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The Tor Browser bundle is said to maintain user privacy. With many users depending on it, the research interest has grown up in investigating the Tor Browser behavior. This paper researches on the aspects of whether the user privacy is really maintained completely. The experiments conducted reveal that digital traces are left behind which can be later analyzed by the investigators. This paper presents the memory forensic experiments done and the methods used to analyze the digital artifacts left by Tor.
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Gunapriya, S., Vatsavayi, V.K., Varma, K.S. (2021). Forensic Investigation of Tor Bundled Browser. In: Bhattacharyya, S., Nayak, J., Prakash, K.B., Naik, B., Abraham, A. (eds) International Conference on Intelligent and Smart Computing in Data Analytics. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1312. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6176-8_31
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