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Hanna Are you sure about that? Correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm no expert. I read that this is a hyped rumour, and not in fact true. Plus it's completely down to the people running the exit nodes. Most of them are activists and believers in the ideals of TOR. And there are many thousands. Even if somebody set up a honey trap exit node, I still don't think they can trace your communication all the way back to you. It's highly theoretical anyway, and you'd have to be suspected for something really major for anyone to bother. I don't want to give an example, because it would probably probably trigger the alerts with GCHQ... But you can imagine the kind of stuff.