It was not an ad hominem attack. He criticized you willfully not learning about the area you say you specialize in. It is completely valid criticism as your reasons for doing it are ridiculous and what you said looks very unprofessional.
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Here is another virtual filesystem with the exact same name: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs
Debian package for it: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gvfs
You need to seize them if you want to hide spying devices in them.
To make it truly permanent it would need some layer for anonymization.
E: The transparency page might be of interest to you: https://cock.li/transparency/
Or possibly you'd want to hear about the time the servers got seized: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774152 && https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10912524
Someone could, but does anyone dare to? Airports have a ton of CCTV cameras.