Just wondering what the community here felt about the potential risk of "guilt by association" - no matter how tenuous - of using the TOR network. Does the mere use of this technology give users an automatic red flag in the eyes of the authorities? Thoughts?
It was previously disclosed[0] that yes, even just visiting torproject.org would mark you as a target and all your subsequent traffic would be funneled into NSA systems.<p>[0] <a href="http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/NSA-targets-the-privacy-conscious,nsa230.html" rel="nofollow">http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/NSA-targets-the-priv...</a>