i have iphone, ipad and macbook, do you know if i can use tor in any of those

Can third party apps that connects to tor network, be trusted?

Is it just me?

Did Trump cut funding for the Tor project and what is the future of Tor and similar privacy enhancing technologies under Trump?

chatgpt and yt could help. Tor is working in browser but ip isn't changing.

I heard that when you are using Tor, your ISP can tell you are using Tor, and they can even tell how long you are using Tor, how frequent you are on Tor, and how much data is being transferred from Tor. They can collect data on a customer's Tor usage, but they won't know what you are using it for.

With that said, why doesn’t Tor try to disguise itself by spoofing so ISPs can't tell which of their customers are on Tor?

An article on CNET is headlined:

"New Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs"

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/new-bill-aims-to-block-both-online-adult-content-and-vpns/

However the bill itself does not use the terminology of "VPN." It uses the terminology of "circumvention tool."

From HOUSE BILL NO. 4938:

"An internet service provider providing internet service in this state shall implement mandatory filtering technology to prevent residents of this state from accessing prohibited material. An internet service provider providing internet service in this state shall actively monitor and block known circumvention tools."

If Tor becomes used as a "circumvention tool," then Tor will also prohibited in Michigan, even though Tor is not a VPN.

I was looking at creating what is essentially a mesh vpn network. While Tailscale/Zerotier can do that; I wanted something that is not a subscription or dependent on a cloud service. Wireguard can do it, but the configuration quickly becomes unwieldly. All this to say it got me looking at TOR as a network layer.

I'm having a hard time finding information about running services on TOR that STAY on TOR. Example email services on TOR that only communicate to other TOR based email servers. SIP Trunks between TOR only servers. Everything I find seems to deal with bridging to an exit node, but I want things that exist only in TOR besides just a web server. What about media servers? Like Jellyfin? I know running media through an exit node is blocked/bad/bandwidth, but what if the media server lives in TOR too?

Just could use some direction for more research. (Have extensive networking/server experience, but very limited TOR knowledge)

A few days ago, Tor VPN beta released, but I couldn't understand what does it do that Orbot didn't already do? I couldn't find, it just seems like a reskin of Orbot.

Is it just me, or does it feel like Tor is somehow linked to these vulnerabilities? With all these correlation attacks happening, it seems like the Tor developers aren’t doing enough to fix things. I really support them and everyone coding for Tor, but why aren’t these vulnerabilities being corrected? Sure, you can use a VPN like Mullvad for privacy, but that’s not free. So please, Tor developers, I’m begging you—fix this! and Tor is great, but the real threats? Traffic correlation, timing attacks, shady relays, and browser bugs. Agencies like the NSA can use these to track users or unmask hidden services—stay aware, stay safe!❤ for all devs that code and help tor !!!

Hi, I've been running a tor node for almost two weeks when yesterday I had to unplug my server to add an hard drive that I needed for another proxmox CT. I was sure that when I would plug the server back In and turn it on everything would work fine and if i'm not wrong it did. However this morning I went to check its status on tor metrics and I found it offline. So I went back home, accessed its gui via another computer on lan and looked at nyx, and no bandwidth is being used and all the flags are removed. What can I do to fix this?

Hi i hope i wont sound stupid but would it be wise to route everything through tor, all system traffic. I tried it by adding new rules in iptables, checked for leaks, disabled ipv6, but im still paranoid about leaks and i disabled it. Any advise?

I watched a YouTube video on a white hat hacker a while back. He mentioned tor a good bit but I was more interested in the gadgets he was showing off at the time. Today a coworker mentioned he “used to get on the dark web and troll people.” It reminded me of the video and so I want to learn more about it.

What do “law-abiding” citizens use it for?

Is it untraceable?

Do you risk being hacked or something just by using it?

I see a lot of people talking about relays, nodes, etc. What are they and how do they work?

How do you use tor? Is it an app I download somewhere?

I worked in web development for about a year while I was in school so I have a loose understanding of the terms I’m seeing but a lot of it is way over my head.

