recent development:
this sub forum was closed, see: general Tor and anonymity talk forum deactivated
The Whonix project completed its research on subjects such as
- hiding Tor, and
- using Tor in combination with VPNs.
Conclusions and project position can be found here:
It’s time to move on.
I am interpreting this as a Whonix documentation bug report.
Whonix ™ developers will normally only respond if they are convinced an actual technical, privacy or security-related problem has been identified.
In the past, Whonix ™ developers provided answers to a wide range of reported oddities, such as console output messages that were difficult for users to understand. Unfortunately this level of attention is no longer possible, for reasons outlined in this chapter. Effective December 1, 2018, the policy concerning responses to support requests and concerns had changed.
Read more here:
Bug Reports, Software Development and Feature Requests
I don’t have time for such debates and neither time for supervising a forum being active on too many Whonix-unspecific subjects. (personal liablity)
Since such discussions are unspecific to Whonix. Whether it is possible or not that one can hide Tor and/or if VPNs are of any use, everyone is free to do their own research, have their own opinion and come to their own best way to deal with it. But it has little to do with Whonix which is a research and implementation project that implements Tor but not the Tor Project or anonbib.
For these reasons, from now on these subjects must to be discussed elsewhere as per free support principle.
If there was serious research on that subjects (anonbib or some other serious write-up that considers existing research), then these subjects could be re-considered.
Closing.