It's amazing the stupid things people do to compromise their own identity on Tor. You could take all of my computers and you'd never know that I've used Tor (unless you installed a hardware key logger and then replanted the device)
I guess I'm fortunate that I live somewhere where it's not illegal to admit to using Tor. My point was more simple that Tor isn't compromised.
Or looked at your ISP logs. Did you use Obfsproxy every single time or tunnel Tor through a VPN to your bridge node? probably not
No-one sane does anything seriously criminal trough their own link. I built a simple directional wlan antenna. In my small city, within range of my balcony, there are some 300 open or WEP-protected networks. Not that I'd ever steal someone else's internet...
Breaking into someone's network is quite a nasty offence in itself. In Australia (where the story is from), that's hundreds of thousands in fines and jail time.
You wouldn't steal a car...
If you're doing it right you aren't doing it at home.
Wouldn't a VPN be good enough?
They can still monitor traffic peaks and match those to when criminal activity occurred.
Would that hold up in court? Anyway, I would just saturate the VPN.
Where are there resources someone can look at to not do those stupid things? I've wanted to use Tor for a while but I always got the impression it was a waste of time because it seems pretty easy to (not) do something that destroys the anonymity.
care to shed some light on how you accomplish this?