[LINK] Browse the web anonymously with Torpark

[Kim Holburn]

On 2006 Sep 21, at 5:15 PM, brd at iimetro.com.au wrote:

> It's not the source code I'd worry about it's the bit about  
> "encrypted tunnel
> from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer"
>
> Tor decrypts my comms and sends it out in the clear. Tor gets to  
> find out
> everything I do. Especially stuff I'm trying to hide.

Yeah, true but no one body owns all the exit servers and your  
messages are sort of guaranteed not to exit from the same server.

That said, at some point your messages have to be decrypted don't  
they?  Or no-one can make any sense of them.  If you need encryption  
to a particular person then it's your job to do that and TOR isn't  
for that.  If you want encryption while browsing the web then you  
message has to be decrypted at some point before it gets to the web  
server of your choice..

>
> Quoting Avi Miller <avi.miller at squiz.net>:
>> brd at iimetro.com.au wrote:
>>> Have I got this right? If I don't trust the internet I can use a  
>>> system from
>>> Tor, about whom I know nothing?
>>
>> You don't need to trust Tor: Download the source code, evaluate it  
>> and
>> compile it yourself. This is the great thing about Open Source. :)
>>
>> (Why do I feel like I poked the lumpy thing under the bridge?)

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