Even when Tor was new I had my doubts about it due to its origins among other factors. My dissertation was on privacy technologies in that era (early '00s). I

Even when Tor was new I had my doubts about it due to its origins among other factors. My dissertation was on privacy technologies in that era (early '00s). I covered a lot of ground at the time. The most sinister change in information technology is cloud and the fact that you have no 4th Amendment protections for anything stored there. Our laws simply aren't keeping up. But it was a neat trick to get everyone using cloud and then pulling the rug out of privacy by say "oh, and by the way, since the files aren't on your property, you have no legal protections for them."