[tor-talk] Inquiry about Vidalia/Tor bundle

[Griffin Boyce]

On 08/27/2013 04:02 PM, Nathan Suchy wrote:
> Not a joke. I thought we were talking about TBB. Tor secures all traffic
> you send through it. In reality though wouldn't a secure VPN with no logs
> be just as safe?

  Short answer: no.  It's easy to map out your connection to the VPN
with traffic coming from the VPN.  Even if the VPN providers were honest
and had privacy policies, you'd still be open to traffic-correlation and
analysis.  It's not a big deal for someone in <Country> looking to play
<Video Game> or bypass a YouTube block. But journalists and other people
who need actual privacy shouldn't rely on a VPN to protect them.

~Griffin

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