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Anonymous browsing with Tor reduces exposure

You can be tracked and have your data intercepted from many angles, by legitimate and illegitimate actors alike: governments, criminals, personal enemies, corporate spies, children without moral compasses, you name it. Many techniques let you encrypt and shield your data at rest— on your devices and on remote servers— and in transit.

Each Tor session creates a “circuit” through intermediate routers, none of which knows the full path.

ut there’s one problem with all the shields you can put up: when you need to use, as activists and average citizens in many countries have discovered.

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