My guess is that Paypal is giving you a hard time just because of the tor exits you use to interact with their website.
So it seems to me all that you are saying is really related to using tor via sys-whonix or manually trough the traditional means. The sigaint episode is easily explained through the e-mail you provided. But yes, the Paranoia is our shepherd and nothing shall lack. Paranoia is what justifies the development of a operational system of this nature, it shall never die. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/bd3c3f0a-6a20-7f99-e486-3dc9393a5c54%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.