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 Well, a lot actually. Consume less, don't buy shit you don't need. Try to avoid products produced/designed in countries like the UK/USA, at least those which are [[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/interaktive-grafik-hier-sitzen-die-spaeh-werkzeuge-der-nsa-a-941030.html|known to be compromsied]]. Of course there are more players, it would be naive to assume that for example Russia or China will not also run similar programs and will not also force producers like Huawei to put backdoors into their routing/firewall/gsm appliances. But they at least have a little decency left and don't put it into our face like: //"Yeah, we're watching everything you do because we can and we don't care if you don't like it because we need to protect our nations security."//.  Well, a lot actually. Consume less, don't buy shit you don't need. Try to avoid products produced/designed in countries like the UK/USA, at least those which are [[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/interaktive-grafik-hier-sitzen-die-spaeh-werkzeuge-der-nsa-a-941030.html|known to be compromsied]]. Of course there are more players, it would be naive to assume that for example Russia or China will not also run similar programs and will not also force producers like Huawei to put backdoors into their routing/firewall/gsm appliances. But they at least have a little decency left and don't put it into our face like: //"Yeah, we're watching everything you do because we can and we don't care if you don't like it because we need to protect our nations security."//. 
  
-<blockquote>"A matter of internal security" – the age-old cry of the oppressor.<cite>Jean-Luc Picard</cite></blockquote>+<blockquote>"A matter of internal security" – the age-old cry of the oppressor.<cite>Jean-Luc Picard (TNG|S3|E11|The Hunted)</cite></blockquote>
  
 Just 70 years ago the same shit was going on in Germany, so we still kinda know how Nazis behave and how they like to operate. But the USA learned their lesson well: Industrialized mass killing in concentration camps is a logistics hassle, still very inefficient and a PR nightmare, but hey, now they just get a couple of thousand drones to do the job on a global scale, that will be much more fun and you can do that remotely. Just 70 years ago the same shit was going on in Germany, so we still kinda know how Nazis behave and how they like to operate. But the USA learned their lesson well: Industrialized mass killing in concentration camps is a logistics hassle, still very inefficient and a PR nightmare, but hey, now they just get a couple of thousand drones to do the job on a global scale, that will be much more fun and you can do that remotely.
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