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On Fri, 20 Dec 2013, Philip Hudson wrote:
http://digital-era.net/tor-use-best-practices/
Interesting - thanks for posting.It makes very good points, but it does assume everyone using Tor does so to hide from an organisation as powerful as the NSA. In general, a "better safe than sorry" approach is good in security, but this puts the threshold for using Tor rather high - that is kind of the point of the article.
Not everyone uses Tor to hide their identity. Some merely want to hide their location - for isntance, to log into their organisation's mail server while on a secret mission. Others just want to blend in with other Tor users - they don't really mind their ISP, or law enforcement, finding out what they're doing.
So it's always best to think of the threats you want to defend against and then use Tor accordingly.
The main point of the article - that Tor isn't anonymity in a box - remains very true of course.
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