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If you're already willing to sacrifice privacy for convenience, they already have you. If you're using OSX or that wacky hybrid kernel system from Redmond, WA,

If you're already willing to sacrifice privacy for convenience, they already have you. If you're using OSX or that wacky hybrid kernel system from Redmond, WA, You're basically screwed anyway because your endpoints are compromised from day one. Here's the thing, if you jump at every convenience then blame people working on the vast and complex software required to support privacy, absolutely nobody will come to your defense. I set my bar very low, if I can obscure the source location of my IRC and email traffic, then I'm all good; All other channels are secondary, and are not worth bursting my basic network node anonymity over if there's no other option.

ruir 13y ago
As someone who cares about security and privacy, I'd like to know why I'd want to obscure the location of IRC/email traffic. On IRC I can see that you could come across adversaries on some sketchy irc networks - but, in my case, as just a random developer idling away on freenode (using a host cloak) should I really care that I'm trusting freenode? And what about email? Is that because your ip will be visible on the mail headers if sent from localhost? And if you're using a VPN or Tor, aren't you just displacing the trust to those providers? Another thing I'd like to know is just how much more of a potential target you become once you use the tor network. I speculate that tor has a lot of blackhats fishing for potential targets.