How Tor Works - Surfing Privately with Tor

In this video I cover one method of keeping your activities private online - Tor. Tor is a tool that is used widely to allow users to surf websites anonymously. I cover how exactly Tor works, what is protects and doesn't, and some trade offs in performance due to enhanced privacy.
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[@louisshade8624]

DUDE I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL PLZ KEEP UP THE FANTASTIC WORK u answer so many questions for me thanks a million

[@plaintextpackets]

No problem!

[@ShriSumitJi]

from where u learn these

[@plaintextpackets]

Do you mean how did I learn all this?

[@BunnyKhatri-pd8zm]

​@@plaintextpackets yes

[@omaisbrabo9732]

@@plaintextpacketsyea, u recommend any books?

[@JohnRobertPotter]

Hey anyone can host a tor node, which means the NSA has a ton of tor node endpoints. Don't change the defaults and don't use a VPN unless you want DNS leakage

[@louisshade8624]

question for you really i am asking to learn not to be a smart ass or anything but why is it bad to use a vpn ontop of tor just wondering

[@JohnRobertPotter]

@@louisshade8624 The tour network is more difficult to detect than a VPN, so let's say if China is trying to tell where your traffic is going through if they see well-known VPN endpoints which are usually not trying to hide... They will be able to influence the VPN situation a lot easier basically or at least tell that you're using one. Whoever controls the endpoints controls the information flow and can probably figure some things out you or i don't think they can. It's best to just leave the defaults and run tor from a virtual machine using a third party burner phone for the connection

[@louisshade8624]

@@JohnRobertPotter thank u that actualy makes alot of sense