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But why go through so much trouble instead of just using Tor, which AFAIK gives you 3 hops right out of the box?
by pheug 7y ago
But why go through so much trouble instead of just using Tor, which AFAIK gives you 3 hops right out of the box?
- mirimir 7y agoI do use Tor. Which gives me three hops for clearnet sites, and seven hops for onion services. But I don't trust Tor enough to connect directly to it. Given the risk of malicious relays, and of 0days like "relay early" that increase their effectiveness. And then there's the likelihood that TLAs track all connections to the Tor network. So the nested VPN chains isolate me from Tor entry guards. If Tor circuits get deanonymized, an adversary just learns a VPN exit. Or at least, an adversary that isn't doing global traffic analysis. But as Mirimir, I don't need all that. I really don't need anonymity at all, except to protect my professional reputation. And being retired, that doesn't matter any more. So anyway, nested VPN chains are arguably enough for people who aren't juicy targets. They almost certainly aren't as good as Tor, unless Tor is more compromised than it seems. But what they are is lots faster. There's somewhat less latency than Tor. And bandwidth is much higher.