This is, without a doubt, the best attempt I've seen to review VPN service providers.https://twitter.com/yaelwrites/status/1161761497518751745 …
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I don't buy it. Tor grants a network of 10,000s of anonymous volunteers easy access to your network traffic. It's been repeatedly abused to: - distribute malware: https://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/spoiled_onions/techreport.pdf … - feed Wikileaks: https://www.wired.com/2010/06/wikileaks-documents/ … - surveil people: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yoshi/papers/Tor/PETS2008_37.pdf …pic.twitter.com/K5Q5ILbsca
Further, Hidden Services were clearly an afterthought for the Tor protocol and have failed to withstand any serious scrutiny. See: - relay early attack: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-security-advisory-relay-early-traffic-confirmation-attack … - malicious HSDirs: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amirali/publications/honions_hotpets.pdf … - predictable entry guards: https://www.freehaven.net/~arma/cogs-wpes.pdf …
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Tor has a substantial number of known weaknesses compared to a relatively conservative and simple VPN. You should need a special reason to use Tor; it's not the right choice for most people.
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If that wasn’t enough to convince you, I wrote a thread on the dangers of Tor:https://twitter.com/esultanik/status/1130487516530978817?s=21 …
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