You might have heard of Tor already, yet never dared to try it yourself.
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@Sunny @Em0nM4stodon never underestimate how deep surveillance goes.
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.
In Praise of Tor: Why You Should Support and Use Tor
You might have heard of Tor already, yet never dared to try it yourself. Despite being around for decades, too few people know about Tor. It isn't only a tool for journalists and activists, but for anyone seeking greater privacy online. What is Tor exactly? And how can Tor help you?
Privacy Guides (www.privacyguides.org)
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R relay@relay.mycrowd.ca shared this topic
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This is why I hate the term "dark web": AFAICT, what that term was originally supposed to mean was collectively everything that is not indexed by search engines or literally can't be. That's a lot of things and most of it boring, and most of it never should be indexed by search engines anyway. The portion of that that's available only via Tor—which, in all fairness, absolutely does exist—is a very, very small fraction. Financial institutions, for example, talk to each other by means that technically involve an internet connection at some point; that satisfies the meaning of "dark" in this context, AS WELL IT SHOULD. You don't want to run your credit card and have that transaction be visible to web crawlers: the bad guys who steal people's credit card information are capable of googling things just like anyone else can. None of that has anything to do with Tor. Also, Tor is not the only anonymous network that is publically available, although it is definitely the most common. So the stigma that affects Tor—which absolutely does exist as well, sadly—is born mostly from the omission of facts that are relevant when talking about it. That's still the case even if no one says anything about it that's false.
@plutarch curious - what are some other anon networks? I’ve only ever heard of tor
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.
In Praise of Tor: Why You Should Support and Use Tor
You might have heard of Tor already, yet never dared to try it yourself. Despite being around for decades, too few people know about Tor. It isn't only a tool for journalists and activists, but for anyone seeking greater privacy online. What is Tor exactly? And how can Tor help you?
Privacy Guides (www.privacyguides.org)
@Em0nM4stodon Mostly I don't use TOR because for every five websites I've wanted to visit via TOR, there seemed to be six things I was doing wrong that actually made me less anonymous than if I used a regular browser on clearweb only
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.
In Praise of Tor: Why You Should Support and Use Tor
You might have heard of Tor already, yet never dared to try it yourself. Despite being around for decades, too few people know about Tor. It isn't only a tool for journalists and activists, but for anyone seeking greater privacy online. What is Tor exactly? And how can Tor help you?
Privacy Guides (www.privacyguides.org)
@Em0nM4stodon
I operate a relay, and have been for years. Now, I'm wondering, given the choice between running a relay and donating to the tor project, which one would be more beneficial overall? -
@Em0nM4stodon
I operate a relay, and have been for years. Now, I'm wondering, given the choice between running a relay and donating to the tor project, which one would be more beneficial overall?@shadowdancer Both!
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@Em0nM4stodon
Sure
Alas, I'm no billionaire though, so I was thinking should I instead just donate the few € I currently pay for the VPS running the relay. -
@Drums_in_the_night @Em0nM4stodon "Do you know what an IP address is" sounds like I've said something particularly ignorant about how TOR works to the point where you expect me to not even know basic information about how the internet works, which is exactly my point. There's conflicting information about what best practice is for using TOR.
If what you're after is specific examples, do I need to give a shit about specific exit nodes or not? Does it really defeat the purpose of using TOR if you log into a site you browse from TOR? Are you actually automatically held under more scrutiny if you connect via TOR? Every time I've tried to settle what is true about TOR, the people I spoke to who use it on a regular basis descended into arguments, sometimes conflicting their own statements later on. I just stick with VPNs and extensions I've verified are trustworthy and call it a day.
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@Em0nM4stodon
Sure Alas, I'm no billionaire though, so I was thinking should I instead just donate the few € I currently pay for the VPS running the relay.@shadowdancer That's a good question. I think asking the Tor Project directly what they prefer would be a good idea!
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@Drums_in_the_night @Em0nM4stodon "Do you know what an IP address is" sounds like I've said something particularly ignorant about how TOR works to the point where you expect me to not even know basic information about how the internet works, which is exactly my point. There's conflicting information about what best practice is for using TOR.
