Re: [tor-talk] Inquiry about Vidalia/Tor bundle

[Nathan Suchy <theusernameiwantistaken@xxxxxxxxx>]

Even if you used traffic correlation you could not prove that it was their
traffic...


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Griffin Boyce <griffinboyce@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 08/27/2013 04:02 PM, Nathan Suchy wrote:
> > Not a joke. I thought we were talking about TBB. Tor secures all traffic
> > you send through it. In reality though wouldn't a secure VPN with no logs
> > be just as safe?
>
>   Short answer: no.  It's easy to map out your connection to the VPN
> with traffic coming from the VPN.  Even if the VPN providers were honest
> and had privacy policies, you'd still be open to traffic-correlation and
> analysis.  It's not a big deal for someone in <Country> looking to play
> <Video Game> or bypass a YouTube block. But journalists and other people
> who need actual privacy shouldn't rely on a VPN to protect them.
>
> ~Griffin
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