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With a properly setup TORbrowser it will use a different tor circuit for every host. Using a [single] VPN "centralizes" your exit connections. For HTTPS enabled
by auganov 10y ago
With a properly setup TORbrowser it will use a different tor circuit for every host. Using a [single] VPN "centralizes" your exit connections. For HTTPS enabled sites TOR is perhaps a better choice, just have to be careful of sslstrip.
- tiatia 10y agoI even vaguely remember that in one of Snowdens released documents, the NSA wrote in a powerpoint presentation that this setup causes head aches. Will try to find it again.
- MichaelGG 10y agoIt's important to note which things are theoretically hard vs lack of tooling. Using a VPN after Tor might defeat a bad exit node sniffing or changing content. But a VPN absolutely hurts anonymity. Plus there's no way to be sure the VPN op isn't keeping logs. If I were at the NSA and concerned about any of this, I'd start a few VPN companies. And run Bitcoin exchangers/vendors.