Is TOR Still Anonymous? and How Were People Caught Using TOR?

You can have as many locks on your front doors as you want, but the moment you forget to lock them is the moment someone can take advantage of.

So basically, you're only as secure as your patience allows you to be.

So in short, TOR is plenty secure as long as your not stupid.

this video is in everyone's watch history so you're already compromised

"I cite my sources." Subbed. Too few people do.

The downfall usually comes as soon as one cuts corners on OPSEC...and thus it is as with most vulnerabilities in cyber security: the user is likely the weakest link, not the system.

TOR is one of those things that I enthusiastically cheer for, yet will not use personally. Why? Well, I approach it using torrent etiquette. I only feel right using it if I'm providing as much or more bandwidth to other users as I'm consuming. That means running a TOR node. Knowing the kinds of traffic some users turn to TOR to hide, I don't need that coming back to my IP. Sure, plausible deniability, but I'll leave it to others to be the brave social justice warriors and present that case in court. I don't need that in my life. Again, I wholeheartedly endorse the project, their pursuit of privacy, and the people that provide the nodes.

Moral of the story: use Tor, don’t do illlegal shit on Tor

I wish IT companies were this cool and knowledgeable in my country, these videos are on a different level education-wise

I stopped watching to eat chilli and you randomly said my first name at 2:52 and I got paranoid

+1 for Darknet Diaries, great podcast. Casefile ep 76 also did an incredible breakdown of Silk Road which heavily ties into tor.

I have tape over my phone camera rn

One key point with Tor that I didn't hear in this video is the fact that whoever controls the exit node(3rd hop,this is where your encrypted traffic hits the internet) is the one in control. Whoever has control over an exit node can abuse this to monitor traffic, among other things, just be careful, TOR is great, but its not 100% secure if you don't know what you're doing.

Donating directly to the tor project is great and all but if you really want to help the Tor network, the best way is to run a Relay/Bridge/Exit Node to add more servers to the Tor network, I've been running an exit node for a few months or so

WOW you did deep research and your information is solid keep the hard work 🔥

Thank you, I'm pretty new to this.

Another great video. I’m a long time fan of TOR and the more credible privacy oriented VPNs. And you’re absolutely correct the devil is in the details. Those who 100% follow best practices are likely to remain anonymous while those who are lazy and take a 95% anonymity is good enough approach probably shouldn’t even bother as they’re likely leaving an obvious trail nearly anyone could follow despite their half assed effort at privacy. Just like it takes just one unwanted pic on social media to ruin a politicians life it also takes just one lapse in anonymity to undo years of trying to be anonymous.

i personally drive 20 miles to an open wifi set up an aws instance running kali linux than i spin up a 2 vms through that instance whonix gateway and whonix workstation and after all that i brows cute cat videos.

Informative no waffle and very funny dude you insight and research is appreciated 🥰

Computerphile also made awesome videos explaining Tor hidden services and how Onion Routing works. really worth watching!