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0 pointshnlmorg3y ago0 comments

You’d probably want some traffic going out on your public IP because everything going via Tor is itself a suspicious activity and likely to draw attention.

They key is to ensure only legal stuff goes out on your IP and the illegal stuff is anonymised. Which is easier said than done.

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sterlind3y ago

tunnel all the Tor traffic out through a VPN? I feel like there's probably a bunch of servers operating like that for legit reasons. they'd probably assume you're just seeding torrents or something.

you can do the same trick to connect to it from home - VPN use is common. you'd want a burner laptop, of course, and some physical box preventing the laptop from hitting anything other than the VPN.

I've thought about setting this kind of thing up for fun. you could get really fancy - talking to some hopbox through Tor where you script up actions to take asynchronously, to defeat timing attacks.

hnlmorgOP3y ago

> tunnel all the Tor traffic out through a VPN?

Same problem. Tunnelling all of your traffic will look suspicious and thus stand out from the thousands of other people who don't tunnel all of their traffic. If I recall correctly, one of the documents Snowden released even specified that people who tunnel all of their traffic via VPC land themselves on government lists for closer monitoring. Regardless of whether this is true or not, creating a lot of legitimate traffic on your same gateway should still make it harder to fingerprint you as someone who exercises in activities that warrant closer inspection.

naniwaduni3y ago

Okay, tunnel all your Tor traffic through a VPN and also seed Linux ISOs, then, both through the VPN and publicly?

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