ChristianKl comments on Beware Trivial Fears - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Stabilizer 04 February 2014 05:40AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 06 February 2014 02:49:01PM 4 points [-]

Incognito Mode is about not storing information on your own computer about which websites you visit. The NSA has probably deals with most free proxy providers to access the relevant data so that won't protect you. Using Tor does provide some layer of protection but it makes it really slow to access websites.

Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 09 February 2014 07:37:22AM 1 point [-]

I would assume you can chain proxies, but that would make the latency issues even worse.

Comment author: Tedav 28 February 2014 05:12:19PM 1 point [-]

It sounds like you might be looking for something like The Onion Router (Tor)

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 February 2014 04:29:00PM 1 point [-]

If you chain a bunch of proxies together that are all compromised the resulting connection isn't safe. It's hard to estimate the capabilities of the NSA,