Ted the Penguin

Tor

Found Tor today. Jonathan pointed it out to me. Seems like a nice little tool. From the description:

“… communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it’s going.”

There are Windows, Mac, and Linux versions, so I’m going to install it when I get home, though I wonder how it will interact with the school’s firewall. For anyone else thinking of testing it, have a go, but consider yourself warned, it IS experimental software and can potentially harm your computer. I wouldn’t recommend putting it on a production machine or something that isn’t backed up regurally.