This is completely off-topic, I know, but that's a very interesting article from the Guardian. Down the rabbit hole for real. Just add Bitcoin to the picture, and you have the ideal criminal workspace.
I can understand though why people with absolutely no nefarious intentions might want to turn to this sort of service, what with the knowledge that Big Brother (if not Big Commerce) is watching so many of us so much of the time. For many, I imagine it isn't a question of having something to hide as much as the creepy idea that everything about us may be accessible to certain groups or agencies.
I'm not in the tin foil hat brigade, but frankly, which of us really knows who is watching and collecting our thoughts (literally)? I do admit I've got a piece of white paper pasted over my laptop's camera eye. Orwell would approve. (LOL).
Actually, Orwell envisioned the TV as the source of state control and spying, and imagined the deep fear people would have of it. Little did he know that spying would be made so easy by a population that by and large would eagerly and willingly adopt the marvels of the technology (us) in exchange for accepting potential snooping and outright personal invasion. Marry that to a generation brought up completely in sync with such technology (not mine), and you have, at the very least, a new social experiment.
Ironically, reading this article about Tor, I couldn't help but think that this is the kind of privacy we had at the very start. Those of us who are old enough will remember the beginnings of www, and telephone line dial-up services. It was a whole lot harder for anyone to spy on us then.
