1. What is "traffic analysis?" Who does it? Why?
2. Compare and contrast the operation of TOR, with an anonymizer-style VPN like HideMyAss. What conclusions might you draw?
3. On the one hand, TOR talks about how their system can help businesses "facilitate internal accountability;" yet, that seems on the surface to be in conflict with a system that anonymizes and hides traffic. How do you reconcile these two apparently disparate descriptions of what TOR does?
4. Is it ethical for an honest, upright citizen, one who has nothing to hide from anybody, to use TOR or something like it? Why or why not?
5. Is it ethical for such a citizen to participate with TOR, support it, even volunteer time on their PC and ISP connection to be a Relay? What about the other "get involved" options that TOR lists on its web site? Is it ethically necessary, or required by your ethics, to get involved?