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Do you use tor for everyday things? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 days ago by treadful@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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I was fiddling with some nixos Raspberry Pi images to try the distro out (along with clan) and noticed on first boot they reach out and connect to a tor relay to setup tor ssh.

It's a pretty neat concept, I think it's cool and maybe a quick way to get connected to a new device.

But the idea of connecting to tor relays at all puts me a little on edge. Feels like it'll potentially draw attention to my IP by either relays gather analytics or my ISP for noticing the traffic at all.

Am I being overly paranoid? Am I just completely ignorant to how tor works? Do you use tor on the regular for legit traffic?

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[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Um, it's not just one government. It goes beyond national borders. People have already forgotten all about Snowden and stuff—how ridiculous.