If what you're after is specific examples, do I need to give a shit about specific exit nodes or not? Does it really defeat the purpose of using TOR if you log into a site you browse from TOR? Are you actually automatically held under more scrutiny if you connect via TOR? Every time I've tried to settle what is true about TOR, the people I spoke to who use it on a regular basis descended into arguments, sometimes conflicting their own statements later on. I just stick with VPNs and extensions I've verified are trustworthy and call it a day.
@disorderlyf @Drums_in_the_night I'd recommend reading the article I wrote linked in the original post to answer these questions
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.
In Praise of Tor: Why You Should Support and Use Tor
You might have heard of Tor already, yet never dared to try it yourself. Despite being around for decades, too few people know about Tor. It isn't only a tool for journalists and activists, but for anyone seeking greater privacy online. What is Tor exactly? And how can Tor help you?
Privacy Guides (www.privacyguides.org)
@Em0nM4stodon then there is me, not possible to port forward due to cg nat and too greedy for a vps, so tor to access home via ssh
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@disorderlyf @Drums_in_the_night I'd recommend reading the article I wrote linked in the original post to answer these questions
@Em0nM4stodon @Drums_in_the_night So beyond my kneejerk reaction I usually give before I've actually read the article, this did address the issues I brought up. Had I not been preoccupied with what sure seemed like someone insulting my intelligence for daring to have seen misinformation and not yet had clarification, I likely would've gotten to this point sooner.
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@plutarch curious - what are some other anon networks? I’ve only ever heard of tor
Off the top of my head, I2P. There might be more that I haven't heard of or can't remember offhand. I2P is the next most common after Tor AFAIK, although it's not a close second by any means. I don't know enough about (both or either of) them to be able to say if one's objectively better than the other.
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1 month ago
ALL Onion Services Vulnerable, & Tor can't patch it
Presented by Daniel BoctorRE: https://mastodon.social/@rusty__shackleford/116213280450094664
7 months ago
The FBI Arrested A Major Tor Node Operator
Presented by Mental Outlaw- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
(www.youtube.com)
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.
In Praise of Tor: Why You Should Support and Use Tor
You might have heard of Tor already, yet never dared to try it yourself. Despite being around for decades, too few people know about Tor. It isn't only a tool for journalists and activists, but for anyone seeking greater privacy online. What is Tor exactly? And how can Tor help you?
Privacy Guides (www.privacyguides.org)
1 month ago
ALL Onion Services Vulnerable, & Tor can't patch it
Presented by Daniel BoctorRE: https://mastodon.social/@rusty__shackleford/116213280450094664
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7 months ago
The FBI Arrested A Major Tor Node Operator
Presented by Mental Outlaw- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
(www.youtube.com)
7 months ago
How Bad OPSEC Led to Four Arrests
Presented by Daniel Boctor- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
(www.youtube.com)
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7 months ago
How Bad OPSEC Led to Four Arrests
Presented by Daniel Boctor- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
(www.youtube.com)
7 months ago
The Tor Project is Ignoring These Issues
Presented by Mental Outlaw -
7 months ago
The Tor Project is Ignoring These Issues
Presented by Mental Outlaw4 years ago
Hundreds of Tor Relays are Being Used to De-anonymize Users
Presented by Mental Outlaw -
4 years ago
Hundreds of Tor Relays are Being Used to De-anonymize Users
Presented by Mental OutlawUse Tor, I2P, whatever you like - if you use a vpn use mullvad, and remember, loose lips sink ships.
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You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.
In Praise of Tor: Why You Should Support and Use Tor
You might have heard of Tor already, yet never dared to try it yourself. Despite being around for decades, too few people know about Tor. It isn't only a tool for journalists and activists, but for anyone seeking greater privacy online. What is Tor exactly? And how can Tor help you?
Privacy Guides (www.privacyguides.org)
Another good and easy way to support #Tor is to run #Snowflake on your devices. It helps people all over the world circumvent Tor blocks:
