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You're proving GP's point. If you're running the largest darknet drug market in the world, you should probably have stronger security and assume a group like the NSA, or with the means of the NSA, is targeting you.

Local police aren't going to be able to tap into the power of the NSA. Your local country sheriff isn't going to be able to tap into NSA resources, it's going to be difficult enough for them to tap into the resources of the FBI.

For the average person participating in activism of whatever sort, it's going to be perceived as more effort than it's worth if you suggest that they compartmentalize and separately encrypt all their files, keep several burner phones etc. etc. Simply encrypting their full drive is enough.

There's diminishing returns the further down security rabbit hole you go.



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