[tor-bugs] #2870 [Vidalia]: Security breach? Windows version always goes through same 'suspected' USA servers
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#2870: Security breach? Windows version always goes through same 'suspected' USA
servers
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Reporter: Al | Owner: chiiph
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Tor Browser Bundle for Windows
Component: Vidalia | Version: Tor: unspecified
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by arma):
It's entirely possible that kaspersky was preventing you from browsing to
certain websites directly. Anti virus programs pretty much uniformly suck.
As for the "my tor client picks a small set of relays to use as its first
hop", that's a security feature:
https://torproject.org/docs/faq#EntryGuards
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2870#comment:8>
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