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Tor has zero to do with privacy and everything to do with anonymity.
by NetStrikeForce 10y ago
Tor has zero to do with privacy and everything to do with anonymity.
- 24gttghh 10y agoDoes anonymity not imply privacy?
- DiabloD3 10y agoNo, due to browsers leaking data and state actors controlling tor end points. They still know know someone out there is doing something, and can build ad profiles and threat profiles on them, they just can't link those profiles to you easily: that is anonymity. Privacy would be inability to build useful profiles.
- 24gttghh 10y agoInteresting. But if someone could remain anonymous, even with a profile being created for that "anonymous entity" and there is nothing tying that anonymous profile back to a real person, that would still seem to be private to me. If the anonymous profile could be connected to a real person, that would seem to be neither anonymous, nor private.
- duaneb 10y agoIs that ever possible? Every interaction is going to have side channels and fingerprints.
- DiabloD3 10y agoYou can't entirely defeat it, but you can eliminate, or disassociate, as many things as possible.
- ryanlol 10y agoMore so than PIA? Also make sure to tell the Tor project that, all of their marketing material disagrees with you.
- eeZah7Ux 10y agoNonsense. Protecting traffic from nosy ISPs and carriers is exactly privacy and it's one of Tor's stated goals.
- NetStrikeForce 10y agoPlaintext over Tor is still plaintext.
- eeZah7Ux 10y agoOf course, but your ISP is not going to read it.