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Yes. TBB downloads files through Tor.

In your torrc you can use the ExcludeExitNodes directive to exclude the 'strongest' exit node(s) that you want to avoid. Alternatively you can use the ExitNodes directive to specify a set that you wan …

The college network is probably not intentionally breaking Skype. More likely it is just generally unreliable. If your Skype issues are caused by confused routers, dodgy access points and resetting NA …

Why is this? Would other typically local IP reservations like 10.1.1.1 similarly not work? That's correct. It doesn't work because it is a private address. When you connect through Tor, you are …

As long as you don't browse the same web sites with both browsers, and you don't login to any account, there is no correlation. Any non-Tor traffic that has no relation to your Tor traffic will not co …

Yes you can. You can even run TBB and a separate relay on the same machine (but then you have to make sure they don't both try to listen on the same port as a socks proxy). The Tor instance that TBB …

Yes, your ISP will know that you run a relay. (If you don't want that, consider running a bridge instead.) 1) Although the traffic will look the same when you are running a Tor relay as when you ar …

(I think you mean building circuits not relays.) When using the Tor browser, your ISP can tell that you use Tor. Your Tor client builds a bunch (15?) of circuits even before you need them. When a c …

It will not cause a Tor-over-Tor situation. The Tor Browser launches its own instance of Tor that has its own connection to the Tor network regardless of other instances running. (Running Tor on you …

When running the Tor Browser, only the Tor Browser connects through the Tor network. Other applications are not affected and will connect in the same way they always do.

Your bookmarks are not transmitted to a web server in a http request. I don't know whether they can be queried through java script. (I hope not, but it wouldn't surprise me. Maybe someone who knows …

You may say it was just a name of tor rely It is this one: https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/AC9803701F9EE18194D40B38E47CE4C68CF2F567

I can't comment on what hackers can and can not do. When you download Tails straight from their web site or the torrent to your home, without Tor or VPN, then your ISP can know (even with ssl, they …

The bookmarks are stored in an sqlite database inside the application bundle. If you right-click on the Tor Browser application and then select "Show Package Contents" from the context menu, you can s …

The site you download from probably lists MD5 sums for the files they offer. So you can use that to verify the integrity of your downloads. Of course the exit node could have tampered with that too, s …