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It does not matter if it is you doing it or not, the oppressive governments of the world will just as happily jail you for facilitating it, even if you were una

• derefr 3y ago
  If you're in an oppressive country, why would you facilitate an illegal activity any way other than anonymously? I do understand what you're trying to refer to — to things like "you can't tell it was me who connected to that darknet market" / "but we can tell that your IP address originated a Tor connection, and we now consider that illegal in-and-of-itself, even if it wasn't you doing it but you were just acting as an exit node for others." But again, we've spent a long time building various different cryptosystems that make different sets of guarantees that are useful in different situations. Tor is useful under one particular set of constraints, but that set of constraints is not "staying long-term under an oppressive regime that will arrest you for emitting Tor fingerprintable traffic." For a cryptosystem that is useful under this use-case, see: Freenet. Or NNTP numbers groups. Or MixMaster. (Though also, even Tor does work here, with modification. This is why Tor added bridges — precisely so that people in oppressed regimes could forward their traffic, in an innocuous-looking way, through bridge nodes hosted by people in non-oppressed regimes, where the IPs of these nodes are only handed out as needed to Tor users, one or two at a time, and so can't be blacklisted by country-level firewalls in advance.)