Quote from: kmfkewm on May 02, 2012, 09:03 amMany psychological phenomenon are at play with most of these issues, the most threatening being a combination of the false consensus effect and cognitive dissonance. People here are drug users who tend to be surrounded by other drug users and a part of drug culture. They are biased towards thinking that this socio-ideological reality extends much further into the general public than it actually does. They think nothing of drug use, and their friends and others they interact with also have no problems with it, so they falsely come to believe that the average person in society has no problems with it and doesn't care about it. This is despite the fact that not even 50% of the population of the USA is in favor of even decriminalizing cannabis use (even for medical use). They also experience cognitive dissonance because even though they are aware that drugs are illegal and that prisons are overflowing with drug offenders, the vast majority of which were arrested for personal use amounts, the thought of them risking their own lives is unpleasant so they repress the knowledge that they are committing felonies punishable by serious prison time. Other phenomenon demonstrated are the need for socialization as well as default trust (ie: people tend to trust others unless they give them an explicit reason not to).This results in people doing things that are not the smartest from a security point of view. I'd say that's about the size of it psychologically. Topix is like walking through the valley of the moonbears.QuoteTor allows you to give a detective the universal set of 7 billion people to extract you from. Why narrow the field?Quote from: kmfkewm on May 02, 2012, 09:03 amWell you are automatically put into the set of a few million people who use Tor. They can also probably say with high probability that you are in a country with people who usually learn to speak English, and although there will be significant noise introduced, they can probably say that you are most likely in a country with English as the primary language. That does cut it down a lot, since a lot of Tor users are in places where English is rarely learned.While that might be true, it's worthless unless you could show suspect X is using Tor. Certainly for some of us, finding that out would be quite difficult. Nevertheless, yes, you can build a certain profile out of people's posts and use other educated guesses. By far the easiest way though, is to make a positive ID by simply asking people for their addresses. e.g. come to my special discount website. Have my free samples of felony quantities. Buy your B$ for SR with credit card and Paypal here at clearwebexchange.com etcIn case you think I'm making the last one up, there was a guy on here a couple of hours ago doing just that. QuickBitcoin or something like that. He deleted the posts though. It was so blatant that I wondered if he was legitimate and just very stupid. He had a special code for SR users to enter onto his website and everything.