Good day,

I don't know if any of you use the Tor Network Map, but if it happens that someone does so, I have a question for you ;

In the Map information, it says : " The network map consists of a map of the world, with red pinpoints indicating the geographic location of relays in the Tor network. Green lines are drawn between relays to indicate the path of circuits that your Tor client has created through the Tor network. "

Does this mean that they do know that I am in Lebanon ? And that I am using this or that OS ? Does that make me less Anonymous than I should be ?

I don't really use Tor for any particular thing, basically just browsing the deep web from time to time.

Thanks in advance.
The network maps, IIRC, shows you only the exit nodes, or the tor relays (not really sure anymore). So since you're only a user on the tor network, then no, that does not affect you. do your search in any case :)
The entry node knows your IP address, but can't read your data as it's encrypted.
The exit node removes the last layer of encryption from your data and therefore can see it and know what you're sending, but doesn't know your IP, from where it's originating or who your are (unless if your identity is shown as part of the data you're submitting).
Inner nodes of the tor network don't know who you are, where you're coming from or what you're sending.

So if you login to lebgeeks from the tor network:
- the entry node knows that someone in Lebanon using your IP is accessing the tor network (nothing more, doesn't know what you're doing).
- inner nodes have no clue what's happening
- the exit node can see your datat in cleartext as lebgeeks doesn't use HTTPS, this includes your username/password, but has no clue from where it was originating. But having your username, your identity can be disclosed.

One more things to take into consideration is DNS. If your DNS requests are not going through tor, are not proxied and still sent to your OS's DNS server, then your anonymity is also not secured, your ISP will know which websites you're trying to access.


For your info, when you use an HTTP proxy, your DNS requests are leaked, they are not sent via the proxy.
To be able to send your DNS queries via a proxy, you need to use SOCKS.
And still, then, it would still not be enough to proxy your DNS queries, you still have to change some configuration in Firefox.
about:config in the URL bar and change "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" to true.