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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
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That's just a hardware implementation of Tor?
https://www.torproject.org/
I guess the problem with Tor is by it's nature it's going to be a huge target for the NSA (one of the very men we're trying to avoid presumably). The NSA certainly has had some success with targeting Tor users. Though if one is using it to just read their gmail then the NSA probably doesn't care. Tor is pretty slow.
Other services (free or commercial, proxies or VPNs, etc), assume that the provider of the service is going to actually protect the user's anonymity (and aren't going to be subject to infiltration or direct order for access). If I'm concerned about security then trusting someone I don't know to protect me seems like the worst option, no matter how much they claim.
I guess it depends too on what the goal is. "Stop my ISP from casually seeing my emails and what sites I browse" is different than "Access sites that my government would put me in prison for".