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TOR is PURELY designed for spies to use to hide among the network in countries throughout the world. It needs regular people to believe in it, to use it, but its only real purpose is for the spies. Regular users can and are deanonymised in real time and without using zero days. You just have to look at the network to see that you are almost exclusive connected to a series of entry/relay/exit nodes within 14 Eyes countries who share real-time data with each other. The servers are fast because most are using VPS. There was a time when it was more anonymous, when the relays would actually be random people's own computers across the globe, but it was too slow. The whole thing is gamed, and just because criminals are on there thinking they are anonymous is just because they are allowed to continue to keep the charade alive. I know I am going to be bursting bubbles here for 'true believers', but they have all been gamed for years. I'm surprised this info is Top Secret, it should be utter common sense to everyone by now.



> most are using VPS

The IBM operating system? Or do you just mean they run on VMs?


VPS stands for Virtual Private Server, essentially another word for a VM you can buy from hosting / cloud companies.


Thanks, I'm familiar with that usage but I had only ever heard it used in the context of web hosting companies and colos.

Basically a small VM on a crowded server for tasks like running a Wordpress site. So I was confused about why that was emphasized.

But it looks like it's expanded to cover things like GCP and EC2 which makes more sense.




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