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I figured unless working for an intelligence agency or some ideological reasons there is no reason to go against the US government. I don't think there is enou

I figured unless working for an intelligence agency or some ideological reasons there is no reason to go against the US government. I don't think there is enough protection against such actor unless you are working directly for another state actor. And even that you won't keep anonymity. Check the North Korean gov cracker case. DoJ managed to figure out his name and photo despite that he works for a state actor. That guy probably won't want to go abroad to most of the countries. Even countries competing with US such as China or Russia might send him to Uncle Sam for some exchange of interest. I actually think the Chinese probably provided some information to DoJ as he worked in the DaLian branch of a NK expo company for some years.

TechBro8615 4y ago
Most US law enforcement ability comes from their subpoena power, so you could presumably stay out of reach of that by limiting your infrastructure to be located in countries without friendly relations with the US. I doubt some babushka's VPS provider in Belarus is going to respond to a subpoena from the FBI. (However, the FBI probably knows this, and they know you know this... so they might purchase a VPS from that same babushka, to spy on the traffic of neighboring hosts via ARP spoofing and similar network-level attacks.) Another area of exposure is payment networks (cryptocurrency or otherwise), so ideally you wouldn't purchase any infrastructure at all. But that's not always feasible. And of course, to be absolutely safe you'd also need to limit your own physical location to countries that don't extradite to the US (and hope they don't sign an extradition treaty before the statute of limitations runs out).