Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tweesecake.social/@adisonverlice" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adisonverlice</span></a></span> I think that's dangerous disinfo as <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@torproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>torproject</span></a></span> actively works against attempts to fingerprint and track <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Tor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tor</span></a> users.</p><ul><li>I do consider Tor more private than any <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VPN</span></a> simply becaise they can neither ban users nor identify them.</li></ul><p>In fact, Tor has been designed with the explicit goal to circumvent <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Firewalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firewalls</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/InternetCensorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternetCensorship</span></a> methods like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DeepApcketInspection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepApcketInspection</span></a>.</p><ul><li>Which is why <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OnionShare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnionShare</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@micahflee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>micahflee</span></a></span> works so great!</li></ul><p>As a matter of principle I'd never vouch for any <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/centralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>centralized</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SingleVendor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SingleVendor</span></a> and/or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SingleProvider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SingleProvider</span></a> solution of any kind, including <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Session" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Session</span></a>.</p><ul><li>Tor is sufficiently decentralized in that it is not only completely <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> but has proven to not have SPOFs in the form of maintainers and is able to <em>yeet</em> proplematic folks (unlike <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WikiLeaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WikiLeaks</span></a>!)…</li></ul>