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Tor is about to become a lot more mainstream in the UK.

• azalemeth 2y ago
  Honestly, although VPNs get a bad rep, there's (in my opinion) a good argument for using one here on privacy grounds. Use two or three-hop routing to frustrate correlation attacks, route your entire internet traffic to one or two other places chosen at random, use DNScrypt / DOH and have the freedom to choose who gets to slurp your data -- and the ability to change them easily. Mullvad's move towards open firmware, diskless servers, and proving verifiability to end users is something I can get towards. [C.f. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/system-transparency-future https://mullvad.net/en/blog/system-transparency-future] I'm sure nothing wrong will happen with delaying security updates if they ever actually use that clause...
  • Eisenstein 2y ago
    As a bonus you get to fill out 500 captchas every day.
  • londons_explore 2y ago
    I have little confidence in the security of TOR. I believe any competent adversary can do packet timing correlation attacks, and it turns out just 30 seconds of web browsing gives enough timing data to narrow down to just 1 tor user, since the tor userbase is fairly small. I'm guessing there are ~10 nation states who can deanonymize tor, and I strongly suspect the UK is on that list.
    • tetris11 2y ago
      ref for the timing attacks, please
• hazeii 2y ago
  Check out VPN's in Australia (Australian citizen currently in the UK)