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merde@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The Tor network relies on volunteers to donate bandwidth. The more people who run relays, the better the Tor network will be. The current Tor network is quite small compared to the number of people who need to use Tor, which means we need more dedicated volunteers like you to run relays.
Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Pretty sure tor is a honeypot… Not sure the alternatives though
FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
That’s definitely not what I’ve heard, please elaborate.
Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Tor itself may not be, but private users are competing against NSA resources or something
Take everything I say with a grain of salt. I don’t think the protocol itself is broken with enough people doing exit nodes, and I think normal people will benefit from privacy granted by tor.
But I bet with high certainty that if the NSA wants you it can probably find you.
The below YouTubers I’ve seen before but I also can’t independently verify whether they are just click baiting or not…
youtu.be/pvBAaUPzvBQ
youtu.be/Ml99dXffRXk
non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Stop getting info from yt “infosec” channels.
No one uses single exit-entry gateways in tor anymore, and the widespread use of tor bridges, split exits and vpn (now that they’re quite fast) means it’s much easier for law enforcement to fingerprint traffic rather than sit and wait for someone to tilt their hand and reveal an exit node that will have moved in an hour anyway.
Think about it: if criminals were successfully moving illicit goods and hiding the comms, you think you would hear about it on YouTube, of all places?