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by fab13n 4757 days ago
A question which is overlooked in this kind of answers is, how do you circumvent your mistrust of your own OS?

It's a foregone conclusion that Microsoft OSes have backdoors for the NSA, and it's not unlikely that they also know some exploits, which grant them access to many distributions of open-source OSes. If my OS reports everything to the NSA whenever I access it, encrypted cloud storage won't help that much; it will only make super-wide surveillance harder to scale.