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Tor is currently funded by the US government. Any list of things you should know about tor should include that.
Tor is currently funded by the US government. Any list of things you should know about tor should include that.
"It is also important to remember that if you log into services like Google and Facebook over Tor, you will be sacrificing your anonymity to those services." It is important to note that both Google and FB can track you on 3rd party websites through things like "Like" button. Consider disabling 3rd party cookies completely or using plugins like Ghostery.
I never had ANY problems with any website - no idea if there would have been more functionality with 3rd-party cookies enabled. But then again, how can functionality depend on THIRD parties?
Also activated the setting for my girlfriend years ago, no complaints so far.
This feature should really be the default for any browser and any user. Too bad Android Chrome doesn't have such a setting. Too bad for Google I'll use something else instead.
How did the feds take down silk road?
The "tor stinks" slide was over a year old when these events occurred. A lot can change in a year.
I'm probably going to take some flack for this, but I don't trust Tor. When you access Tor, you're masking your origin IP to the remote address by trusting one of a couple hundred volunteer exit nodes who raised their hands and said "Trust me! You can route all of your internet traffic through me and I promise I won't monitor or inject anything..." I think most Tor users don't have an adequate understanding of the th…
The simple answer is most people that use an electronic device -- Tor or otherwise -- have no idea what they are doing. Because Tor is advertised as extremely safe, they think they are safe. Anyone wanting an interesting stream of data just has to operate as many exit nodes as their budget can handle.
How did the feds locate freedom hosting? How did the feds take down silk road? The "tor stinks" slide was over a year old when these events occurred. A lot can change in a year.
Things I've used Tor for: - Accessing BBC Liveplayer as if I'm in England (using lots of normally discouraged add-ons and defined exit-nodes) - Bypassing paywalls (possibly still criminal?) - Bypassing censorship (which is what it really is) on organizational wifi networks (in Canadian hospitals). The funniest block was to ginger.io, a big data smartphone data analysis play (but blocked by an over-aggressive filter f…
I use Tor hidden services to punch through NATs (mostly for SSH); it's also useful in that only you can access the service (since only you know its address), so a hidden service + random port is a cheap "port knocking" implementation. I've also used Tor to debug firewalls. It's a good way of saying "put me in a random spot on the Internet." Outside of that, I use Tor for whatever I can: downloading RSS feeds, instant…
So please, don't treat knowledge of the onion address itself as a secret! You still have to authenticate to your service in some way.
How did the feds locate freedom hosting? How did the feds take down silk road? The "tor stinks" slide was over a year old when these events occurred. A lot can change in a year.
Also, there is a problem where hidden services can be enumerated by scanning IPs. With IPv4, it is practical for a well connected entity to scan the entire internet and search for hidden services, making it possible to match to IPs. This is only an issue for people running hidden services, not Tor users.
Tor is currently funded by the US government. Any list of things you should know about tor should include that.