This. Our Government is tapped into every single major ISP, along with thousands of colocations/datacenters and "Internet Backbones" all across the world... including decrypting traffic. If you and every single one of your devices is not on an off-shore VPN that is entirely out of US Government reach and not keeping any logs whatsoever... you are being tracked. They've essentially made it impossible to have privacy unless you're willing to go to extreme measures which can be a headache, or simply unplug everything.
tails + a wrist attached usb kill switch helps from an evidence perspective. (Would have saved DPR)
But if we assume that the government is bad faith actors who could just have us killed or framed, etc, that really doesn’t matter.
Even if we assume that strong encryption prevents the government from eavesdropping and they don’t have back doors and methods of breaking encryption with secret quantum computers etc, they can still monitor traffic patterns and determine with a high probability where the traffic is coming from. Even with a good VPN and unbroken end to end encryption do you think it’s beyond the capabilities of state actors to break in to the VPN and at least monitor the to/from traffic?
It’s all about not making yourself a high value target and/or low hanging fruit.
This. Our Government is tapped into every single major ISP, along with thousands of colocations/datacenters and "Internet Backbones" all across the world... including decrypting traffic. If you and every single one of your devices is not on an off-shore VPN that is entirely out of US Government reach and not keeping any logs whatsoever... you are being tracked. They've essentially made it impossible to have privacy unless you're willing to go to extreme measures which can be a headache, or simply unplug everything.
tails + a wrist attached usb kill switch helps from an evidence perspective. (Would have saved DPR)
But if we assume that the government is bad faith actors who could just have us killed or framed, etc, that really doesn’t matter.
Even if we assume that strong encryption prevents the government from eavesdropping and they don’t have back doors and methods of breaking encryption with secret quantum computers etc, they can still monitor traffic patterns and determine with a high probability where the traffic is coming from. Even with a good VPN and unbroken end to end encryption do you think it’s beyond the capabilities of state actors to break in to the VPN and at least monitor the to/from traffic?
It’s all about not making yourself a high value target and/or low hanging fruit.
I just assume everything we do online is monitored. But we still got our thoughts... For now.
So Northern Lights / Research is a thing.