I trust tor to do what tor does: in fact -- as do US intelligence agencies who use it for anonymous open source intelligence. I don't, however, trust it to do

I trust tor to do what tor does: in fact -- as do US intelligence agencies who use it for anonymous open source intelligence. I don't, however, trust it to do anything else: namely, I don't think of it as a security panacea. Goals of security are confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Anonymity is only a small part of confidentiality: tor provides a somewhat reasonable guarantee (i.e., much better than nothing or use of proxies) that I can anonymous browse censored web sites. However, alone it doesn't in any way help with secure communications to others, it doesn't ensure that the sites I am visiting aren't MITM'd, it does not protect against attacks that reduce availability of end points. Since online content censorship is not currently a big problem in the United States -- but now a huge problem pretty much elsewhere, including in the Western World -- in most cases it isn't really an ailment for the ills inflicted by the current government overreach.