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Just a thought,IC and Law Enforcement control a large number of Tor nodes. Even if Tor has no deanonymization risks,the fact that you use Tor makes you a brigh

Just a thought,IC and Law Enforcement control a large number of Tor nodes. Even if Tor has no deanonymization risks,the fact that you use Tor makes you a bright red target -- by Feds and Local cops! (In US). Unless you use bridges(and even then) your ISP and Law enforcement will have you (or the subscriber of the ISP connection) listed as a Tor user. Think of it as driving on the road,you can drive a "pimped up" cadillac bouncing it all over the street -- and you have the right to do so -- but you will get pulled over and searched a lot,and hopefully all your encounters with LE will be harmless but it might not be so. Just because they leave you alone,don't assume it's because they are not monitoring you.

jammygit 8y ago
What if you want to use Tor, not because you have something to hide, but to make it easier for everyone to be anonymous? edit: punctuation
- masukomi 8y ago
  can't tell that from the outside... and if you're looking for people who are trying to hide illegal activity you actually care about prosecuting, I'd bet there's a higher overlap with the tor users than non-tor users. Even if there isn't the cops probably think so...
- badrabbit 8y ago
  Then you accept the risk associated with it. For people who need anonymity,I'd say a TLS vpn which isn't publicly listed as such would be ideal imo. My opinion is that anonymity isn't absolute and if you care about your use of anonymozing services to remain unknown as much as you want the resources you access with them to remain a secrect then the protocol should blend in with normal traffic. Consider a place like n korea,if they see someone connectig to a Tor node,that person is screwed even if he only watched cat videos with it. Or maybe even in the US,imagine a court case where your innocent usage of Tor is used to into question the legitimacy of your private activities.

jammygit 8y ago

What if you want to use Tor, not because you have something to hide, but to make it easier for everyone to be anonymous? edit: punctuation

masukomi 8y ago
can't tell that from the outside... and if you're looking for people who are trying to hide illegal activity you actually care about prosecuting, I'd bet there's a higher overlap with the tor users than non-tor users. Even if there isn't the cops probably think so...
badrabbit 8y ago
Then you accept the risk associated with it. For people who need anonymity,I'd say a TLS vpn which isn't publicly listed as such would be ideal imo. My opinion is that anonymity isn't absolute and if you care about your use of anonymozing services to remain unknown as much as you want the resources you access with them to remain a secrect then the protocol should blend in with normal traffic. Consider a place like n korea,if they see someone connectig to a Tor node,that person is screwed even if he only watched cat videos with it. Or maybe even in the US,imagine a court case where your innocent usage of Tor is used to into question the legitimacy of your private activities.