For these reasons, we advise you to consider cloaks as only very basic
protection from casual observers, and a way to stop your IP/hostname being
passively logged in most cases, but caution that they cannot be relied upon to
-hide your IP/hostname robustly - if you want that, you should consider an IRC
-bouncer, VPN or Tor.
+hide your IP/hostname robustly - if you want that, you should consider an
+[IRC bouncer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC_bouncer),
+[VPN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network)
+[Tor](https://www.torproject.org/) (see our blog post on
+[connecting to freenode via Tor](https://freenode.net/news/tor-online).
Do consider, however, just how much you need to hide your IP address; it's
disclosed routinely during normal Internet usage - for instance, every website