It's not like it's unheard of for people to get arrested for online activity. And from what I understand, those often don't rely on network sniffing. Because s

It's not like it's unheard of for people to get arrested for online activity. And from what I understand, those often don't rely on network sniffing. Because somewhere on your abstraction stack, you'll eventually get to things that are human-meaningful information. Things like facebook or backpage posts, credit card transactions, etc. Things that are in various ways tied to identifiable entities that exist in the physical world.