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<blockquote data-quote="Daviworld" data-source="post: 723609" data-attributes="member: 70202">I chose yes.&nbsp; Why?Simply because you need to know your targeted threat level toward&#039;s yourself, so you can accurately assess your security posture. There is no such thing as 100% security &amp; privacy, and everything made by human&#039;s has flaw&#039;s. Similarly, all human&#039;s can&#039;t be monitored all the time by other human&#039;s or data constantly abused due to our biological limitation&#039;s. Which is why we build algorithms, A.I, and machine&#039;s to compensate for our lack thereof. I believe as a US citizen, I could thwart an individual hacker with limited resources and time. However, a state-backed actor with resources and unlimited time to target me with all their backdoor access, exploit&#039;s, and gag-order&#039;s, and control over the infrastructure would be much more difficult to impossible to prevent. Weather that be in-house(NSA, FBI) or out house (GHCQ, KGB, etc).However you can make it difficult to build up a profile on you by utilizing pseudonyms, using burner phone&#039;s, prepaid card&#039;s, and paying with cash when possible. Choose and control who you want to potentially hack you, such as I would use Chinese or Russian Service&#039;s due to them not potentially wanting to share intelligence with US intelligence Don&#039;t think you won&#039;t be hacked, there is only two target&#039;s out there. Those who have been hacked, and those who haven&#039;t been hacked yet. Backup, Backup, Backup, this will save you from almost any foul play. Think of your security posture as a first line of defense that will prevent most, not all attacks and plan accordingly. Lastly, privacy is in a direct war with convenience in the information age. Some level of privacy is attainable, but at what cost to your convenience? So, it boil&#039;s down to what do you value more, your convenience or your privacy?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daviworld, post: 723609, member: 70202"] I chose yes. Why? Simply because you need to know your targeted threat level toward's yourself, so you can accurately assess your security posture. There is no such thing as 100% security & privacy, and everything made by human's has flaw's. Similarly, all human's can't be monitored all the time by other human's or data constantly abused due to our biological limitation's. Which is why we build algorithms, A.I, and machine's to compensate for our lack thereof. I believe as a US citizen, I could thwart an individual hacker with limited resources and time. However, a state-backed actor with resources and unlimited time to target me with all their backdoor access, exploit's, and gag-order's, and control over the infrastructure would be much more difficult to impossible to prevent. Weather that be in-house(NSA, FBI) or out house (GHCQ, KGB, etc). However you can make it difficult to build up a profile on you by utilizing pseudonyms, using burner phone's, prepaid card's, and paying with cash when possible. Choose and control who you want to potentially hack you, such as I would use Chinese or Russian Service's due to them not potentially wanting to share intelligence with US intelligence Don't think you won't be hacked, there is only two target's out there. Those who have been hacked, and those who haven't been hacked yet. Backup, Backup, Backup, this will save you from almost any foul play. Think of your security posture as a first line of defense that will prevent most, not all attacks and plan accordingly. Lastly, privacy is in a direct war with convenience in the information age. Some level of privacy is attainable, but at what cost to your convenience? So, it boil's down to what do you value more, your convenience or your privacy? [/QUOTE]

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