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im3w1l on Jan 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did this Tor developer become a victim of NSA's la...

You are asking which is more likely. I.e. is the probability of compromise higher than 50% ? I'd say the the probability is less than that. But I think even risks with lower than half probability are worth worrying about.

SideburnsOfDoom on Jan 27, 2014 [–]

You're asking "what is the probability that this laptop was compromised by the NSA?". Sure, that is low.

But there's a different direction to look at it from: What is the probability that someone's laptop was compromised by the NSA?

This is approaching 100%: we know that they do this.

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