The Onion Router, now called Tor, is a privacy-focused web browser run by a nonprofit group.
  • @astral_avocado@programming.dev
    16•2 years ago

    Those onion layers don’t add up to nothing… also I’ve heard it’s under constant attack. Plus not enough people running relays and exit nodes.

      • On
        6•2 years ago

        Hence the rumors that the feds and state actors do the most of it.

          • @ErgodicTangle@feddit.de
            2•2 years ago

            If they don’t control most of the nodes in-between they can control all the exit nodes they want. If you connect though 3 Tor nodes, as soon as one of them is not controlled by them they likely can’t identify you.

            That’s not to say that they don’t control most of the nodes, and your traffic likely goes through NSA nodes exclusively

          • @jarfil@beehaw.org
            1•2 years ago

            The CIA, not the NSA. Tor is a great way for agents deployed abroad to phone home with plausible deniability: “I’m sorry Mr. Chinese Officer, I got homesick and really wanted to watch some BBW porn…”