[tor-talk] Using passwords with TOR

Lee ler762 at gmail.com
Sat May 21 17:17:36 UTC 2011


On 5/21/11, Dr Frank <frankdr49 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've used Tor for a while but rarely to login to personal accounts.
> With tor being about anonymity and all this might be redundant but is it
> safe to do this or is my password able to get picked up by whoever is
> relaying my connection?

And a follow-up question if I may - how do you verify that the ssl
connection is to the site you want & not something else?   eg:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/packet-forensics/
What's the defense against that type of attack?

Thanks,
Lee


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