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Pond uses Tor for metadata protection. Vuvuzela is another recent messenger that protects metadata.

> That makes your network insecure, not my page. Sometimes you NEED to use an insecure network due to censorship (example: Tor or VPN).

Consider Tor: in this case, your "ISP" is a random server on the internet. Maybe your Comcast or TimeWarner ISPs will not be malicious, but with Tor, any one in the world can regis…

I agree! There is TCPCrypt, for example: http://www.tcpcrypt.org/

Tor is a tool for circumventing censorship. HTTPS is an important part of using Tor to surf the web: 1) it protects the user from bad exits that could inject malicious javascript i…

> I think CloudFlare will still hit Tor users with (unsolvable) captchas even with the lowest security settings. That is correct. I have not been able to get passed a Cloudflare ca…

Please do not put Cloudflare in front of your site. It makes it impossible for tor and VPN users to view your site since they have to solve an impossible captcha to even see the st…

HTTPS is especially important for Tor users. With tor, all HTTP requests pass through a random exit node, who may be malicious. If the site is not using HTTPS, then the exit node c…

Who is rightfully concerned about the overhead of an SSL handshake in 2016?