Is TOR safe to use from a hotel room?

Question

Hypothetical question. Is it safe to use TOR from a hotel room that has Wi-Fi? or would the hotel be able to tell what websites you were visiting?

Answer 1

Syferus is correct.



But DO NOT use the Tor bundle on a Windows machine. The government has been finding and exploiting flaws in peoples machines that compromise their animosity (not in the Tor network).



Put Liberte Linux or TAILS on a usb and boot from it. These two distros are made for this situation.

Answer 2

First of all, I want to correct Xbladex, TOR was designed to provide online anonymity to TOR users so the ISP (Internet Service Provider) could not see what websites you visit online. If the hotel asked the ISP to see the logs of websites browsed all they would see is that you connected to the TOR network, whatever you do in the TOR network is your business, they cannot sea. Its like an onion. (Hence called The Onion Network). Onion routing is like an advanced form of proxy routing. Instead of routing through a single unprotected server, it uses a network of nodes that constantly encrypt your data packets at every step. Only at the end of this “chain” of onion nodes does your data become decrypted and sent to the final destination. In fact, only this “exit node” has the power to decrypt your message, so no other node can even see what you’re sending.



Due to the multiple layers of encryption, which not-so-coincidentally resemble the layers within an onion, it’s extremely difficult to trace your information back to you as the source when you use onion routing.

Answer 3

It is possible to find out what websites the guests visited by contacting the internet provider.