I simply do not have any extra money laying around unless I cashed in some steem, which I am loathe to do. Maybe I can crowdfund. I dunno. It's rough. I'm divorced, on a fixed and very strict limited income and taking an employment program which is eating up all my time and energy atm. I don't offer this as an excuse... and I agree with you about my computer being weaponized against me. This is all a much longer conversation than I am comfortable having on a non secure line. I get the peril we are in. I get the urgency of the need to raise awareness and educate people before things go much further. Let me say this... I don't have a cell phone. I don't use VOIP. I don't use google when I do any investigative reporting /journalism because I personally don't want to give google what I might know or find out in the course of a pursuance/investigation to feed it and make it all the better to spy on more people with and sell their data to the highest bidder. There are certain topics that I don't discuss with anybody online and I rarely will allow myself to get pulled into a private chat with anybody. I had a hard adjustment to the idea that everything about my life online and in telecommuinications was up for grabs and could be used against me. I never want to be lulled into a false sense of security about privacy again. I've had a couple of nervous breakdowns over this (among other things) over the last 18 years.

I'm going to re-read the documents you have posted and just keep familiarizing myself with the material until such a time as I have the means to get a machine that I would be comfortable using for secure communication and data storage. It's a big step to go dark. For the time being, I'm just barely getting by putting food on the table and a roof over my head. It will take awhile before I have a couple hundred dollars. (ps... I'm in Canada, not the US)