Quote from: nanpa2001 on January 04, 2013, 03:53 pmSelfSovereignty, In my jurisdiction a VPN is WAY less suspicious than Tor, and is not associated with pedophilia - unlike Tor. People in my area use VPN to watch Hulu, for example, or buy things from US online shops that charge more if you use a foreign IP address.The VPN service I proffered earlier can be purchased anonymously, with nothing tying you back to the purchase. You can use a throw away email address if you want, they don't ask for names, or anything. They could be compelled by law enforcement, but wouldn't have much to offer.But an 'evil exit node' on Tor run by LE could unmask you in an instant. At least if you have a VPN they need to look elsewhere first.Just forget I mentioned the suspicious thing... I'm not even really sure why I said that, frankly. It was sketchy information that I shouldn't have thrown out so off-the-cuff. This is not sketchy though: an evil exit node run by police cannot unmask you. You connect to several Tor network nodes on the way to the exit node. Each node knows only the destination of the next in the chain. That's why it can't be traced back to your computer.A VPN has no such limitation. It can see your real IP address. That's my real issue with it.