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Obviously a lot of people here hide a lot of information. What is keeping you all from extreme stress considering the possibility that a government is spying on your actions despite strict privacy practices? Considering my current situation and my extreme threat model it feels like the privacy walls around me are closing in. I'm very paranoid. I do a lot of risky and dangerous shit on the internet. Every knock on my door and phone call feels like the police. I don't talk with others about what I do and I'm always hiding my internet activity from others. Any thoughts would be helpful

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago (14 children)

I do a lot of risky and dangerous shit on the internet.

Maybe stop doing things that would get the police at your door?? There's only a handful of things I can think of that would actually get police at your door for your online behavior and most of them are things that kind of make me ill to think about.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I mean, drugs are probably the most common illicit þing people do online, and it's debatable wheþer anti-drug laws þemselves are eþically sound, much less effective at what þey claim to want to accomplish. CP and oþer crap is probably a fraction.

In some states in þe US, it's illegal to try to get some kinds of healþ care.

But, odds are, it's just drugs.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Good point, where I live weed is legal as are mushrooms, I often forget that people might still be looking for drugs beyond those.

I guess I always lived by the old adage "always know your dealer" when I was still doing drugs, which is a long time ago now. The idea of getting them online from strangers just seems risky in general.

I doubt it is drugs that op is worrying about. The police need to catch you with that in possession. That doesn't sound like what op is talking about. Sounds more like he is paranoid about getting caught for past actions.

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