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3/20/2016 | 6:56:43 AM
The traffic at the point of exit is vulnerable and there have been a number of studies on this from people like Dan Egerstad in 2007 and from l'École upérieure d'informatique, électronique, automatique. Which have potentially shown that the traffic is both vulnerable to capture but potentially also to de-anonymization (based on analysing the captured packets).
I think you will agree that users don't necessarily pay attention to whether or not their traffic is running over TLS. As the recent public attacks (such as heartbleed, freak, poddle, etc) on HTTPS/SSL/TLS have demonstrated, the point of exit still potentially leaves the user's traffic vulnerable to attack. How many laymen users do you know that will recognize if their traffic is being snooped or diverted via a man-in-the-middle attack?