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It's not illegal to pay for an anonymizing service in most parts of the world including Sweden.
by Celcius 18y ago
It's not illegal to pay for an anonymizing service in most parts of the world including Sweden.
- eli 18y agoIn fact, a cheap high-speed VPN is useful for plenty of legal purposes. If it really costs only 5EUR a month, it's a reasonable way to secure your surfing at a public cafe -- provided you trust TPB.
- eru 18y agoToo bad, tor's latency makes it painful to use for daily browsing..
- eli 18y agoI'd be more concerned about the extremely high likelihood that your tor exit node is hostile and sniffing your traffic.
- eru 18y agoThat's not too much of a problem. Or at least it's not a problem that tor pretends to solve. Once your traffic its out of the last node, it's considered public anyway.
- eli 18y agoWhich makes it precisely terrible for the use case that started this thread -- safe surfing on public wifi. It's way more likely that a bad guy is sniffing traffic leaving his tor node than there being a bad guy in the same cafe as you.