The Onion Router, now called Tor, is a privacy-focused web browser run by a nonprofit group.
  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There is a strong suspicion that the TOR network has been turned into a NSA honeypot by virtue of the NSA running more than half of the TOR exit nodes. Do you really want to take that chance?

    Not to mention, pretty much the only thing most honest people use TOR for is to defeat geoblocking, and most geoblocked sites of any importance blacklist TOR exit nodes. So it’s not even that useful.

        • eleitl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I typically don’t have the time to watch videos but I did in this case. It’s not wrong. The question is: what is your threat model?

          First, Tor is not designed to protect you from a global passive adversary nevermind an active one. Global network probes can be used to identify individual sessions by traffic timing correlations. Locating hidden services is quite easy that way, since they’re sitting ducks. It is fairly easy to remotely compromise hidden service marketplaces for TLA players and/or use physical access to hardware and/or operators to make them cooperate with LEOs.

          If you are trying to avoid ISP level snooping and blocking, advertisers, Google and national scale actors then Tor is the right tool to use. And by all means, do run your own relays to help the network. The more relays we have, the harder the attack.

      • lagomorphlecture@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Idk if the NSA runs all those exit nodes but this is definitely not the first time I’ve heard that it isn’t secure. Luckily I have nothing to hide so I use Google for everything and send them a daily summary of my offline activities in case they missed anything.