RE: The Tor browser
June 21, 2019 at 9:46 am
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2019 at 9:49 am by Angrboda.)
(June 16, 2019 at 3:56 pm)SenseMaker007 Wrote:(June 16, 2019 at 8:29 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: 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.
People who have their identity stolen are just unlucky. Even without the Tor browser.
I'm far more likely to get cancer before age 40 ... and I'm far more worried about something like that.
And ... I'm not paranoid.
The probability of losing is generally of little comfort in hindsight once you've lost.
(June 16, 2019 at 11:10 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Simply using Tor puts you on a list.
A wise man told me many years ago "Do not raise your head above the parapet, do not attract attention. You don't want it."
Using Tor is exactly raising your head above the parapet. It is writing a number on your own back and a target on your chest.
Except that the number cannot be traced to you, so your point is pretty much moot. Unless you're leaking, say by torrenting while using Tor, the fact that a connection coming out of the Tor network is noticable does not have any real significant consequences for the person on the other end as they are anonymous at that point.