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Which would be more secure a VPN or Tor?
Tor.
Unless you can somehow prevent your VPN provider from knowing who you are or what your IP address is, there will always be the possibility of your anonymity being compromised.
You could ...
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How can website server recognize incoming Tor or VPN connection?
The list of exit nodes is well known so it's trivial for any system to look up into that list and see if any incoming connection comes from any of them.
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Is Tor completely anonymous?
This setup may, or may not, be completely anonymous, depending on a whole bunch of factors, some extremely subtle. Adding a VPN to Tor basically never improves anonymity, though. Exactly how someone ...
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Connect directly with Tor Browser (as in, bypass Tor)?
You have to disable Torbutton.
At the top of the connection settings dialog, it indicates this: "Disable Torbutton to change these settings."
In about:addons you can disable Torbutton and ...
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Security of Tor compared to VPN
That random site who will make money in selling you a VPN service is being "liberal with the truth".
Lets do a point by point:
Their "Tor disadvantages"
"It is very slow"
Not always, you can ...
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Anonymity behind VPN/TOR
I'd recommend just using Tor. The VPN is probably being recognized, not you. If needed, use bridges. The VPN destroy Tor purpose
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How to use tor exit node and VPN to break through GFW in China?
I'm not familiar with Tor, but I suppose you just want to go through the GFW in China with a VPS server.(Hong Kong Server is ok)
Most people in China nowadays use SS(shadowsocks)/SSR/V2ray to get ...
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Me -> My own VPN -> Tor
Removing the reverse DNS doesn't matter because what the DNS used to be is sitting around in, for example the Rapid7 Sonar scans. They regularly scan the entire IPv4 address space's PTR records and ...
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VPN software with Tor?
VPN is not secure to use with tor:
VPN are not anonymity networks, because the administrators of the VPN
can know both where you are connecting from and where you are
connecting to. Tor ...
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What happens if I open .onion links on Chrome or Firefox?
I've no idea how your "VPN extension" loaded the onion but I have heard of some VPN providers who will proxy .onion. In these cases the VPN provider gets to see all your traffic to the onion,...
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Send all OpenVPN traffic through TOR?
To rephrase what you are saying: you'd like to establish a VPN tunnel and then use Tor to connect to external hosts across that tunnel.
You can achieve this by running Tor on the VPN server and ...
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Send all OpenVPN traffic through TOR?
I have found that this works pretty well:
(For this, I'm assuming that you have installed tor using "apt-get install tor" and not using the Tor browser bundle.)
Add this line to the "/etc/tor/torrc" ...
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Is this setup to send anonymous email secure?
When you go to the place with the open wifi, you should additionally check if the place is physically secure. This means no cameras, no people who could shoulder-surf etc. Furthermore if you connect ...
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Tor fuctionality on XP home service pack 2
What about trying the operating system called "Tails" on a live usb drive? It works with older hardware too. You can save XP on the computer. Nothing happens and anything you do will not be saved on ...
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Combining Mullvad VPN, Kali Linux, and Whonix Gateway; what is the level on anonymity?
The VPN will add little to nothing and possible even harm your anonymity. There is an entire wiki written on this.
You will hear this over and over from the Tor team:
Generally speaking, we don't ...
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Using Paypal with Tor---Ooopsy!
I do not believe you have blown your anonymity within the Tor network. You do not have an IP address for yourself but rather the IP addresses of all exit relays is shared among all people in the Tor ...
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Have a Tor Relay working from a VPN providers address. What if I change cities?
If you change your IP, your relay will be "down" until the next consensus is published with an updated IP address.
It won't be able to be used until the next consensus is published at the top of the ...
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Tor Browser is updated even when it is not open?
Automatic updates are only done while Tor Browser is running. Just make sure it is not running while your VPN is off.
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Orbot Apps VPN Mode - data leakage?
Use your own software AP and tcpdump to verify it. In my case it worked fine, but not on device boot-up
In Tor it's impossible to make MitM unless you're doing it directly at the point of dot-onion ...
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A government in Asia wants to pass a law making it illegal to use a VPN
I recommend you to use obfs4 bridges. You can use https://bridges.torproject.org/ (most recommended), but if you are too scared or this website is blocked, try to send e-mail from Gmail.com, riseup....
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How to map public static IP addresses to Hidden Services?
This is a pretty simple task, just to answer the question, here is how you'd do it....
But before you read how, repeat after me:
"I should never actually do this!"
Hypothetically, if this ...
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What happens if I open .onion links on Chrome or Firefox?
It will ask your dns server about wahteveroniondomain.onion, the dns server will have your ip and your isp could know about this request (DNS is not encrypted and often times your ISP runs the dns ...
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Using Orbot to mask network traffic
Technically this kind of thing can be done through a pluggable transport.
I'm not aware of anyone actually having done this specifically. It probably wouldn't work very well, a curious observer would ...
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Plans for integrated (and free) VPN support from within Tor Browser?
VPNs are terrible from an anonymity perspective.
This is my own write-up on the issue, I'm going to address a few specific points of your question too since they are badthink that needs to be purged ...
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Plans for integrated (and free) VPN support from within Tor Browser?
Actually, it's technically impossible to keep browser a privacy-oriented and having a VPN support from within it. The VPN itself, however, can be elaborated in other network layers - but defenately ...
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Allowing Flash Player even though its insecure
Flash may leak the IP-Address... to whom?
To whoever you're trying to hide from in the first place. The website will load through Tor, but Flash Player does not obey proxy rules, and will make a ...
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Why Tor does not encapsulates all the packages?
1. Massively increase complexity (read: attack surface).
Handling arbitrary IP packets, tracking their state and handling their responses is complex. Many operating systems over the years have had ...
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Why Tor does not encapsulates all the packages?
Let's condense the answer from the Tor website:
a. Internet packets have information about your OS. Depending on how your computer is set up, trackers might be able to fingerprint your computer based ...
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Tor connection from 1st to 2nd computer, then from 2nd computer, a 2nd Tor connection to browse web (for increased untraceability)
Your second computer must have two separate ISP's with different IP addresses, and it should be no problem at all : you will use two virtual machines, one for "using net securely", you will connect to ...
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