The Tor (The Onion Router) Project is a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and several others. They developed and continue to maintain the Tor network—a free, open-source software designed to enable anonymous communication online (torproject.org). Tor works by routing internet traffic through a decentralized network of volunteer-operated relays, effectively hiding a user’s location and activity. This makes it difficult for anyone—go...

The Tor (The Onion Router) Project is a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and several others. They developed and continue to maintain the Tor network—a free, open-source software designed to enable anonymous communication online (torproject.org). Tor works by routing internet traffic through a decentralized network of volunteer-operated relays, effectively hiding a user’s location and activity. This makes it difficult for anyone—go...