How do you survive in a world where surveillance is too easy with a fully automated zero click spyware from which there is no protection, and even accomplished cyber defense analysts say “Primarily I’m here just to keep the death count”. While some have argued for surveillance reform, banning sale of spyware, which is the legal and norms development approach, it will take a long time for it to happen, because governments which operate outside any legal framework, would fight self-regulation in this arena, to the very end and public opinion is hard to sway in short time.
What then should judges, politicians, journalists and anyone else who is a potential target do in the interim? Giving up modern communication devices such as smartphones and switching to good old feature phones, is not an option, as some have suggested, because the Central Monitoring System—whose technical architecture is a 'state secret' and hence is freely available in the internet with a deployment guide and user manual—has solved the problem of tapping any phone at scale, a decade ago.