I just don’t think it makes sense to include in your threat model since there’s basically no way to mitigate it.
It's also good to keep in mind that even if these types of oppressive tools exist, they are not evenly accessible to all layers of government, and they do not have unlimited capacity.
Look at far more mainstream stuff like cell site spoofers that allow tracking/interception of phone traffic. Maybe your local PD has access to that, but it's not unlimited access. They're constrained by how many devices they have, how many people know how to use them, how quickly they can be fixed if an issue pops up, etc. It's a long road from practical demonstration at the highest level to common use.
The fundamental critique of any "What about the Panopticon!" paranoia. 99.9% of the time, you don't matter and nobody is going to invest the resources in watching you specifically. That said, there's layers to this kind of mass monitoring. The more flags you trip, the higher on the priority list you get.
I'm far more willing to believe that some crytographer at the NSA figured out how to do a side-hustle shilling NFTs or that an investment bank's guerrilla investing team cooked this up, than that Joe Biden's Pentagon has a Deputy Undersecretary of Bored Apes dedicated to convincing people that spending $5000 on a piece of bad digital art is a good idea.
NFTs have CIA backing?
Unironically, yes.
https://cryptowhale.medium.com/5-reasons-to-believe-the-deep-state-or-the-nsa-created-bitcoin-5d53a3c483f2
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It's also good to keep in mind that even if these types of oppressive tools exist, they are not evenly accessible to all layers of government, and they do not have unlimited capacity.
Look at far more mainstream stuff like cell site spoofers that allow tracking/interception of phone traffic. Maybe your local PD has access to that, but it's not unlimited access. They're constrained by how many devices they have, how many people know how to use them, how quickly they can be fixed if an issue pops up, etc. It's a long road from practical demonstration at the highest level to common use.
The fundamental critique of any "What about the Panopticon!" paranoia. 99.9% of the time, you don't matter and nobody is going to invest the resources in watching you specifically. That said, there's layers to this kind of mass monitoring. The more flags you trip, the higher on the priority list you get.
I'm far more willing to believe that some crytographer at the NSA figured out how to do a side-hustle shilling NFTs or that an investment bank's guerrilla investing team cooked this up, than that Joe Biden's Pentagon has a Deputy Undersecretary of Bored Apes dedicated to convincing people that spending $5000 on a piece of bad digital art is a good idea.
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