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Does running Tor (the app in the terminal, not the browser) make you an exit node? I have used Tor Browser for a while but now I want to run another app through tor which I know will work with tor

A friend of mine has probably been hacken, and all her files are locked as FODCWNC-files, don't know what they are. But I feel that there might be a way to recover these files as when she opens it from within most applications as a open recentste the applications are for the most part able to open them. Any suggestions or am I just f###amily friendly content

Hi, Is there any way to get my full device encrypted with tor? I already have the browser and on my phone I have the orbot vpn wich encrypts your entire device Anything would help Coolxm

So i think most people here know what goes on in the dark depths of the web, whether you trade there or you just peeked in through a tor browser, but this really is a peek into the horrible portion of the human condition. I'm for one very glad that people like these 'hacktivists' expose some of the crap that is down there. Even though i know the dark web has its legitimate uses, they are very rarely why people are using this anonymous service. So discuss!! Whats you're opinion?!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/doj-drops-case-against-child-porn-suspect-rather-than-disclose-fbi-hack/ "Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have dropped all charges against a man accused of accessing Playpen, a notorious and now-shuttered website." The privacy advocate in me wants to call this a win but the parent in me is crying foul. "Defense attorneys have attempted to gain access to some, if not all, of the NIT’s source code as part of the criminal discovery process. In a related case prosecuted in New York, an FBI search warrant affidavit described both the types of child pornography available to Playpen’s 150,000 members and the NIT’s capabilities." What do y'all think about this?

Does anyone know about this router that claims it can make you anonymous on the interwebs using tor or vpn? Anonabox

I know (referring to LMG's recent video regarding ISP's being able to see what you're searching) that all google searches are encrypted but your ISP can see what website you're using. e.g. 'google.com' or 'CatMemes.meme' but they can't see 'CatMemes.meme/CatFallingOutOfWindow' because that parts encrypted, but when using a tor browser is all of it encrypted so your ISP can't even see that your visiting 'CatMemes.meme' just an encrypted connection? So basically when using tor your ISP can't see anything that you're doing? Or can they still see some stuff?

So I'm currently using tor to connect to my schools Wi-Fi this lets bypass the firewall and SOCKS system however I'm getting a little concerned on how much I should trust it. Especially for use with platforms like the in browser discord. I mainly want to know what it will be encrypting and keeping from the spying eyes of my educational establishment. Do the layers of encryption last all the way through the SOCKS system and only decrypt once the packets are received by Tor? Am I safe to use discord for communications without my school being able to spy on my messages? Are there any other measures I should consider for remaining anonymous? Any insights are appreciated

While perusing Bleeping Computers this morning, I saw this article and thought it was interesting and a little bit disconcerting if Zerodium is truly ding this at some governmental request... Essentially, Zerodium has set aside $1,000,000 for a Zero-day bounty program for being able to find security exploits in the Tor Browser to provide Remote Code Execution & Local Privilege Escalation on Linux Tails 3.X & Windows 10 RS2/3. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/exploit-broker-zerodium-offers-1-million-for-tor-browser-zero-days/ While I have no doubts that many criminals end up using Tor Browser to conduct illicit activities, it is also used in countries that have oppressive governments by people who are trying to raise awareness about things like human rights violations. Zerodium Program page: https://zerodium.com/tor.html

I was wondering if anyone knew of a free proxy service that would work along beside tor? thanks for your help.

I'm trying to make tor work on my Kali Linux. I have kali Linux on a USB and it is persistent. I am trying to use Tor but it is timing out every time I try to open a program "proxychains firefox www.google.com". I added socks5 to my proxychains.conf . I am new to Linux.

I need to know if Tor encrypts .com websites end-to-end.

Hello! I've wanted to share with LTT Community the SecureDNS Project https://github.com/Texnomic/SecureDNS It is a Secure, Modern, Fully-Featured, All-In-One, Cross-Architecture & Cross-Platform DNS Server Using C# 8.0 & .NET Core 3.1. It supports almost EVERYTHING: Mac, Windows, Linux, ARM & x86/x64 also it supports DNS-Over-UDP / TCP / TLS / HTTPs / DNSCrypt / ENS & more is yet come! Think of it as Pi-Hole of year 2025 ;) I've just released v0.3-alpha, just a single executable that can run as Windows Service, Linux Daemon or as Portable Executable: https://github.com/Texnomic/SecureDNS/releases/tag/v0.3-alpha I'd be glad to get feedback from you guys :)

Looking for an encrypted email service that works for deep, dark or surface web. Ive been looking at Proton, CTemplar, Lavabit and others, but because I don't know much about these services I haven't subscribed yet. Ive read about having servers in Iceland, which have extreme security laws and would like a service, that had something like this. Ive read so many different choices but have no idea where to start.

