Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Name_Chawps 1059 days ago
Why use slow internet when fast internet do trick?
1 comments

Road A: Takes 2 minutes, chance of getting robbed is 80%

Road B: Takes 2 hours, chance of getting robbed is 2%.

What’s the robbery in this analogy? From a liability perspective, using Tor is strictly more risky than routing over the ordinary Internet.
Identity.
I've been on the Internet for 25 years and only got robbed once, and even then, the credit card charges were reversed so it didn't cost me anything other than the annoyance of updating some accounts once I got my new credit card number.