Comment Re:The Simple Option (Score 1) 1032
Actually.. I think it does?
I'd consider painful and painless to be different options.
Increasing the number of hops could help protect against the possibility of those hops belonging to the same person.
If the attacker owned both the intermediary and the exit node in the 3-hop example then your privacy is gone. Another possibility is that the attacker compromises a node (multiple nodes?) and gains information that way.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken