This, to me, sounds like a classic case of not knowing what you're protecting against. TOR hides your IP address by preventing the destination server ever needi

This, to me, sounds like a classic case of not knowing what you're protecting against. TOR hides your IP address by preventing the destination server ever needing to do a TCP/IP handshake. There is no way to complete a TCP/IP handshake without you revealing your IP address. TOR then also stops the server you /do/ handshake with knowing the destination of your packet. This is all TOR is supposed to do. This allows you to be anonymous to the receiving end, but it does not guarantee it. It is your responsibility to surf safely, to sanitise your traffic, to encrypt your traffic and do the rest. We know that most people can be uniquely differentiated by combining all the available information from their browsers (some of which doesn't need javascript) http://panopticlick.eff.org/ http://panopticlick.eff.org/ . Therefore we know, using TOR or not, that we need to be careful to do things well when we want to be anonymous. There is little in this article which makes me worried about TOR. TOR isn't the problem, if any of this is true, then the problem is the government collecting data in various ways. Whether you agree with this is a matter for yourself to consider and not a reason to avoid using TOR.