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The best approach is to keep profiles/accounts on all of those services and use them periodically to create a "clean" trail. Meanwhile, if you need any actual privacy, find alternate/private channels.

Considering the enormous amount of data being collected and the relative ease of setting up a clean trail, this kind of spying makes it even easier for low/moderate-suspicion individuals to achieve secure communications.

For high suspicion individuals, this kind of surveillance makes it easy to create disinformation that appears to be real intel.

The workflow required to leave a realistic "clean" trail while simultaneously engaging in secure communication could be designed into a purpose-built linux distro.



purpose-built linux distro

That seems to be the intent of Tails [1]; see also [2].

[1] https://tails.boum.org

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5838140




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