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An Internet Service Provider (ISP) can see DNS queries if those queries are sent to a DNS resolver the ISP operates or to any unencrypted DNS service, because standard DNS is visible on the network . ...
Tor prevents an ISP from reading the contents of web requests or learning the final sites visited because traffic is encrypted and routed through multiple relays . However, ISPs can usually tell that ...
Your ISP cannot see the sites you visit or your destination IPs when you use Tor; it can see that you are connecting to the Tor network and can observe timing and volume of that traffic (Tor Project: ...
DuckDuckGo protects search privacy by not logging or tracking queries, but it does not, on its own, prevent an internet service provider (ISP) from seeing which sites or services a device connects to ...
An Internet Service Provider cannot see the contents or exact destination of files downloaded over Tor, but it can observe encrypted traffic patterns, including total bytes transferred and packet size...
Tor protects a user’s IP address from their Internet Service Provider by encrypting traffic and relaying it through a sequence of volunteer-run nodes, so the ISP sees only a connection to the Tor netw...
Compelling an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to disclose which subscriber was assigned a given IP address depends heavily on national law: some countries require a court warrant or order, others allo...
VPN logs and court orders can and do lead to deanonymization of users who combine VPNs with Tor in many real-world scenarios, but success depends on who controls what logs and whether an adversary can...
The recent SUMo flow-correlation work models a realistic, federated coalition of ISPs that can deanonymize Tor onion service sessions by distributing traffic-analysis workload across monitored vantage...
Researchers have used a range of traffic-correlation techniques to deanonymize Tor onion services, from large-scale passive correlation across ISPs to active, protocol-level manipulations that induce ...
For hiding the fact of which sites are visited from a local ISP, a multi-hop VPN scheme often branded as “Secure Core” gives clearer protection because the ISP only sees an encrypted tunnel to the VPN...
Metadata and ISP logs can sometimes be used to build a case against someone using Tor, but the outcome depends on what logs are available and where—client device artifacts, ISP connection records show...