Tor

[Matthew Gillen]

On 02/18/2011 01:45 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> On 02/18/2011 01:27 PM, John Boland wrote:
>> i can see that this is very handy for folks wishing to anonymize their web
>> activities.  whether to avoid government interference or something more
>> nefarious.
>> how does this effectively differ from the ipredator service (
>> https://www.ipredator.se/?lang=en) offered by the pirate bay?  this service
>> creates a vpn tunnel from your machine to their servers and then nat's your
>> activities.

There's also the fact that a VPN-based solution is far easier (for say,
an ISP) to block (e.g. firewall-block a single destination IP) than Tor:
blocking Tor would require deep-packet inspection, since the nodes
involved in the network are not static.

Matt