Edit: Changed “the government” to “governments”
I mean, people say use end to end encryption, VPN, Tor, Open Source Operating System, but I think one thing missed is the hardware is not really open source, and theres no practical open source alternative for hardware. There’s Intel ME, AMD PSP, so there’s probably one in phones. How can people be so confident these encryption is gonna stop intelligence agencies?
If the government wants to snoop, they can just get a Certificate Authority in the boat and MITM whoever they want.
In my region there are laws that telecoms have to provide a way to let the government snoop, but the government doesn’t use it without probable cause.
Some people think a VPN will protect them, because the provider doesn’t log, but all the government needs is the VPN keys and they can intercept all traffic between the VPN and the user and log it themselves.
The way politics are going lately, that might all change in an instant. Not that there’s anything you or I can do about it. I’m not trying to fearmonger here, just that you shouldn’t be putting any Qurans or Communist manifestos on your Onedrive account, that’s all. Be mindful.