Questions tagged [tor]
Tor (short for The onion router) is a system intended to enable online anonymity. Tor client software routes Internet traffic through a worldwide volunteer network of servers in order to conceal a user's location or usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. For non-security questions about Tor, see our sister site Tor Stack Exchange.
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Is it possible to get redirected to a malware download URI while using Tor as a proxy?
Now this is an interesting one. I just received a forwarded email notification from my data center provider that one of my servers accessed a sink hole that is associated with the nymaim malware. The ...
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How to defend against network traffic pattern correlation attacks?
If i am chaining multiple VPN's and possibly running through Tor as well, network correlation attacks can be performed against me to try to locate my position. If my network spikes a download for 40MB/...
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Does Tor still hide all tracks?
I've seen some threads on Reddit that say true hackers, when attacking, go through a public WiFi network, use a VM, proxy through a zombie computer, use a VPN, then proxychain through Tor, use another ...
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Using Tor in public WIFI is it secured? [duplicate]
Is using the Tor network to visit the web pages in public wifi secure or not since Tor will help to make us anonymous (hide the metadata such as URLs) and HTTPS helps us to protect the content.
Will ...
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Does Tor help us to prevent ISP tracking?
If Tor is able to hide the IP address of the machine and make us anonymous, then does it prevent the ISP from tracking us?
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Run Phone Apps in VM Anonymously and Security Risks of Virtualbox
Would it be possible to run phone apps that connect to the internet (eg. youtube, instagram, etc.) on an Android VM (or any sort of phone VM, doesn't need to be android) in VirtualBox within a host OS ...
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How does proxychains avoid DNS leaks?
Also directly related, how are the DNS servers queried when using proxychains? Assume I'm using Tor for proxychains.
If I uncomment the DNS part of proxychains.conf, my requests supposedly get sent ...
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Encrypt data within the Tor network
They say that the last Tor node presents all the information in clear.
If I want to send some sensitive information by Tor, could you encrypt it, and in this way be encrypted by both the Tor nodes, ...
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Whonix with Remmina to Connect on RDP - Is it safe?
I do not want my ISP logging any of my data, and do not trust my VPN either. Is it a safe measure to use Whonix in a VirtualBox, connecting over VPN, then using remmina to connect to an RDP? My goal ...
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How would you hide your tracks/location without Tor or a VPN yourself?
This is kinda similar to this question, How can you hide / fake your ip address without proxy / vpn?, but this was about particular tools and their effectiveness. What I'm wondering is how someone ...
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Dangers of using Tor snowflake?
The Tor project has recently released a browser extension called snowflake which allows users in countries with heavy censorship to access websites which would otherwise be blocked using the ...
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I'm looking for an email provider like this [closed]
I am looking for email providers with the following conditions for privacy.
email providers that:
Are free.
Do not require JavaScript or other credentials for registration.
Provide an onion service.
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How does malware use the Tor network [closed]
How does malware use the Tor network to keep hidden services safe from takedowns
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How does Tor protect against MITM attacks between the client and relay nodes?
According to robertheaton.com:
When a Tor client constructs a circuit, it negotiates TLS sessions with each of the nodes it has chosen for its circuit using the nodes’ TLS certificates and public ...
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Attacks on decentralised networks by running a fleet of nodes with modified software
At least some decentralised networks purported to provide anonymity are vulnerable to this attack: the original software is modified to allow tracking/logging/whatever, and a large amount of nodes ...
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RDP/VNC/Xorg over Tails/Tor - From Tails to Windows [closed]
Remoting from a Tails machine to a Windows one.
I have been working for a couple of days on making it work with no avail.
Using Tails with small persistent modules installed (iceweasel, remmina, ...
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How can one using Tor and a Virtual Machine be traced?
Theoretically, wouldn't it be impossible to be traced using Tor + Virtual Machine? Assuming you connect to a website trying to track your personal location.
Your IP address is completely hidden by ...
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Can a tor exit node know the ip of .onion sites?
I am just wondering about this since I heard that tor exit nodes know the ip of the website the user is visiting
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Tor relay on port 9001 TCP
I executed netstat -t on my linux terminal and noticied a tor relay running on port 9001. I've search about the IP address of relay on shodan and got a result that address is from Russia, after that i ...
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How well can Tor + VPN secure my anonymity on the internet?
I want to be as anonymous as possible online without anyone being able to connect me to my online activity. Assume that the people trying to track me have lots of resources and can even use the legal ...
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Concept for (almost) untraceable networking setup
I have been working on an my digital footprint lately, trying to reduce it as much as possible, taking steps like fully encrypting my device with Veracrypt, installing 3 AVs, or spending hours trying ...
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What are the security implications of connecting to Tor through an SSH SOCKS proxy?
Suppose I have a user account on a remote server run by a friend.
I create a SOCKS tunnel on my computer that forwards connections from a local port to the remote server: ssh -N -D 12345 [email protected]....
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Is there a way to automatically change Tor Identities on Whonix?
I wanted to automatically change to a new Tor identity, say after an x amount of time where x can be any amount from 1 minute to 120 minutes. Is any such utility available for Whonix?
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Detect Proxy and Tor exit nodes from an IP in python
I have a database (hadoop) of the users who access my website (their IPs) and i want to check if those users either use proxy networks or the TOR network and block them.
I also want to differentiate ...
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Would a VPN prevent hackers from gaining access to my network if already breached?
Hypothetically, if someone had illegal access to your network, wireless, or the like, and if you set up a VPN, would that stop the hacker from being able to see everything that you do or would him ...
