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RE: What are TOR and VPN? When should I use each?
Nice breakdown! We never used Tor but VPN's on our network. Worked a charm.
Cheers
Nice breakdown! We never used Tor but VPN's on our network. Worked a charm.
Cheers
Thank you. I work in IT and run into so many people who want security and don't know the difference. Even more who think Tor is only for "bad people", that don't understand what it is. I am glad you found it useful :)
Do you actually have Tor installations you run? It's not something that is used in South Africa much
I use tor browser on my laptop quite often. I do also have a tor node that I run on a Linode vps. Did you have specific questions about how to do either?
Not specifically, its just something that isn't used much. In actual fact I don't know of an application of Tor in my experience.
Routers have the capability of doing what you say the servers would do, so can you not set them up for that type of routing of traffic?
Perhaps my explanation was not so good, I will have to go back and read. The Tor nodes are computers all over the world. The information is bounced around through several different nodes with different IPs to mask the originating IP.
As for application. The technology was originally created by the United States Navy as a way for its overseas operators to relay information back without being tracked.
Journalists use the Tor network quite often for anonymity. Intelligent whistleblowers like Edward Snowden have used Tor for anonymity.
The most beneficial uses are not by just average persons surfing the internet. Although Tor is the only way to access the .onion sites, otherwise know as the infamous “Dark Web”.
As for my customers and using tor. I have helped a few individuals who work in some touchy fields set it up for communication when they are out if the country, but not for a business enviroment normally.
That's interesting. Yeah so if they are going through servers all over the world with different IP's and they only know if the origins of the previous IP's then that woukd work a treat.
Of course this would only work with data as any multimedia would suffer with the delays of such a setup.
Media would not only suffer, but it can clog up the network. You can find a lot more information at https://www.torproject.org altough I enjoy the conversation.