They're drawing pictures with AN ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE, and we're discussing it like it's going to be on the next generation of smart phones.
This technology is at the "hey, look at the shadow of this Maltese cross created by the cathode rays!" stage.

You can't LOOK at it!

So, 4.5% of this ONE SINGLE Defense Department program, then. Yeah. I see your point. /sarcasm

They exist, but they're a lot like neutrinos - they almost never interact with anything.

They're in good company - there's an infinite number of earth-like exoplanets that don't exist.

You should probably plan on being unemployable after you're 52 or so.

Well, I LOLed. Sorry, no mod points.

In other words, even they couldn't maintain a large codebase written in Perl.

When you knock the "rough edges" off of Perl, there's nothing left.

The problem is with saying a particular Tor node might be involved in a "crime" (copyright infringement (shudder)). The summary's example is a little flawed, it's more akin to arresting a car dealer because an auto they sold might be involved in a crime. The same argument could be made about cash (could be involved in something nefarious and untraceable) or, god help us, guns. This is just kowtowing to corporate interests, masquerading as shoddy legal thinking.

I love you Monet Monet...

Yup. Them with the "incredible thinking" and the "incredible ideas". You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Clearly you've never maintained someone else's code. With code maintenance, you're not just climbing into an existing codebase, you're climbing into the author's head. The problem with Perl is it supports rampant schizophrenia and cutseypoo hacks. Trying to refactor someone else's Perl can be like an acid trip down the rabbit hole. I use Perl on occasion, usually for one-offs, but if it take more than about 10 lines, I look for a more appropriate tool, even AWK. And I've sworn a mighty oath to never again work on anyone else's Perl code. Life is too short for that kind of aggravation.

I want to know where they found happy software developers in the first place.

I'm sure the buggy whip manufacturers thought Henry Ford was arrogant, too.