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Anonymous Browsing On Android Phones Using Tor

Posted by Soulskill on from the privacy-on-the-move dept.

ruphus13 writes "Privacy is becoming a scarce commodity, especially with geo-aware phones. Now, Android phone users can browse anonymously using Tor — a capability, until now, limited to the desktop. From the post: 'We have successfully ported the native C Tor app to Android and built an Android application bundle that installs, runs and provides the glue needed to make it useful to end users. Secure, anonymous access to the web via Tor on Android is now a reality,' writes Guardian Project team member Nathan Freitas. The Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha release uses toolchain wrapper scripts to run Tor without requiring root access."

3 of 109 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Except you must still trust Tor by poofmeisterp · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must still assume that the Tor nodes you are using are not hacked NSA or Chinese intelligence agency nodes, with a nice 'log traffic to disk' function added. If you really care, you need something like Opportunistic Encryption.

    So you shouldn't use it if you don't want to be a Tor-get of investigation? :>

  2. Re:Privacy is the next killer ap by Presto+Vivace · · Score: 2, Funny

    the more companies that make money by abusing our privacy, the more demand there is for privacy tools. The company which solves this problem will make a boat load of money.

  3. Speed by YourExperiment · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tor is a wonderful piece of software, but browsing with it can be somewhat slow at times. Mobile internet is also a great invention, but can be frustratingly slow. Thank heavens that no-one is proposing using these two technologies in combination!