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by manquer 1800 days ago
More than nothing to hide, you and I have nothing worth exploiting our devices over yet.

However as the cost of exploits and ease of mass surveillance becoming cheaper . That statement has made less true for more and more people.

In the NSO target list for India I am seeing all sorts of people like virologists and journalists I wouldn't have thought were doing important enough to be tapped. More than the tapping that surprised me.

Sooner or later either we will be worth slightly more than cost or costs will become cheap enough.

However at that point it will be too late. Like the infamous quote goes " first they came for communists/Jews"