Quote from: meatwad on October 25, 2012, 02:24 pmQuote from: kmfkewm on October 24, 2012, 10:01 pmWell for one it uses EIGHT entry guards instead of three. Tor devs are currently in the process of changed the default to TWO because even three is too many. Every entry guard you use is another possibility of having a compromised entry guard, and having a compromised entry guard is 50% of a timing attack. Plus you will stick out as someone using eight entry guards, which pretty much nobody does. If there were safe ways for Tor to go faster the Tor devs would implement them. Ok then I am glad then that my torrc file happened to get overwritten when I upgraded to the latest version of TOR. Thank you for your help kmfkewm, if I could give you some karma I would.Also, what effect does changing to a new identity on TOR have? I know that it makes it look like I am using a different IP address than before. Would this make me more or less anon? I tend to do it every thirty minutes or so.....Your identity changes every ten minutes, so changing it every 30 minutes or so manually is pointless. The idea of changing IP makes sense in certain circumstances which is why the Tor developers have it as an option.Example: You have 2x tormail accounts, but don't want to associate them.The procedure is:1. Logout of the first account.2. Delete cookie.3. Switch identity.4. Wait a random amount of reasonable time.5. Login to the other tormail account.This makes it impossible for tormail to associate your accounts if they wanted to. A form of rudimentary traffic analysis I suppose. I doubt everybody uses this procedure, but it's a case in which switching your identity would make sense.