I'm convinced this article is clickbait in the vein of posting the wrong answer and getting people to respond to prove you wrong.

Nah Canonical was always kinda crackpot when compared to Red Hat.

This is a surprise to anyone?

For nothing

Ehh more like marketing. But clearly pushing snakeoil in this case.

So is the book any good?

My father in law was a commercial pilot and he had a home server just to keep photos and travel writing while he was flying and away from home a lot. I helped him upgrade some of that to the cloud, since that makes for sense when on the other side of the country, but he still has a bunch of stuff at home.

Tor was created by the Naval Research Labs, and was released to the public because it is secure.

The problem is that if it's only the CIA or DIA using it, it's easy figure out who is using it and where. Make it global and now there is a lot of noise to separate out.

Plenty of contracting orgs do driving for the military. You don't need a soldier, you need a trucker, so why use soldiers?

Timing attacks work, but if they're running those then they have a pretty good idea as to both sides of the convo.

Put another way, if they've got to that point your opsec has already failed.

Goes beyond the OSI model, too. Someone has to pay for that VPN, and there has to be an entry point to getting BTC, using a 2nd hand laptop where they can prove you bought it off of someone off of Craigslist, etc.

This dude wasn't a hacker by any stretch