TOR and ISP

[Programmer In Training]

On 12/26/2009 5:13 PM, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> Arshad writes:
> 
>> thank you very much. then if the user uses tor for his all browsing
>> purposes, from the isp end how does they see this? shouldnt they know
>> which sites the user visits? if dad request the bill include all the
>> sites the son visits what would the give? is the user shown as a peron
>> who doesnt use internet or what will be there recorded for where the
>> dns request came from etc?
> 
> The ISP would see the user visiting a number of Tor nodes.  If the user
> isn't using bridges, then the ISP will know that the user is using Tor,
> but not what the user is doing with Tor.  For example, the ISP won't
> know what sites or services the user is using through Tor.
> 

May I ask what bridges is in regards to Tor?

Thanks,

PIT

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