I guess my bias is revealed in my conception that Tor browser is something everyone has lying around. If you aren&#x27;t using plugable transports, installing Tor browser is trivial (single-click configuration after you&#x27;ve extracted the archive).<p>In my experience, setting up a daemon to do something trivial is always &quot;not much effort&quot; until something goes wrong and you throw in the towel an hour and a half later. I suppose that SSH port forwarding is zero-configuration, however, so perhaps you&#x27;re right, and my suggestion is unnecessary.<p>I was really trying not to paint a picture of a malicious founder who is scheming to paper something over with spin. The founder responded in the thread because they&#x27;re an honest business person who feels tempted to use a piece of information that fell in their lap, as we all might.<p>That was a bad example, so I&#x27;m not going to try and defend why that conversation should happen on HN (you&#x27;re probably right that it shouldn&#x27;t). The reason someone might anonymously start a conversation on Hacker News would have to be that the community has a vested interest in it&#x27;s outcome, it is embarrassing to the influential, and the consequences of revealing it openly outweigh the perceived benefits.<p>But maybe my struggle to find a better example is indicative that this situation is too rare to account for.