You’ve almost definitely heard of tech companies announcing and apologizing for major breaches of security, such as Yahoo – not once, but twice! Yahoo, for example, compromised the login information of hundreds of millions of its free email account users several years back. Just a few months later, Yahoo had to come out, acknowledge, and apologize for a similar – and similarly substantial – widespread email account breach.
Facebook has also been guilty of not securing its users’ login and personal information as well as the company should have, especially considering the fact that Facebook is the world’s largest social media platform and has been for well over a decade.
Countless other companies have been found guilty of not keeping their users’ information safe enough. One of the most recent was Google, which announced just yesterday, on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, that it had allowed an undetected bug to store some enterprise G Suite users’ passwords in plain text for some 14 years, one of the longest-running security failures known to the modern world.
Although tech companies claim to keep their users’ information safe, secure, and under lock-and-key, effectively rendering them incapable of being uncovered by the likes of cybercriminals, you’re ultimately responsible for keeping your information safe.
One of the best ways to stay anonymous while browsing the World Wide Web is by using the Tor Browser, a free, largely-secure web browser that helps people not leave bits of personal information in the hands of website operators, cybercriminals, and others. Although using the Tor Browser by itself to browse the Internet isn’t all you need to stay safe while surfing the ‘net, it is one of the single most effective tools available to modern Internet users. Tor Browser is made even more secure through coupling it with virtual private networks, also known as VPNs, or proxies, for example.
Ever since the Tor Browser was first made available for public use over a decade ago, only computer users have been able to take advantage of the power of Tor’s onion browser technology. However, as of today, Wednesday, May 22, 2019, Tor Browser is officially available to all users of Android devices.
Android, if you didn’t already know, is the mobile operating system of Google. Behind iOS, which is made and maintained by Apple, Android is the second-most popular mobile operating system on the planet. The Tor Project officially released this news just hours ago, in the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 22.
Dil Bole Oberoi
