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Orbot: Mobile Anonymity

Malvado

DF News Team/Mod
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Some of you might be familiar with Tor. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.

They have a side project that is made for Android powered devices to keep your anonymity. That project goes by the name of Orbot.
Orbot is a free proxy app that empowers other apps to use the internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.

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For more informtation about TOR and ORBOT, please visit their website @
https://www.torproject.org/ and https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/

Orbot app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android
 
I've been using Orbot for a while now and it works great! You can always double-check that it's working by turning it on and then going to check.torproject.org. That site will confirm if you're connected via Tor and show your IP. I also recommend using Chrome in incognito mode while using Orbot.
 
I did forget to mention that it requires a rooted device for Orbot to work as it is supposed to.
 
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