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#<li><a href="<page docs/faq-abuse>#WhatAboutCriminals">Doesn't Tor enable criminals to do bad things?</a></li>
#<li><a href="<page docs/faq-abuse>#DDoS">What about distributed denial of service attacks?</a></li>
#<li><a href="<page docs/faq-abuse>#WhatAboutSpammers">What about spammers?</a></li>
#<li><a href="<page docs/faq-abuse>#HowMuchAbuse">Does Tor get much abuse?</a></li>
#<li><a href="<page docs/faq-abuse>#TypicalAbuses">So what should I expect if I run an exit relay?</a></li>
#<li><a href="<page docs/faq-abuse>#IrcBans">Tor is banned from the IRC network I want to use.</a></li>
#<li><a href="<page docs/faq-abuse>#SMTPBans">Your nodes are banned from the mail server I want to use.</a></li>
#<li><a href="<page docs/faq-abuse>#Bans">I want to ban the Tor network from my service.</a></li>
#<li><a href="<page docs/faq-abuse>#TracingUsers">I have a compelling reason to trace a Tor user. Can you help?</a></li>
#<li><a href="<page docs/faq-abuse>#RemoveContent">I want some content removed from a .onion address.</a></li>
#<li><a href="<page docs/faq-abuse>#LegalQuestions">I have legal questions about Tor abuse.</a></li>
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<h3><a class="anchor" href="#WhatAboutCriminals">Doesn't Tor enable criminals to do bad things?</a></h3>
<p>Criminals can already do bad things. Since they're willing to
break laws, they already have lots of options available that provide
<em>better</em> privacy than Tor provides. They can steal cell phones,
use them, and throw them in a ditch; they can crack into computers
in Korea or Brazil and use them to launch abusive activities; they
can use spyware, viruses, and other techniques to take control of
literally millions of Windows machines around the world. </p>
<p>Tor aims to provide protection for ordinary people who want to follow
the law. Only criminals have privacy right now, and we need to fix that. </p>
<p>Some advocates of anonymity explain that it's just a tradeoff —
accepting the bad uses for the good ones — but there's more to it
than that.