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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: ChillBroBaggins on March 23, 2013, 04:18 pm
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Hey folks,
I've been browsing the SR awhile now, and I feel comfortable enough to start making purchases. One loose end I feel I haven't covered yet is how Tor's anonymity will be preserved when I'm back at school. I am required to log in to the network using a username and password that links back to me. If I was to run Tor, does anybody know how much information the college has access to?
For example: My rudimentary understanding of Tor says that because the college's internet is first in line in the Tor relay system, wouldn't they be able to get full access to whatever I was looking at? The closest analogy I can think of is just using my home's internet, where because I'm requesting the data with my network, that information is fully available to me after being relayed through Tor.
Any light some guru could shed on this would be reassuring, but I get the impression I'm gonna have to post this in a different board once I get those 50 posts...
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For example: My rudimentary understanding of Tor says that because the college's internet is first in line in the Tor relay system, wouldn't they be able to get full access to whatever I was looking at?
Your college's network isn't really part of the tor relay system.
Outgoing traffic is encrypted locally with your tor client, with layers of encryption which can be decrypted only by the relays of the current circuit your traffic is going through. Incoming is also encrypted for you and is decrypted locally.
If I was to run Tor, does anybody know how much information the college has access to?
Unless you use a bridge they can find out that you use tor but that's all. I have no idea if there's a problem with that tbh.
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Great, thanks for the reply! That cleared it up. I doubt using Tor on their server will be an issue, although it is going to make me take a look at those finer details to make sure everything's secure.