"They can record your encrypted traffic just fine...but it's random bytes for all practical purposes. SSL's problem is that its certificate-based trust system is broken: it's cryptography proper is just fine, and neither has Tor's encryption been broken. There are some issues that come out of traffic analysis, but those are substantially helped by running your node as a relay. Even better if you run as an exit node. The fact that China feels the need to block Tor suggests that at least they can't break it, which is pretty strong support. Looks like Wikipedia has a conversation on Tor's weaknesses, if you'd like to see a conversation on it instead of just your personal "willing to bet"-ness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..." - Robert Fischer