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Is Tor Trustworthy and Safe? A 2025 guide to all the basics you need to know about Tor, and more (cyberinsider.com)

submitted 1 week ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

A lot of those correlation attacks seem to imply exiting the network for the standard internet (3 hops), where if you access a hidden service (6 hops), you never actually exit the Tor network to begin with.

I think some of this definitely needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.