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problem is your local isp sees you using Tor, so have to run tails in a VM and on the host tunnel all traffic through Jondo or something.

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Lots of people use Tor, that doesn't tell them much.

The student who made a fake bomb threat at Harvard was tracked down because he used Tor on campus.

He was what, one of six who was using Tor at the time and cracked almost instantly when questioned.

One of six is pretty damn good, and that is before you even consider other factors (such as, how many of those six had a final in one of those buildings at that time.)

That was a lucky guess on Harvard/Police's part. If his local ISP suspected the admin of the blog was on their network (why would they?) then Tor access might help narrow down.

Just like if you're the only person in a country using Tor, writing about stuff internal to that country, yeah, they might notice.

In the Harvard case, as far as we know, they went to everyone running Tor and this kid freaked out immediately and it was case closed. If he has insisted on his rights and not talked about it, or provided another plausible reason (assuming he didn't leave evidence on his computer), they'd have had no solid leads. Or if he had used another network that wasn't Harvard's.

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