Tor Project wags Tails to mark privacy project merger

The Tor Project, a non-profit focused on network anonymity, is joining forces with Tails, an anonymity-focused Linux distribution, in an effort to make better use of financial and technical resources. "By bringing these two organizations together, we’re not just making things easier for our teams, but ensuring the sustainable …

[Bebu]

Futures

In light of the recent Telegram shenanigans in France and ominous nonsense from Australia's domestic security agency and echoed by the national government I would be thinking running a tor onion service just to broker peer to peer encrypted messenger communication between parties might be de rigueur in future and running the peers on Tails OS.

How much would I trust the Tor network or services? Probably no more than I than absolutely necessary and then only in extremis.

[Anonymous Coward]

Our recipe is much simpler...........

(1) A book cipher (well actually a multiple enciphered dictionary cipher, or MEDC as we call it)

(2) Enthusiastic use of VPN technology

So....we get privacy from our MEDC and anonymity from various VPN providers........

By the way, (PRIVACY + ANONYMITY) has a very short sell by date......by the time the Five Eyes have it figured out......it's (probably) way too late!

P.S. Ask yourself -- do you really need TOR?

P.P.S. Ask yourself -- do you really need un-natural acts like chacha20 and 25519?