# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # FIRST AUTHOR , YEAR. # msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: tails-l10n@boum.org\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2025-09-17 11:40+0200\n" "PO-Revision-Date: 2023-03-11 19:29+0000\n" "Last-Translator: xin \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" "Language: zh\n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" "Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;\n" "X-Generator: Weblate 4.9.1\n" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "[[!meta title=\"Why does Tails use Tor?\"]]\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "Both Tails and the Tor *software* are made by the [Tor Project](https://" "torproject.org/)." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "Tails [[was founded|news/celebrating_10_years]] in 2009 and [[joined forces " "with Tor|news/tails_tor]] in 2024." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "

Anonymity enforcement

\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "We want to enforce good security by default for our users. That is why it is " "a fundamental assumption of Tails to force all outgoing traffic to anonymity " "networks such as Tor." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "Over the years Tor has become a big network with a lot of capacity and a " "good speed." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) could be faster than Tor but they are not " "anonymity networks, because the administrators of the VPN can know both " "where you are connecting from and where you are connecting to and break your " "anonymity. Tor provides anonymity by making it impossible for a single point " "in the network to know both the origin and the destination of a connection." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "When using a VPN, an attacker can also break your anonymity by monitoring " "the incoming and outgoing connections of the few servers of the VPN. On the " "other hand, the Tor network is formed by over 7500 relays run worldwide by " "volunteers." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "[[!img tor/tor.png link=\"no\" class=\"svg\" alt=\"A Tor connection goes through 3 relays with the last one establishing the actual connection to the final destination\"]]\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "
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See also our warnings about the [[limitations of the Tor\n" "network|doc/about/warnings/tor]].

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User base

\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "Tor is the anonymity network with the largest user base. More than " "2 000 000 users connected to Tor daily in 2025. Being adopted " "by such a large audience proves its maturity, stability, and usability." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "Tor is being used equally by journalists, law enforcement, governments, " "human rights activists, business leaders, militaries, abuse victims and " "average citizens concerned about online privacy. This diversity actually " "provides stronger anonymity to everyone as it makes it more difficult to " "identify or target a specific profile of Tor user. Anonymity loves company." msgstr "" #. type: Title = #, no-wrap msgid "Technical merits and recognition" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "Tor has partnered with leading research institutions, and has been subjected " "to intensive academic research. It is the anonymity network which benefits " "from the most auditing and peer review." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "Tor has been received awards by institutions such as the [Electronic " "Frontier Foundation](https://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer/2012), and the [Free " "Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/news/2010-free-software-awards-" "announced) to name a few." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "An extract of a Top Secret appraisal by the NSA characterized Tor as \"[the " "King of high secure, low latency Internet anonymity](https://www.theguardian." "com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor-high-secure-internet-anonymity)\" with " "\"no contenders for the throne in waiting\"." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "

About I2P

\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "[I2P](https://geti2p.net/) is another anonymity network and alternative to " "Tor. Tails used to include I2P until 2017. We removed I2P in [[Tails 2.12|" "news/version_2.11]] because it was too costly to maintain." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "We have no plans to add I2P back in Tails because I2P hasn't yet become " "popular and usable enough to make a real difference for our [[target " "audience|contribute/personas]]." msgstr "" #, no-wrap #~ msgid "\n" #~ msgstr "\n"