilt-in add-on called "NoScript", which blocks most of such things.
NoScript was originally created as an add-on for the Firefox browser,
and the TOR browser is based-upon the Firefox browser.
However, at least one of the creators of NoScript was a SIGINT infiltration-agent,
who deliberately left a huge security hole within NoScript,
which allowed website-programmers to easily bypass NoScript's javascript-blocking function.
That security hole was eventually discovered, publicized, and patched,
but not before it had ben part of NoScript for menny years.

Altho TOR can conceal a user's privacy from the website that oneself is using,
it usually cannot conceal oneself from the SIGINT agencies.
That is becuz TOR was created by the U.S. Navy, and was designed by the Navy to be
inherently circumventable via SIGINT agencies which control the network of ISPs and routers.
That is done via forbidding the TOR-user from having any control over
the proxy-chain's middle node.
The TOR-software then creates particular proxy-chains which are susceptible to traffic-analysis,
and thus identifying the user.
The most effectiv way of creating a proxy-chain that is susceptible to traffic-analysis is to
hav the middle node in the chain go to the same country which both the TOR-user and the
end-website are in, thus isolating the first node and the third node.

In addition to that, the NSA and GCHQ hav secretly completely taken-over
the TOR network in the year 2023.
They hav done so via taking-over key authentication-servers within the TOR network,
which determine who can and cannot use the TOR network.
Thus, those SIGINT agencies can block a targetted person from using the TOR network.
That secret 2023 takeover of TOR preceded the 2025 totalitarian blitz.

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