I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m not first to question this, but if you download Tails or Tor browser or whatever, wouldn&#x27;t that be sort of obvious? I mean it leaves traces. Then if you only use it to do something specific be it chat with friends, browse for porn, take part is activism or to buy illegal products for example wouldn&#x27;t it be easy to see that: your computer went offline, then something new (Tails) went up, took anonymous connection to somewhere and then X happened, then Tails went away and your main OS&#x2F;machine went back up.<p>My main &quot;inspiration&quot; here is the fake bomb threat by the college kid to get out of mid terms, just before the email about the bomb was sent his IP downloaded Tor bundle. The service he was using also had the schools IP or something so administration could see it was sent from inside the school, but I think that is still valid concern. This kind of meta data about your actions can leak just as much information as actually seeing what you are doing.<p>My question therefor would be: should more people use Tails as their &quot;daily driver&quot;? Would that make it more anonymous&#x2F;private for the people like whistle blowers? My only idea at the moment would be to pay for two separate trusted VPN provider (don&#x27;t know how you would vet that trustworthiness) with bitcoin, to keep your anonymity&#x2F;privacy with them as well. Then pipe all your traffic through one of the VPNs all the time. Then when you need to use Tor, you would simply pipe it through that same VPN when you would emerge with rest of the clients from same point and then pipe your Tor traffic through the secondary VPN. This way you would still get the benefits of encrypted tunnels all the way through with benefit of Tors anonymizing and it might not be so obvious you are browsing Tor to your ISP or whatever.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m thinking this is harder than it actually is