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is tor safe to use ?
Is tor safe to use this days ?
What comes to mind is only:
Silk Road was closed by FBI
Financially supported by USA government
Please write what do you think about it and anything else what you know about tor ?
Thanks!
is tor safe to use ?
- Yes, I'm sure about it.38 votes
- Yes, probably.36.84%
- No, nothing free is safe.63.16%
Comments
I forgot who posted this before in another thread, but it couldn't hurt to put up again.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fbi+running+tor
Tor is... well... um... never used it, because I don't feel that I am restricted/need to hide from things (for now).
This was not due to Tor, but the stupidity and ignorance of people. Running out-of-date software in a non restricted environment (Tails) will always be a risk.
Not a bad thing, Tor was designed that even if the government hosted and monitored Tor nodes, safety would not be compromised. The source is open and many paranoid developers have looked into it.
Tor may be the safest anonymous network in the world. Although a great alternative is i2p. Hell, run i2p within Tor.
It depends what you need it for and how you are using it. If you want to use it over https, it is reasonably safe, if you want to hide your IP, it is reasonably safe.
Is it bulletproof? No. Is if fool-proof? No. You need to know your stuff if you want privacy online and if you are dealing with stuff which can land you in jail or killed.
For criminals it is much safer to use hacked zPanel boxes or those with changeme/12345678 as root password, for the regular citizen, that is a bit difficult. There is no absolute safety for anyone, you are always dealing with a risk, it must be worth it in the first place and you must be reasonably sure your tracks are covered most of the time and when they are not, you cannot be linked to that activity without a lot of trouble.
You see, the agencies, are usually not after criminals, but after "dangerous elements" which are spreading "hate" such as discussing taboo subjects or instigating to human rights and democracy. That will mean restraining their power and they cannot cope with that, coming back to the old ways when you needed some evidence for warrants is not conceivable in this day and age, as such, you need to make sure you are not interesting for them by using free tools to hide your "interesting" activity in forums and supporting the freedom of speech, but you must also understand that they will usually pick the low hanging fruit, it is much easier to contact google/microsoft/yahoo to get your emails and your phone company to listen to your calls, breaking encryption and doing elaborate attacks on tor to track you down is much more difficult, if they were in for hard work they would have been happy with the old ways which involved some work.
So:
well informed response
...I think that counts as an answer (:
Yes, it's safe. If you can, please run a TOR relay or limited exit - you might even get a free tshirt!
Also hosting your email is a very good idea if you care about your privacy, i have my personal mail running from home with a static IP - backup MX going to encrypted dedi. Using stuff like PGP for email will also help!
I got my 2 T-Shirts for running 6 Relays over years
I just set a couple up and the nodes are pulling 3 MB/s, do you throttle or cap the relays?
1MB/s because more would take big ammounts of CPU and i have bigger risks to get suspended.