> so that no single party can link who you are to what you are doing
some single parties called government agencies pretty much can. it’s just much harder to do, so you’re safe from random people
some single parties called government agencies pretty much can. it’s just much harder to do, so you’re safe from random people
If I were a government and had just spent a pretty penny on implementing the necessary infrastructure to defeat an encrypted routing scheme, I would probably not use that capability to bust internet drug dealers and other petty criminals, resulting in everyone scattering to a new scheme or to seek security through obscurity in some hand-rolled solution. I'd save it for national security level threats. High value targets.
Though thinking about it further, it would still be workable to gather compromising information on low-value targets without necessarily acting on it.
That would require many individuals to keep a juicy secret for a hypothetical future collective reward.