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I have a Glinet[0] router that has Tor functionality and 'torifies' your connection, so even if there's some JS 0day that executes trying to decloak me, the adversary just gets a Tor IP instead of my home connection IP.

Note: I connect to Tor from my torified Glinet router which is doing Tor-over-Tor which is considered 'dangerous'[1] but I do it anyway.

This might be overkill for most, and I'm not doing anything illegal (I mostly browse clearnet sites instead of hidden services anyways).

[0] https://www.gl-inet.com/

[1] https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/427/is-running-tor-o...



If you read through the 10 year old presentation linked[0] you'll see they have ways to break just running over Tor. You really need to be running Tor on the machine, possibly via a VPN (like Mullvad or VPS+Wireguard/SSH), and either using Tor Browser, Whonix/Tails, or QubesOS.

My (updated) understanding is that running all things via Tor is slow without as much benefit as just a normal VPN and that if anything you use throw away VMs or Tor Browser sessions to avoid any way to correlate. Also note that a well known attack is simply knowing a connection is currently happening (preferably a long-running one) and cutting off the internet in suspected areas until the connection drops. So I guess either you need to avoid long running connections (I think you could do this in the local firewall?) or have redundant network connections like Dual ISP or ISP + LTE on something like Opnsense (cause wow, is it difficult to do this on Linux. I intend to blog about it someday soon).

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/to...


Out of curiosity, what is the benefit of using Tor just to browse legal clearnet sites?


I'm using Tor right now, because it's the only way I can access HN while my SelfControl.app is blocking it for the next 24 hours :)


Privacy. The con is a very annoying latency.




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