TeonX said:Connection to ancient-forums.com is https encrypted, that means as long as you don't give out logs to the german police nobody can be prosecuted.
TeonX said:Connection to ancient-forums.com is https encrypted, that means as long as you don't give out logs to the german police nobody can be prosecuted.
Syntax said:You're correct in the fact that nobody can see where the request is from. The exit node can see all the information you input to the website though. Passwords, logins, emails. Shit like that. If you don't want to risk your account being stolen I would recommend a paid vpn like NORD or Express. If you aren't paying for a product then you ARE the product(Free vpns should be avoided like the plague as you said).
Unfortunately you are wrong mate. This is HTTPS encrypted, the exit node can only see an encrypted request coming from the previous node to the normal internet. It can see someone on the TOR network wants to be connected to the forums, but can't see any of the data because it's encrypted. MITM attacks are much more complicated. TOR is perfectly safe and anonymous.Syntax said:You're correct in the fact that nobody can see where the request is from. The exit node can see all the information you input to the website though. Passwords, logins, emails. Shit like that. If you don't want to risk your account being stolen I would recommend a paid vpn like NORD or Express. If you aren't paying for a product then you ARE the product(Free vpns should be avoided like the plague as you said).
Syntax said:You're correct in the fact that nobody can see where the request is from. The exit node can see all the information you input to the website though. Passwords, logins, emails. Shit like that. If you don't want to risk your account being stolen I would recommend a paid vpn like NORD or Express. If you aren't paying for a product then you ARE the product(Free vpns should be avoided like the plague as you said).
Syntax said:If you aren't paying for a product then you ARE the product
Pirate11 said:Unfortunately you are wrong mate. This is HTTPS encrypted, the exit node can only see an encrypted request coming from the previous node to the normal internet. It can see someone on the TOR network wants to be connected to the forums, but can't see any of the data because it's encrypted. MITM attacks are much more complicated. TOR is perfectly safe and anonymous.Syntax said:You're correct in the fact that nobody can see where the request is from. The exit node can see all the information you input to the website though. Passwords, logins, emails. Shit like that. If you don't want to risk your account being stolen I would recommend a paid vpn like NORD or Express. If you aren't paying for a product then you ARE the product(Free vpns should be avoided like the plague as you said).
While VPNs are an alternative to TOR, you are trusting a private company anyway. There's a nice website that compares all VPNs characteristics but I don't remember its name. VPN providers cannot see either what exactly you are doing within a website, but can see that YOU specifically are connected to it (as opposite to TOR where the exit node only knows someone - generic - is). It's easier to track you down using a normal VPN.
Keep safe
Shrekelstein said:Even paid VPN's are the same thing as Tor. They can see all the info you put in. You have to take their word that they don't keep any logs or spy on you as it's impossible to know for sure. Free VPN's are worse, sure, but I mean, isn't all those sites shilling Nord VPN in their ads a little bit suspicious? This video explains it
https://youtu.be/FMScV1Mkaok
Syntax said:You're correct in the fact that nobody can see where the request is from. The exit node can see all the information you input to the website though. Passwords, logins, emails. Shit like that. If you don't want to risk your account being stolen I would recommend a paid vpn like NORD or Express. If you aren't paying for a product then you ARE the product(Free vpns should be avoided like the plague as you said).
Nope, they have strong encryption actually:Syntax said:Thank you for your information. This is very beneficial to know. If I recall correctly onion services do not have proper encryption and thus all information is plaintext. Perhaps that is where my confusion came from.
Source: Link to Wikipedia.Wikipedia said:Onion routing is a technique for anonymous communication over a computer network. In an onion network, messages are encapsulated in layers of encryption, analogous to layers of an onion. The encrypted data is transmitted through a series of network nodes called onion routers, each of which "peels" away a single layer, uncovering the data's next destination
There are VPNs who apparently have proven by a way or another that they do not keep logs.Shrekelstein said:Even paid VPN's are the same thing as Tor. They can see all the info you put in. You have to take their word that they don't keep any logs or spy on you as it's impossible to know for sure. Free VPN's are worse, sure, but I mean, isn't all those sites shilling Nord VPN in their ads a little bit suspicious? This video explains it
I think it might be Restore Privacy,Pirate11 said:There's a nice website that compares all VPNs characteristics but I don't remember its name.