How to conceal TOR usage from ISP

As many of you know, TOR does shield your internet traffic from prying eyes. Your ISP is said to however, see that you are using TOR and accordingly they will document it for some purpose that is probably not good for us.

The natural answer would be to use a VPN however, when using TAILS (like many of us do) there is no native way to set up a VPN. When you go to Internet connection->Set up VPN, everything is greyed out.

Figured I would ask, how do you all get around this?


Comments


[14 Points] ziz1:

One easy way is to purchase a dedicated VPN router and then put the Tails machine behind it:

http://www.flashrouters.com/


[7 Points] tolderoll156:

Use TOR bridges, this is exactly what they are there for.


[5 Points] sdfhgdhjbdafcadv:

Has there every been any evidence that ISPs keep track of who uses TOR?


[2 Points] aboutthednm:

Use an obfs4 bridge. Get them here

https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges?transport=obfs4

For help setting it up, read here

https://bridges.torproject.org/howto


[2 Points] furthur2:

You can set up your VPN with almost any router using DD-WRT. This works well if you're using tails. I took an old Linksys router I haven't used in years, flashed it with DD-WRT, and now any device I connect to it will go through my VPN.

In OS X, you can use Tunnelblick (open source OpenVPN client) to send all network through your VPN, then set up Tails or Whonix on a virtual machine.


[2 Points] CB2222:

VPN FTW

look up private internet access


[2 Points] jeffislearning:

What about going on the OS, turn on VPN, then use TOR?


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] TripAddict:

The way i do it is turn on my vpn connection first, verify on chrome that it's connected to my vpn, and then open up tor.


[1 Points] mephestus:

Do TOR bridges deal with potential DNS leaks?


[1 Points] None:

Then dont fucking use tails.


[1 Points] CDRCRDS:

Why not use hola plugin?


[1 Points] coltsrule7:

Build your own router with pfsense and a old PC very easy to do. Then you can install an antivirus right on your router, get a beefy firewall, and connect to your VPN so everything is going through a VPN. You can even make an exception for your PC when playing online games, if lag becomes an issue.


[0 Points] bimburtimbur:

from what i understood you run debian. using the OpenVPN on debian and that is how you connect to your VPN. Then within debian you have a virtual machine running tails.


[-4 Points] None:

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