Tor (The Onion Router) it is used to bypass censorship and surveillance, to visit websites anonymously and access Tor's hidden services (with the .onion extension).
The cybersecurity engineer for systems and networks, Alec Muffett, has helped Twitter engineers launch a page about the Tor Project. Users will have to install the Tor browser to access the social network.
For its part, Twitter has included Tor in the list of officially supported browsers.
However, Tor has also been targeted by Russian censorship. According to the Tor Project itself, last December, some Internet providers in Russia began blocking access to Tor. Users can still access Tor using the so-called 'network bridges'.
Tor's network bridges do not appear in Tor's public directory. Eso significa que los ISP o los gobiernos que intentan bloquear el acceso a la red Tor no pueden simplemente bloquear todos los puentes, permitiendo a los usuarios una vía de acceso que se escapa del control de los gobiernos.
A medida que más empresas de TI, streaming y comunicaciones anuncian el bloqueo de su actividad en el país soviético, los ciudadanos recurren a las VPN para evitar el aislamiento total.