Nothing is private. There are no secrets. Technology has advanced too far. Don’t say or do anything online that you wouldn’t want the whole world to know about.
For me, the focus should be on making sure there are strong limitations on how governments can collect, store, and use the information of private citizens.
I disagree that nothing is private. Open source privacy tech will always be a decade ahead of regulation. Not to mention covering ones tracks that even moderately skilled hackers can accomoplish. Practicing good OPSEC will get you far. However, I fully agree and advise my clients when it's mission critical. Don't use the internet if possible. Do it in person. And yes, all about putting regulations on warrantless indiscriminate spying. It harms the innocent far more than it does the nefarious.
We can't always know the best objective option to choose and we must make the decisions we find best based on our own experiences.
OPSEC and private BTC is a learning journey and you can always do/learn more. How does a beginner deal with the occasional holes from their actions that are only learned after the fact when they learn more? Say - through purchase of KYC btc?
or the risks of misconfigured or wrong actions on a VPNs/ TOR*
it certainly seems as though nobody has figured out who Satoshi is
Just because you don’t know who he is doesn’t mean the CIA, MI6, etc. doesn’t know.
Yes, these those things can take you far. However, I do think government surveillance agencies are equally aware of these strategies and work overtime to find new ways to circumvent them. This is what I had in mind when I made comment.
