Tor Wars: The Signal Awakens
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Tor Wars: The Signal Awakens
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#2An important point the article makes is how important it is for a large number of people to use Tor, even if only occasionally. I try to use Tor at least once or twice a week for general web browsing. I also donated money to them.
It is really important for people to also support groups like the EFF and ACLU financially: a good investment in future freedom. History shows that large empires tend to get tough on their citizens as the empires wane. We live in an era right now where the current large empire is waning.
Re: Tor Wars: The Signal Awakens
#3An important point the article makes is how important it is for a large number of people to use Tor, even if only occasionally. I try to use Tor at least once or twice a week for general web browsing. I also donated money to them. It is really important for people to also support groups like the EFF and ACLU financially: a good investment in future freedom. History shows that large empires tend to get tough on their…
I actually switched to using Tor whenever I go on wild hunts about stuff that I find interesting. Basically that means whenever I visit Wikipedia, because I can waste hours there, going over the weirdest topics.
Usually I get drawn in by stuff like history and end up on things like Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Japan in WW2, etc. or stuff like Ku Klux Klan, the "Islamic State". If there is some surveillance system it will probably be thinking I am into each and every kind of extremism. And since extreme groups like the Nazis have the wildest conspiracy theories that also is something I don't want to identified with.
Using Tor by using the Tor Browser is actually pretty nice and pretty fast, both to set up and when browsing. Years ago Tor used to be rather slow. That totally changed.
The are a few annoyances though.
Some websites seem to have weird rules such as "block Tor completely". Come on, your website can still be exploited. You will not really stop anyone that way.
Then there is the problem of websites usually requiring JavaScript for everything. The latter is weird, cause it's like people use "front end frameworks" for stuff where it doesn't really make sense and even slows down the page a lot. I am not saying JavaScript is evil, but I think people overuse them these days. Of course you might decide to enable JavaScript and unless you set the Tor Browser to highest security at least HTTPS sites will deliver and execute JavaScript.
Another major annoyance is CloudFlare. They require you to enter a CAPTCHA (which for some time didn't work), when accessing a website via Tor. The only way to disable it is for the website owner to completely disable security. I mean I get that they probably want to prevent some script kiddies from "hacking" unpatched Wordpress or so, but maybe this can be enhanced. Cause like I said above. The approach of filtering certain IPs isn't really enhancing actual security and nobody is going to DDOS you via Tor. ;)
Re: Tor Wars: The Signal Awakens
#4An important point the article makes is how important it is for a large number of people to use Tor, even if only occasionally. I try to use Tor at least once or twice a week for general web browsing. I also donated money to them. It is really important for people to also support groups like the EFF and ACLU financially: a good investment in future freedom. History shows that large empires tend to get tough on their…
I actually switched to using Tor whenever I go on wild hunts about stuff that I find interesting. Basically that means whenever I visit Wikipedia, because I can waste hours there, going over the weirdest topics. Usually I get drawn in by stuff like history and end up on things like Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Japan in WW2, etc. or stuff like Ku Klux Klan, the "Islamic State". If there is some surveillance system it w…
Some of these points are partly why I chose to go with a commercial VPN regularly rather than Tor. There is also no change at all in my bandwidth with the VPN, and I can seamlessly use high bandwidth tools like Netflix, streaming audio/video, etc. Maybe Tor has improved lately to allow this kind of behavior easily also?
Re: Tor Wars: The Signal Awakens
#5An important point the article makes is how important it is for a large number of people to use Tor, even if only occasionally. I try to use Tor at least once or twice a week for general web browsing. I also donated money to them. It is really important for people to also support groups like the EFF and ACLU financially: a good investment in future freedom. History shows that large empires tend to get tough on their…
I actually switched to using Tor whenever I go on wild hunts about stuff that I find interesting. Basically that means whenever I visit Wikipedia, because I can waste hours there, going over the weirdest topics. Usually I get drawn in by stuff like history and end up on things like Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Japan in WW2, etc. or stuff like Ku Klux Klan, the "Islamic State". If there is some surveillance system it w…
> nobody is going to DDOS you via Tor
Uhh, yes they will... and that is pretty much the exact reason for the captcha.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually switched to using Tor whenever I go on wild hunts about stuff that I find interesting. Basically that means whenever I visit Wikipedia, because I can waste hours there, going over the weirdest topics. Usually I get drawn in by stuff like history and end up on things like Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Japan in WW2, etc. or stuff like Ku Klux Klan, the "Islamic State". If there is some surveillance system it w…
Some of these points are partly why I chose to go with a commercial VPN regularly rather than Tor. There is also no change at all in my bandwidth with the VPN, and I can seamlessly use high bandwidth tools like Netflix, streaming audio/video, etc. Maybe Tor has improved lately to allow this kind of behavior easily also?
The problem with these VPNs is that they can log your traffic. Even if they say they don't, what's to stop them?
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually switched to using Tor whenever I go on wild hunts about stuff that I find interesting. Basically that means whenever I visit Wikipedia, because I can waste hours there, going over the weirdest topics. Usually I get drawn in by stuff like history and end up on things like Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Japan in WW2, etc. or stuff like Ku Klux Klan, the "Islamic State". If there is some surveillance system it w…
> nobody is going to DDOS you via Tor Uhh, yes they will... and that is pretty much the exact reason for the captcha.
Is this true? Tor specifically disavows this:
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some of these points are partly why I chose to go with a commercial VPN regularly rather than Tor. There is also no change at all in my bandwidth with the VPN, and I can seamlessly use high bandwidth tools like Netflix, streaming audio/video, etc. Maybe Tor has improved lately to allow this kind of behavior easily also?
The problem with these VPNs is that they can log your traffic. Even if they say they don't, what's to stop them?
Moreover, VPNs are juicy targets for surveillance corps since so many do use them to conduct illegal or questionable activities. My personal strategy is to use Tor with a private obfuscating bridge rotated frequently between hosting providers.
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