But if anything, what we know about the FBI's case suggests it was tip-offs, inside men, confessions, and Ulbricht's own errors that were responsible for his conviction.

If you do something worth investigating, then you may have reason for concern However, in that case you should be taking other precautions that will make the deanonymization of your TOR activity minimal in your detection.The development of anonymising software such as Tor and Bitcoin has forced law enforcement to develop the expertise needed to identify those using them. This is the very common misconception since the recent NSA 'revelations'.

Lastly, unless you are doing something worthwhile for a government to put in the effort in deanoymizing you, you have absolutely nothing to worry about in this regard. Two, you benefit from hiding the fact that you are using TOR from your ISP, and any sniffers between you and the web resources you are accessing. One you are ensured good end-to-end encryption.

You should TOR through a VPN, this has multiple benefits. If something can be done in theory, you must expect that it may be done in practice. Second, it has been known for quite a while that TOR traffic can be theoretically deanyonmized.

There has been several articles about end nodes injecting into downloads, and other types of traffic. It is not safe for hiding from government entities, and it is not safe for downloading.įirst, you have to worry about the trustworthiness of end-nodes.

Is tor safe anymore 2015