I'm curious. What are the problems with TOR?
I'm curious. What are the problems with TOR?
Other than that, you have to be very careful to use it correctly without revealing who you are, and all TOR would do in this case is (essentially) randomize your IP address. If e.g. you're consistent with using TOR for gmail and there's a time that doesn't correspond to your TOR activity, it's basically a guarantee that someone else accesses the account, though you haven't found out who.
1. Someone with enough resources can create and add to the network enough servers, especially entrance and exit nodes, to effectively nullify the TOR router.
2. Some web tools can have side channel attacks that break out of TOR and use the internet to get a specific resource.
3. Another popular side channel attack is fingerprinting the browser, best demonstrated by the EFF here: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
4. TOR itself might have a bug or a backdoor, although this is getting a bit into the realm of conspiracy.
This is of the top of my head, but I'm sure I missed some.
Large intelligence agencies may have lots of honeypot tor nodes, you might get one of them
The truth that we all learned after the lulsec debacle was that the FBI will resort to much simpler and more effective low-tech procedures to spy on their prey.