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If you think TOR has successfully hid your identity you are wrong. The NSA most probably installed malicious code into your firefox browser and now whether you are on the TOR NETWORK or not they know who you are and what you're doing. And since the NSA is specifically targeting TOR chances are you were noticed.
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As a TOR USER(NODE 1) you send a request for information online such as going to www.google.com through the TOR NETWORK. The information is sent to another TOR USER(NODE 2) on the TOR NETWORK such as yourself via encryption. From there the requested information is again routed through the TOR NETWORK to a 2nd TOR USER(NODE 3) via encryption. From there it happens a 3rd time to a 3rd TOR USER(NODE 4) via encryption. That 3rd node then sends out the requested information UNENCRYPTED to its destination. The destination www.google.com sends back the requested information to the 3rd TOR USER(NODE4) and the process is reversed back to you, the original TOR USER (NODE 1).
Now that is how we think TOR works (which it does). But the NSA is clever.
What the NSA has done is installed TOR on many many computers. Which then gives them access to crap tons of data that users send over the TOR NETWORK. So chances are you will eventually connect to and use a NSA computer while on TOR to transmit your data. When this happens and the NSA computer is the last computer (NODE 4) the NSA now has access to where they send you. Before sending you to google.com they quickly redirect you to download and install malicious code they developed directly into your firefox browser. The code turns your Firefox browser into a beacon. Alerting them what you're up to anytime. So now when you leave the TOR NETWORK and decide to conduct activities not on TOR your Firefox is sending out that same beacon. Now the NSA can match up the beacon to one person no matter what network they use.
If you don't understand that. Here is the gist. You connect to TOR. You are then forced to download malicious code by an NSA TOR computer that makes your browser say "HI I'M COMPUTER NUMBER 987654321ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456789 THIS IS WHAT I'M DOING". So when you are on the TOR network what ever activity you are doing your firefox browser continues to say "HI I'M COMPUTER NUMBER 987654321ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456789 THIS IS WHAT I'M DOING". Now when you leave the TOR network and you continue doing stuff online your browser still keeps saying "HI I'M COMPUTER NUMBER 987654321ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456789 THIS IS WHAT I'M DOING". Now the NSA can see everything your computer is doing on and off the TOR NETWORK and see its REAL IP address.
Also keep in mind anyone else can mess around with data going through the TOR NETWORK. Easy example.. Julian Assange got his start by using TOR to grab documents.
Good luck and be safe!!
If you think TOR has successfully hid your identity you are wrong. The NSA most probably installed malicious code into your firefox browser and now whether you are on the TOR NETWORK or not they know who you are and what you're doing. And since the NSA is specifically targeting TOR chances are you were noticed.
...................
As a TOR USER(NODE 1) you send a request for information online such as going to www.google.com through the TOR NETWORK. The information is sent to another TOR USER(NODE 2) on the TOR NETWORK such as yourself via encryption. From there the requested information is again routed through the TOR NETWORK to a 2nd TOR USER(NODE 3) via encryption. From there it happens a 3rd time to a 3rd TOR USER(NODE 4) via encryption. That 3rd node then sends out the requested information UNENCRYPTED to its destination. The destination www.google.com sends back the requested information to the 3rd TOR USER(NODE4) and the process is reversed back to you, the original TOR USER (NODE 1).
Now that is how we think TOR works (which it does). But the NSA is clever.
What the NSA has done is installed TOR on many many computers. Which then gives them access to crap tons of data that users send over the TOR NETWORK. So chances are you will eventually connect to and use a NSA computer while on TOR to transmit your data. When this happens and the NSA computer is the last computer (NODE 4) the NSA now has access to where they send you. Before sending you to google.com they quickly redirect you to download and install malicious code they developed directly into your firefox browser. The code turns your Firefox browser into a beacon. Alerting them what you're up to anytime. So now when you leave the TOR NETWORK and decide to conduct activities not on TOR your Firefox is sending out that same beacon. Now the NSA can match up the beacon to one person no matter what network they use.
If you don't understand that. Here is the gist. You connect to TOR. You are then forced to download malicious code by an NSA TOR computer that makes your browser say "HI I'M COMPUTER NUMBER 987654321ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456789 THIS IS WHAT I'M DOING". So when you are on the TOR network what ever activity you are doing your firefox browser continues to say "HI I'M COMPUTER NUMBER 987654321ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456789 THIS IS WHAT I'M DOING". Now when you leave the TOR network and you continue doing stuff online your browser still keeps saying "HI I'M COMPUTER NUMBER 987654321ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456789 THIS IS WHAT I'M DOING". Now the NSA can see everything your computer is doing on and off the TOR NETWORK and see its REAL IP address.
Also keep in mind anyone else can mess around with data going through the TOR NETWORK. Easy example.. Julian Assange got his start by using TOR to grab documents.
Good luck and be safe!!
