Comment by superkuh

>but I'm talking about you! :)

I am confident in my digital security for my threat model. Physical security, less so. The only time my data has ever been taken was when the FBI broke into my apartment at 6am in 2010 and held me at gunpoint and stole every computer in my apartment. They never charged me with a crime, never even indicted me. It was all just the feds squashing political dissent back in the Occupy wallstreet days and I was one of hundreds on the mass warrant issued for that morning's cross-country raids meant to intimidate and destroy lives. As was the FBI's style, they stole all the bitcoin I had on those computers, which I discovered when they kindly returned them (in parts) 10+ years later in 2021.

I'd argue the real risk for me living in the USA is not from random hackers finding a unicorn nginx RCE (or me misconfiguring), but from the government. And they're going to come in the front door not through my computer.

Given the state of things I think this applies to far more people than just me. So start up those home static servers. It's a relatively low risk, all things considered. And free communication with other humans, not shaped by corporate policy and opinion shaping, might just mitigate the government problem a bit.