Install Tor Browser on Ubuntu

Tor Browser is a built on the Firefox Internet browser, but it is built-in the Tor software, so it is a VPN which aims to stay anonymous while browsing the Internet and it changes the IP address and skip the blocked sites, it lets access the deep web and so on ...

Open the terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/tor-bundle 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install tor-browser

     

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Russia : 110 thousand dollars to those who penetrate the TOR network

The Russian Interior Ministry substantial offers financial reward, 110 thousand dollars to anyone who could penetrate the network or the program known as the famous Tor to encrypt and hide your identity on the Internet; so as to eliminate the identities of network users of Tor.

Saying that the goal of this command is : "to ensure the country's security and defense."

The contest is open only to the Russians, and applicants need to pay about 5480 dollars to provide for the contest, which is open until 20 August

Earlier this month, the Council of the Russian parliament, the law firms are obliged to contact store personal data of users Russians in the country.

According to the Guardian, the more Russia is the fifth country in terms of the use of the Tor, with the presence of more than 210 thousand people actually benefit from the service, they are anyway growing steadily.

Tor is developed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.S. Navy, then became widespread globally purpose of concealing identity, and relies on a network of thousands of volunteers around the world who are turning to their computers relays to pass confidential data encrypted through.

And is being used by journalists and the enforcement officers is legal or positive things, but it can also be used for the purposes of illegal and unethical and negative exist in the "deep web \ dark  network", and that there is no room for expansion where in this article, but you can read about here.

To follow up, the Ministry of Defence in 2013 and it is still one of the biggest supporters of the development kit Tor, those developers who are considered independent research center is a nonprofit, and who keep the tools used to allow all access to the Tor.

In addition, it is mentioned that the leaked documents by the "Edward Snowden" published, explained that the NSA "National Security Agency" unable to break through the Tor network or spy on the users of the network.

     

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Interested in topics such as Tor, Tails or Linux Journal? NSA consider you as extremist

In a new report revealed by "XKeyscore snooping program" on leaked confidential documents concerning the activities of the National Security Agency, the U.S. NSA, says that the agency was using a secret program to classify all of the cares matters such as project Tor or Tails distribution and all who read the magazine Linux Journal is placed under a certain type of observation, but even that the agency was interested in pursuing both protection and privacy matters in general and especially those who cares about Linux and open source.

XKeyscore is a collection of software to collect and analyze the data used by the NSA has been detected for some of them by Edward Snowden, what has happened recently is that it has been detected on the source code for one of these programs (in fact is the rule file) used by the NSA in tracking operations , and discovered the above information according to which track all of the cares of security and privacy on the Web in general and some Ips specific pertaining to network Tor, according to a report carried out by the security experts Germans about the file leaked the tracking process does not belong to people reel off or goals for NSA, but anyone looking for a issues related to these areas.

Some searches that are tracked are any searches containing words such as 'linux', 'USB', 'CD', 'secure desktop', 'IRC', 'truecrypt' or 'tor', there are also websites are tracked all visitors such as Linux Journal, or those who are looking for services such as stealth and HotSpotShiled MegaProxy and FreeNet and many other websites, so that in fact are classified distribution Tails specializes in protection as "software developed by radical extremists across the Community."

Some countries, such as Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the United States are beyond the scope of tracing operations carried out by the NSA, the other countries around the world appears to be "despised by" seeking NSA hard to keep track of looking for such a things outside of these five countries known as the "Five Eyes".

Matters raised about tracking NSA is not new, but is the new track them down for this particular group of users and track them to the readers of Linux Journal and other websites .. Maybe they finally understood that open source has reached a stage make users security really is not able to track them through and this perhaps trying to track them down when they try to download these software from the beginning by the search and other websites .. can you reply on this news ?

     

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TOR for secure Web browsing

Tor is an open-source software to hide you on the Web, people use it all over the world. When you connect using Tor, you simply connect to the Tor network where thousands of people are in it from all over the world.

The best way to understand how Tor works :

The easiest way is to try Tor with Firefox which comes with Tor and many extras protection and stealthy, you can download the Tor Browser mobile from this link.

Tor is a great project for hiding and protection from tracking on the Web, there are several other projects within the project Tor to hide on the Web, such as the draft Orbot, which provides access to the Tor network from Android phones, Tails, which is a Linux distribution based on Debian ready to be used with Tor in all contacts and programs so that Edward Snowden who brook away from NSA uses it, you can find more about these projects from this link.

The Tor is a secure network, and it can also be used to browse the deep web.

     

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