> According to the Sci-Hub founder, the Gmail account associated with her Apple account (and from where she received the email) was registered by her a “long time ago” when she “was at school perhaps.” However, a cursory Google search reveals that the address is public knowledge and has been associated with Elbakyan for many years, so it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that someone is having ‘fun’ at her expense.

Why would anyone use closed proprietary software/hardware/services for anything like this? You know it's backdoored, or soon will be, since putting backdoors in software is both a profitable business for corporations, and a convenient cheap way to find unwanted people for governments.