Review: Virtual Privacy Machine - OSNews.com

An interesting review of the Tor Desktop Virtual Privacy Machine; a 128MB USB JumpDrive (Flashdrive/thumbdrive/keydrive/whatever) that through the magic of Linux, the Qemu process emulator, and the Tor network enables a user to surf the internet/email/IM in a "totally secure way": Review: Virtual Privacy Machine - OSNews.com

This is cool from a geeky techno standpoint, but am I naive in thinking that only paranoids and criminals (and/or cheating lovers) would really have a use for this?