TOR and ISP

[Seth David Schoen]

Arshad writes:

> thank you very much. then if the user uses tor for his all browsing
> purposes, from the isp end how does they see this? shouldnt they know
> which sites the user visits? if dad request the bill include all the
> sites the son visits what would the give? is the user shown as a peron
> who doesnt use internet or what will be there recorded for where the
> dns request came from etc?

The ISP would see the user visiting a number of Tor nodes.  If the user
isn't using bridges, then the ISP will know that the user is using Tor,
but not what the user is doing with Tor.  For example, the ISP won't
know what sites or services the user is using through Tor.

-- 
Seth Schoen
Staff Technologist                                schoen at eff.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation                    http://www.eff.org/
454 Shotwell Street, San Francisco, CA  94110     +1 415 436 9333 x107
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