any moment now ...

[John Case]

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.