Tor isn't much of a protection if it drastically reduces your k-anonymity. For example: You are from Nuevo Laredo and you mention that in a defiant tweet. What

Tor isn't much of a protection if it drastically reduces your k-anonymity. For example: You are from Nuevo Laredo and you mention that in a defiant tweet. What if in whole of Nuevo Laredo there are only 10 people who use Tor? The Zetas will just go to the houses of those 10 people, and easily find out if it was any of them. And if it were 100? Just hang up random Tor users until people stop using Tor. The real solution? Use a service that is indistinguishable from regular traffic to connect to a host outside of the control of the cartels (aka out of Mexico, and possibly out of the U.S. as well) and then use that connection to connect to Tor. An example could be any VPN, SSH or HTTPS connection, preferably made from a work setting. Of course make sure that there's no strong correlation between the time you post, and the time that you connect. In any case, be very careful with what details you drop about yourself, when you do weird stuff your k-anonymity is very fragile. The test question: 'how many people can be perceived to be doing what I am doing at this moment'. Whenever the answer to that is less than a few thousand, you could be in grave danger.