Well yeah, that's true Astor... but when the damn site closes the connection every other page load and then bitches because it thinks your last search was less than 1 second ago, who can really blame him. It's a good question & worth bumping/repeating now and then, IMHO.BTW, that's not good enough Sourman -- SSL for Tor downloads. The problem is that the only guarantee you have you're talking to the Tor servers and not a black hat running a man-in-the-middle attack is the certificate issued by a certificate authority. Those are pathetically easy to hack/spoof/legitimately buy though. And people tend to do what the men in black who call and say "give us a fucking certificate, we have to take down an int'l drug ring this week," demand. Would be a damn easy way to identify probably 3/4 of this place; I mean distributing a malicious Tor browser version, that is.(ex: you SSL to the hacker, he spoofs the Tor server certificate, then SSL's to the server himself and claims to be you -- and passes everything back and forth, after logging/changing it at his computer of course)