Drawing from his experience as a member of the hacker community, Assange recognized that encryption could offer a protective shield for investigative journalists and leveraged it for his work with Wikileaks. Among other tools, he used .onion sites, the Tor network, Tor Browser and Tails OS--which have now become a 'basic kit' for investigative journalism.
Tor Browser 13.5 is now available, featuring a new connection experience for Android, plus improvements to letterboxing, bridges settings, onion site errors and more for desktop.