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>Al,
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>>>LOL. They can track you to an internet provider/IP and email address, but neither of those needs to identify you. I've trained my kids to use disposable e-mail addresses for years and even provide domains for that purpose.
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>>Probably only a few percent of members here know about disposable e-mail addresses, Tor et al. The proportion of the population at large - miniscule, even negligible. If they had the background and inclination, yes, they could be taught. But that's not the hard part, which is the discipline to apply those techniques 24/7/365.25 and never screw up even once.
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>one of the few points I perhaps really disagree with you, depending how the above is read.
>If you mean to go through TOR for every internet use, you will build up a pattern of being opaque, which in itself will someday draw attention and could be easily made see-through again by use of a gov spawned trojan or other hidden installed addition to your OS. IMO you have to constantly weigh the level of opacity the current information needs. Even with half a dozen mobile phones you will be tracked, and establishing a pattern of every 4 weeks having a new SIM walk your typical pathways will throw off only newbies. Internet usage can be filtered similarly...
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>from my paranoia...

No, we are actually 100% agreed. I was just pointing out Tor as part of a toolset that users who are concerned about privacy and anonymity will have researched. I would not be surprised if government agencies are logging traffic into and out of known Tor edge routers and/or have set up honeypots on the Tor network. So any use, not just habitual, is probably waving a red flag in front of the bull. I imagine that just regularly encrypting your e-mail is probably raising your profile to DefCon4 at some government agency.

Yes, people are creatures of habit, and big data is great at recognizing them.

I don't think it's paranoia. The difference between say, the Great Firewall of China and the governments of Germany and Canada is not one of capability, it's just the degree of how those capabilities are used.
Regards. Al

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