I'm scared about my internet. I looked up the word 'tor' after watching a few videos on youtube about the deep web, just to try and find out more, not to access it and I accidentally clicked a link for something 'tor' related and a 'cannot reach this page' thing showed up like it does in google chrome and it seems my isp has blocked some things from my internet, and has permanently turned on safe mode for all browsers in all devices in my house. No matter whose phone or computer. I don't know what to do and I can only access certain parts of the internet on my phone using a vpn from any country other than the United States. PLEASE HELP

Hello I'm not that informed about browsing the internet anonymously and would like to know how to use VPN and TOR the best way without getting followed by black suited agents lol Is there a way to be anonymously in the internet anyway?? Thanks in advance!

Argos, a special task force of the Queensland state police in Australia created to combat child exploitation, has been reported to have "hacked" a number of members of 'The Love Zone', a dark web child abuse ring, including 30 US citizens who's IP addresses have been handed to the FBI. After Queensland police arrested the site's owner, Shannon McCoole, Argos they continued to run the site for months, this allowed them to uncover member's IP addresses. There's not much info on how they did this, but court documents indicated they had a video file coded to bypass TOR and connect to an external IP through the user's normal network connection. Then it was just a matter of collating the IP addresses and getting arrest warrants. This operation did not involve the Australian Federal Police. The way in which Argos has conducted the investigation has raised a few eyebrows and some have questioned the legality and ethics of hacking. On the other hand, pedos. So yeah. Source (Motherboard): https://motherboard.vice.com/read/australian-authorities-hacked-computers-in-the-us

PLEASE NOTE: TOR can be used to access illegal services and websites, I do not in anyway endorse or encourage anyone to access these types of websites and use of their services. What Tor Does Tor is short for The Onion Router (thus the logo) and was initially a worldwide network of servers developed with the U.S. Navy that enabled people to browse the internet anonymously. Now, it's a non-profit organization whose main purpose is the research and development of online privacy tools. The Tor network disguises your identity by moving your traffic across different Tor servers, and encrypting that traffic so it isn't traced back to you. Anyone who tries would see traffic coming from random nodes on the Tor network, rather than your computer. To access this network, you just need to download the Tor browser. Everything you do in the browser goes through the Tor network and doesn't need any setup or configuration from you. That said, since your data goes through a lot of relays, it's slow, so you'll experience a much more sluggish internet than usual when you're using Tor. What Tor Is Good For If you want to be anonymous—say, if you live under a dictatorship, you're a journalist in an oppressive country, or a hacker looking to stay hidden from the government—Tor is one of the easiest ways to anonymize your traffic, and it's free. It's far from perfect, though (we'll get to that in a moment). On a more general level, Tor is useful for anyone who wants to keep their internet activities out of the hands of advertisers, ISPs, and web sites. That includes people getting around censorship restrictions in their country, police officers looking to hide their IP address, or anyone else who doesn't want their browsing habits linked to them. Tor's technology isn't just about browsing anonymously. It can also host web sites through its hidden services that are only accessible by other Tor users. What Tor Doesn't Do Tor is handy, but it's far from perfect. Don't think just because you're using Tor that you're perfectly anonymous. Someone like the NSA can tell if you're a Tor user and that makes them more likely to target you. With a enough work, the government can figure out who you are. Motherboard points to a recent FBI bust that shows how this might work: Furthermore, anonymity is not the same as security. It's hard to hack into the Tor network, but the browser is a different story. As we found at least year, the NSA can get into your browser a lot easier than it can the network and once it does, it gets access to everything else. So, "man in the middle" style attacks on Tor are still possible with help of internet service providers. Tor responded to these possible attacks with these comments: As the How-To Geek points out, you still need to use HTTPS whenever possible to protect yourself from man-in-the-middle style attacks. Likewise, Tor's only as strong as its browser, which has had security flaws before, so it's worth making sure you always have the newest version. So Should You Use Tor? As we mentioned above, if you're an average user looking at cat GIFs and browsing Facebook, you probably don't need to worry about the government spying on your activity, and Tor is just going to slow down your connection. It's more likely that you need to secure your internet rather than anonymize it, say, when you're using public Wi-Fi. In that case, you'd want to make sure you're using HTTPS on all sites that support it, and possibly even use a VPN to encrypt all your traffic when you're away from home. Everything above is from http://lifehacker.com/what-is-tor-and-should-i-use-it-1527891029

