phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 7:12 am how on tor? to sell you need be vetted and even if somehow the feds shop were vetted and sold to you, that would be entrapment.

VPN will make sure ur not tracked and that is always recommended using tor

Honey traps are used all the time online to catch pedos. Seen more than one cop show based on that

RorschachRev wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 11:34 pm Browser forensics research done by EFF indicates that fonts and plugin detection using javascript is enough to uniquely identify a browser regardless of VPN. Google was able to uniquely identify users at a convention just by browsing habits. They had a machine that cleared history after each user, they invited people to come up and use the machine "in their normal way" and within 4-5 sites, most people were identified by the URLs they visited. The machine then told them their real name. Yes, Google Knows.

RorschachRev wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 11:44 pm Tor is limited to encryption of TCP data. UDP based requests (like DNS) are outside the scope of Tor. That includes certain protocols for streaming videos, RDP, etc. Basically Tor encrypts "most" traffic, but is extremely limited in scope. If you ping a machine while using Tor, the ping is not encrypted, the DNS lookup is not encrypted, etc. There are projects that I heard about years ago that tried to encapsulate all traffic in a TCP router using Tor, but I don't know if they were successful.

Back in 2018 I was deeply interested in the concept of mesh networks, a peer to peer data exchange. The idea was being paid for bandwidth you offer to people around you, regardless of hardware connection.

The system *could not* work because of the way that networking relationships are formed (at the device level, not the protocol level). If you could combine blockchain, root everyone's phone, create a series of VPNs based on blockchain addresses, fix the way Tor works to be more secure and complete, and then somehow merge all of that stuff it might work. In the meantime, expect leaks. Most major VPN providers don't encrypt RDP data, so a "honeypot" website will get IP address logs that are pretty funny. The VPN IP address will show for HTTP traffic, the border/ISP IP address for the RDP traffic. Paid VPN are a way to attach browser history to a credit card - if you use a paid VPN, they know your payment details when you go to websites.