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100% agreed. If you’re concerned about privacy, being tracked online by corporations is a bigger concern than the the NSA. If you’re the target of an NSA investigation, you’re already fucked. Changing your network equipment is not going to help.

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On the contrary, changing equipment may actually help quite a bit when dealing with the NSA. The 2016 documentary "Zero Days" which was centered around the creation of Stuxnet showed that the NSA targeted specific hardware models to look for security holes. They had to buy matching hardware themselves and rigorously try to break it which took time and wasn't trivial to do

So you’re saying that no matter what hardware you have, the NSA will buy that specific hardware and take the time to break it.

That's right. And I'm also saying that switching hardware will make the break attempts take longer

And in the mean time, all my browsing, payment, and location data collected by corporate ad brokers got handed over to the NSA for just the cost of a letter.

I don’t see the point in constantly changing hardware that I don’t even know is safe, just to prevent what will already happen.

You don't see the point in constantly changing hardware, but you have no problem with changing subject, I see. I would encourage you to give Zero Days a watch sometime

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