

Use bridges and/or find company: Tor tries to prevent attackers from learning what destination websites you connect to.Under no circumstances is it safe to use BitTorrent and Tor together, however. If you must work with DOC and/or PDF files, we strongly recommend either using a disconnected computer, downloading the free VirtualBox and using it with a virtual machine image with networking disabled, or using Tails. This will reveal your non-Tor IP address.

You should be very careful when downloading documents via Tor (especially DOC and PDF files) as these documents can contain Internet resources that will be downloaded outside of Tor by the application that opens them. Don’t open documents downloaded through Tor while online: The Tor Browser will warn you before automatically opening documents that are handled by external applications.However, you should still watch the browser URL bar to ensure that websites you provide sensitive information to display a blue or green URL bar button, include in the URL, and display the proper expected name for the website.

To help ensure private encryption to websites, the Tor Browser includes HTTPS Everywhere to force the use of HTTPS encryption with major websites that support it.