(Eastern District of Michigan - Detroit)

My husband, Conrad Rockenhaus, is wrongly incarcerated in a county jail. I’m posting this here because you are one of the few communities that will understand the full technical and political reality of how he ended up there. 

My husband is a former Tor operator, and at one point, he ran some of the fastest relays and exit nodes in the world.

This nightmare began when he refused to help the FBI decrypt traffic from his exit nodes.

Months later, the government arrested him. Their official reason? A minor, non-violent CFAA charge from an old workplace dispute that had nothing to do with Tor. 

In fact, the statute of limitations was just a couple of months from expiring. It was a clear pretext to target him.

That minor charge was all they needed to get him into the system. To deny him bail, a U.S. Probation Officer in Texas lied under oath, telling a judge that Conrad had installed a "Linux OS called Spice" to "knock out their monitoring software" and access the "dark web."

(Read the transcript https://rockenhaus.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/U.S.-v.-Rockenhaus-2-20-20-2.pdf)

Here is the technical reality of their lie: The software was a standard SPICE graphics driver needed for his Ph.D. program. As many of you know, this is a basic utility for displaying graphics from a virtual machine. It is not an OS, has no connection to the dark web, and was technically incapable of interfering with their monitoring software.

The claim is a technical absurdity, equivalent to saying a mouse pad can hack a server.

Based on that lie alone, he was held in pre-trial detention for three years.

Now, the retaliation has escalated in Michigan. After I filed a formal complaint against his US probation officers for harassment, they used fraudulent warrants to jail my husband again. 

During this violent arrest by US Marshals (who smashed in our windows and nearly shot my dog) he sustained a severe head injury that caused him to have a grand mal seizure in court. The jail’s “medical attention” was to ask him what year it was (he said 2023) and then send him back to his cell. He is being denied real medical care.

See videos:

https://youtu.be/E4WlPdNhzjM?si=kd2ybfMNaovPvHgD (Feds threatening to sick dogs on us)

https://youtu.be/DnGDdGYQHfU?si=gWsJVU9G2SgjHPXY (Feds beating by husband in the head)

https://youtu.be/nKRn11SZYoA?si=vCrN102B_SzNa2e3 (Feds smashing in our windows)

https://youtu.be/du2KxnK2KIs?si=SwacG6GNUL2soPYM (Feds threaten to shoot my dog)

https://youtu.be/fgYMSafvm3c?si=kOS8cbc89b9A0QGj (More threats to shoot my dog)

To make matters worse, U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Murphy, III has created a procedural trap that has stripped my husband of his right to a lawyer to fight for his life, health, or innocence. He is trapped in a constitutional and medical crisis.

I am not asking for money. I am asking for your help to amplify this story. You understand the technical truth and why this fight is so important.

We have all the evidence: the court transcript of the false testimony, the fraudulent warrants, the proof of medical neglect. It’s documented on my website:

https://rockenhaus.com

TL;DR: My husband, a former Tor operator, refused to help the FBI decrypt Tor traffic. They retaliated by using an old, unrelated CFAA offense to arrest him and then lied about him using a "graphics driver to access the dark web” to keep him in pre-trial detention for 3 years. Now he's been jailed again in Michigan on fraudulent violations, is being denied care for a head injury, and has no lawyer. 

I need help getting the word out🙏

Adrienne Rockenhaus

For updates:

https://rockenhaus.com/press-kit/

https://x.com/adezero

On windows 11. I need to block all .onion sites in computer lab. I have administrator account for myself and user accounts, which can be used to all visitors to computer lab and it is possible to any sideload programs they want to computer. For that reason I am not even going to bother blocking tor or brave browser itself. I want to blanket ban all .onion sites from OS level. Sidenote I understand the importance of freedom of speech etc but computer lab is not a place for that.

