02-24-2021, 05:53 PM
1. You're not that interesting, and not worth any special effort or expense by the spooks.
Generally agree, but...
You might know interesting people, or become interesting at some point in the future; no special effort/expense is required (they're recording everything) and the records are forever (so you can be investigated retroactively). The magic of "parallel construction" guarantees that you will never know how you were originally discovered.
It's not a problem unless something you're doing becomes illegal at some point in the future.
the 'spiritual' successor baked into x86 and x86_64 processors
Needs C&C from the network. Simple answer: don't use x86, at least where it touches the internets.
Generally agree, but...
You might know interesting people, or become interesting at some point in the future; no special effort/expense is required (they're recording everything) and the records are forever (so you can be investigated retroactively). The magic of "parallel construction" guarantees that you will never know how you were originally discovered.
It's not a problem unless something you're doing becomes illegal at some point in the future.
the 'spiritual' successor baked into x86 and x86_64 processors
Needs C&C from the network. Simple answer: don't use x86, at least where it touches the internets.