In terms of the complexity here, it is quite substantial, and for the lay person to cache all the multi-layered exploits in their head is unexpected. It&#x27;s disgustingly complex and multi pronged ex-filtration of data that has no bounds.<p>This industry is 1000 years ahead of the common UNIX neck beard &#x2F; basement dweller type who probably owns no more than $10,000 worth of kit, but uses that kit on orders of magnitude more advanced levels than the catalog presented here.<p>If it is the case that &#x27;they&#x27; are 1000 years ahead of us in terms of ex-filtration and their budget is apparently limitless, then this allows the citizen to dream of many strategies to avoid, overcome, and render such ex-filtration useless.<p>One strategy which I will announce (a public one I will give away because bragging in public forums is apparently safe) is to compartmentalize a digital life. A frustratingly common motif is the &quot;Person A stores their life on their phone&quot; and thus we have a central store of data about person A.<p>Bad OPSEC, you cry? Well the lay person is not familiar with spycraft terms like OPSEC and such a term has only flourished in use in recent times because of Snowden. Infact a great many spycraft terms have gained widespread use, like OSINT for example, which were so rare, that you would be red-flagged as a spy if you searched for those terms, or were using them in everyday conversation.<p>All that is needed is for the lay person to acknowledge that unless a spy-vs-spy tactic is employed, then it really is a disgusting grab fest for all one&#x27;s data. Annoyingly this can lead to arms-race type scenarios where a citizen attempts to &#x27;beef up&#x27; their digital life, and the cost can be substantial, and potentially turning citizens into digital Winston Smiths, which is never good, and the surveillance can be said to have failed.<p>Compartment-ed computing is but one of a whole cornucopia of techniques and strategies to reverse the Panopticon on itself though...