Comment on How realistic is the threat of the government remotely manipulating digital devices you own and planting evidence?

ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Could they? Yes. Would they? Almost definitely not for most cases. There’s plenty of crimes they can hit you with if you happen to get on the government’s shit list. A month of active surveillance would give them evidence for a laundry list of felonies. Taking covert action to plant fake evidence is a level of risk that isn’t worth it for the average person. If you happen to be a state level threat that calculus can change.

source
Sort:hotnewtop