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Re: Tor and HTTPS

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Post by stordoff » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 11:56 AM UTC

throwmeaway33 wrote: post #101

noerps wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitcoin transactions are chained, that may compromise you. But you could use an anon currency-exchange or currency-bridge like paysafecard.com to obtain some value and obtain bitcoin with that value and never use that bitcoin key again to avoid that.

Is there no system to swap ownership of coins? If not there should be. You send X amount of bitcoins to a middle man who then gives you X amount back. Technically they will be different coins and they'll go to a different account #, so you can't trace anything.

Take a look at mixing services[1], which seek to do exactly that.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mixing_service

Re: Tor and HTTPS

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Post by mhaymo » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 12:51 PM UTC

btipling wrote: post #74

Why does the graphic portray police as mean angry people. Police are good people who provide a valuable service. They do a good thing. They are not the enemy.

All "mean angry faces" represent someone you don't intend/require/expect to see your data. I don't want the police to read my data.

Re: Tor and HTTPS

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Post by bcl » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 1:33 PM UTC

yegg wrote: post #86

bcl wrote: post #47

You can help contribute - https://cloud.torproject.org/ Note that you can reduce your costs by using spot instances.

Do you have any sense how many nodes (or I guess how much bandwidth or even something else I'm not thinking of) it would take to make a material difference on the speed of the network?

I don't know, but you can monitor the status of the network here - http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/

Re: Tor and HTTPS

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Post by path411 » Wed, Jun 12, 2013, 7:47 PM UTC

dllthomas wrote: post #45

Splendor wrote: post #34

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Yep. It doesn't matter how you securely you get your data to Company X if Company X is handing the data over to the NSA.

Tor hidden services could help, though.

As long as you aren't using a service with your actual data. If I use Tor to connect to facebook and input my personal information, Tor is only protecting my data in transit. The NSA can still request the data from my account from facebook.

Re: Tor and HTTPS

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Post by dllthomas » Thu, Jun 13, 2013, 11:32 AM UTC

path411 wrote: post #134

dllthomas wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tor hidden services could help, though.

As long as you aren't using a service with your actual data. If I use Tor to connect to facebook and input my personal information, Tor is only protecting my data in transit. The NSA can still request the data from my account from facebook.

With a Tor hidden service, the NSA cannot necessarily find the service provider. Of course, neither can I, so there is a whole different set of threats (and it could be the NSA providing the service in the first place) but it does help a little with this specific problem.