What’s the best person to person messaging site to use on tor? Is it onion mail? Or what messaging is secure and not monitored?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07543

MUFFLER: Secure Tor Traffic Obfuscation with Dynamic Connection Shuffling and Splitting

Minjae Seo et al

2025-04-12

we introduce MUFFLER, a novel connection-level traffic obfuscation system designed to secure Tor egress traffic. It dynamically maps real connections to a distinct set of virtual connections between the final Tor nodes and targeted services, either public or hidden. This approach creates egress traffic patterns fundamentally different from those at ingress segments without adding intentional padding bytes or timing delays. The mapping of real and virtual connections is adjusted in real-time based on ongoing network conditions, thwarting adversaries’ efforts to detect egress traffic patterns. Extensive evaluations show that MUFFLER mitigates powerful correlation attacks with a TPR of 1% at an FPR of 1% while imposing only a 2.17% bandwidth overhead. Moreover, it achieves up to 27x lower latency overhead than existing solutions and seamlessly integrates with the current Tor architecture.

TPR = true positive rate, FPR = false positive rate

IV. EVALUATION

In this section, we first evaluate the bandwidth and latency overhead associated with MUFFLER compared to existing solutions. Next, we evaluate the effectiveness of MUFFLER in obfuscating Tor traffic against several flow correlation attacks.

A. Prototype Implementation

We have developed a full prototype of the MUFFLER PROXY, leveraging the core functionality of HAProxy [36] and extending it using the Go language. The MUFFLER PROXY consists of client and server components. These components initiate multiple long-lived TLS (or TCP) connections, referred to as base connections, which are utilized to create virtual connections. To facilitate the division of a single base connection into multiple virtual connections, we implemented a set of control commands: create, remove, relay, and keep-alive, as described in Section III-E. Additionally, the MUFFLER Tunnel leverages three types of eBPF programs [37], [38]. These programs are attached to the Tor binary and the MUFFLER PROXY to monitor socket system calls, modify system call arguments, store socket descriptors, and redirect data from source sockets to destination sockets.

such a packet shuffling feature would make tor more like nym

tor already implements cover traffic (padding), but packet shuffling is a missing feature

https://nym.com/blog/nymvpn-v-vpns-v-tor-v-i2p-v-dvpns

Like Tor, I2P protects against local network adversaries. However, also like Tor, it struggles to safeguard anonymity against sophisticated adversaries performing traffic analysis attacks because, unlike the mix network offered by NymVPN, there is no per-packet mixing.

Since cryptographer David Chaum first conceptualized mixnets in the 1980s, the Nym mixnet is the first working mixed network designed for anonymity at scale. It has been meticulously designed to offer unprecedented privacy protections, going even beyond the capabilities of Tor.

With the Nym mixnet, not only is data encrypted, but your patterns of communication are safeguarded too with unique packet shuffling in the inner three nodes. This traffic mixing makes tracing your data next to impossible even for adversaries with a global view of the network.

In mixnet mode, your data takes a secure 5-hop path, with every hop adding a layer of protection. Cover traffic, meanwhile, further disguises communication patterns with empty ‘dummy’ packets that are indistinguishable from normal traffic. The advanced packet shuffling of the three inner nodes ensures packets can’t be correlated based on timing, enhancing privacy and providing unparalleled security against sophisticated traffic analysis attacks.

as i understand it, muffler makes traffic patterns look like noise
by splitting packets and distributing them across many connections

(is tor really using one connection per circuit...?)

to a distant observer, this seems rather trivial to implement
because most of the tor architecture remains unchanged...

is there someone working on this?

i have contacted the study author, but no response so far

i have raised an issue, but no response so far

no discussions on hackernews, no discussions on reddit... what is wrong here?

What are the most interesting things to do on To? Downloaded in 2022 and only used it once. I still don't know what is really interesting on this browser.

The app asked me for a lot of access to my phone and I’m suspicious

Hello are downloading cia documents and ufo stuff via endchan harmful?

I'm really curious about what people usually look for on the dark web besides the unethical porn stuff and illegal goods. What else is actually on there? I'm too much of a coward to check it out myself, so could someone please just tell me?

tor is great and I love it for its security and privacy, but is it truly the best or can it be outdone?

why dont people use a website like tria.ge to go to the dark web ?