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Tor's new Vanguards system exists in two flavors: Vanguards‑Lite (the default for clients and short‑lived services) and Full Vanguards (an optional, higher‑security mode intended for long‑lived onion ...
DNS leaks occur when DNS queries escape the Tor network and go to the local resolver or ISP instead of being resolved by the Tor exit node; real-world bugs and OS/app behavior have repeatedly caused s...
Traffic-correlation and timing/volume leaks remain the chief practical threats to Tor’s anonymity: Tor does not protect against a global passive adversary that can observe both the client→guard and ex...
Public DNS leak websites—like DNSLeakTest, IPLeak, BrowserLeaks, BrowserScan, SystemDiagnose and Top10VPN’s tester—can reveal whether a browser or client is resolving names through the local ISP or ot...
ISPs in 2025 can generally see that a customer is using Tor but cannot read the contents of Tor-encrypted circuits or directly see which websites a user visits through Tor; they observe encrypted conn...
Persistent entry guards (guard nodes) and conservative rotation policies reduce the chance that an adversary will be selected as your first hop; Tor’s existing design keeps a small, stable set of guar...
Traffic and protocol metadata — such as which IP is connecting to which Tor relay, circuit timing and volume, and relay bandwidth claims — can still allow network-level observers (like ISPs or states)...
Your ISP can often tell you are using Tor even if you use bridges or pluggable transports; pluggable transports make detection harder but are not bulletproof against sophisticated DPI, active probing,...
Using a VPN before Tor ("Tor over VPN" / Onion over VPN) is the most common, easy-to-configure way to hide your IP from Tor entry nodes and your ISP, while VPNs that offer Tor-specialized servers (Nor...
DuckDuckGo blocks many third‑party fingerprinting scripts before they load and overrides several browser APIs to return limited or alternate values, reducing the usefulness of common fingerprint vecto...
Tor Browser is the dominant tool recommended for accessing .onion sites and the dark web; it “prevents someone watching your connection from knowing what websites you visit” and is maintained by the T...
DNS leaks in Tor Browser occur when DNS queries escape the Tor network because they are resolved outside the Tor SOCKS proxy; . Recent community and project analyses show recurring causes: application...
Court records and public write‑ups of “Tor cases” repeatedly point to human operational security failures — not a universal collapse of Tor itself — and the mistakes that recur most often are predicta...
Session’s advertised “onion routing” goals resemble Tor’s: both seek to break linking between user IP and destination, but the supplied reporting documents only Tor’s detailed design and deanonymizati...
The collected materials converge on a clear, actionable thesis: protecting anonymity on onion sites requires layered measures combining well-configured Tor software, strict operational security practi...