Quote from: masterblaster on February 21, 2013, 11:21 pmQuote from: SelfSovereignty on February 21, 2013, 08:33 amThey have access to every letter I've written and sent via email (presumably -- best to assume so). Every college paper I wrote, every IM I ever sent, every product I've ever bought (we all do know what those silly "Savers Club" cards are for, yes? Selling ads, of course they track what we buy to target us with ads), etc., etc. etc..If they think you're of interest and you didn't plan to be of interest, you lose. Game over. They win. Period. They will find you. I didn't plan on ever trying to be found. It's too late now I'm sure, they likely crawl this board a dozen times a day and archive it all.So there you have it. A thousand posts is a lot of fucking information. Trust me. Their techniques work.Whoa, slow down on the amphetamines there, you dont talk any differently than i or anyone else with an education does. Profiling is a joke, they can't even profile people correctly at the airports, how are they going to determine one out of the millions of tor users? You think they're collecting dossiers on everyone who uses tor? So what, this is what you've revealed, you are a programmer, you dont like making gui's, you live in the us, your probably white/asian male, 18-30, you like amphetamines, you use tor....alright that describes about 75% of tor users. For them to find you they would have to eliminate 99.9999% of tor users. The only thing the government has against us is fear, and it seems to be working quite well.masterblaster is right. You're letting fear infect your better judgement. There are no absolutes with power, it is always context dependent,, governments are perceived to be all powerful but this is at least partially based on myth. People are overly impressed by direct forms of power, such as murder and filling cages with people they don't like. Even at the highest levels and at their most professional they are surrounded by incompetence, it's the stuff of legend even inside government circles. The record on achieving their most important objectives is simply abysmal. Three examples spring immediately to mind. It took them over a decade to capture the world's most wanted man. None of their intelligence agencies figured out that Communism was about to suddenly fall, hell, they didn't even get the big picture about the Russian economy right and the real numbers regarding ICBMs. And the world's largest and richest superpower lost a war to some of the poorest people on earth.