Disk encryption, firmware lockdown, home security with notifications, burner phones, Tails and Tor (via VPN), IRC, fleet of hacked Windows machines to route through, 10 online identities.
I always recommend users to pick a VPN service in a country not on friendly terms with domestic agencies. Sure, that country gets your data but have a harder time correlating it with anything.
In my circle, VPN use starts to be requested by non-technical users that just want to minimize their digital footprint.
Seems amazing to me, since people spend 200$+ on a service for a year, so it seems rather important to them.
No reason not to use globalization to your own advantage.
I was thinking that a domestic entity has no protections from the NSA, they have to open up if NSA says so "for national security reasons"? Whilst a foreign entity has not requirements to do so. Both domestic and foreign entities are subject to the same practical abilities; ergo a foreign entity is safer?
As for "no domestic spying", I thought the five-eyes group spied on each other to order so as to circumvent those requirements in domestic law??