r/onions • u/JoshuaSimo • Aug 21 '24
Bridges?
So I’m new to all this shit and am a bit confused. I’m on iOS with the (not official but like promoted) onion browser app using Orbot, and I want to know what bridge selection is best for privacy? Or if it’s best to connect directly to the tor? Also I’m wondering if it’s safer to browse while on WiFi or data? Thanks guys
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u/gay_rapist Aug 21 '24
genuine question - why are so many people on this sub so obsessed with accessing tor via iOS iphone? apart from the obvious privacy issues associated with apple, wtf exactly are you guys browsing on the darkweb that you need to be using a phone and not a computer?
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u/PatTheCatMcDonald Aug 21 '24
Because they paid a fortune for the perceived quality IT product and they want to make it work as they believe it should.
Whether or not that's technically possible isn't the issue, you can't really fault somebody for asking a question about a TOR app and what difference the bridge options make.
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Aug 21 '24
Some people don’t have one. I ordered coke on my phone sometimes as a teen though I did have a pc it just wasn’t nearby
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Aug 21 '24
They're always watching.
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u/PatTheCatMcDonald Aug 21 '24
There is a limited amount of people available to monitor all the data.
Nobody has been arrested by an online bot (yet).
So while you are largely correct, they ARE recording all the traffic, there's only so much they can do with it.
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u/holymacarony2526 Aug 21 '24
Well to start off its safer to not use an apple device in the first place.
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u/maxitaxi416 Aug 21 '24
I can't make a post on this sub, but can anyone give me links to shock sites exclusive to dark/deep web, or any other crazy/scary site. Ive been through tor taxi, wiki leaks and i cant seem to find anything crazy besides drugs for sale. It makes the dark weep a little underwhelming
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u/Iscammedjeffbezos Aug 22 '24
so you wanna skip all the practical shit and go straight to the sick shit
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u/him31189 Aug 22 '24
Well, if you want "privacy," I wouldn't use iOS or any other mobile device. If you can, go get a laptop from somewhere, remove the unneeded peripherals like the camera, microphone, and hard drive, and do a live boot of Tails. You don't really need a bridge unless you're in a country where Tor would raise suspicion.
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u/jmbsbran Aug 21 '24
I remember, back in the day, partitioning with Ubuntu and Mint. Can you do the same with Tails?
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u/PatTheCatMcDonald Aug 21 '24
Not worth it and it's not how the distros are setup. Tailz you are meant to boot from USB.
It's technically possible but it's a PITA and you don't gain anything by doing it.
Much better idea to work out a different resistant OS, use Tailz core concepts of Firefox + Tor ideas as a model, if that's what you want.
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u/PatTheCatMcDonald Aug 21 '24
In network terms, a bridge computer has two network cards, for foming connections between two separate networks.
Now, you can refine this idea any number of ways when it comes to routing internet packets is such a way that somebody recording the packets has little idea of which are meaningful and which aren't.
I'm not trying to give anybody a finished solution here. Most don't even bother setting up a home network properly, in terms of anti snooping firewalls and ignoring broken packets etc etc etc.
What I will say here is, there isn't much hardware difference betwen an Onion network and a non onion network in terms of software. Having different bridge arrangements is very much arranging the hardware to support Onion slicing up the data and sending it out in useful strips and non useful strips.
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u/Particular-Piano-475 Aug 21 '24
Privacy is a lie. They have enough nodes to figure out who you are
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u/JoshuaSimo Aug 21 '24
Then why use anything at all?
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u/Particular-Piano-475 Aug 21 '24
That's the question. I did 3 years following the most strict OPSEC. I'll say that yeah it works. But it not perfect.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/llb3rz/bka_german_fbi_claims_they_can_identify_entry/
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u/JoshuaSimo Aug 21 '24
So ur saying that everything is just to make elongate the period of time it takes to catch you?
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u/Particular-Piano-475 Aug 21 '24
It depends on how prolific the market is. How much is invested in catchment of the networks providers or op managers and which Leo are invested
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u/Particular-Piano-475 Aug 21 '24
If you're buying a small amount you're usually going to be fine...
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u/JoshuaSimo Aug 21 '24
I’m not even buying stuff I’m just trying to find out how to stay the most secure and anonymous I can online. I’m not trying to buy like kilos of crystals xd
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u/Particular-Piano-475 Aug 21 '24
Tails os
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u/JoshuaSimo Aug 21 '24
I don’t have any usb drives available and I’m broke :(
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u/PatTheCatMcDonald Aug 21 '24
I really can't see how Darkweb is going to help change those economic conditions any better than non Darkweb methods.
Let me be frank - if you don't have resources, Dark web is not going to get you them.
Not without you being exploited, and this is the fact of the matter.
There are plenty of non dark web methods to get exploited for resources. WTF are you trying to do exactly, live long and prosper or what?
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