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Re:Belarus finally bans Tor by kbart on Friday December 09, 2016 @05:42AM (#13137934)
You can do all that on a host PC as well. I still don't see what additional layer of security Raspberry Pi adds here. Or am I missing something?
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Re:Belarus finally bans Tor by JupiterMoon on Friday December 09, 2016 @06:15AM (#13138066)
The idea is that even if the host PC is pwned the Pi will still route the traffic from it via Tor.
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Re:Belarus finally bans Tor by robjan on Friday December 09, 2016 @10:55AM (#13139413)
If the host PC is pwned then it can still disclose useful information about itself (files, Geo locations, mac addresses) - it will just be routed over TOR.
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Re:Belarus finally bans Tor by mirimir on Friday December 09, 2016 @06:26PM (#13142792)
True. So it must not contain anything that's associated with you, in any way. Buy with cash. No geolocation data. Dedicated LAN. No sneaker net sharing. Compartmentalization.
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Re:Belarus finally bans Tor by JupiterMoon on Saturday December 10, 2016 @05:57AM (#13145102)
Totally agreed. I nearly edited my comment yesterday to include this actually.

It is just one potential brick in your security wall.

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