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Why it bothers if someone can de-anonymize anonymous network (like Tor)?
So we all know that NSA has the ability to track down Tor, I2P and all those anonymous networks. I know it's a piece of old news, but the question always shows up in my mind. Which is why bother it? I ...
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Does Tor network encrypt the message before it reaches the first Router in Tor network?
I'd like to know this aspect in the inner working of Tor network. Right now I'm unable to find documentation that solves this, although by logic I guess the answer is 'no' I'd like to know for sure.
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Using a decoy traffic while using the internet
Since the ISP knows what sites I visit and they can assume or predict that I'm using Tor if they are monitoring my traffic, how can I distract them by making them see that I visit some particular site ...
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Do I have to do any setup if I want to run a VPN with the Tor browser bundle?
I know there will be some votes against this but I want to run a VPN alongside the Tor browser. Can I just open the VPN program, connect to the VPN provider, then open the Tor browser and use it as ...
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Is it safe to use Orbot with the normal Firefox browser on Android
I noticed that when using Orbots "VPN Mode" that my normal Firefox browser works fine and when I visit check.torproject.org it says I'm connected even though I'm not using the Tor Browser specifically....
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How to set up the Tor browser on Linux Mint in a VM with a VPN on the Host
(Forgive me, I don't know whether to post this here for in the "Tor" community)
I'm brand new to Tor, I understand the basics of how it works and the Do's & Don'ts. I have a Windows 10 computer (...
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website hacked by someone proxying over a tor router
I'm curious to get an opinion on following: If someone decides to exploit some sort of vulnerability in a web application of mine or performs something of malicious intent, would this individual be ...
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Can using torrent help me obfuscate Tor-over-VPN traffic?
There is tremendous misinformation about Tor in my country's mainstream media so, even though i use Tor for everyday surfing, I'd like to hide it from my ISP.
Currently, I use a VPN whenever I am ...
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Are some privacy add-ons superfluous when using Tor browser?
If running the Tor browser, should you still have the same privacy add-ons as you would if you were running a "regular" browser? Or will some of them be superfluous because of the built-in ...
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How do I switch appearances with Tor when onion routing is disabled?
If I run the Tor Browser with onion routing disabled at home, obviously my real IP address is sent to the Web servers I'm connecting to, and Web servers and various third parties can make a decent ...
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Can JavaScript break anonimity provided by Tor?
Some time ago, I was browsing this website over tor. After selecting a location in the menu, it was able to tell me exactly how far away the nearest test centers to my location were, which means it ...
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Can you trace a .onion address? [duplicate]
How can I get the IP address for a Tor Hidden Service (HS) with a .onion address?
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Does accessing a personally owned Tor node (that only you ever visit) over the Tor network break anonymity?
Does accessing a personally owned Tor node (that only you ever visit) over the Tor network break anonymity?
I read from a long guide by Whonix on how to properly use Tor that I shouldn't ever access ...
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Secure onion router setup [closed]
I would like to setup a Raspberry Pi as an onion router, but I have some questions about it.
At home I am using a Fritz!Box to connect to the outer world (to the net of my ISP). Would it make any ...
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Is the size of a packet sent through a Tor circuit consistent?
I was researching attack vectors on the Tor network and stumbled across something interesting
For example, suppose the attacker controls or watches the Tor relay you choose to enter the network, ...
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Deanonimizing VPN/tor traffic [duplicate]
What a VPN does is take the encrypted traffic from the client, decrypt it and forward it to the server, while tor bounces the traffic in multiple nodes decrypting a layer at each node.
I have some ...
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Why can't a Tor node simultaneously be a guard and an exit node?
By looking at probability graphs for nodes at metrics.torproject.org, it seems that exit nodes can't also be guards (they have 0.0000% probability of serving as guard) and vice versa.
Why is that so?
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How do VPN providers prevent getting blocked using e.g. Cloudflare, like it is the case for Tor exit-nodes?
How do VPN providers prevent getting blocked using e.g. Cloudflare, like it is the case for Tor exit-nodes?
Anyone using Tor to the browse the Internet have experienced that their connection is ...
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Difference between VPN server and Tor node server
I've been reading how VPN service and Tor network works, and I can't understand the difference between the VPN server and Tor node.
I know that in the Tor network there are several nodes, but what ...
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Can a VPN server be traced through Tor?
I was wondering that if my data was intercepted by Tor by an exit node, would they be able to see which VPN server is being used to encrypt the data.
I am asking because I planned on making an OpenVPN ...
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Routing through Tails OS
Is it possible to route all my traffic of Kali Linux through a virtual machine or laptop that is using Tails OS in the same network?
This question is related to anonymity I guess someone can help me ...
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Will this setup give better anonymity and hide tor usage?
Computer 1 with IP 1 (traceable to owner) connects remotely to Computer 2 with IP 2 in another country (assume computer 2 and IP2 cannot be traced back to original owner - bought using cash/bitcoin).
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Is this a viable defense against correlation attacks?
So, I guess most of you know that the true identity can be revealed if somebody controls the entry and the exit node of your Tor-connection.
Let´s say I´m connecting first to an encrypted VPN Server ...
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Can anyone using my wifi see what I'm browsing?
Can anyone using my wifi see what I'm browsing?
I've already read questions and answers about this topic and everybody suggests to use VPN.
I have two questions: is Tor safe for this issue? If I ...
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Why IPv6 showing on whatismyip.com?
I use Tor Browser on Whonix. Why I see IPv6 (something like 3221:23f9:c:67h:0:0:0:3) on whatismyip.com?
Is that website can see my MAC Address?
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