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A VPN is a middleman that accepts your traffic and forwards it, hiding who you are to servers. An onion router is like a VPN but instead of 1 middleman, the mid
by thehappypm 5y ago
A VPN is a middleman that accepts your traffic and forwards it, hiding who you are to servers. An onion router is like a VPN but instead of 1 middleman, the middleman is a whole random network of middlemen, and those middlemen also hand off to other middlemen.
- mikemyoung1 5y agoThis is a great summary, thanks
- permo-w 5y agoWhat I don’t get is why people don’t regard Onion Routers as a form of VPN. It’s still uses a virtual private network, just more of them. a network of networks. Surely TOR is a type of VPN? Maybe there’s some details I’m missing. I’m no expert
- detaro 5y agoReally mostly convention. Yes you could label it that way, but people consider it to be enough of it's own thing to not do so. (+ there is some value in not conflating the two because they do have different threat models etc and users should treat them differently too)