Re: Has anyone used tour?
By itself and in theory, Tor is safe.
In practice this isn't always the case. A number of things can leak information without your knowledge.
Get the Tor Browser from the official tor-project site, optionally verifying with a public signature. Routing your whole system through the network is brimming with fuckups just waiting to happen.
Keep the default settings set the way they are. Not only does changing these present a potential security risk, it gives you a fingerprint that makes your traffic stand out. To get an idea, try the EFFs panopticlick.
Tor Browser alone does it's best to ensure a default configuration with your interests at heart, but it won't protect against stupid mistakes and disclosure of personally identifiable information. It won't protect against you logging into a clearnet site that knows your RL email address, name and mom. if you log into anything even remotely linking back to you, best consider that session compromised.
Unless you have personally audited the code for and implicitly trust a plugin, don't add it. Even then it's easy to overlook something, so just don't.
keep _javascript_ disabled at all times. Remember that it's trivial to set up a traffic-sniffing Tor exit node, so leave no stone unturned in the encryption department.
Contrary to misinformation floating around, using a VPN (especially public ones) on top of Tor doesn't necessarily make you safer and can in some instances offer more harm than good.
If any of what I'm saying doesn't make sense, especially the part about an exit node, you have research to do. Minimally a rough understanding of how Tor works internally past it keeps me safe which is cool. I can't stress this enough. If any of those creepypasta stories were to come true, it would be the fault of the PEBCAC. That saying about knowledge being power couldn't be more on point here. You have a world's worth of knowledge at your fingertips, a fascinating subject and the resources to explore it. Run away.
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