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IIRC there was a man in (I believe) Austria who recently got arrested for this exact reason and he was trying to scrounge up enough in donations to pay for his

• pyre 14y ago
  You're missing the architecture: +-----+ | You | +-----+ \ <= encrypted _ +----------------+ | T | Tor Entry Node | | O +----------------+ | R \ <= encrypted | +------------------------+ | N | Tor Bridge/Relay Nodes | | E +------------------------+ | T \ <= encrypted | W +---------------+ | O | Tor Exit Node | | R +---------------+ _| K unencrypted => \ +----------+ | Internet | +----------+ The exit node is the only one that the wider Internet sees. All other traffic within the network is encrypted.
  • pc86 14y ago
    It's that first step I don't get. How is the traffic between you and the entry node encrypted? Can't someone monitoring traffic know that you're on Tor (even if they can't know what you're doing on it)?
    • krenoten 14y ago
      It is basically TLS, so if you are connecting to a public node then it is easy to see that you are using tor. This is why we need more bridges that are slightly more difficult to enumerate.
    • 286c8cb04bda 14y ago
      The box labeled "You" is not just a web browser. It should include a local (as in local to the machine running the browser) Tor proxy like Vidalia. See https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en for an example.