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How secure is Tor network?
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this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2023
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Short answer: In theory, pretty much anything you're doing on the modern internet can be traced back to you. It's just a question of how much effort, sophistication, and time someone's willing to invest in the tracing. Tor is a pretty high bar for them to clear, so it'll protect you against a pretty high bar of attempting to track you down -- but that's only true as long as you're not doing anything careless to compromise your own security, and it's pretty easy to do something careless (especially in the long term).
This DEFCON talk goes into a lot of the nitty-gritty details and reality. The speaker sold drugs on the dark web for quite a while, but eventually got caught and went to federal prison, so he knows both sides of it.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=NGiUhjuB22Y
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Thanks for the video, I'll check it out.