The Privacy Problem - TOR vs VPNs: Down The Rabbit Hole Part 2

In the first part of this series we laid the foundations, covering what the internet really is, how the web works, how search engines crawl and index it and why 96% of it remains invisible to Google. If you haven’t read it yet I’d recommend starting there before diving into this one.

Now that the foundations are out of the way, things get interesting.

In this part we get into the philosophy and idea behind TOR, why privacy was never a built in feature of the internet and why that became a serious enough problem for the US Navy to solve. We also get into VPNs, why that trust has limits and walk through real world case studies where that trust became a fatal opsec mistake.

The Privacy Problem

Imagine the internet as a global postal service, all the protocols are the logistics that carry your letters from one place...

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