UNPEELING THE ONION BROWSER
Linux Format|June 2020
Discover how you can mask your web browsing and how governments track you, with a little help from Neil Mohr.
Neil Mohr
UNPEELING THE ONION BROWSER

Take a look at how much privacy protection Tor and HTTPS offer when used together. Without these at every step in the process, anybody with access can snoop on all your activity, including the destination site, your username and password, user data, and location.

Using HTTPS protects user data, usernames, and also passwords at all stages.

Using Tor masks your destination site, username and password, data, and, to a certain degree, location. Adding a VPN would further protect your location details, but we should point out that there could be government bodies directly accessing ISP data or the site. com services via unknown snooping programmes.

They’re watching you. They’re watching everything you do online. You’d think we were being paranoid, but it’s part of their mission statement; the international Five Eyes (https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes) is a group made up of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, which have worked together since World War II to collate and share intelligence – and that includes internet use by you.

In the digital age, that means intercepting, storing, and analysing all internet traffic. Don’t be fooled into thinking that local laws can stop a nation state from spying on its own citizens. If you’re one of the Five Eyes, just get your mates overseas to do the spying, then report back. Tempora (https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora), a UK programme, splices off the undersea fibreoptic backbone of the internet, duplicates all the data transmitted over it. The data is then shared with the USA's NSA. Damn crafty us Brits, described by Edward Snowden as “worse than the US.”

This story is from the June 2020 edition of Linux Format.

Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.

This story is from the June 2020 edition of Linux Format.

Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.

MORE STORIES FROM LINUX FORMATView All
Create your first WebSocket service
Linux Format

Create your first WebSocket service

Mihalis Tsoukalos explains how to use the Go programming language to work with the WebSocket protocol.

time-read
9 mins  |
April 2023
Fantastic Mr Firefox
Linux Format

Fantastic Mr Firefox

Nick Peers takes a trip down memory lane to reveal the story behind the rise - and slight fall - of Mozilla's popular web browser.

time-read
9 mins  |
April 2023
Set up your terminal and email like it's 1983
Linux Format

Set up your terminal and email like it's 1983

Jump in the hot terminal time machine with Mats Tage Axelsson who emails from the command line using the latest technology.

time-read
8 mins  |
April 2023
Universal layer text effects with GIMP
Linux Format

Universal layer text effects with GIMP

Posters use them, films and presentations are hard to imagine without them: text effects. Attract attention with Karsten Günther and GIMP.

time-read
8 mins  |
April 2023
Jump to a federated social network
Linux Format

Jump to a federated social network

Nick Peers reveals how you can get up and running with this free, decentralised and non-profit alternative to Twitter.

time-read
9 mins  |
April 2023
Free our SOFTWARE!
Linux Format

Free our SOFTWARE!

Taking anything for granted is dangerous, so Jonni Bidwell and Mike Saunders revisit how the free software movement got started to help free us from proprietary tyranny!

time-read
4 mins  |
April 2023
Master RPI.GPIO
Linux Format

Master RPI.GPIO

Les Pounder goes back to the early days of the Raspberry Pi - and his career with this classic library! -

time-read
5 mins  |
April 2023
Waveshare Zero to Pi3
Linux Format

Waveshare Zero to Pi3

Transform your Pi Zero into a Pi 3, they promised Les Pounder, but it's more like adding on go-faster stripes.

time-read
2 mins  |
April 2023
The Best OPEN SOURCE Software Ever!
Linux Format

The Best OPEN SOURCE Software Ever!

In an attempt to trigger controversy, Michael Reed and Neil Mohr unequivocally state these are the greatest free software apps ever. Probably. We’re just trying to be helpful.

time-read
10+ mins  |
April 2023
Linux-Mandrake 7
Linux Format

Linux-Mandrake 7

Simplicity and a wide range of applications make this a great distribution for all Linux users.

time-read
2 mins  |
April 2023