21 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 17 Aug \ parent \ on: NSA using Google To Hunt Tor Users BooksAndArticles
Yeah they do. They don't use them.
Tor is a proxy, if you're accessing a clearnet website, the exit relay is using DNS. This is internet 101.
You have to trust the VPN which is increasingly a risky gamble.
Thats why I said ideally a VPS, its not risky if you don't consider VPN's a privacy tool.
certain kind of interference asserts itself
That's a lack of resilience
Fact is IPFS doesn't work, neither does DHT... if you want to beat your head against the wall on that perennial failure glhf
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @jbschirtzinger OP 17 Aug
Tor is a proxy, if you're accessing a clearnet website, the exit relay is using DNS. This is internet 101.
You aren't understanding what I'm talking about. Onion links don't use DNS. They go around it.
Thats why I said ideally a VPS, its not risky if you don't consider VPN's a privacy tool.
They are easy honeypots.
Fact is IPFS doesn't work, neither does DHT... if you want to beat your head against the wall on that perennial failure glhf
Fact is, nothing is working. Not really. And it won't. Not as long as the problem I'm pointing out persists.
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