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Is all traffic you send across them secured in a way that the exit node can't do anything bad to it?

(Tor exit nodes have been caught injecting malware into binaries downloaded over HTTP through them, for one possible problem if it isn't)



> Tor exit nodes have been caught injecting malware into binaries downloaded over HTTP through them

It's more accurate to say bad actors have been injecting malware into HTTP-downloaded binaries. Some of these bad actors use Tor exit nodes, some use free WiFi hotspots, and some run their own VPN services. Framing this as a Tor problem is like blaming violence on weapons instead of the perpetrators.




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