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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: dankf on May 01, 2013, 05:52 am
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So as I understand it. If you are using Tor and live in a rural area, you basically stick out like a sore thumb on the network.
I also read that if you browse a site like SR, you should limit the time you spend there.
So what's the risk in spending a couple of hours a day posting here and shopping around SR from out in the boonies?
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It's risky. Get a VPN account, but use the OpenVPN software and not the vendor's proprietary software (may have backdoors for LE).
Once you are connected to the VPN, start TOR. This will hide your TOR usage from LE that may profile you for SR usage.
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It's risky. Get a VPN account, but use the OpenVPN software and not the vendor's proprietary software (may have backdoors for LE).
Once you are connected to the VPN, start TOR. This will hide your TOR usage from LE that may profile you for SR usage.
Thanks, that looks a little daunting. But I'm sure I can figure it out.
So I see on the Windows Guide that it has me manually configuring a bunch of files and authenticating the certificate. But then I see a youtube video of someone installing it in under 2 minutes by dragging the config files to a file on the HDD.
Any chance it's that easy? Or am I going to have to end up doing the manual configs anyways?
Thanks again
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It's that easy. Download the config files from the VPN service provider and extract to a folder. Then run the OpenVPN client and import the location you want to use. Each location (country/ip) has a separate config file.