From: NoEMail@home.org   
      
   slash  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> This would allow any vpn server to act as tor.   
   >>   
   >> TIA   
   >   
   > What exactly is your purpose?   
   > Do you want to hide to your ISP the fact that you are connecting to a   
   > Tor node? Or does your ISP prevent you from doing so?   
   >   
      
   Thanks for responding. My post was prompted by an article I read in   
   NewYorkTimes which talked about VPNs, but really meant Proxy   
   Servers. The article questioned how secure (meaning private) my   
   internet activity was with most VPNs. I will continue to use   
   VPN to mean these things with apology to Henrik.   
      
   The substance of the NYT article is that, say, a court order   
   could force a VPN to reveal what traffic goes through the   
   VPN to me. Regardless of whether such traffic is legal or   
   illegal, I don't want the "government" to have any knowledge   
   of the traffic. I have tried in the past to implement tor and   
   was put off by one thing or another. Finally when I managed to   
   get a browser (Brave I think) to work, the speed penalty was   
   horrible. Since my concept of what the Proxy is doing, is   
   to make my IP seem to be that of the Proxy and if that   
   isn't sufficient to prevent eavesdropping, I thought   
   that, like tor, if my traffic went through several proxies   
   in sequence it would be much more difficult to backtrace.   
   I imagined that by just a few hops the speed penalty would   
   be tolerable, but the "security" would be greatly increased.   
      
   BTW, when I first started using a "VPN" I chose Trust-Zone.   
   After some time I switched to PIA and saw a huge increase   
   in speed. Most recently I have been using NORD with an   
   even greater speed increase. The VPNs recommended by   
   NYT were several times the monthly cost of NORD.   
      
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