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> Criminals may not CARE about breaking into someone's computer or router, but that doesn't mean they're capable of doing so.

The problem with this line of reasoning is that it covers such a small number of people. The only people your argument covers are serious criminals who a) are too stupid to be able to download a simple tool to exploit routers with unpatched vulnerabilities from last year and yet b) are still competent enough to use Tor without doing anything that would reveal their identity.

And that also excludes the most serious criminals because the set of people who can break into the computers of large organizations to commit crimes is essentially a superset of the set of people who can break into an unpatched consumer-level router.



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