{"id":4000,"date":"2014-09-12T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2017-09-24T18:37:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T14:37:57","slug":"tor-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tor-video\/4000\/","title":{"rendered":"Tor and the Average Internet User"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tor<\/a> is a free program that is designed to allow users to browse the Internet in complete anonymity. A long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tor-faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">time favorite of privacy advocates<\/a>, it has become more widely known as average users become increasingly aware of, and concerned with, the amount of information that the government and corporate interests alike are able to gather about them based on browsing activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/09\/05102655\/Video-interview-with-Runa-Sandwick.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6009\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2014\/09\/05102655\/Video-interview-with-Runa-Sandwick.png\" alt=\"Video-interview-with-Runa-Sandwick\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-pullquote\"><p>Meet Tor, your portal to the anonymous Internet #privacy #nsa #snoop<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkas.pr%2FX9JA&amp;text=Meet+Tor%2C+your+portal+to+the+anonymous+Internet+%23privacy+%23nsa+%23snoop\" class=\"btn btn-twhite\" data-lang=\"en\" data-count=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tor relies on a global network of anonymous relays to provide users with an online experience free of traffic analysis. In this video interview, Runa Sandvik, a Tor Project advocate, explains why it is being used more and more by everyday people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullquote\">\u201cI think it comes down to, why would you want everything you do online to be recorded by someone else?\u201d \u2013 Runa Sandvik, Tor Project advocate<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNormal people can use Tor to hide what they\u2019re doing online,\u201d Sandvik says. \u201cWhen they\u2019re visiting a website, their Internet Service Provider, the person they\u2019re sharing their computer with, their employer or whoever else, can not see which websites they\u2019re visiting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The significance of that lies in the basic desire for privacy. And while that used to apply more particularly to journalists, human-rights activists and people wishing to evade government censorship, Tor\u2019s appeal is growing broader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it comes down to, why would you want everything you do online to be recorded by someone else?,\u201d Sandvik says. \u201cWhy should someone be able to see what you\u2019re doing online?\u201d<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0frKbaEKKu0?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-pullquote\"><p>Tor and you: Why the anonymous Internet network isn\u2019t just for privacy geeks anymore. #nsa #privacy<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkas.pr%2FX9JA&amp;text=Tor+and+you%3A+Why+the+anonymous+Internet+network+isn%26%238217%3Bt+just+for+privacy+geeks+anymore.+%23nsa+%23privacy\" class=\"btn btn-twhite\" data-lang=\"en\" data-count=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tor is an online browsing portal that keeps your web activity completely anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1485],"tags":[191,709,43,97,531,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-4000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-special-projects","8":"tag-data","9":"tag-nsa","10":"tag-privacy","11":"tag-security-2","12":"tag-tor","13":"tag-web-browsing"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-ae","url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tor-video\/4000\/"},{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/tor-video\/4092\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tor-video\/4499\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/tor-video\/4742\/"},{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tor-video\/6003\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/tor-video\/6003\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/tor-video\/6003\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/data\/","name":"data"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6695,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}