> After reading Edward Snowden's autobiography (Permanent Record, great read), I feel like Tor, end-to-end encryption and similar solutions/products are basically a dagger through the heart of intelligence services. As such, I find it hard to believe that they knowingly gave the public such tools. And if they did, it sure as hell backfired on them.

I have heard it somewhere but using Tor or end-to-end is like using armoured car to transport money between park bench and cardboard box. If someone wants you compromised, you will get compromised, it only matters how many resources they are willing to throw at you. And for average person, it's not a lot. So best way is to blend in. And using Tor, end-to-end, VPN(full of people with something to hide, it would be stupid not to infiltrate or honeypot) will make you stand out, you might even peek someone's curiosity. Not a very healthy way to operate on the Internet...