[1101010010]

How else do you expect they get your device on a surveillance list? Or do people honestly believe that the 0.001% of mobile phone users that unlock their bootloader for custom operating systems are not subject to additional scrutiny by big brother? NSA flagged Linux Journal as an "extremist forum" and flagged readers for extra surveillance - and that was a decade ago.

[PhasmaFelis]

I think at this point Big Brother has the processing power to scrutinize everyone all the time anyway. It's naive to think that you were in any way off their radar before you unlocked your phone.

[1101010010]

Perhaps, but deviating from social norms and ubiquitous technologies multiplies scrutiny. Most efforts made to boost privacy actually often have the opposite effect, but this is a subtle nuance few will understand.