I want to record my screen while I talk, but I would like to distort my voice like they do in the anonymous videos, to retain my anonymity. How can I do that? I’d rather not use a TTS engine as it would be difficult to synchronize the sound with the video of the screen. I just want to distort my voice enough so that people close to me couldn’t tell it’s me, assuming they aren’t experts and manage to reverse the voice distortion. And how do I share the video online without leaking my IP?
And, in a not so private way, what about real time streaming? I’ve seen a person who changed his voice and image so that it seemed as if Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy was talking to you.
Isn’t that exactly what you are doing when using TOR? Those nodes can be compromised just as anything else can.
No Tor node knows both the origin and destination of traffic. The system was carefully designed to ensure this, so no, it’s not comparable at all.
I’m not saying you’re wrong because I’m not a security professional, but a nation state actor or other adversary is likely to watch an entry node, in which case, there is little you can do because they can (and historically have) attach payloads to your traffic. Here is a really good article on the matter, but it’s over 5-years old at this point: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x3qnj/how-the-nsa-or-anyone-else-can-crack-tors-anonymity
Tor isn’t invincible but it’s much more difficult to track than a simple proxy or VPN because an adversary who compromises your proxy server or VPN can immediately see both the source and destination of your traffic, whereas traffic on Tor is routed through 3 different intermedaries, and not the same ones each time. Even if an attacker controlled your entry node, that wouldn’t tell them where your traffic is going or what it is. The attack described in that article requires the attacker to control both your destination and your entry node, and even then requires statistical analysis and for the victim to download a large file. I’m not aware of any anonymity system that makes tracking harder than Tor does, without requiring a trusted server operator.
Yeah, these are all good points. Tor is undoubtedly going to be better than a VPN.
As I said, yes everything can be compromised but at least tor nodes aren’t run by companies (at least not every one). Also tor has been made to anonymize users, It’s not the first purpose of a VPN. But as always we all must make some compromises.