Search warrants to be legal just for using tor

[master.on]

what exactly is copware?

Copware is malware intentionally seeded by law enforcement to collect info.

The problem with tor is that as its traffic is randomly spread among unknown computers, some of this traffic may be traced by cop run nodes and found to match traffic from harder crimes. Thus "justifying" the warrant.
Only naive people will not believe that law enforcement runs some nodes as to gather some info.

 

[Cownan]

Interesting. It's definitely true that knowledge is power and the more one knows the safer they'll be

 

[Price Weston]

FBI Can Obtain A Warrant If You Run Tor Come December – The Merkle

Fire up a VPN, then run TOR.

Better yet, run the VPN on a router between your computer and your broadband provider's equipment and secure all home network traffic including DNS. Don't use your provider's wifi.

More paranoid options exist that involve combinations of VPN, virtual machines, encrypting partitions, and using only copies of your setup and deleting the copy when done.

But, the most important thing if using TOR is to take your ISP out of the loop so that the fact that you are using TOR cannot be determined - that's were the VPN comes in. I don't use TOR or a VPN but I can see the writing on the wall.

You can be all secure, almost, and still have Microsoft sending out tons of data via it's own encrypted personal backdoor on windows 10 and sharing it willy nilly.

 

[master.on]

Plain tor gets a nasty amount of LE attention
VPN+tor might be better

 

[MindlessWork]

DON'T use Windows 10...use something like Tails which is a bootable Linux distro that has Tor preconfigured. The kicker is that NOTHING touches the hard drive so all you do is hide the USB stick you used. Also use an old laptop and not your main laptop/desktop.

 

[savage lifter]

Plain tor gets a nasty amount of LE attention
VPN+tor might be better

VPN just hides your tor activity from your isp. A vpn doesn't make your activity impossible to trace, trust bro . Gotta have a huge set-up to truly be anonymous, but even then you have to move servers around.

Also, it is very difficult for LE to know if you're using TOR, unless they get a warrant and contact your isp for logs, data protection act and all .

You won't know you're done for until you're in hand cuffs with charges against you. To get the info they'd need for TOR-related crimes, they wouldn't half-ass it and let you know they're watching you, UNTIL they have enough evidence to hold up a good court case.