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Hypothetically speaking, could you download the files over Tor from public wifi and be protected? Or, is Tor now considered insecure due to exit node monitoring
by swalkergibson 13y ago
Hypothetically speaking, could you download the files over Tor from public wifi and be protected? Or, is Tor now considered insecure due to exit node monitoring?
- chimeracoder 13y agoThis is orthogonal to Tor. SSL protects an adversary from seeing what you're talking about, not who you're talking to. Tor will prevent an adversary from seeing who you're talking to, but not (in itself) what you're talking about[0]. Here, the topic of concern is an adversary (in this case, the government) finding out what you're talking about, so Tor isn't relevant. [0]Because the last step is unencrypted and sent in plain text, even though intermediate steps are encrypted.
- swalkergibson 13y agoThank you for the explanation. I guess my previous thought was made under the assumption that this was not some sort of law enforcement honeypot. If in fact they are just listening for your username/password on the server, there ain't no way around it.