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| Anonymous Sender 2008-01-02, 1:12 pm |
| I thought I had an idea of how tor works, but maybe not. I notice that
when I have tor running, my firewall shows a load of blocked
outbound connections using port 9030, and other ports, though mostly 9030.
When I run netstat, I see several https connections, even if the browser
is not running. I assume these are to tor servers.
Why all the tor activity when I am not using it to connect anywhere?
When I shut down tor, all the activity stops and the https connections end.
It's as if I am contributing bandwidth and a sort of p2p connectivity. Is
this how tor works?
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| Zebulon 2008-01-02, 1:12 pm |
| On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:21:45 +0000 (UTC), Anonymous Sender
<anonymous@remailer.metacolo.com> wrote:
>I thought I had an idea of how tor works, but maybe not. I notice that
>when I have tor running, my firewall shows a load of blocked
>outbound connections using port 9030, and other ports, though mostly 9030.
>When I run netstat, I see several https connections, even if the browser
>is not running. I assume these are to tor servers.
>Why all the tor activity when I am not using it to connect anywhere?
>When I shut down tor, all the activity stops and the https connections end.
>It's as if I am contributing bandwidth and a sort of p2p connectivity. Is
>this how tor works?
That's also cover traffic. If you're connecting to Subversive Site and
No Such Agency is trying to catch you, if the only time your node sends
traffic to tor is when you are browsing Subversive Site, they can
easily infer that you are their man.
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| Anonymous 2008-01-02, 1:12 pm |
| In article < 35f36ab2352563f207de9ea202006716@remaile
r.metacolo.com>
Anonymous Sender <anonymous@remailer.metacolo.com> wrote:
>
> I thought I had an idea of how tor works, but maybe not. I notice that
> when I have tor running, my firewall shows a load of blocked
> outbound connections using port 9030, and other ports, though mostly 9030.
>
> When I run netstat, I see several https connections, even if the browser
> is not running. I assume these are to tor servers.
>
> Why all the tor activity when I am not using it to connect anywhere?
>
> When I shut down tor, all the activity stops and the https connections end.
>
> It's as if I am contributing bandwidth and a sort of p2p connectivity. Is
> this how tor works?
Hi,
Most simply put, Tor always keeps a few circuits open so it's ready when
you need it. Unless you're running a server no data flows over them until
you use them. Every ten minutes or so these circuits will change and
you'll see some activity. A few other times your Tor will connect to
directory servers to retrieve the latest network data.
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