Throughout history, nations have used various methods to protect their secrets, and today terrorists, cybercriminals, human traffickers and others use technology to hide their activities.
The study focuses on websites using Tor's technology to hide themselves, rather than the surfing habits of individual internet users using Tor's anonymising features.
Researcher Dr Gareth Owen analysed traffic to sites using Tor's technology to hide their addresses from search engines over a six-month period, in an attempt to understand what kind of sites were most popular.
Sites on the dark web like Silk Road have used Tor technology to hide their location and yet still be available to users who wish to visit them.
And if there are Kardashev type III civilizations out there, they are either very rare or have the technology to hide their infrared emissions.
Robert Dekkers plays with the notion that we use technology to hide, to craft and project an image of ourselves.
Of course, you're also a buyer, looking for a juicy rump steak to hold onto at night and being the buyer can make us callous and thoughtless, particularly with the veil of technology to hide behind.
Digital watermarking technologies allow users to hide appropriate information in the original image that is imperceptible during normal use but readable by special application.
This technology is used to hide the standard city app view for individual riders, enabling Uber to show that same rider a different version.
