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I like how the article boils down to, "Except for some isolated use cases, Tor is far superior to a VPN in both cost and safety," and a lot of the comments boil down to "YEAH VPNS ARE GREAT GET A VPN."
It is okay to read the article before writing a comment, guys. In some circles, it's even encouraged, because you might learn something.
Don't just use Tor, use VPN on top of it.
If you use tor frequently, you'd eventually get a bad "roll of dice" on the nodes and get 3 government run nodes. Its not a matter of "if" but "when", roll the dice enough times, and the holes in the "swiss cheese" eventually line up.
If you are using Tor, also use a VPN along with it. It might make the traffic a little slower, but its worth it in case you get 3 NSA nodes.
Doesn't it mean there's only 1 node NSA has to attack - your VPN?
Kinda renders Tor over it pointless.
Better than 0 nodes, and this is not counting that they already attacked 3.