Thanks for all the details!

As far as i have heard even TOR is not completely anonymous.
There are supposedly many rouge nodes operated by agencies and law enforcement.
I once installed it in order to try it out and it was painfully slow. "the price of privacy" I guess.

Many computers (Trusted computing platform) also have beacons and backdoors integrated on a hardware level.
Canvas fingerprinting and other techniques can be used to ID the exact machine used to access a given website.

So why don't agencies actually raid those useless scumbags who extort hospitals?
Looks like unless the victim is a bank or a "buddy", they let them get extorted.

Some states and universities also recently paid out huge ransoms.

How is that even a thing, i really don't get it, esp if "big brother" is so overseeing and all mighty.
Turns out crooks can still operate in 2020, as if it is 1999.

And you wonder why "normie" people hate on crypto.