TOR

loganj

I'm still new to the AirVPN service and I enjoy the "sense" of privacy at this moment even though there is a possibility that it could be a weak wall of privacy. I like the fact that I have been able to log in to any of the servers via OpenVPN to obtain a new IP address for extended periods. However, reading through the forum, I have noticed that TOR is brought up a lot. What is TOR and how do I install it?

I know this sounds like a brainless question to many tech savvy readers. Please bare with me.

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I'm still new to the AirVPN service and I enjoy the "sense" of privacy at this moment even though there is a possibility that it could be a weak wall of privacy. I like the fact that I have been able to log in to any of the servers via OpenVPN to obtain a new IP address for extended periods. However, reading through the forum, I have noticed that TOR is brought up a lot. What is TOR and how do I install it?
I know this sounds like a brainless question to many tech savvy readers. Please bare with me.

Hello!

"Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis".

https://www.torproject.org

While a VPN outperforms TOR in terms of bandwidth and latency, and allows all protocols (while TOR can't support UDP and is not suitable for p2p) TOR is anyway an important tool to increase your privacy and strengthen your anonymity layer. In critical situation, when a person can't afford to trust the VPN operators (to make an extreme example, when his/her life is at stake if his/her identity is disclosed and related to the information he/she imparts and/or receive), TOR can be used to perform what we call "partition of trust", so that betrayal of trust by one party does not destroy the anonymity layer.

Some considerations on partition of trust and how to increase the strength of the anonymity layer if a person lives in a human rights hostile regime:

https://airvpn.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=3&id=54&limit=6&limitstart=6&Itemid=142#1745

How to connect over AirVPN over TOR:

https://airvpn.org/tor

In order to connect, on the contrary, over TOR over AirVPN, just connect to an Air server first, then use TOR.

Considerations about different approaches on partition of trust:

https://airvpn.org/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=3&id=5821&Itemid=142#5822

Of course if you don't find yourself in such critical environments you probably don't need any of the above, just connect to Air "normally".

Kind regards