Cevilia (they/she/…)When people recommend Brave browser.
xiiiI’m surprised to read the whole thread and nobody mentioned that TorBrowser is the goat for daily anonymous browsing.
A_Random_IdiotI thought people gave up on Tor years ago when it was revealed that it wasnt as anonymous as people expected due to the number of entry and exit nodes controlled by governments and spy agencies.
The NSA wasn’t able to break Tor fundamentally, even with spanning numerous exit nodes to intercept traffic, and high-scale traffic correlation between enter and exit nodes
“We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time.” It continues: “With manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users,” and says the agency has had “no success de-anonymizing a user in response” to a specific request.
NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
• Top-secret documents detail repeated efforts to crack Tor• Tool is funded by US government and relied on by dissidents and activists• Agencies have failed to break core security of network but have limited success in attacking users' computers
Do we trust a 12 year old article sourced from the government to be honest about current/past capabilities? Genuinely asking.
In this case I would. Its from the Snowden leaks and from the government for the government, never intended for our public eyes.
Also if you don’t fully trust tor, just add another layer (e.g. VPN). If the government dissuades you from secure open infrastructure and gets you to use closed ones, they have won because companies can always be forced to comply. Algorithms on the other hand, can’t.