asking for the kind that vpn hides tor and not the other way
i have a framework with whonix in qubes using tor browser (real one i think not brave) and idk if im safe.
i want to use wifi in public (food places and schools) and be hard to spy on and not have anything blocked (videos are blocked). my home network is also phoning home because my family is using a google wireless access point (cant change it they dont like having internet down for more than 5 seconds)
would vpn and tor fix this? should i pick just one? or is there a better way? (all things have to be on device since you cant change someone elses network)
They can see the timing and packet size for your requests to the VPN server, as well as what your VPN provider is. On the VPN’s end they can see what sites the users (collectively) are visiting, the packet sizes, and the timing. That information alone is enough to identify who is doing what with reasonable accuracy.
This is before issues of using the government’s massive resources to brute-force encryption, possible government backdoors in VPN servers, and browser fingerprinting.
There are various steps that can be taken to mitigate this, and this of course assuming the government has access to the ISP’s metadata from both your network and the server’s network (not a stretch, but not necessarily guaranteed).