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TRUST NO ONE: VPN + Tor

Feb 20, 2025

There is potential danger in combining Tor + VPN. Debunking (partly) a common recommendation to combine VPN + Tor. In some cases, with a 100% trusted VPN, this could, under specific circumstances actually improve anonymity (potentially) - whereas the wrong VPN makes the perfect partner for deanonymization techniques. Today we cover a theoretical scenario where VPN companies could be hypothetically created to deanonymize the most paranoid of Tor users - and debunking the common misconceptions of "you need a VPN".

This is not to say VPN's are bad - no at all saying this.

The problem is: who can we trust?

In security, trust is hard.

Want to learn more about security of privacy / anonymity? Check out the public blog on I2P / Clearnet (links below).

#VPN #tor #anonymous

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