Obtaining Tor Browser

The first step to becoming secure and anonymous online is to setup and install something called "Tor".

"Tor" is short for"The Onion Router".
The concepts behind Tor were first implemented by the United States Military, and these principles have been used to create an extremely secure mechanism for being anonymous online. In fact, millions of people world-wide use Tor to browse the internet and communicate anonymously.
Tor works by heavily encrypting your communications so that no observer can see what website you are really going to, and what information is really being sent. It all appears as a bunch of random characters to any observer.
You simply use the Tor web browser just as you use any other web browser.
Tor takes care of the rest.

However, Tor by itself is not enough.
Even when using Tor, a user can be compromised in a number of ways.

First, some websites can be set up to attempt to reveal someone's true IP address (their true identity) by tricking their web browser or other software to transmitting that information.

For this reason, anyone who uses Tor will recommend that no one have javascript or flash turned on while browsing Tor.
In this guide however, I will show you a much better solution.
The second issue is that of human error. Even if you have Tor installed, you may accidentally forget which browser to put in a link.
You may also accidentally click on a link from another program, such as a chat program. That program might then load the link you clicked on into a non-Tor browser.
When you are using Tor, you must be careful *constantly* that every link goes into the right browser, and that you do not accidentally click the wrong link.
So then, let's begin. Obtaining the Tor Browser is easy. Simply go to the following website:

http://www.torproject.org

Once here, you may feel free to read more about what Tor is and how it works, or you may proceed to immediately download Tor.

 

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Here is how to do so:

1. Click on "Download Tor", or "Download".
2. You will see text that says, "The Tor Browser Bundle contains everything you ned ... Just
extract it and run. Learn more >>
3. Click on this "Learn more" link. for the "Tor Browser Bundle"
4. Assuming you are an English speaker, you would choose the top-most link "English (en-US)".
Otherwise, pick the language
best suited to you.
5. The file being saved will be named: tor-browser-1.3.18_en-US.exe
It is ok if the number is not exactly 1.3.18, there are new versions of Tor from time to time. At
the time that this guide was written, 1.3.18 was most current. By the time you are reading this, a
more current version of TOR may exist.
6. Run this file.
Nesquik7
7. You will be prompted to extract this to a directory. By default, it will be set to
C:UsersYouDownloads This is perfectly
ok. You can also choose a different directory if you wish.
8. Click "Extract"
That's it. Tor Browser is NOW installed. Time to test it out!

 

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