Generally, if you are doing something adversarial on a massive scale, plausible deniability is next to meaningless. You aren't going to win in a system that you

Generally, if you are doing something adversarial on a massive scale, plausible deniability is next to meaningless. You aren't going to win in a system that you are trying to fight against. If you are doing something smaller personal means that just happens to be against the law, if you have to resort to plausible deniability, you already fucked up in a lot of ways. The sad truth is that many of the "hackers" are like a few steps away from being script kiddies, without basic understanding of opsec. The actual good people all realized that its much easier to go white hat and get paid reliable salary and live a comfortable life rather than fight an ideological war that doesn't matter in the end.