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Ehem, asking for a friend - is using Tor in conjunction with a third-party VPN service like the ones mentioned above any safer than using Tor regularly?
by jolene42 8y ago
Ehem, asking for a friend - is using Tor in conjunction with a third-party VPN service like the ones mentioned above any safer than using Tor regularly?
- mirimir 8y agoOK, so imagine that your friend was using Tor in 2014, while CMU attackers (OK, "researchers") were deanonymizing users and onion sites. They exploited a bug ("relay-early") in Tor, which allowed them to communicate among malicious relays through a back channel. That led to a number of prosecutions. But imagine instead that your friend was connecting to Tor through a VPN service. Even if CMU attackers had been running your friend's entry guard, they would have just seen the VPN exit IP address. Better yet, your friend could have been connecting to Tor through a nested chain of VPN services. Then the FBI would have needed to do lots more work to get your friend's ISP-assigned IP address. The Tor Project, I note, will not agree with my assessment. But so it goes.