[sclug] TOR

[Luke Hinds]

It was developed by the US Navy, so if anyone would know how to find a
backdoor, it would be someone in that area. But that is just pure
speculation on my point, don't add any weight to that as its not fact.

>From what I know of tor its very good for masking the user visiting sites
(as you relay through the tor network), but its not so good for protecting
the data itself. So If its important to also protect the data then PGP is
better candidate.

Its other use is browsing non ICANN registered .onion domains. aka darknet.
That is some pretty messed up shit on there though, so I don't endorse a
lunctime browse at its offerings.



On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Tom Carbert-Allen <tom at randominter.net>wrote:

> works great apart from being slow...
>
> apparently half the exit nodes are run by security forces though and they
> watch everything which pass's through.... could be BS, but then again if I
> had a billion dollar budget and was told to monitor online crime, I would
> certainly consider it a cheap option for catching naughty naughty people,
> because if your using tor, you must have something interesting/valuable to
> hide right?
>
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> Tom
>
> On 10/09/2012 2:22, Neil Haughton wrote:
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>> HI,
>>
>> Anyone out there using TOR? Does it work? Is it a PIA to use? What have
>> your experiences been like? I'm considering it, and I'd like to hear what
>> others have found.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Neil.
>>
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