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the NSA is certainly real, the likelihood of them bugging your car unless you're smuggling nuclear secrets is rather low

the three letter agencies don't care about people who play video games and watch cat videos all day

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> unless you're smuggling nuclear secrets

unless you're suspected of smuggling nuclear secrets

ftfy

And yet they engage in mass surveillance, even of their own citizens.

No, no. That's done by the contractors they ship data to. Otherwise they would be breaking federal laws.

For several months, keyless entry stopped working on my car. It fixed itself. My unlikely conspiracy theory is I was being tracked and interference kept the keyfob from working.

never attribute to malice (or conspiracy) what can be explained by incompetence (or bugs).

Is there a reason it is better to attribute to incompetence? Or are you just mindlessly parroting shit

If this is America, it would be the FBI who has jurisdiction. If this was outside America, CIA would be more likely to be installing hardware on a vehicle. If you hear the guys breathing on your phone line, that's probably the NSA ;)

depends what's embedded in your cat videos.

sublimiaow message? stegaMOGraph?

If your car has a networked computer it’s probably bugged/backdoored imo.

(Talking out of my ass)

If it is a Tesla they advertise this as a feature.

You make it sound like the NSA can never fail. If it's monitoring you then you are likely doing something deserving of monitoring. They can be wrong though and you'll still have been spied on and information collected for future use. Consider a career in politics, perhaps?

The NSA is known to surveil people who are completely harmless, including spouses, loved ones, romantic interests, etc.

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