Tor is an excellent solution if you want to keep personal information private, have medical conditions that shouldn’t be made public, or simply browse the Internet without leaving a trace behind. Tor provides increased privacy by routing web traffic through multiple computers.

To do this, the program encrypts web traffic with multiple layers of encryption before routing it through several intermediate servers known as relays.

Proton Mail

Proton Mail stands out as an industry-leading secure email provider due to its extensive feature set and advanced encryption levels that protect against hackers and spies.

Encrypting data with a private key that only they have access to can be an attractive feature for some users.

Proton Mail does have some drawbacks, however. Free accounts are suspended after one year of inactivity, and their privacy policies do not provide enough transparency.

Sci-Hub

Recently there has been much discussion in library and scholarly communication literature surrounding Sci-Hub. Last year’s widely shared Science article by John Bohannon is one such example.

Sci-Hub was launched illegally by Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011 as an illegal source of academic papers, violating copyright laws and placing universities at risk of hacking or identity theft; its methods also expose users to potential phishing attempts or malware threats; while frequently changing domain names to avoid legal shutdowns.

Riseup

This organization provides activists with email, chat platform and other tools. It also offers SecureDrop service which allows whistleblowers to safely share sensitive data with media outlets.

Tor is only accessible via Tor, offering end-to-end encryption at no charge by default, making this an invaluable resource for protecting online privacy. However, using it could expose your computer to viruses – hence why using antivirus software is necessary.

Tor Metrics

Tor helps users remain anonymous by encrypting and routing their traffic through an extensive network of relays, making it difficult for ISPs and restrictive governments to monitor online activities of users.

CollecTor captures Tor relay and bridge descriptors from directory authorities, archives them, and makes them publicly available for analysis using tools like metrics-lib. To produce a graph showing estimated relay user numbers on any given date, we first compute ratios on every day before filtering out ratios that fall outside four interquartile ranges.

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-oriented search engine, blocking ads from tracking users while not collecting personal data. Now available across browsers and extensions as well as working seamlessly with Tor.

NoTracker does not track users across the web, associate searches with IP addresses, or save search history. Furthermore, it provides impartial results while blocking trackers like Microsoft’s tracker scripts; furthermore its community-driven approach makes it responsive to user feedback.

Imperial Library

Tor encrypts data sent between your computer and websites, relayed across a series of volunteer relay points. This protects against anyone monitoring your Internet connection from being able to identify which websites you visit and your location.

Tor is also used to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks when connecting to public Wi-Fi networks, although its security benefits have their drawbacks – its slow speeds being one. Furthermore, its popularity has become associated with illicit marketplaces and other criminal activities.

ZeroBin

ZeroBin is an open-source alternative to pastebin that encrypts data at the client side, meaning the server doesn’t know what content is stored and can’t use this knowledge to moderate content or reduce liability issues for servers hosting the service.

Users can upload text fragments and code snippets with this service and receive a URL with a key that allows for decryption of their contents. They may also shorten this url and enable comments for each pasted snippet.