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Ah, yes, the "fuck it" approach to infosec.

It seems to have worked for Fiverr.

Be careful when telling other campers that you think it's pointless to try to outrun a grizzly bear.

They may outwardly appear to agree with your statement, but it may be for very different reasons than you think.

Edit: clarification

"Watching" is doing heavy lifting. "Able to watch" or "being recorded, along with terabytes of parallel information from others", is more apt. Actually discriminating the signal (communications from a desired target, or about a desired topic) from noise is the problem with your "nothing you do will stop them" theory.

Could be accurate but governments can be profoundly incompetent even with great capability at their disposal

I forget where I saw it but there’s an old adage along the lines of “even if your computer is unplugged, in a vault, with armed guards, it’s probably not safe”.