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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."

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  1. Re:!secure by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    TL;DR : only use Tor if you know what the hell you are doing.

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  2. Re:Privacy is the next killer ap by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The company who figures out how to protect our privacy while using all the cool gadgets and online tools is going to make a boat load of money.

    Because you know these days we need companies to do what the governments should be doing.

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  3. cell co.s will be thrilled by quickOnTheUptake · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm sure cell companies will be thrilled to hear this, with Tor and other onion routing systems using several times the bandwidth of a typical direct connection.

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    1. Re:cell co.s will be thrilled by skeeto · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The phone won't be acting as a node, though. Cell towers wouldn't carry any extra traffic than normal.

  4. Re:Except you must still trust Tor by arevos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

    Tor is a service for browsing anonymously, not securely. Security is handled by SSL.