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Exit Node Risks

The risks associated with Tor exit nodes, including traffic inspection and manipulation

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Feb 5, 2026

How does Tor’s multi‑hop routing compare to a single VPN for resisting subpoenas or traffic analysis?

multi‑hop onion routing disperses trust across volunteer relays, making it inherently harder for a single legal subpoena to expose a user’s identity, but it remains vulnerable to traffic‑correlation a...

Feb 5, 2026

What operational security mistakes commonly expose Tor users' real IP addresses?

by making user traffic appear to originate from a Tor exit node rather than the user's IP address, but that guarantee is conditional: —ranging from browser and plugin behavior to server misconfigurati...