>As for how the French government might enforce a legal ban on the use of Tor, it may be possible for an internet service provider to tell when one of its customers is using the anonymity network (although the ISP cannot see what sites the user is visiting.) >After the recent Paris terror attacks, the French government is proposing to forbid and block the use of the Tor anonymity network, according to an internal document from the Ministry of Interior seen by French newspaper Le Monde. It's a software package consisting of two VMs that can protect you against leaks (so that all of your connections always go through Tor which isn't simple to do as it may sound), especially if you're Windows/Mac or other closed sourced OS user, and using closed source software that connects with the Internet.Īnd take their advice to your heart, you will already be ahead of 95% of other Tor users.Īlso, Tails was mentioned, if you don't want or need persistence it's OK, otherwise I think whonix is better (a thorough comparison is in one of the links above).ĭid anyone here laughing at the 'block Tor' part in the title actually read the fucking article? If you'd like to increase your awareness and knowledge on how to be anonymous, it can take some but I can recommend to start with acquainting yourself with Whonix: There are many things that you can screw up while using Tor that can deanonymize you or make it easier to find correlations of your activities (especially if you're watched by someone with a lot of resources, and over the long term). If you know how to use it, yes, but remember that anonymity is a spectrum, not an absolute. > is it truly anonymous and safe as it claims to be?

It doesn't really matter who funds it, it's open source so anyone who can code can see how it works: Tor was originally sponsored by US Naval Research Laboratory but it's a non-profit now (though it does receive research grants from some governments).

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