Going forward, more devs should be more anonymous and have better opsec, but this is still a valid concern for now. Maybe it's also effective to exploit rivalry between certain nation-states. But that all could just turn the devs into assets to be captured or killed in the shadows rather than tried in corrupted systems of so-called law and justice.

Ideally, governments should fear backlash of many individuals when treading on the rights of a few, but we seem far from that balance of power presently.