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[–]oooooooooooooooooooo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

tor most certainly is a vpn.. what is a vpn? instead of my connecting directly to xyz.com, i first connect whatevervpn.com and then it connects to xyz.com, and this way xyz.com does not see my IP address, but instead xyz.com sees the ip address of whatevervpn.com

tor takes things a few levels deeper, as i see things.. with tor, when i request to pull up xyz.com, that request is passed thru something like three servers before it actually gets to xyz.com

hint: microsoft can definitely track anything that you do on tor, and i cant imagine that linux doesnt have the same ability.

tor is secure, similar to how a young child might cover his eyes with his hands and then thinks he is invisible.

he thinks he is invisible, we allow him to think that he is invisible, and the world keeps spinning and everybody gets to buy their heroin from a reputable dealer.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I believe a VPN creates a virtual private network for you, whereas TOR is just a publicly accessible intermediary. The latter is more secure as it is basically like using a public library computer, but simply making a virtual network only partially masks your details.

I don't think TOR is easy to track, if it were I think the CIA and FBI would've been able to do so before having access to TOR's private information.

[–]oooooooooooooooooooo 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

i can sometimes come across like i think that i know everything, and i sometimes have to remind myself that i do not in fact know everything.

i really like your fox collection. do you know when i was a kid, i had this idea that foxes were these crazy man eating rodents..

boy was i wrong.

https://saidit.net/s/EverythingFoxes/

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's fine, I'm probably even worse than you. I can't count how many times when I was growing up I left somewhere and my mother started bawling and screaming because apparently I said or did something that bad. And often the only answer I got was "you know what you did". It was that rotten and that obvious and I still had no clue that anything was wrong until then.

And yes, foxes are cool :3