[throwme0827349]

Respectfully, a large number of people rightfully fear for their lives, safety, and freedom due to being stalked or abused by a current or former partner. I have personally known several.

Using victims' devices and communications in order to locate, and then harass, trap, or attack them, is commonplace for stalkers.

[viraptor]

If you can use victim's device, then Tor or any network level protection will not help you. If you can use their network, then just about everything uses https these days... and you still need to know their location to snoop in the first place. GP raised a good point of Tor not helping in those two cases.

Those are situations that people deal with, but suggesting they use Tor is not going to help them. (Apart from some very specific situations)

[adamrezich]

How many of these people are justified (by evidence, not merely paranoia) in thinking that Tor would circumvent whatever communications interception may or may not have been put in place?

And of those people, how many people have ever even heard of Tor, let alone know how to use it?

[throwme0827349]

What fraction of domestic violence shelter occupants are paranoid rather than reasonably fearful? What fraction are paranoid, vs. those who are reasonably afraid of being spied on in general? Probably some, but I believe many have well founded reasons to want to be anonymous and in hiding.

I concede that tor is probably not a useful tool in general for these people. I meant to point out only that one needn't be paranoid to fear one's spouse.

[throwing_away]

I think you just unintentionally highlighted the need for the tor project and outreach to inform people about it.