I have a saying that goes like this
"Privacy is a right. Anonymity is not. But privacy is dead, so get over it.
The only hope we have left is anonymity."
Since you distrust Tor, what do you do to stay private/anonymous online? You
seem to be very "critic" of governments and companies and such, I assume you
use some kind of protection to make it harder for those to identify and
localize you... Mind sharing? :)
As for Tor, I have to say this: Tor is useless against a global adversary.
NSA and some other "companies" have the resources to look at the entire
internet at once and in that scenario Tor is useless. HOWEVER, against
"local" adversaries Tor is very useful (if you are using a public wifi, for
example, it will prevent someone sitting next to you from stealing you data).
Nowadays someone who works ar a internet service provider can easily "take a
look" at the contents of your communications (even unauthorized to do so) and
against that, Tor is again useful because it DOES encrypt your traffic in
some ways. So, Tor won't save us from "Big Brother" but it will help to
prevent abuses from some jerks who happen to have a friend working a telecom
company or at the police station. If there is a better alternative, please
let me know =)
As for the android device recording every keypress and sending it to
somewhere else, that was my fear actually. I would like to ask you to find
that news report, because I would like to know if it happens ONLY with the
stock rom or also with CM and Replicant.
THANKS
