If I were dissident in an oppressed country (sigh the way things are going we in the west arent that far behind authoritarian regimes such as China, Iran and Russia) i would be very very worried now as the same method could be used or "discovered" by entities who are more interested in suppressing dissent than this silly war on drugs waged by western countries.
Exactly, if Tor being insecure and therefore your traffic getting you in trouble is your primary worry that's actualy a first world problem. Even using Tor at all is easily sufficient for any truly authoritarian regime to come down hard on you regardless of what your traffic contains.
> we in the west arent that far behind authoritarian regimes such as China, Iran and Russia
In terms of the surveilance capabilities of the state, you're probably right. But e.g. China censors perhaps hundreds of thousands of messages a day and blocks access to vast swathes of the web. It actively uses online surveilance to crack down on activists and civil society groups on a routine basis. I don't like governmental overreach in surveilance and I think their systematic weakening of civilian security and privacy are massively counter-productive. There are also too many cases of police abusein many wester countries. But that's not the same as running a systematic, actively authoritarian police state.
ssh into a box that is set up to use tor, install squid, set up firefox to use your squid/tor box as a proxy. Your home is no longer broadcasting that you're using tor. Your box could be outside of the country.
