It's funny to me how people think obscuring their IP address or home address is security, when it's literally the definition of security by obscurity. It's not difficult to discover where someone lives, given enough time. It delays the process, but it doesn't prevent it.
Real security is assuming the entire world knows where you live, and your IP address, and using real security measures to protect your home, self, devices, and data.
My neighbours and many other people have seen me enter and leave my house regularly, and even the postman knows where I live. It's impossible to have anonymity or even a high level of privacy in this aspect.
For what reason should I care if someone comes to my house? My security will keep them out. If they threaten me or try something, I can just call the police. That's real security.
"But muh VPN!"
Your VPN knows your IP address.
"But muh Tor!"
While a lot more difficult, you can still be correlated to be using Tor. You can't prevent your connection to Tor from being obfuscated.
It's the same reason I don't buy into the "Signal is bad because it requires your phone number" crap.
What do you want me to do? Move house every 3 months when people inevitably discover where I live if they have enough time, money, and put enough effort in?
Come to my house and we'll take a picture together; I really don't care if people know where I live, and this is coming from a hardcore security researcher.
Another one:
"Kerckhoff's principle applies beyond codes and ciphers to security systems in general: every secret creates a potential failure point. Secrecy, in other words, is a prime cause of brittleness—and therefore something likely to make a system prone to catastrophic collapse. Conversely, openness provides ductility."
- Bruce Schneier (a leading cryptographer)
It doesn't only apply to cryptography.
If having your identity compromised leads to bad things happening, you're probably doing it wrong. No one outside of wars and such need that level of obfuscation and metadata hiding.
Real security is assuming the entire world knows where you live, and your IP address, and using real security measures to protect your home, self, devices, and data.
My neighbours and many other people have seen me enter and leave my house regularly, and even the postman knows where I live. It's impossible to have anonymity or even a high level of privacy in this aspect.
For what reason should I care if someone comes to my house? My security will keep them out. If they threaten me or try something, I can just call the police. That's real security.
"But muh VPN!"
Your VPN knows your IP address.
"But muh Tor!"
While a lot more difficult, you can still be correlated to be using Tor. You can't prevent your connection to Tor from being obfuscated.
It's the same reason I don't buy into the "Signal is bad because it requires your phone number" crap.
What do you want me to do? Move house every 3 months when people inevitably discover where I live if they have enough time, money, and put enough effort in?
Come to my house and we'll take a picture together; I really don't care if people know where I live, and this is coming from a hardcore security researcher.
Another one:
"Kerckhoff's principle applies beyond codes and ciphers to security systems in general: every secret creates a potential failure point. Secrecy, in other words, is a prime cause of brittleness—and therefore something likely to make a system prone to catastrophic collapse. Conversely, openness provides ductility."
- Bruce Schneier (a leading cryptographer)
It doesn't only apply to cryptography.
If having your identity compromised leads to bad things happening, you're probably doing it wrong. No one outside of wars and such need that level of obfuscation and metadata hiding.
@inference
If you think the police is there to protect you, the public education worked well on you. 
@LukeAlmighty I've called the police many times before. Worked for me. You must be in China or North Korea.
I don't buy into conspiracies.
I don't buy into conspiracies.
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Btw, I don't disagree. VPNs do not provide as good protection as people would expect, especially if there are still many human factors that could lead to a leak.
But I do not expect police to be any kind of protection. They will come to your house as soon as you don't fit the plans of any mafian in your area.
@LukeAlmighty If that becomes an issue, I'll update my post to change it from police to something else. As of now, for me, it works.
