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I understand the concept of Tor but since the government is actively watching, it doesn't really fit the usecase if I understand correctly. From a privacy point of view, couldn't you use multiple VPNs?
I don't see what could be gained from nesting VPNs because you're identifying yourself to the innermost VPN. Tor is designed so that exit nodes don't know who you are.
I downloaded the Tor Browser a decade ago, maybe even longer, in an effort to be privacy conscious. I used it here and there but I never made the switch to using Tor by default. Some time later I remember reading the US government was tracking people, or had a list of everyone, who had simply downloaded Tor. I also vaguely remember reading about how using Tor could potentially expose you to legal risks because of the…
I mean there are a lot of resources but they are at a very high level. I don't think much has changed. The basic idea is that with Tor, you make HTTPS connections to the "tor relay", a network of volunteers who route your traffic around the world to make it hard to track. You can use Tor in two ways: you can join the relay network and route traffic for others, or you can just use the browser and make queries. If you…
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I highly recommend Computerphile's explanation of Onion Routing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRYzre4bf7I After that, check out the video explaining how hidden services work. If you want to see a simple implementation of an onion router, I built one in TypeScript: https://github.com/seisvelas/onion-router-ts (be warned, I also did that as an exercise to learn more TypeScript. So it's not good TS. But improvements…
I think your repo is private, I get a 404
I downloaded the Tor Browser a decade ago, maybe even longer, in an effort to be privacy conscious. I used it here and there but I never made the switch to using Tor by default. Some time later I remember reading the US government was tracking people, or had a list of everyone, who had simply downloaded Tor. I also vaguely remember reading about how using Tor could potentially expose you to legal risks because of the…
I highly recommend Computerphile's explanation of Onion Routing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRYzre4bf7I After that, check out the video explaining how hidden services work. If you want to see a simple implementation of an onion router, I built one in TypeScript: https://github.com/seisvelas/onion-router-ts (be warned, I also did that as an exercise to learn more TypeScript. So it's not good TS. But improvements…
I downloaded the Tor Browser a decade ago, maybe even longer, in an effort to be privacy conscious. I used it here and there but I never made the switch to using Tor by default. Some time later I remember reading the US government was tracking people, or had a list of everyone, who had simply downloaded Tor. I also vaguely remember reading about how using Tor could potentially expose you to legal risks because of the…
Someone who knows more can probably elaborate, but after hearing them present year after year, and how much global advocacy they engage in, and their transparency, I find it unlikely they have NSA spooks embedded.
I use it when I need to read something objectionable through a VPN. (Still not perfect, because I run a VPN on EC2 and the exit zone is in the US...)
Not trying to be flame-baity here, but with Trump's ranting about making ANTIFA a terror org, and with the recent legislation that allows warrant-less IP tracking, I am legitimately concerned I might end up on a watch list because I visit a website this admin finds objectionable.
I downloaded the Tor Browser a decade ago, maybe even longer, in an effort to be privacy conscious. I used it here and there but I never made the switch to using Tor by default. Some time later I remember reading the US government was tracking people, or had a list of everyone, who had simply downloaded Tor. I also vaguely remember reading about how using Tor could potentially expose you to legal risks because of the…
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Why do you think it fails as basic security against the government? Honestly curious. And what would you suggest instead. To my knowledge many dissidents and activists around the world are specifically using TOR because it supposedly does indeed provide protection against government tracking.
It’s literally funded and made by the NSA. Dissidents and activists have been busted using Tor and there’s always a friendly government damage control agent ready to pop up (any forum, any time of day) to remind people that Tor couldn’t possibly be backdoored or owned, it was always some other type of thing they used in parallel construction. Over-shilling is what clued next in. You don’t get this kind of response wi…
I use Tor Browser for most of my day to day browsing to foil all the non-governmental corporate botnet spying. Of course I’m under no illusions that it secures you against the government. But I don’t do anything naughty so I’m not worried.
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I mean there are a lot of resources but they are at a very high level. I don't think much has changed. The basic idea is that with Tor, you make HTTPS connections to the "tor relay", a network of volunteers who route your traffic around the world to make it hard to track. You can use Tor in two ways: you can join the relay network and route traffic for others, or you can just use the browser and make queries. If you…
How is malicious interference by exit nodes prevented for plaint-text HTTP requests?
Complete side note.. but this just reminds me of back when I was in college in the late 90s, and our entire apartment buildings traffic was a hub (not a switch).. so I had a packet sniffer running for fun on linux and could see everything from everyones internet since every single packet was rounting to every machine on the network, and lots of stuff had no encryption... nuts to think how open stuff was back in the day.