Fuck off nigger.
Freenet and other alternative darknet platforms
Bentley Gray
Ian Wood
water is wet - letter agencies run nodes for sure
Jordan Walker
Leave.
Jonathan Anderson
What are you even trying to say?
William Thomas
the "tor is insecure buy a VPN instead" meme is from pol my friend
Brody Martin
Yes, but this is irelevant to the post you're replying to, losing anonimity != security.
Well any program which opens a port and has contact with the outside will always open up potential holes (a basic example would be a buffer overflow), but aside from that, you should never access unencrypted content (e.g. plain http), as the exit node is the one to decrypt the content to send it to the target server, in other words, an exit node can easily perform a MITM attack whenever you have an unencrypted connection through Tor.
Tor is good, but you when using it you should assume that every single exit node is malicious, no exceptions, you should assume that every exit node is closely looking at whatever unencrypted traffic is going through either for analytics, finding possible sensitive information, or both. And I mean why wouldn't they?, they're setting up an exit node for the Tor network for free, so they might as well try to get something out of the idiots who don't know how it works. There's been multiple studies to find out whenever Tor exit nodes are trying to sniff data, and they've all had positive results, there was one I read not long ago about some guy who set up a fake bitcoin service and logged in on it through the Tor network mulltiple times through an unencrypted connection, and of course later on there were multiple log in attempts from unknown locations, some with the wrong credentials, and some with the right ones.
In short: always use ssl/tls on Tor, https everywhere has a checkbox to block all unencrypted requests (unencrypted content mixed in encrypted sites included), if you're connecting to a hidden service then there's no need to worry as it's end-to-end encrypted.
Chase White
correlation attacks are real
William Richardson
yes, they exist.
Connor Jackson
Dominic Evans
In countries where one is presumed innocent until proven guilty maybe, but in many countries anonymity quite literally is your security because even being found to be things like TOR is enough to get you thrown in a labour camp for the better part of a decade or worse.