[tor-talk] Question Regarding Routing of Network-Traffic using Tor-Browser

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Mon Nov 2 08:49:10 UTC 2015


On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 03:26:23PM +0200, s7r wrote:
> Just to make sure you realize this puts you at higher risk in running
> into a malicious guard.

Right, correct.

I would suggest you read and understand
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/improving-tors-anonymity-changing-guard-parameters
before decreasing your guard rotation period so wildly.

That said, if you want to blow your whole foot off, we have a config
option for this: check out the 'UseEntryGuards 0' torrc option.

--Roger



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