On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Even without anything interesting, like packet inspection, or state inspection, it's easy to assume that all Internet traffic is logged somewhere - just connection logs and so on - a trivial amount of data to save, and gets more trivial every six months when bigger drives come out.
So _today_ your actions might be benign, and tomorrow they might also be benign, but what about next year or next decade or ...
In a society that far gone this only raises the stakes of armed resistance. Fight or flight are both perfectly preferable to playing sitting duck, waiting for black vans to pick you up.
Look, if running a Tor node anonymously was difficult, this conversation would be interesting. But unning a Tor node anonymously is trivial, so the cost/benefit analysis is pretty parabolic. No cost, all benefit. Unless you're actually part of the project, or a public supporter, etc., there is no reason to have your identity attached to Tor in any way.