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Re:Use of Tor and e-mail crypto could increase chances that ... by bigiain on Thursday June 20, 2013 @11:55PM (#5916429)
The "renew my car registration" example was intended to imply that'd I've chosen to "give them some connected dots" - dots which are operationally useless (or worse - preferably adding noise to make the job harder and evidence that the job is sometimes wasted effort).

I'm assuming "they" have access to government servers and networks, and that they'll easily be able to connect me - as a real and (at least mostly) law abiding citizen - to a clean-slate browser using SSL over TOR - logging in to a government web server with real world credentials and doing some mundane and law abiding everyday task.

Re:Use of Tor and e-mail crypto could increase chances that ... by dfc on Friday June 21, 2013 @12:04AM (#5916454)
I don't get what you mean. You think that once you connect to https://site.gov/ they can easily match the traffic entering the tor network with the traffic that exited tor and initiated the web connection?
Re:Use of Tor and e-mail crypto could increase chances that ... by bigiain on Friday June 21, 2013 @12:15AM (#5916474)
That's assuming they've got compromised tor nodes that they're able to watch both my entrance and exit node.

Which may well be true.

(But I'm still hoping my new 2048bit GPG key and a significant portion of tor nodes are _not_ NSA bugged...)

Re:Use of Tor and e-mail crypto could increase chances that ... by dfc on Friday June 21, 2013 @12:42AM (#5916561)
More confused now. You are worried about a GPA or a lesser adversary?