[tor-talk] Escape NSA just to enter commercial surveillance?

Markus Hitter mah at jump-ing.de
Sat Jan 16 09:54:22 UTC 2016


Am 14.01.2016 um 19:22 schrieb Roger Dingledine:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:51:31PM -0500, Philipp Winter wrote:
>> > Logging in to Facebook over Tor reveals your identity, but not your
>> > location.  Facebook still does not know if you are logging in from
>> > Angola or Indonesia.  Also, Facebook doesn't get to learn your operating
>> > system or your browsing history.
> Right. Tor provides many different security (anonymity, privacy, safety,
> whatever you want to call them) properties, and different users care
> most about different properties.
> 
> See "part one" of
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/facebook-hidden-services-and-https-certs
> where (back in 2014) I addressed exactly this question.

I see. You're after maximising Tor usage, me is after minimising
surveillance, which isn't the same. Confusion solved.


Markus

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