Comments on: Tor Might Not Be So Secure

By: remove antivirus action virus

remove antivirus action virus — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:27:19 +0000

Nothing is secure:)

By: sbspalding

sbspalding — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:40:44 +0000

You make an excellent point there. Making your IP address harder to prog does not make the data itself secure. Whenever you are transferring data over the web and you want that data to be hard to intercept, it should be encrypted client side.

There really isn't any other effective alternative. Thanks Dave.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:47:38 +0000

You cannot configure Tor to secure your communications over the internet because that is not what Tor does. The ONLY thing Tor does is to hide your IP address from the website/server you are contacting.

If the embassies in question (and all of the businesses that Egerstad didn't publish) had used encrypted connections to their email servers then he would have had a much harder time finding out their passwords and most likely WOULD have broken some laws by doing it. If they had encrypted their emails, he still would have found their email passwords but wouldn't have been able to read their email.

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Tips For The Privacy Minded | How To Split An Atom — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:22:52 +0000

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