Onion sites are versions of sites that can only be accessed by Tor. onion websites through Safari, for example. It does act similarly to a VPN in that it routes all your traffic through the Tor network. Orbot isn’t a self-contained Tor browser. With manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users.” “We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time. Naval Research Laboratory and its security has even thwarted the NSA. I’ve often described Apple Private Relay as a “baby Tor.” Tor was developed at the U.S. It is stupid to take some magic list of actions and declare it "safe" or "unsafe" for all users and all adversaries.What Tor does is relay your network traffic among a network of volunteer-run servers. Users also differ in their ability to understand how adversaries can attack them and in their ability to apply auxiliary protections. Users differ in their knowledge of their adversaries. Adversaries differ in their goals, in the resources available to them, in the nontechnical constraints on their actions, and in the likely impact of their success. You can keep splitting the categories more and more finely. and yet even Tor on a phone will give you nonzero protection against some things such an agency might try. You are still in serious danger no matter what you use if you're a priority target for a major government intelligence agency. If you're trying to use them to hide something from your boss, the degree of risk will vary depending on where you're connected to the network, what you're doing, and how much access your boss can get to your phone.
Orbot is almost certainly fine if you're trying to create a hidden service just to get around carrier NAT. Secondly, it matters a lot what you're trying to protect, from whom you're trying to protect it, and what will happen to you if you fail.Īndroid Tor Browser is probably fine if you're trying to keep an advertising company from linking your Web activity. It's about levels of risk of various outcomes. Anybody who says something is "safe" or "not safe" is an idiot, particularly if they don't know what the user is trying to protect against.įirst of all, "safe" is not a meaningful word.
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