To his credit, I&#x27;d guess he&#x27;s not sharing his bona fides because doing so would jeopardize the program he alleges to be involved in, and there isn&#x27;t a particular reason to doubt the veracity of his claim by virtue of his creating an anonymous account to protect said program.<p>While his passion for the issue has made his message more aggressive than you&#x27;d like, don&#x27;t dismiss his claim because you believe he&#x27;s just full of piss and vinegar. Looking past the totally unrelated arguments about his identity, I don&#x27;t have any difficulty believing what he&#x27;s said. I know several folks in American academia who have stated unequivocally that the amount of computing power and data analysis ability available to them would make Dr. Evil blush.<p>Let&#x27;s be honest and set emotional responses and character assault aside here. If you take the emotion out of what he said, can you honestly say the rest of it is bullshit? It rings true to me, and he&#x27;s right: if academia, which is generally held by the public to be above the sort of cloak and dagger stuff that happened with Tor, lost its way and tossed their ethics out the window ... Well, that&#x27;s a Bad Thing in ways we can only begin to understand. Who&#x27;s left for us to trust?