I didn't write it explicitly, but I was describing ssh'ing to an RPI behind a NAT as most residential U.S. internet is. In that case 123.45.67.8 won't help you.

I didn't write it explicitly, but I was describing ssh'ing to an RPI behind a NAT as most residential U.S. internet is. In that case 123.45.67.8 won't help you. In fact, I think the comment I was responding to understood my meaning and retroactively edited their comment to include the part between the dashes about accessing a compy behind a NAT. GP-- did you do that or am I imagining things? Anyway, I agree with that comment as written-- if you don't ever need to care about breaking through NATs, Tor isn't a big benefit. (But there are, however, a large number of situations where users do care about NATs. GP only mentioned the one I had in mind. So I don't agree with the greater upshot of anonymity being the determining factor in Tor use.)