I call bs on that article. A guy wants to do nothing and get the stuff for cheap. We'll guess what, even if you get your thing for cheap once you get on the internet you'll be open for all kind of malice and there's ain't anybody but you to deal with it.

Get a free hardware or hardware with crippled anti-features, they're plenty of vendors that supply it, slap Linux on it, PGP encrypt your email and use secure chat. Oh, your want all of that to be done for you? Well you'll have to pay then.

Or that another argument - that encryption is workaround. It's like saying that food is not solution for being hungry but a workaround, a ridiculous statement. How are you supposed to stay private and anonymous if you communicate in the open? Are you going to have a private cable line to every correspondent you talk to?