I should use TOR to Jow Forums?

how are you going to post if you're using tor

if you'd like to

Then why do they allow VPNs? You can do Real IP -> Tor -> VPN so even if the VPN give away logs they only get IP of exit node

>You can do Real IP -> Tor -> VPN
you can, but you'd have to buy the vpn 100% anonymously, and those vpns are most likely all blocked from 4ch.

Yes, except again, you can use VPNs on Jow Forums with a pass. So why not allow Tor as well?

because tor is far more prone to abuse than a vpn, in the case of mass illegal activity, a vpn can at least provide logs (don't buy into the "no logs" meme) to LE and payment info, but tor is free and the way it is designed makes it anonymous and borderline impossible to track a user, simply put Jow Forums doesnt care enough about users to deal with the amount of bullshit that would result in allowing tor usage

>and borderline impossible to track a user
not when they own more than half the nodes

90% of the nodes are in the UK, GERMANY, AND US, bastions of freedom when it comes to the internet.

it's possible to track individual users with enough resources and effort through timing analysis of nodes, though this is really the only possible attack you could use that would actually work against the tor network itself, all known fuckups by users and onion site admins are due to user error and there isnt any proven record of tor itself being compromised. that said, the timing analysis method requires plenty of human work and takes a lot of time to complete, it isnt something that can be automated and applied to every single user all at once.

It doesn't matter when you live in a country where you get jailed for not giving up a password or using tor protocol at all, you only need to be under suspicion.

>UK, GERMANY, AND US, bastions of freedom when it comes to the internet
Hahahahahahahahaha

Oh wait youre serious

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAGAGA

>tor meme
Lmfao

The feds are only after the bigtime operators and easy pickings. Anyone on Tor just browsing and downloading CP etc they could not give two fucks about. But if you are running a shady site or uploading new shit not already in their database you'd better watch out.

bridges exist and if they can work against all the shit that china uses to censor the internet, there's no reason they wouldn't be viable in another country (except north korea and cuba where there isnt any internet at all). in the case of drive encryption, plausible deniability does work, veracrypt's hidden volumes feature is an example of this, but if you're storing your information on a dropbox account like a fucking idiot, then you deserve to be caught doing what you're doing

No, I was being sarcastic. TOR is not for criminal activity, it's a honeypot, but it's fine if you just want free privacy while trying to search things that you don't want associated with your IP. No one is going to go after someone searching how to cure hemorrhoids.

thats why you have legal protection as a private individual and as corporate to run exit nodes in Germany so the nsa can cry about their “friends“ protecting their foes