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As long as you are not a terrorist, all those surveillance programs will never be used against you. It would put those programs to risk, by exposing them. If y
by andix 2y ago
As long as you are not a terrorist, all those surveillance programs will never be used against you. It would put those programs to risk, by exposing them.
If you need to protect yourself against the most sophisticated surveillance programs, a lot of opsec will be required.
VPNs can protect you against some creep in a public WiFi spying on your DNS request. It can protect against some low-tech state run mass surveillance.
- waveBidder 2y agoGood thing the US doesn't have an administration that will happily criminalize any opposition
- andix 2y agoIf this is your threat model, then VPNs are definitively not enough. Still a European VPN provider might be better than nothing.
- JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 2y ago> As long as you are not a terrorist, all those surveillance programs will never be used against you Can you say "as long as you have nothing to hide"? We’ve known since WW2 and maybe further that governments have used surveillance against innocents and people they didn’t like.
- andix 2y agoSo you're suggesting to use Tor for everything? Or what's your solution?
- impossiblefork 2y agoAll those surveillance programs are a threat to everyone who wants to keep the technology he and his company develops. There is nothing preventing programs of that sort being used for industrial espionage.