Tor Client Expert Bundle
(ver 0.2.4.20)
Freeware


Tor is a randomizing proxy cluster that prevents packet 
sniffers or logfiles (including those annoying "here is your
location" profilers) from determining your true IP address.  
The servers in the Tor cluster are entirely run be volunteers.  

For added security, the Tor cluster even envelopes your packets 
with encryption when they travel between your Tor client and any 
of the routing servers moving your data within the Tor cluster 
(once a packet exits the cluster to its final destination server, 
the encryption envelope gets stripped off, and only the IP address 
anomynity feature will remain in effect).


CAUTION: Applications must be individually configured to send their 
packets out through the Tor client.  Even then, programs running on 
your local machine (Java, Flash, ActiveX, RealPlayer, Quicktime, 
Adobe's PDF plugin, and others), malware, and even your browsers 
Cookies, could still be manipulated into revealing your IP address.  


Note: Persons connecting to the Internet from ISPs in some snooping 
countries are being blocked from connecting directly to known Tor entry 
relay servers, and thus being blocked from using the Tor Internet traffic 
routing cluster to send their data anonymously.  The solution is to send 
unencrypted packets to an unpublished Tor Bridge Relay (which to your 
local ISP looks like any other normal destination), and let this server 
secretly forward your data into the Tor cluster for you. The disadvantages 
of course are that the connection is slightly slower, and that while your 
data passing through the remainder of the Internet is still anonymous, the 
data flowing back and forth across the short link through your ISP to this 
secret relay will not get the extra Tor encryption envelope protection.    



NOTE: This is the last Win2k version of the Tor Client Expert Bundle.