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Or to borrow from Doctorow, a pebble in the shoe.

• rbanffy 8y ago
  But then it becomes a bit like using Tor. They don't know what you are doing, but they know you are hiding it. Someone compared it to wearing the One Ring. You may be invisible to your friends, but you shine bright as the sun to the Nazgûl.
  • flatline 8y ago
    This is true, but if you get enough people doing it, the anomalies no longer stand out and you start struggling to pick out the signals above the noise floor.
    • rbanffy 8y ago
      We'd need to make it a popular choice, the easy option in clothing/fashion/footwear. Unless it's adopted by a significant percentage of the population, it's only a tool to draw added scrutiny. Much like when I tried to board a plane with an excessively comfortable sweater and was patted down.