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Quick review of weaknesses listed on the Wikipedia page for Tor make it pretty obvious that Tor is a threat to majority of users that if discovered be face seri
by nxzero 10y ago
Quick review of weaknesses listed on the Wikipedia page for Tor make it pretty obvious that Tor is a threat to majority of users that if discovered be face serious, if not life threatening, responses.
Why do people continue to use it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
- Karunamon 10y agoMost of those weaknesses are well known and easy to deal with. In particular: * Use a separate system for Tor traffic, never use that system for anything else * Don't use BitTorrent (which you shouldn't be doing anyways - the network wasn't built for it!) * Don't touch non-TLS sites, the exit node could be hostile * Javascript off
- htns 10y agoIt's common for people to have too much trust in technical solutions, even when the solution includes stark warnings on its download page. It's even worse with VPNs and 'secure' email providers. Tor can still be useful as a building block of the next thing, but people should start demanding something better than Tor.
- zipwitch 10y agoHow terrifying would status quo power holders find a free, universally available and readily usable software tool that provided real and uncrackable anonymity for anyone?