A web browser that’s fast and private!
Internet security
researchers claim they’ve invented a web browser that’s faster and more private
than Tor, a browser used to communicate anonymously on the web.
The new browser is
called Hornet; it is also an anonymous browser that aims to hide activity.
Hornet, which stands
for High-speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer, is bringing beefed up
privacy and extremely fast browsing.
Both browsers, Tor and
Hornet, can be used to access secretive and often disturbing parts of the web.
Most of us don’t know a thing about the dark and dingy parts of the internet,
and it would be best to stay that way!
Tor is most famous for
providing access to Silk Road, an online marketplace for illegal drugs and
services. In May, the Silk Road founder was sentenced to life in prison for
running the illicit online store.
While Tor hides the
user’s IP address, which can be used to find your location, cracks have started
to form in its security. Just recently, Chinese hackers have proved they can
hack into Tor and identify users.
However, Hornet claims
to be much harder to crack than Tor! Both are called onion browsers for their
many layers of security. Instead of a direct link to places you’ve visited on
the web, the browsers leave traces of your activity across the internet, making
it extremely difficult to track,. In order for an outsider to gain access to
someone using either browser, they’d have to control one of the layers of
security.
For Hornet, the
outsider would have to gain significant access, and control a big portion of an
internet service provider’s network. While Tor’s security features come at the
cost of speed, Hornet is supposed to work at speeds that are not different at
all from mainstream browsers.
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