Thought this might be on interest!
the good ol, we are removing your privacy, for the children!. Think of the children please!
VPN business is going to do well in the UK, just for not having the hassle of identifying yourself everywhere.
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Just think about all the children getting protected.
At the cost of our future generation!
Those VPN hacker are everywhere, we have to take back control!
Parental control is overrated, the Government always knows best!
Here you go:
Except TOR has been compromised for over a decade, and probably much longer than that.
State actors have made a significant number of their own servers a part of the TOR network, and can use those to de-anonymize users.
In 2014 FBI used the fact that they could de-anonymize TOR users at will to take down the Silk Road 2.0, apparently with the aid of Carnegie Mellon University.
The revelation that CMU was involved is recent, but we have known ever since 2014 when the Silk Road 2.0 arrests happened that TOR provides little to no protection if someone is dedicated enough and has the resources to compromise it, and lots of state actors do.
More recently the German federal authorities de-anonymized users.
TOR themselves claim it is still safe to use, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
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Not surprising that they might try this in the UK, the land of CCTV everywhere… 
At least here in the U.S. they are more sneaky about it.
But what we really need is regulation that prevents the collection and use of user data in its entirety.
George Orwell would be rotating in his grave…
Yes, I know that one was photoshopped, but the sentiment is still true, here was the actual map in 2007 when the image above first started circulating:
I would not be surprised if it is even worse now.
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Not really… when even state level actors have to resort to timing attacks to de-anonymize users that can also be interpreted as TOR not being directly exploitable by even the most capable adversary.
OH MY GOD WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?
Never mind the fact that the children might want to grow up in a society that isn’t Orwellian…
Won’t somebody think of the children’s right to liberty, privacy and freedom from authoritarianism?
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