Our main network has changed so that every user now has a specific password to access the WIFI, Because of this they can monitor what we do (Previously they could see the sites people were accessing but not the user) So could the Network admin see that we are using a VPN if I decided to use tor through a bridge as they have blocked most VPN's? Thanks for the help

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/11/11/tor-fbi-cmu-controversy/ Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/tor-director-fbi-paid-carnegie-mellon-1m-to-break-tor-hand-over-ips/ Source 1: http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/11/9719098/fbi-reportedly-paid-1-million-carnegie-mellon-tor Source 2: http://www.wired.com/2015/11/tor-says-feds-paid-carnegie-mellon-1m-to-help-unmask-users/?mbid=social_twitter I personally never liked the platform tor laid out when they released it I knew something was bound to happen considering the skill of the people utilizing it It looks like the government is now involved in the already spiraling situation tor has been over for a few years

So i want to use the school's wifi without it's limitation and I wanted to know if Tor would be a good solution. Right now it's pretty bad if i can't use my phone for hotspot, it blocks ltt and tutorials for coding and it's getting annoying. Can I use Tor like a regular browser?

Hello, So do you think the Tor network is secure and, if you use common sense, provides you with near-perfect anonymity? There seems to be a recent amount of buzz for various reasons concerning issues that may exist in the Tor network and/or the Tor browser bundle. Some people saying its full-blown compromised and Governments can do whatever they want. Others saying they can't track you but they can see what someone is doing via exit nodes, possibly giving authorities enough information to figure out who is doing what. What are your thoughts on this? I have no real need to use it so I just use it occasionally on principal. Interesting articles (maybe): http://pando.com/2014/12/26/if-you-still-trust-tor-to-keep-you-safe-youre-out-of-your-damn-mind/ http://www.howtogeek.com/142380/htg-explains-is-tor-really-anonymous-and-secure/ Have a good day.

Hello, After a topic where I asked if Tor can still be considered secure (resounding No from the community), I began to wonder, is anonymity even possible anymore? Really the only way I can think of is using Tails via flash drive on a laptop using wifi in places like coffee shops. Even then I find it doubtful if specifically targeted that it will work. Is anonymity even possible online anymore? What tools/methods would you use to accomplish this? What if you aren't specifically targeted?

In a move that sounds an awful lot like David Cameron’s recent announcement that he would go after effective encryption standards in the event of his re-election, a member of parliament in Putin’s government is pushing for a ban on VPN and TOR access, in an attempt to stop people circumventing the many government initiated blocks on internet content. Much like the MPAA, RIAA, FACT and a myriad of other lobby groups in the US and the UK, Russia has its own organisations that watch over the internet and get content removed that they don’t like. Unlike the West though, Russia’s main censoring organisation is government funded and controlled. Roskomnadzor has been forcing ISPs to take down content for years, but blocks in Russia work about as well as they do everywhere else in the world: poorly. That’s because a lot of people know how to use anonymising software and platforms that allow them to skip over the blocks and that’s something that the Roskomnadzor is not pleased with. It’s not the only one too, as now Russian MP Leonid Levin has stepped forward, stating that he wants to see TOR, VPNs and web proxies banned in the country. Tor is most well known for letting people visit hidden sites not accessible in other browsers Much like the West however, Levin used the excuse of protecting users as one of the reasons why a ban of these services would be beneficial. As well as stating that preventing their use would prevent people’s access to blocked content, he also said that it would help prevent the spread of malware. Although such a move in the UK would cause problems for a few thousand individuals, in Russia this could have much larger implications. AsTorrentFreak explains, over 150,000 people are said to use the TOR network to access prohibited content and up to 25 per cent of all internet users in the country use VPNs on a regular basis. Source : http://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/russia-may-be-set-to-ban-vpn-and-tor-usage/

I think the distinction is a very important one to mention, as it is a distinction worth knowing to PREVENT all the fear mongering that goes on when it comes to privacy related services. Specifically when it comes to obfuscating your internet traffic and keeping yourself protected if you do need to use Tor or any anonymous network. http://www.wired.com/2015/01/department-justice-80-percent-tor-traffic-child-porn/