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What 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.
by permo-w 5y ago
What 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)