Think about it all the time. But, I find it overwhelming and shutdown. I'll just enumerate my random thoughts * If you're worried about nations, remember that

Think about it all the time. But, I find it overwhelming and shutdown. I'll just enumerate my random thoughts * If you're worried about nations, remember that they can, quite literally, send ninjas-in-attack-helicopters at you. * Most nations already have "laws" that "require" you to provide passwords/data access on demand[4ab]. * If you use any "cloud", there's a high likelihood that they're already backdoored, either through legal means (i.e. through National Security Letters) or "not so legal, but who's going to stop them?" means such as just plain old hacking[1] * All consumer CPUs already have builtin backdoors that can't really (but kind of, but who really know if it's effective) be disabled[2abc] * Most printers print secret codes on printed documents that link back to the printer[3] * I have no control over device firmware and some important drivers. I really don't know what my network card firmware is doing when I'm not using it and it has DMA to my system RAM. I "need" nvidia proprietary drivers to have a decent experience, no idea what they actually do. * Nearly every piece of software includes some form of "Analytics" or "Telemetry", which often doesn't actually turn off when you click the stupid opt-out button. [1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/10/30/241855353/report-nsa-has-broken-into-google-and-yahoo-data-centers https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/10/30/241855353... [2a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine [2b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo... [2c] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#TrustZone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#TrustZ... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots [4a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law [4b] https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017 https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017