Episode 47: The Problem with the Tor Network and Commercial VPNs

The Georgian Impact Podcast | AI, ML & More

Nov 25 2019 | 00:23:42

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Show Notes

When the US House of Representatives passed a controversial law about Internet privacy earlier this year, several news outlets published security advice suggesting that you should use the Tor network or a commercial virtual private network (VPN) to protect yourself. Both of those suggestions turned out to bad ideas. In this episode, Ben Wilde talks with Dan Guido, the founder of a New York-based security consultancy called Trail of Bits, about the trouble with Tor and commercial VPNs.

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