Did you ever use any of those in "real life", or only when committing crimes?
Do you also believe that encryption is evil? Those pesky criminals use it all the time.
I was talking about the real world use cases for a vpn paid with monero.
Lets children and other unbanked pay for vpns as they don’t have banking access, they can earn some crypto from someone and bridge that to monero
Tor if you don’t want any private sector logging + additional access to the onion internet
A TorOS if you want more hardened access
For example undocumented migrants, homeless people, people fleeing abusive partners, people with a history of bankruptcy, and so on.
This can be politically important because if the state wants to pay all benefits by bank transfer to keep admin costs down, they've got to make sure even the most vulnerable people in our society can get a bank account.
Of course, usually the unbanked use cash.
Now it is not necessary, with peer to peer digital cash operating in a parallel economy, that allows access to goods, services, investments, insurance, capital and more.
As in for example "banking the unbanked" which translates into "providing extremely expensive banking like services for criminals."
I know my drug dealer can't pay duffle bags full of cocaine-covered $100 bills into the bank - but he can still get a personal checking account and pay in $100 a week or so. So I would not describe him as 'unbanked' in the conventional sense.
Notbanked
Sansbanked
(I am actually curious; who are these people who do not have a bank account but use Monero?)
they can use Monero as well, not instead. As there are lots of other interchangeable options for non-banked or unhosted crypto payments and commerce.
> (I am actually curious; who are these people who do not have a bank account but use Monero?)
to me, your question is similar to asking "who are these people that use their cell phone in a subway tunnel" after cellular service was extended underground. the similarity being that the answer is "I don't know" and "you're not going to get a dissertation or a source about it, people just use whats available" and "who cares". What I wrote earlier is just a list of what happens when the expanded availability is there.
https://therecord.media/thousands-of-tor-exit-nodes-attacked...
you can still take flights, get mortgages, enter and leave the country after being on the imaginary or actual list, so why do so many people care?
Yes.
> Any other tools that I should be aware of?
Like Tor, I hear that Signal is also a great choice for terrorists and extremists as well according to some testimonials from them.
The road to hell is paved with good intensions.
I'd rather not be that guy... but we have a survivorship bias problem here.