In some cases, its a well-known practice that field operatives communicate through contact us forms on benign looking websites or video games.

This is one reason I remind people anything marketing itself as private is inherently less private, it's a honeypot.

My experience in critical federal infra tells me the only real security is supply chain security (killing people and breaking things, eg, the military). When pols talk about chips as national security, it's that literal.

That means you fell for the psyop, when you see incompetent politicians on TV every day that's a distraction from the actual brains at think tanks and intel agencies and private industry pulling the strings. Everything you see is scripted, you're literally watching a movie.

Do you think companies are ineffective too? There's no distinction between government and the largest companies. The smartest people at the smartest companies are smart enough to use the power of the state, there's no firewall between the two.

These are mostly well documented facts, others are self-evident. Its just not polite conversation, and there's nothing any single person can do about it, so there's little point in discussing in normie land. It's still outside the Overton Window.

Snowden was an op, sure... but the op itself was a limited hangout.

To deny these realities is to tell ones self comforting lies, particularly in Bitcoin where so many peoples identities are wrapped up in it. Your average HWW enjoooyer has no idea there's closed source chips in it leaking their key, and your average Bitcoiner can't comprehend the FACT that the NSA could sweep the overwhelming majority of coins if they didn't actually find it preferable to the more fractured and opaque international legacy system.