ISP will know that you use Tor if you don't put a VPN in between. VPN's a much more commonly used so it raises less suspicion. Not saying that 50% are compromised. Just saying that > 50% are in just two jurisdictions that make information exchange likely. Recently DNM have been taken out by German police. More hops would be nice, especially since overall Tor speed grew by a big factor in the last 3 years. Need to look into how onion nodes view the network. Which makes me think that i2p is even more necessary than I thought first.

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Scoundrel 2 months ago
Doesn't the Tor client make an effort to diversify node jurisdictions? Three hops; two problematic jurisdictions. Seems good to me. Also, people on the darknet are always getting caught. As a rule of thumb, it's pretty safe to assume it's due to independent infosec mistakes. There have been dozens of cases of the media making a big deal about a Tor user getting caught, and every time more information emerges we find that they made numerous infosec mistakes that had nothing to do with Tor.