curious question: if (and only if!) you're comfortable sharing, do you have an idea what your threat model is / what precisely you're trying to get out of using Tor?
i ask because the actual privacy guarantees / protections that Tor offers are weaker than most users tend to think, and in particular, infosec has a hell of a lot of security LARPers who are willing to wildly overstate the utility of various tools because of any number of reasons (inability to grasp that tech has advanced since the 90s, unwillingness to accept that some problems can not be addressed solely via personal technical wizardry, egos, etc, see the sadsauce gpg saga https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html ).
for e.g. casual browsing to get past a firewall, assuming a non-hostile government, it's "probably" "fine", but my understanding from the last time i looked is that Tor isn't really robust at protecting your anonymity against a particularly curious attacker.
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Date: 2020-08-10 06:55 pm (UTC)i ask because the actual privacy guarantees / protections that Tor offers are weaker than most users tend to think, and in particular, infosec has a hell of a lot of security LARPers who are willing to wildly overstate the utility of various tools because of any number of reasons (inability to grasp that tech has advanced since the 90s, unwillingness to accept that some problems can not be addressed solely via personal technical wizardry, egos, etc, see the sadsauce gpg saga https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html ).
for e.g. casual browsing to get past a firewall, assuming a non-hostile government, it's "probably" "fine", but my understanding from the last time i looked is that Tor isn't really robust at protecting your anonymity against a particularly curious attacker.