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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
True/False:Tor stands for “the onion router”
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Generally speaking, Tor is a privacy tool used to communicate online anonymously. It stands for The Onion Router and works to hide your IP and location, making less known about you than conventional browsing methods.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Tor browser works by using a technology known as onion routing. The onion router is a peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay network that enables users to browse the internet anonymously. Onion routing uses multiple layers of encryption to conceal both the source and destination of information sent over the network.

Detailed explanation-3: -Onion services are services that can only be accessed over Tor. Running an Onion Service gives your users all the security of HTTPS with the added privacy benefits of Tor Browser.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Onion Router (Tor) is a system, developed with the support of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory [11], with the specific purpose of insuring the anonymity of communications over the Internet.

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