In order to protect your connection, Tor uses various servers from around the world and reroutes your URL request through multiple servers to hide the path from your Mac to the destination URL. Tor prevents the monitoring of your Internet connection by hiding your identity and preventing IP address-tracking back to your Mac. Hide your IP address by using proxies all around the world Naval Research Lab, and is developed and maintained by the open source community. The Tor project is based on the Onion routing technique, once part of a secret project of the U.S.
Tor is a free software and open network specially designed to help you protect your privacy and defend against various forms of network surveillance.