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Using Tor or VPNs to enhance online anonymity and privacy
The question embedded in "Is the new TOR VPN a good VPN?" collapses into three different realities: the Tor network (The Onion Router) is not a commercial VPN and serves different use cases than VPNs ...
Using a VPN before ("") does not reliably protect against malicious — the exit node still handles the final hop to the destination and can read or modify any unencrypted content (so is essential) . In...
Using a “no‑logs” VPN together with Tor can add convenience and an extra layer of protection—by hiding Tor usage from an ISP and concealing the user’s IP from the Tor entry node—but it replaces one tr...
is not a reliable way to hide an IP address when using or other P2P file‑sharing: torrent clients routinely leak real IPs to trackers and peers, Tor's design and performance make it both ineffective a...
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...
A USB stick is commonly used to carry or run Tor software — for example by extracting the Tor Browser onto removable media or running live OSes like Tails from a USB — but that practical use is differ...
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...