I’ll start out by saying I agree with you on Tor being a layer in a “defense in depth” strategy but to imply my response to this is fearmongering is quite prema

I’ll start out by saying I agree with you on Tor being a layer in a “defense in depth” strategy but to imply my response to this is fearmongering is quite premature. Feel free to give a point by point rebuttal for the community. I have given quite a bit of thought to how to stay anonymous even though I use my real name and identity here, and have no real issues with government. Tor is the definition of deceptively simple, and there are a lot of impressionable people who read articles like this on the web when they’re first starting out who could easily be lulled into a false sense of security and then start transacting on the darknet and think they can’t be touched. OGs on HN know better and remember the threads where tptacek and cperciva would routinely dismantle this notion of tor or VPN anonymity/security.