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The best attack against Tor is convincing people not to use it. If anyone tries to convince you Tor is not safe, ask yourself: cui bono?
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Same was true of Truecrypt. After the core team disbanded there was a full security audit which uncovered some very minor issues. People never really trusted Veracrypt though. Quite interesting how that turned out.
IIRC there were a lot more options by the time of the Truecrypt-Veracrypt shift. Truecrypt was around when drive encryption was otherwise an expensive enterprise software thing, but I think Bitlocker was included with Pro versions of Windows by the time of Veracrypt so that probably became the easiest free option - and probably with better compatibility as well.
Not that I think the Fed's would blow their cover to hunt down people buying drugs but still seems stupid to trust.
The best attack against Tor is convincing people not to use it. If anyone tries to convince you Tor is not safe, ask yourself: cui bono?
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/how_the_nsa_a... https://blog.torproject.org/yes-we-know-about-guardian-artic...
Federal agencies operate enough exit nodes to make Tor use risky at best. I have no idea if they have since implemented some feature to prevent this but if not I would stay far away from Tor if you're planning to do illegal things. There's also the risk of trusting service operators to secure any PII you expose on marketplaces. Not that I think the Fed's would blow their cover to hunt down people buying drugs but sti…
Federal agencies operate enough exit nodes to make Tor use risky at best. I have no idea if they have since implemented some feature to prevent this but if not I would stay far away from Tor if you're planning to do illegal things. There's also the risk of trusting service operators to secure any PII you expose on marketplaces. Not that I think the Fed's would blow their cover to hunt down people buying drugs but sti…
Edit: Never does, exit nodes are not part of the circuit, thanks to commenter below.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
IIRC there were a lot more options by the time of the Truecrypt-Veracrypt shift. Truecrypt was around when drive encryption was otherwise an expensive enterprise software thing, but I think Bitlocker was included with Pro versions of Windows by the time of Veracrypt so that probably became the easiest free option - and probably with better compatibility as well.
this presumes that anyone would trust bitlocker. https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/TPM-sniffing
If you are an enemy of the United States you probably aren’t but that’s a high bar