Tor on university wifi

Would it be safe to do so? See a lot of post where kids try and it's usually blocked. I feel like them seeing it is a good cause to start searching room, talking to usps workers etc... I feel like drugs come hand in hand with tor especially for colleges. Thanks and if there's any better options I'll take them. So far I've only gone off campus to a coffee shop but place is always packed hard to do it lowkey.


Comments


[15 Points] bloatedfrog:

Go to a college building and use Ethernet so you don't have to sign in with login information.


[11 Points] yes_true:

Considering they're linking MAC addresses to student accounts, your uni is likely sophisticated enough (which isn't actually that sophisticated) to detect VPNs just as regularly as they detect Tor

What you're looking for and requiring is a bridge that uses domain fronting with Google or Amazon or other innocent looking sites. Your traffic will look like web traffic.

This is built into the Tor Browser setup - select 'My ISP is filtering Tor' or whatever the option is at the beginning and select meek or obfsproxy as your pluggable transport (prefer meek) - see here


[4 Points] niggerannihilator175:

Get a VPN


[2 Points] jak34:

I mean depending on how sceptical you are about everything you might consider a VPN subscription. You can put it on all your devices. I run Tor over the VPN.

But some people may argue that Tor is in itself a VPN and extra is unnecessary. You're probably fine just browsing.

I use PrivateInternetAccess, but OpenVPN is supposed to be better for Linux. I actually can't get my PIA VPN app to run properly when I boot linux, but it works on most other platforms. I use it just fine on Windows and Android.


[1 Points] godezy:

Your fine


[1 Points] PhLUPhH34D:

I wouldn't do it. Not worth it.


[1 Points] 5thflyshitonly:

Buy a fucking burner phone. Use internet.


[1 Points] ThrowawayDrugUser124:

When I was in university I used mobile hotspot on my phone.... I never really looked into how safe that is and was probably a bad idea in terms of OPSEC but it worked and I never got in any trouble so


[1 Points] c4899Marle420711:

There are bridges, proxies, and VPN's, but I don't really understand much if any of those. Could you change the MAC address and use it through Ethernet to avoid it having to be regeistered?

I would just go somewhere else with free public wifi, go to a friend/relative's private residence (one with wifi), or use a hotspot off of a cellphone; all of this seems more simple.


[1 Points] TheSorryFeller:

I had to configure my proxy setting other than that my schools wifi is a okay with TOR.


[1 Points] throwingaway0980:

Go somewhere with free wifi


[1 Points] Jesseroberto1894:

Didn't even know this was an issue, back at college I used DNMs all the time like a semester ago and never had a problem...maybe I'm just lucky...or everyone is being extra paranoid...but better safe than sorry for you I guess just giving you my experience


[1 Points] BakedPastaParty:

bad idea, they can monitor your TOR traffic because you usually never leave their network. at least thats how it was at my school. be careful


[-2 Points] randguy7:

I used tor at a university with VPS>VPN>TOR with no issues. However one day some guy tried to use tor (with nothing I'm going to assume) and he got ripped out of the lab within minutes, gone, expelled.


[-2 Points] abu7:

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