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Does hosting a relay on the same machine as your browser improve anonymization?

For the sake of argument, let us assume that all traffic is monitored and recorded at your ISP. Would hosting a Tor relay on the same machine that you are running Tor Browser Bundle protect you from some forms of traffic analysis?
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reCAPTCHA doesn't work with Tor Browser

Is it supposed to be a joke? I can't create an account for a Tor forum with the Tor Browser. reCAPTCHA won't work. Actually it's not the problem of this forum only. The reason I got here is... reCAPTCHA doesn't work with Tor Browser. I get the…
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If all network traffic is being monitored, will Tor still be effective at anonymization?

During a panel at the 2014 SXSW conference, Julian Assange (founder of Wikileaks) stated "The ability to surveil everyone on the planet is almost there and, arguably, will be there in the next couple of years". If we get to the point where all…
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Got a lot of Secure Connection failed errs recently, anyone with similiar experience?

I'm experiencing a lot of Secure Connection Failures using TBB in China recently. The browser has problem loading all plain network webpages, here's the message displayed in the browser window: I tried to refresh the page, use new identity, use…
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Cannot post on Japanese message board because I'm using Tor

I can read and write some Japanese and I wanted to post on a Japanese message board that interests me. But they only allow Japanese IPs. So I came up with the idea of using Tor Browser and setting my Exitnode to {jp}. But now when I want to sent my…
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Does the GnuTLS bug (CVE-2014-0092) affect the Tor Browser Bundle or Tails?

There is a new major security vulnerability in the GnuTLS library (CVE-2014-0092) that undermines SSL on (some?) Linux platforms. What versions of the Tor Browser Bundler or Tails (if any) are affected? (less technical coverage of the issue is at…
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Need a step by step to run a relay on Windows

I've looked at https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en Not enough detail in there for me to go ahead. E.g. ... """ Tor's configuration file is named 'torrc'. Locate the file on your system, open it with a text editor and add the…
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Does Tor hide my mac address as well as my IP address?

Does Tor hide my mac address as well as my IP address? And what about if I have another browser such as IE or Firefox open at the same time as Tor, but not in Tor?
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Signal NEWNYM vs Stream isolation

Resources. This answer explains well what happens at NEWNYM request, and I also dig into the code, yet my lack of knowledge on low level networking prevents me to make a proper design decision if stream isolation is enough for me or not. Stream…
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How to use multiple profiles with Tor?

Firefox allows for the ability to use multiple profiles by starting the browser from the command line as such: firefox --ProfileManager Or more directly: firefox --CreateProfile However, despite being included in tor --help , these commands do not…
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"couldn't connect to host" using `torsocks` with `curl`

I am trying to use torsocks with curl. Tor is running as a relay node. DNS lookup is working but connection to the target with HTTP fails. $ host www.ipmango.com www.ipmango.com has address 173.255.230.5 $ torsocks curl -v…
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Finding all onion addresses

Is there any direct way to ask all registered onion addresses from Tor directories? If it is not available, it should be bruteforced for specific ports? I mean all 16 chars onion addresses should be pinged for specific ports?
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What is OnionCat?

With Tor itself, it is only possible to do TCP due to SOCKS5 limitations. OnionCat allows you to do more than TCP through Tor; how does this work?
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cannot connect to TOR because of wrong time

been having trouble getting on TOR, it gives me this log 3/11/2017 17:45:43.700 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections. 3/11/2017 17:45:43.700 [NOTICE]…
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is it safe to download files through TOR?

So basically what I'm asking is: will downloading files (ie., video files, DOC files ect) compromise my anonomity? I ask because I visited some forums selling a answer to this very question and some people are saying that it is NOT safe to download…
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