Your internet privacy is now for sale to the highest bidder in Trumpistan

[Tiberius]

Yo, Divi Tiberio.

What do you know about this?

https://www.torproject.org/

Quite a bit. You should use TOR if you are so concerned about your privacy that you don't even want a VPN provider to know where you are going.

TOR works by routing your traffic through three nodes, and using encryption at each of those nodes.

Node 1 knows your IP address, but not what site you are connecting to, or what data you want to send to it. It strips your IP address from your traffic and sends it to Node 2.

Node 2 knows nothing about you, neither your IP address, or the site you are connecting to, or the data you want to send to it. It merely forwards your traffic onto Node 3.

Node 3 is able to decrypt your actual traffic. It knows the site you want to connect to, and the data you want to send, but it does not know your IP address (i.e. who you are). It sends your traffic to the site you want to connect to.

When the site sends back a response, the process is reversed.

If you connect to a site over HTTPS when using TOR, then Node 3 only knows what site you want to connect to, and not what information you are sending (i.e. URL, login information).

However because TOR uses 3 nodes to relay your traffic, it is often quite slow.

[Isis]

Everything Tiberius has said.

[Jackalope]

Yo, Divi Tiberio.

What do you know about this?

https://www.torproject.org/

Quite a bit. You should use TOR if you are so concerned about your privacy that you don't even want a VPN provider to know where you are going.

TOR works by routing your traffic through three nodes, and using encryption at each of those nodes.

Node 1 knows your IP address, but not what site you are connecting to, or what data you want to send to it. It strips your IP address from your traffic and sends it to Node 2.

Node 2 knows nothing about you, neither your IP address, or the site you are connecting to, or the data you want to send to it. It merely forwards your traffic onto Node 3.

Node 3 is able to decrypt your actual traffic. It knows the site you want to connect to, and the data you want to send, but it does not know your IP address (i.e. who you are). It sends your traffic to the site you want to connect to.

When the site sends back a response, the process is reversed.

If you connect to a site over HTTPS when using TOR, then Node 3 only knows what site you want to connect to, and not what information you are sending (i.e. URL, login information).

However because TOR uses 3 nodes to relay your traffic, it is often quite slow.

You should however be aware that there are limits to the privacy offered by TOR which are not well understood to the layperson, and IMO, the TOR network is likely at least partially compromised.

[Autumnlicious]

I would consider Tor partially compromised. The take down of the Silkroad had some "magic happened!" moments in the official narrative for isolating and deanonymizing the server. It is speculated that the investigation secured enough control of the Tor cluster to use latency and other timing attacks to deduce the precise identity of the SR server. Such an attack fundamentally breaks Tors privacy for everyone.

Once they compromised the SR server, everything else fell into place.

Tor is never as safe as you think it is.

[Isis]

Let's be honest, you should never completely trust any service. I would agree though that some things have left me questioning how useful Tor is these days...

[Jackalope]

Let's be honest, you should never completely trust any service.

....particularly one (partially) funded by the state intelligence apparatus.

[Jesster]

I wish I could afford the price tag on one of those VPN services. I guess I'll have to get comfortable with being spied upon and sold out.

[Isis]

Let's be honest, you should never completely trust any service.

....particularly one (partially) funded by the state intelligence apparatus.

I'm aware that the US government has (partially) funded them, thank you very much. See my edit to the post you replied to.

[vorlon13]

Considering all the crap my relatives are posting to social media I'm not sure this legislation is going to make much of an increment of difference. Sheesh, I've got relation that posts travel plans, live vacation pics, all manner of medical stuff, funeral and ancestor info, and telling them they are fucking up just gets me the old stink eye thing.

And don't get me started on the idiots that post pics of themselves committing actual crimes . . .

Jesus Fucking Christ, save us from all these idjits . . .

[Secular Elf]

You can always rely on the republicunts to fuck the little guy if some corporate cocksucker can make a nickle out of it.

Fascist motherfuckers.

I agree Min. That is exactly what they are. You can bet your bottom dollar that the Shithead-In-Chief will sign this bill into law.