IMHO, tails and tor will probably work to protect against most oppressive governments, but will probably not work to well to protect against the 5-eyes countries and their allies. All OS's are complicated, and there are a lot of places you can put back-doors and flaws. There are plenty around even without expert placement, and people like the NSA have the 80000 crypto analysts, and meta data annalists, and they have the ability to do things like use AWS to power up 100000 tor instances to track traffic between them.
People who use them should consider them more like a layer, then a solution.
here's where I got lost
why?
unless you're planning on doing something violent or buying/selling something illegal
why give a shit if glowies watch you say nigger
IMHO, tails and tor will probably work to protect against most oppressive governments, but will probably not work to well to protect against the 5-eyes countries and their allies. All OS's are complicated, and there are a lot of places you can put back-doors and flaws. There are plenty around even without expert placement, and people like the NSA have the 80000 crypto analysts, and meta data annalists, and they have the ability to do things like use AWS to power up 100000 tor instances to track traffic between them.
People who use them should consider them more like a layer, then a solution.
here's where I got lost why? unless you're planning on doing something violent or buying/selling something illegal why give a shit if glowies watch you say nigger
Yeah, that is until they decide that that Jan 6 protest you planned attendance at is a terrorist insurrection rather than a peaceful protest.