On 6/2/07, Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
The world is too vast and varied for something as valuable as anonymity to be useful to only a small subset for a few purposes. Would you have guessed the Navy's original stated purpose for sponsoring the development of Tor was to protect its intelligence analysts?
It's unfortunate that the widespread misuse of something invariably restricts or prevents its legitimate use, but that's always the case, and there's nothing we can do about it. The main use of these things on WP is vandalism and abusive sockpuppetry, with all the damage that entails.