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@@ -22,16 +22,16 @@ 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; we need to fix that. </p>

+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 &mdash;

-accepting the bad uses for the good ones — but we don't think that's

-how it works in the case of Tor.

+accepting the bad uses for the good ones — but there's more to it

+than that.

 Criminals and other bad people have the motivation to learn how to

 get good anonymity, and many have the motivation to pay well to achieve

 it. Being able to steal and reuse the identities of innocent victims

 (identify theft) makes it even easier. Normal people, on the other hand,

-don't typically have the time or money to spend figuring out how to get

+don't have the time or money to spend figuring out how to get

 privacy online. This is the worst of all possible worlds. </p>

 <p>So yes, criminals could in theory use Tor, but they already have

@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ world will stop them from doing their bad things. At the same time, Tor

 and other privacy measures can <em>fight</em> identity theft, physical

 crimes like stalking, and so on. </p>

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+<a id="Pervasive"></a>

+<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Pervasive">If the whole world starts using

+Tor, won't civilization collapse?</a></h3>

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 <h3><a class="anchor" href="#DDoS">What about distributed denial of service attacks?</a></h3>