yeah, it's not nice knowing you are on a list but almost everyone is on lists.
this is also why i add to my list of countermeasures, to live far away from large populations because its in those places that they are most likely to be operating on the ground. out here, spooks will stand out like a sore thumb and if they are stupid enough to ask about you, pretty much you will be told by one of the locals you are friends with that someone's been asking after you.
i don't want to get caught in the jaws of the metal beast, above all. almost everything else doesn't matter to me. i just want to be free to make a living and tinker with the things i want to tinker with, and even among those things there is so many things i have just shelved basically permanently because they likely would lead to me becoming a POI for wanting some unusual thing that they might think is a hint i'm involved in or connected to one of their targets.