Unikanie rejestrowania czynności użytkownika: TOR, Linux Tails

Abstract

The Tor (The Onion Router) network is a virtual computer network that provides anonymisation and access to often illegal data or for those avoiding censorship. Linux Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), on the other hand, is an operating system bootable only from a removable media (e.g.: flash drive, memory card or DVD) or run in a virtualized manner. Tails, as one of the tools, offers access to the Tor network providing, in addition, far sophisticated mechanisms to avoid leaving digital traces on the user’s machine. Despite the different intentions of the developers of the two tools discussed above, they have also become the favorite package of a huge group of criminals around the world. In this publication, the author focuses on discussing both the areas of formation of digital traces of Tor and Tails usage, as well as the research possibilities and inference possibilities based on them. The first part of the article describes the mechanism of the Tor anonymizing network. The author then introduces the reader to the Linux Tails environment and refers to actual use cases.