Anybody heard of TOR? and how safe is it?

[hulldj]

I was looking around on the net and came upon this..

http://www.torproject.org/

I normally vpn out using a proxy server if downloading using newsgroups to bypass my isp "bandwidth shaping" but this sounds interesting for anonymous surfing.

Has anyone used or heard of TOR?

[Boner]

Never heard of it but I do know a few people who use this: https://ssl.scroogle.org/

[hulldj]

Nice link there Boner. cheers.

Its just not quite what I was thinking TOR does. . Using that link, when I search for coffeeshop. I can find ACD but when I click the link you are taken out of ssl and linked over to the ACD site. This is then not anonymous. The search is but not the result.

I guess it is a great workaround if your employers block certain sites.

The reason I am posting the question is because I use newzbin.com regularly and they have just set up TOR for searches.

So back out there, any ideas folks?