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Comment by a3n | Hacker News Reader

From ignorance, why would I (a non-interesting person in a nominally free country, with non-interesting interests that could nevertheless become interesting depending on political shifts and shit) want to use this hidden service, rather than plain old ProtonMail?

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There's an argument for providing camouflage in the form of boring traffic on the Tor network to help those that are forced to use it, and whose traffic authoritarian governments and nefarious forces might actually find interesting. Otherwise, all the interesting data is conveniently gathered in one place, any given traffic on Tor is more likely to be interesting, and it makes the bad guys' jobs just a little bit easier.

There's a wide spectrum of personal preference for internet privacy, and if you're the type that doesn't trust your ISP you could potentially use TOR to add an additional layer of anonymity. If you trust your ISP there isn't much point.

There's pretty good evidence that you should not trust your ISP:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/21/4541342/isp-owner-describe...

While your message contents would still be encrypted when using the regular old ProtonMail site, it would expose your identity and who you are sending messages to.

I'm not trying to argue whether you should or should not you should trust your ISP. It's a personal opinion that differs for every internet user.

Given those constraints, you probably wouldn't. However, the moment your interests become interesting, or the political winds change...

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