[greyman]

I agree. First of all, what I have read so far, we the "public" don't know the capabilities of that agency, so by definition, you can't know whether some technique will protect you.

Correct me if I am wrong, but a common sense tells me, that if they are able to monitor all Internet traffic, and also can run their own Tor nodes, and also possess software to analyze those big amounts of data that the monitoring will produce, I just can't see how you cannot be ultimately tracked even on Tor.

As I see it, many of those defenses just assume that your adversary is not able to "cache" the whole Internet traffic, and that he also don't have such a strong computer to crack PGP. But relating to nation-state agency, those are already nothing more than assumptions.

Anyway, the points in the article are quite efficient against the lesser capable hackers. It never hurts to put less amount of private data to the Internet, for example.