your hardware is backdoored. your HD controller embedded processor is backdoored. all of Linux is pozzed and most likely backdoored. youre already on the list. by using some more obscure OS youre just drawing attention. youre not part of some foreign spy ring, are you? just don't worry about it. go about your day.
I don't like this attitude of "we're boned so don't try." You don't have to need to keep your shit from the NSA to want to keep it from Microsoft. Linux is far from obscure. Any "suspicion" based on using it is far less important than the general reduction in footprint it will provide you.
If you're not migrating to an open source desktop OS already you're not gonna make it.
your hardware is backdoored. your HD controller embedded processor is backdoored. all of Linux is pozzed and most likely backdoored. youre already on the list. by using some more obscure OS youre just drawing attention. youre not part of some foreign spy ring, are you? just don't worry about it. go about your day.
I don't like this attitude of "we're boned so don't try." You don't have to need to keep your shit from the NSA to want to keep it from Microsoft. Linux is far from obscure. Any "suspicion" based on using it is far less important than the general reduction in footprint it will provide you.