Absolutely. I highlighted this as one of the warnings in the Howto I made. Any protocol you use must be vetted for security and privacy, if you intend to use To

Absolutely. I highlighted this as one of the warnings in the Howto I made. Any protocol you use must be vetted for security and privacy, if you intend to use Tor for those purposes. My purpose is very different. I wanted to communicate with any machine I owned. Every machine has an Onion hidden service, and every machine can talk to Onions seamlessly. What this allows is I can code against a [hash].onion, and know that the data goes where I want it. I can run Mosquitto (MQTT database) on one node, and other nodes can publish data to it. It matters not where they are, what networks they reside on, or if I get the "DynDNS, firewall holes, dynamic-static internal IP", and the rest of that junk set up right. I also use Node-Red, and can use .onion addresses as valid services elsewhere. It allows me the ultimate network flexibility. I think of .onion addresses as being on a "Really Long Ethernet Hub" that only listens to the machine talked to. EDIT: > If you run an arbitrary protocol over Tor without any of that, it's much easier for the server to fingerprint the client. Agreed. I control both endpoints.