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People still use tor? There are a ton of negative articles about it
Yeah, it's still in use. It's still slow. I think the real take away is that if you're going to do things that are going to get you in true State trouble tor is not a reasonable solution.
If you're not doing something to draw the ire of a government agency, It's reasonably safe. Other than they fact that you are passing tor data, no one in your house or your ISP or Google has any idea what you're actually doing.
I think one of the big problems is that there's not so many tor nodes that a well-funded agency couldn't stand up enough nodes to catch your entire conversation.
It's the best we have. What's your specific problem with it?
the ton of negative articles. /s
I’m not super deep into deep web stuff but I saw several articles online that talked about it being outdated, feds infiltrating it, stuff like that :)
Name something better
I suspect a lot of the negatively is state funded
So you read some articles but don’t have an understanding of what the weaknesses are? That doesn’t seem like a solid foundation to form an opinion on.
Several years ago when I was a little interested in the whole concept I read into the articles but I haven’t looked into these things since. It’s just what I remember from reading them years ago (around 2016) - that vulnerabilities in the tor browser have been exploited by feds, that they’ve managed to infiltrate nodes or some such, things like that. But the articles are probably still up there for anyone who’s genuinely interested in this
You are correct, they have infiltrated exit nodes, but it is still one of the most secure privacy tools available. If you are Al Quaeda, don’t use tor. If you are an average person preserving their privacy or subverting censorship, use tor.