paranoid - is it possible for my whole system has been hacked an ive downloaded dodgy tor and tails?

paranoid i downloaded a pretend tor bundle and now my whole setup is hacked and that the tails i downloaded is a man in the middle thing (i havent set it up yet as i cant verify it). When i bought home another mac and joined my home network every page it went to said the security ceritficate was dodgy so i cant download a new tor....and of course i cannot download it at work. My lack of knowledge and paranoia and really bad timing for jumping in is making it very hard to proceed....are my paranoid thoughts possible?


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[2 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:

Did you download your TOR bundle from https://www.torproject.org/ and your TAILS from https://tails.boum.org/ ? Those are the legitimate sites. If you downloaded them from elsewhere (ex. as a direct download from some other third-party website or as a torrent), you probably got something fake.


[1 Points] None:

Your narrative is rambling and very hard to understand.

Will you please take a few breaths and re-write it using complete sentences and explain from start to finish what you did, as well as what, exactly happens when you take each step.

For example,

You are clearly a bit worked up and you're not going to solve it while you're unable to relax. Take a few breaths... this is not a crisis and likely a quite easy repair. Try to remember that this isn't an emergency. Although I am certain that you are eager to learn what you are doing, now is not the time to be do it excitedly and rush in.

You have a misunderstanding about the possibility of downloading a version of Tor with a built-in-MITM-flaw; that's not how it works. Have you spent time at /r/darknetmarketsnoobs and learned about how this all works, or have you gotten a little eager and tried to skip ahead hoping to get it right by just following directions without really understanding what you're doing?

Don't feel embarrassed; everyone does that. People get excited and want to hurry up and see if this is all real and really works. But it really is quite important to learn more and do less at the beginning; it's impossible to explain just how important it is. It is never worth it to rush in, and the time it takes to learn what you're doing is always worth it. Most people's regrets are because they jumped the gun. I won't close your thread, however, brace yourself as people here have a tendency to be a little hard on newcomers who are acting too quickly.


[1 Points] futuredracula:

check md5 or pgp signature of the files?

not sure how to do this on a mac but i'm sure there's a way

if that's too hard for you to figure out maybe you should keep warming the darknet bench

it literally explains this on the tor project site and possibly the tails download page


[1 Points] My-drugs-account:

Quit smoking meth