Software can produce great good but with it come the ability to do great harm - BE

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Background:

There are both advantages and disadvantages to the software we use in our daily lives, from apps on your mobile phone to self service terminals at supermarkets. However there are some services the majority of people won't have heard of in their lives never mind used, these are services like the TOR project which aims to make tracking of users much harder in order to allow private communications across a less open internet. Although TOR was initially created for use by the us military it was released to the wider public in 2004 raising many concerns to its reliability.

Benefits:

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Drawbacks: