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If you ignored everything that was just said then yeah, sure. Wonder why Tor exists... Ah well, must be just for show.
Tor has been used to track and arrest people before. It isn't 100% guaranteed like being offline is.
That is true, but very often when people have been caught like that, it didn’t have anything to do with Tor but just poor opsec, like literally using an email with your full name which kind of makes using Tor pointless anyway. If you can link me any events where people were caught any other way than the perpetrator not exercising good opsec, I’d love to take a look.
I listen to a security researchers podcast, and they mentioned Tor exit nodes being set up by governments to figure out where messages were coming from and track down individuals
There was also this article I found where the FBI exploited a vulnerability to expose the IP of a wanted individual
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/08/349016/a-dark-web-tycoon-pleads-guilty-but-how-was-he-caught/