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It's a tunnel into your internal network. If nation states and/or cyber criminals do control most of tor, then you are opening your internal network to those g
by _wldu 5y ago
It's a tunnel into your internal network.
If nation states and/or cyber criminals do control most of tor, then you are opening your internal network to those groups.
- throwaway2048 5y agoSo is port forwarding or running any other services, tor is special in absolutely no meaningful respect here.
- whatshisface 5y agoThe OP said "employer," and most people can't port forward at the office without talking to IT.
- throwaway2048 5y agothere are an almost infinite amount of ways to host services from behind firewalls without port forwarding, or any network admin approval. Tor is not special in this regard, nor dangerous due to supposed bad people controlling the network.
- sweetbitter 5y agoNo, because it is possible establish a token required for access to an onion service on top of the obscurity of having to actually discover the service's public address. It is also extremely likely that said adversaries control most of Tor, considering that the main mechanisms of tracing Tor circuits do not require control over any nodes of the Tor network whatsoever- snooping on IXPs and as many autonomous systems and underwater wires as possible.