I'd suggest looking around to see if you can find what procedures the alphabet soup guys are doing to their own hardware (some of it is public, some through Sno

I'd suggest looking around to see if you can find what procedures the alphabet soup guys are doing to their own hardware (some of it is public, some through Snowden). If they're building in backdoor, they will take steps to remove/mitigate it from their own systems. One thing to point out, that yes, the exploits could be mass produced, but that doesn't mean your machine will be their target. So the people saying that they aren't important enough to be targeted are still kind of right.