Thank you for your useful info. How can I use and configure Tor correctly? I'm using some IMs like telegram and I don't like my messages monitored by the governments. I also like to hide my real identity.
On Saturday, December 21, 2019, 10:14:39 AM UTC, Jan <tor-l...@jluehr.de> wrote: Hei, Am 16/12/2019 um 20.28 schrieb Jason Long: > Hello Tor Team, > I read some articles about Tor security Personally, I consider tor being a privacy tool and not a security tool: To some extent, you can control to what extent personal information (e.g. ip-address, browser) is known to the community. Security is a process involving many steps (e.g. threat modelling), that cannot be provided by tor alone. Maybe tor helps, maybe not. This is context-depended. > and some of them said that if the governments see your real IP address then > they can't see > the Tor traffic or websites that visited by Tor and if they can sniff Tor > traffic then they can't see your real IP. > Is it true? > How Tor team members are sure about it? If the governments use any special > devices for sniffing Tor traffics then why > they should reveal it? From my (rather not-so-close) point of view, much users get identified by compromised end-devices and by their habits. Some governments are not that reluctant on expressing their ideas regarding purchasing information on security vulnerabilities. Some intelligence agencies are rather proud of their "cyber-capabilities". Some platforms (e.g. Android) an very insecure (a bunch of critical problems each and every month, hardly patched by device vendors). Habits can relate to side-channels (e.g. payment, credit-cards, e-mail addresses logged into) or data mining (e.g. analyzing texts using Support-Vector-Machines). IMHO "special devices" can be placed at access or core networks, injecting exploit-payload. Some ideas have been exposed in the recent years (Snowden / Hacking team) > If a user use the Telegram messenger with Sock5(Tor) proxy, then is it secure? IMHO you cannot reason about security without having a threat model defining it. Thus: no. Greetz, Jan -- There's a ripped off cord To my TV screen With a note saying: "Im not afraid to dream" -- Donkey Boy, Crazy Something Normal -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
