> people do know you are using it, supposing that they don't know for what.
And then they can use the rubber hose method to find out. Knowing that you have traffic you want to hide is almost as good as knowing the traffic
And then they can use the rubber hose method to find out. Knowing that you have traffic you want to hide is almost as good as knowing the traffic
To be clear, the threat models of the obfuscating transports can vary, so what I've described is just a trend in emphasis, not necessarily a suggestion that nobody ever cares about obfuscation-in-retrospect. But the history of that work is around censorship circumvention, which is often a slightly different goal (with slightly different priorities) than confidentiality.
For example, I've heard people who work on obfuscation talk about how it would be good if something required an expensive calculation in order to distinguish from other traffic types. They care about this because a national firewall may not have sufficient capacity to do this in real time.
Depending a lot on your threat model, Tor might still be a benefit even if people do know you are using it, supposing that they don't know for what.