It’s easy to defeat the Islamic Republic’s sophisticated Internet censorship system. The Tor Project, a nonprofit American Internet freedom group, offers free open-source software to help online activists defend against regime snoops.
According to its website, “Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.”
“Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol,” the firm says.
Tor offers a lot of services and depends on networks of volunteers. Its material is available in Persian and other languages. Visit its website at www.torproject.org.
