On Sun, March 4, 2018 5:34 am, Tim W wrote: > On Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 6:33:27 AM UTC-5, awokd wrote:
>> Buying items through Tor means using your real identity through Tor. >> Some >> people use Tor for everything including banking. Some use Tor for all >> browsing except anything involving their real identity. Others just use >> Tor occasionally for some sites. Try searching tor-users mailing list >> for questions similar to yours; you'll need to develop your own answer. > > That is how 99.9% of those caught using tor are found. Its from bad > opsec not actually breaking of tor itself. Tech even the way silk road > was brought down was via a spoof more than 100% of breaking tor. but > like anything layers. Whats great about qubes is it helps in numerous > ways from being resistant to the spread of malware its easy integration > oh whonix. It ability to string numerous network tunneling chains > together to creating multiple layers if done correctly have the effect of > indecent cells working to a common goal with only the end user knowing > all parts. Qubes is but one part but its configuration allows for > numerous ways and layer for security and or if done with proper opsec > anonymity Agree with what you say except I want to redefine "caught" to "security failure". In the case of someone using Tor in conjunction with their real identity, for example, they aren't worried about the site or any third party trackers knowing WHO they are during that particular session. Their primary concern (aka a security failure for them) might be revealing their location by their real IP (or in the third party trackers case, link-ability across sessions/other sites by super cookies etc.). The trade off, though, is their traffic may get routed through network path that is less trusted than user -> ISP -> ISP -> site; would be user -> Tor -> random exit node -> random exit node's ISP -> ISP -> site. That's why there is no comprehensive, simple answer on the "right" way to use Tor. It varies by what you are trying to accomplish. See https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#WhatProtectionsDoesTorProvide , or https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en for more details and support options. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/a4a8048f946ffd7fdc39ba70437a31d0.squirrel%40tt3j2x4k5ycaa5zt.onion. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
