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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] absentrevision@lemm.ee 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/

Tor is still alive and well I promise

It is not perfect but it is by far the best thing we have. If it's legal for you to use you should be doing so.

For sensitive operations you should take further steps (follow the blog) like properly setting up your device, and connecting via a network not connected to you

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

what if I prefer mozilla firefox? Ive heard when you check every data security option the browser is private enough

Whats the difference

[–] absentrevision@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

No, they're not the same.

Tor browser gives you ANONYMITY, which is not the same as privacy.

What is Anonymity ? Why is it Important ? http://blog.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd.onion/opsec/anonymityexplained/index.html

Why isn't privacy enough for anonymous use?

http://blog.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd.onion/opsec/anonuse/index.html

(BTW stock Firefox is not even private at all)

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago

also - why is ublock for example not anonymous enough? doesnt it provide anything??

Like Id love to be able to see the full picture on this matter and weight at least all major arguments. like, is the distincion here the one tries to block corporations within their legally bound operations and the other(tor) tries to make everyone, even "hackers" unable to see what IP I have?

Im quite lacking in knowledge on this topic

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

these websites dont work for me... and the link looks very wrong - do you have like more accessible sources for me? Id be very thankful

[–] absentrevision@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago

These are .onion Tor hidden services (darknet sites)

To access them you must use Tor Browser

https://www.torproject.org/download/

https://nowhere.moe/

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

That is a very bad idea

Use Tor since For is designed to make every user apprear identical. Firefox is packed full of telemetry and leaves a pretty heavy fingerprint.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

After following up on a post on Reddit and two years of investigation, the reporters came to the conclusion that Tor users can be de-anonymized by correlating the timing patterns of network traffic entering and exiting the Tor network, combined with broad and long-term monitoring of Tor nodes in data centers.

I've been saying this for years. It's an open system, all you need are entry notes and exit nodes and you can launch exits for a pittance.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

What are you going to use except Tor?

Anyway the risk is pretty low that you are going to get targeted by law enforcement. Even if you are a person of interest it is going to be easier just to wait until you make a Sec Opps. They would need to control every node in the path plus they would need to decrypt the traffic on the exit. Somehow I don't see that happening.

Also if you use Onion sites it is even harder to trace since there isn't a clear exit.