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> Anyone with access to the VPN servers could spy on all of your traffic, completely bypassing Tor. Hmm, can you explain how this could possibly be true? I thi
by notfed 4y ago
> Anyone with access to the VPN servers could spy on all of your traffic, completely bypassing Tor.
Hmm, can you explain how this could possibly be true? I think the VPN couldn't see any more than your ISP could have.
- hashstring 4y agoThe situation is different, think about nodes and encrypted channels between them. If you encrypt traffic on your host properly and send it off to a remote host, your ISP (node(s) in between) sees encrypted traffic. If you create an encrypted VPN connection to a VPN providers server and then configure a second encrypted connection (e.g. through Tor) from that VPN providers server to a remote host, then your VPN provider is able to see exactly what happened on that VPN providers server; since that’s where the encryption (and decryption) happens.
- robjan 4y agoThe Tor tunnel will go through the VPN tunnel and terminate on your device, not at the VPN provider.