Concerning my post,
I'm just denouncing what I know, in order for anyone to take any kind of
precautions they want...
And, I'm leaving here this information for, as you say, everyone to worry as
much about this as they want.
Most of all, I want to call everyone's attention to the fact that, what
people might think is a "secure" computer, in terms of privacy, that they
have, just because they installed a completely free distro, like Trisquel, in
it, might not be that "secure", after all, if you're using some of the more
recent hardware.
(And, yes... I took the opportunity to call again everyone's attention to the
need that, I consider very important and that, I already expressed here -
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/million-dollar-question-concerning-hardware-we-use
- and that even Richard Stallman, itself, expressed, in one of his more
recent lectures -
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/million-dollar-question-concerning-hardware-we-use#comment-43286
- that we should, seriously, worry about "freeing" our hardware, also...)
Concerning the rest, that you said,
Even if you're a US citizen, you can still get killed by a drone.
(http://prisonplanet.com/lawsuit-filed-against-government-over-assassination-of-us-citizens.html)
And, you don't have to be a US citizen, in order to have to worry about the
NSA, and the likes...
All the Western intelligence agencies work together, when it comes to spying
on their own citizens. (http://statewatch.org/eu-usa-data-surveillance.htm)
And, I can tell that the people in Portugal who surveil activists, read their
Gmail, Yahoo, and similar US-based services', correspondence.
In my case, I've even been repeatedly censored (have had comments of mine
mysteriously "disappear") in the Google-owned "Blogger" network
(http://blackfernando.blogspot.pt/2012/09/fernando-negro-spam.html) by
someone who can, clearly, read Portuguese. And, have had also comments of
mine, in English, deleted on YouTube.
(http://blackfernando.blogspot.pt/2013/03/como-o-youtube-censura-os-meus.html)
More than that, the well-informed part of the population, here, knows that
the US intelligence agencies also operate in Portuguese territory. And, that
it was even the CIA, itself, who killed one of our former Prime-Ministers,
for not "playing ball" with US international dirty deals.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqH8hKuty_4)
So, in a "globalized world", and one in which the US government stretches its
tentacles all over the globe, it's not just the American population that is
affected by the NSA's, and the likes', dirty activity - and that has to worry
about it.
