Based on the title and early chapters, I expected a general paranoid view of the internet and its giants. It suddenly became an investigation focused primarily on Tor, and then just as suddenly - at 62% - it ended, or more precisely, the chaptered content ended and the epilogue started. I had just been thinking that after the next chapter I'd be looking for receipts, but there was no next chapter.

The endnotes, taking more than a third of the book, aren't strictly footnotes; they include substantial amounts of additional reporting. Some of the notes, relating to the results of FOIA requests, point back into the author's own sites. This would be unavoidable for references within a giant box of paper on the author's doorstep, though it wouldn't win over doubters.

The conclusions regarding the Tor project's interdependence with the U.S. government are plausible, and many paranoid fears that reach plausibility end up being true. But even though I believe this to be likely, I still want receipts, and the structure of the endnotes deters me from looking.