Can I use tor at my college?

Question

my dorm's wifi is set up to detect any p2p activity and will ban users who torrent things. I just want to use tor to browse anonymously (not going to the deep web for cp, silkroad, the hidden wiki, etc) but just for basic things.
Stupid question alert: can i get arrested for using tor?

If everything is a go, which browser should i use it on? FF or chrome?
And can I also use it on ubuntu?
Please and thank you

Answer 1

The fact You know what silkroad and the hidden wiki even are means one of two things. You have already found them. Or You spend way too much time on /g/ or /b/ and have seen the image that gets pasted so darn often.



No, Tor is not illegal. Use the browser of your preference. I'm not sure if You can use it on *nix operating systems. You also might try explaining to your campus IT department that the BitTorrent protocol has many legal, legitimate uses. Though the majority of people who use it do so for piracy of copyrighted works, that is not it's sole purpose. People use Internet Explorer to pirate also. Should it be banned? Should Google be banned because You can use advanced search terms to find direct downloads? No.

Answer 2

Tor College

Answer 3

Sorry. But too many people take advantage of their college's bandwidth and slow the network down so legitimate computer work--you know, actually doing research and studying--is affected. Thus, your campus IT department has banned it. If you know that, why use it? Worst case is your account will be disabled. You won't be arrested, but you'll have to do whatever small amount of studying and research you do without your school's Internet account. And big deal, anyway. So, you can't use tor. A third of the planet's people are starving and you're concerned about web surfing. Get over it.

Answer 4

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