I guess my bias is revealed in my conception that Tor browser is something everyone has lying around. If you aren't using plugable transports, installing Tor br

I guess my bias is revealed in my conception that Tor browser is something everyone has lying around. If you aren't using plugable transports, installing Tor browser is trivial (single-click configuration after you've extracted the archive). In my experience, setting up a daemon to do something trivial is always "not much effort" until something goes wrong and you throw in the towel an hour and a half later. I suppose that SSH port forwarding is zero-configuration, however, so perhaps you're right, and my suggestion is unnecessary. I was really trying not to paint a picture of a malicious founder who is scheming to paper something over with spin. The founder responded in the thread because they're an honest business person who feels tempted to use a piece of information that fell in their lap, as we all might. That was a bad example, so I'm not going to try and defend why that conversation should happen on HN (you're probably right that it shouldn't). The reason someone might anonymously start a conversation on Hacker News would have to be that the community has a vested interest in it's outcome, it is embarrassing to the influential, and the consequences of revealing it openly outweigh the perceived benefits. But maybe my struggle to find a better example is indicative that this situation is too rare to account for.