On 11/11/2015 12:27 PM, Ryan Carboni wrote:
> [1]https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethical-tor-research-guidelines
>
> Interesting problem: to use Tor is to say you trust your ISP less than
> some pseudorandom person over the internet.

Sadly enough, that's often prudent. Some ISPs are honorable, for sure.
But many are duplicitous scum.

In any case, it's more accurate to say that about your VPN provider.
With Tor, you're trusting the system, but system integrity is resilient
to malicious nodes. So you're not trusting any one of them fully, even
your entry guard, as much as you would have been trusting your ISP.

   Correct, it would be prudent to avoid using port 80 over Tor for
   anything personally identifiable.
   [2]http://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-docs-show-a-university-helped
   -fbi-bust-silk-road-2-child-porn-suspects

References

   1. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethical-tor-research-guidelines
   2. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-docs-show-a-university-helped-fbi-bust-silk-road-2-child-porn-suspects