Regarding the beginning of your answers: note that nowhere in my comment did I make an assumption about the distribution of the TOR users by use-case. I spoke o

Regarding the beginning of your answers: note that nowhere in my comment did I make an assumption about the distribution of the TOR users by use-case. I spoke of the original intent. I don't really care what the vast majority of users use it for and in what context. I care about its original goals. Regarding needing more than TOR, not necessarily so. There are many oppressive states (on different points of a large spectrum, from basic censorship to actual physical oppression), and though we read many stories about their crackdowns on privacy rights and monitoring facilities, very often we over-estimate their capabilities (e.g. the GFW of China is rather sad joke, technically speaking). So if you're not your state's Public Enemy Number 1, you're within a risk range that's most likely acceptable using TOR, so long as you use it correctly and carefully (and that you accept that risk...). Basically, it boils down to what you said: "if they do care enough to come for you, and they have the resources". Indeed, I was also probably a bit over-simplistic in my previous answer: there are different leagues with different ball-games. For the rest, we're in agreement.