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Darcy wrote:Is there any point in using Tor if you aren't doing any illegal or dark web stuff?
Downloaded it on a recommendation then went to login to my NY Times account and wondering if I should bother, and they have some Onion thingy for certain sites??? I'm not so technically minded, but do need some security.
Alphabet wrote:Honeypot. Just like Silk Road was.
Think of it this way......If Tor is known about enough for most people to not say, "What's that?", it's a honeypot.
Kurt wrote:Alphabet wrote:Honeypot. Just like Silk Road was.
Think of it this way......If Tor is known about enough for most people to not say, "What's that?", it's a honeypot.
There are legit uses for it, just none that I actually need.
Archive.org has a huge presence on their .onion site, mostly for helping people banned from the conventional internet to catch up on all the news sites they were blocked from. It is really popular in KSA and Iran ...now probably Belorus too.
The Chinese prefer to use US or European based VPNs to evade the Great Firewall of China. I worked for a shitty company whose main business was selling cheap VPS to Chinese customers to use as VPNs. Then the chinese would discover this once they were dumb enough to try to resell the service and block the VPS IP address. I had to put up with really weird Chinese begging to swap IP addresses (which we wouldn't do, we would sell them another one but not swap it).
Grown men would beg me to help them by sending images of "hot, crying anime girls" to try to get me to change my mind. Weirdest thing.
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