Well, they also lied they couldn't break into that iPhone to try to get a court ruling that made it unnecessary to use expensive contractors or secret exploits.

Well, they also lied they couldn't break into that iPhone to try to get a court ruling that made it unnecessary to use expensive contractors or secret exploits. They lied that cryptography is blocking them a lot in general when the data shows that's rare. The NSA also had attacks on most mobile OS's, backdoors in ISP's, and so on feeding stuff to FBI who supposedly had no such capabilities. Btw, the big ISP's being backdoored with high-bandwidth, Tor nodes on same networks drawing people to use them is about the worst-case scenario for Tor. Global visibility into traffic patterns on top of huge, attack budget for partial or full defeats of the technology. Plus lots of storage to keep as much encrypted traffic as they can as long as they can. That lets them hit today's systems or encrypted data with future attacks. I assume NSA sees it all. I assume the FBI gets a part of it which will grow over time, concealing how they got the information. I did anonymous activities using equipment bought in cash over WiFi and HTTPS-looking connections to blend in with the less-interesting crowd. If worried about publicity, use cantennas so folks can't see your face on camera. Preferably suburban areas with more empty space and trees than cameras. Maybe Tor, too, but just don't use it anywhere near devices or a residence that's obviously yours.