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Why TOR browser always selects France as first hop for circuit?

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Re: Why TOR browser always selects France as first hop for circuit?

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Tor sticks to the same "guard" node for a few weeks at a time by design. This is to reduce the odds of an attacker controling both your first and last tor nodes, which would allow the attacker to see both what tou are doing and where you are.

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/improving-tors-anonymity-ch...

Re: Why TOR browser always selects France as first hop for circuit?

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Tor sticks to the same "guard" node for a few weeks at a time by design. This is to reduce the odds of an attacker controling both your first and last tor nodes, which would allow the attacker to see both what tou are doing and where you are. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/improving-tors-anonymity-ch...

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