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[peterwkc]

Dear All,

Questions:
1. does tor relaying will reduce my security level of my setup, I worry MY ISP hack through this method? Please give some opinion.
2. I have Tor installed in the router, how to use tor in LAN, i am totally noob. Currently , im using Tor browser + VPN.

[bartjsmit]

Tor generally (vastly) reduces the threat of authorities and/or your ISP compromising your security. As such, it is arguably better than using an outbound VPN where there is a money trail and a distinct provider to trust. Tor is distributed and it is much harder to piece your (meta)data back together from it.

The project warns about using both: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorPlusVPN unless you mean connecting with a VPN to your network from outside and then using tor. You're generally better off using the tor browser on your devices.

Have a look at the community page on how to help the tor project: https://community.torproject.org/. You are unlikely to be in a position to run a full-fledged exit node but a bridge or snowflake are more likely to fit your setup. The latter two will certainly be less obvious to your ISP.

Bart...

[peterwkc]

When i enable Tor Relaying, it failed to start, What wrong with it?

This is the log:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/tor: WARNING: failed to start tor

[Supermule]

Be aware that its the US Navy thats behind TOR and all you do on a TOR node/network is monitored.

NOBODY is anonymous on TOR and dont transfer money for shady business on TOR.

Remmber Silk Road.... and then SR2.

Its like killing flies... instead of chasing them with a flyswatter, lay a big cowdung and watch the flies come.

Thats how TOR works....

[bartjsmit]

When i enable Tor Relaying, it failed to start, What wrong with it?

This is the log:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/tor: WARNING: failed to start tor

You're likely better off getting help from the tor project and community since I doubt that this is specific to OPNsense. https://support.torproject.org/

Bart...

[sanshinron]

Be aware that its the US Navy thats behind TOR and all you do on a TOR node/network is monitored.

NOBODY is anonymous on TOR and dont transfer money for shady business on TOR.

Remmber Silk Road.... and then SR2.

Its like killing flies... instead of chasing them with a flyswatter, lay a big cowdung and watch the flies come.

Thats how TOR works....

While it is true that nothing is completely secure, TOR is reasonably secure and it doesn't matter who developed it as it has been open source for a long time and it has been developed and improved by open source community.
It's also misleading to suggest Silk Road went down due to a backdoor in TOR, as the real reason was people connected to Silk Road leaking their info on clearnet and FBI following up on that, ultimately gaining full access to their computers and gaining control of Silk Road. Nothing to do with TOR, just people being cocky/stupid.