Tails Linux Operating System: Remaining Anonymous with the Assistance of an Incognito System in Times of High Surveillance

How It Works

The more people using TOR network, the better. It is easier for a person to be anonymous among many others, it is harder to keep track of someone in a busy unknown and highly tangled network that is frequently changing and mixing up the connections randomly (Edman, Sivrikaya & Yener, 2007). As an analogy, we can say that a chameleon to camouflage effectively needs leaves, branches and trees, the more, the better for the blend. In defeating surveillance, we need to take care of several aspects. Who we talk to and when is just as important as what we said, and to secure these we also need encryption and randomness in the routing as well. The messages from the different anonymous users are shuffled and then sent to the next randomly selected router, shuffled again and so forth until the final destination is reached. So as an observer it is very hard to know which data were coming into the TOR network corresponds to which data coming out of it.