

A growing list of major tech firms have since hopped on the encryption bandwagon. Tor knows we can’t ignore all the iOS 9 users in the world.”īy offering strong encryption by default on their iPhones last year, Apple placed itself in the center of a political storm over the rising popularity of encryption around the world. “We just started to work on it and think about it. “There are a bunch of pieces in the works,” Tor developer and Guardian Project leader Nathan Freitas told the Daily Dot.

Tor knows we can’t ignore all the iOS 9 users in the world.” Thanks in large part to new features introduced in last month’s release of iOS 9, iPhone and iPad users may finally be getting their hands on the most powerful Tor apps ever available for Apple’s mobile devices. While presidential candidates, law-enforcement officials, and members of Congress debate the future of encryption on your smartphone, Apple’s iOS 9 is set to receive a major privacy upgrade.Ī group of privacy-advocate hackers are now in early stages of bringing free, system-wide Tor anonymity apps to the Apple App Store for the first time, the Daily Dot has learned.
