[farfooflux]

I think it’s very possible to be in the grey zone. For example, I have worked as an activist, and a campaign I led was widely lauded by the mainstream media as being the key factor in a powerful government minister losing. Now, this is a western liberal democracy that probably doesn’t need to buy tools from NSO Group. But still, am I a fair target? Or what about a friend who is a journalist whose articles have recently attracted negative attention from the government of a fairly corrupt, despotic nation. Are they are target? I’m not talking about Snowden or Assange or executives at trillion dollar companies. In my circle I know a bunch of folk who are basically just normal people with jobs, but for whom their job means that someone working for some government somewhere might like to read their texts. How wide is the net? How can we protect ourselves?