The Tor browser

[dyresand]

I've never felt the need for the Tor browser. Why? Because I'm not worried about being watched when I'm not doing anything illegal.

Similarly, I've never understood people who tell me that I should put some tape over my webcam, either. How can anybody who hacks into my webcam actually harm me? How does seeing my face harm me? What if they see me masturbating? Is masturbation illegal? No.

If you're a criminal or a cop then the Tor browser makes sense. If you get irrationally squeamish about being spied on even when the spy can do know harm to you ... then the Tor browser makes sense (but, makes sense to you only because you're irrational). Otherwise, it's pointless.

You think you have nothing to hide. So had the people who had their identity stolen been thinking... until that happened. "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about." is one of the most dangerous ways of thinking. And, by the way, I am not much interested in the pornography on the Internet.

What I care about most is, for example, what if mainstream search engines stop indexing HRCAK (the biggest Croatian on-line archive of the academic journals) in response to the Article 11? Or what if HRCAK itself becomes illegal due to Article 13, along with all the similar services? Then circumventing the censorship becomes a necessity in order to do any kind of research on-line. And what if all the large blogging services decide to censor all the anti-government content (as they are pretty much doing already), and the small blogging services can't afford to operate in the European Union due to Article 13? Then, in order to get any kind of unbiased picture about current events, you need to circumvent the censorship. And so on...

You literally make yourself a bigger target using Tor browser without at least being on a Linux system and Duck Duck Go. Then you have to do your browser settings to make sure it's set to do not track. For a Linux distro, I would say get tails or black arch. I say this because of windows operating system is not the most secure operating system in the world. Now, this is important get yourself a VPN you need that extra added layer of security and keep your ISP even safer than just using Tor. 

Use common sense do not download anything off of any tor site do not give away personal details do not do anything illegal and keep all personal matters off of it.

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Three types of people will use it: Dodgy people, paranoid people ... and paranoid dodgy people.

Oh, okay, four ... maybe it's of some use to Law Enforcement. But they probably have their own methods of being undercover. I dunno.

Basically, unless you're a cop ... it's silly to use it (at best).

Do you realize that almost every on-line forum these days uses HTTPS? Do you think that's also a bad thing somehow? Where do you draw the line here? We should use as much security as it is economically viable, you never know how much security you need until it's too late.

you know HTTPS is a good thing right? It can prevent man in the middle attacks by preventing packet high jacking.
Let's say a bank used an insecure webpage for login reasons someone could highjack a person packets that contain their data
and get that information while it's sent to the banking server login database. The person nows has the victims login password and user name. 
HTTPS makes doing this harder because it encrypts the data packets with SSL. 

pick for example since mine is pretty horrible