is tor any good?
spyware wrote: Only a REALLY REALLY good pro can break tor, or so I believe.
The only method I know of for beginning to "break Tor" involved a study of the server's tendency to accumulate heat. By studying the times between transmissions, someone was able to locate Tor servers with a reasonable amount of reliability. I don't remember the exact article I read, but I'm sure someone can find it easily online. Quite an interesting study, actually.
FireSaleHaxor wrote: My honest opinion of tor is it is good but can slow your internet down allot and gets in the way sometimes!
Well, of course… chaining anonymous proxies could probably slow your Internet down and get in the way sometimes. In fact, there's the possibility that it might even help to protect your anonymity! So, you should definitely not use it!
I mean, come on. :angry:
I was reading some news articles on tor, and I saw one that said something about the government owning almost 90% tor's nodes and that it is untrusted.
What exactly does that mean?
[edit]Another question I have, is that would tor be a good proxy server for downloading torrents? My dad got 2 emails from optimum online saying that I have been downloading illegal files, and Id prefer to stop getting those emails…[/edit]
it's secure to a degree.
your traffic will usually be re-routed to a tor node, which will help in case you got a version of google in a different country ( i got google germany)
i think a hackthiszine article on darknets said if you're a really wanted guy, they can just track down the tor node, and from there, they will simply ask the node operator for the logs, and then track you from there.
i think torrents can run fine under tor, but it'll take a while.
i use it too, and it's quite sufficient.
i think by what is meant by untrusted is because some people like spammers, info warriors (guys who work for the government, the people i favor the least) and some rogue virus gangs (like skynet and netsky that concentrate on inflating their own egos, not groups like 29A and Doomriderz who write virus for research) use tor for their activities.
i once read an article on digg on how tor is used to sniff traffic on government computers, and a security expert told the relevant people about it, they didn't care and he ended up posting all the details on his blog.
Futility wrote: what exactly happens when you get caught downloading illegally?
Downloading copyrighted material has been illegal for a few years in Sweden. It's estimated that about 2-3 million people have downloaded illegally since then (and we're 9 million people total) but less than ten people have get busted. None of them have had to go to jail, just pay.