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If the above poster is Satoshi (which I suspect, it being a new account), I'd like to thank you for your contribution. Your writings are underrated but will be appreciated by future economists, developers, and historians.
There's a cool project trending on Github right now showing how magic-like some of the technology in this space is: https://github.com/cyrildiagne/ar-cutpaste
https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/fact-checking-the-tor-pr...
The author of this book did FOIA requests to various entities but most of them got predictably shot down for national security concerns. This one obscure government agency, Broadcasting Board of Governors, wasn't covered by these exemptions.
So the author read the emails between BBG and the Tor Project maintainers and found that when they received a bug report, rather than fixing it they reported it to their sponsors. The government would then exploit the bug for years before the Tor guys got around to fixing it.