Including people within his own Network. For someone like him that level of paranoia makes sense. For most folks not so much.

Air gapping your computer when almost everything you do on them is internet based is not a realistic solution even though it is the only guaranteed solution.

Nothing wrong with being aware of and implementing good security but there is absolutely no need to be so paranoid as to put tape on your camera. The vast majority of us have heard immunity just because there are way too many targets.

If you are someone in the public eye or very wealthy maybe but even then imho this article is overkill.

The 'herd immunity' idea would apply if the real problem was that human beings are spying on each other to gain an advantage for some reason. That is not however what surveillance is all about. It is done by the devices we use not by humans. our smartphones and computers' primary purpose is just that: information gathering.

There are hackers who trade their access information with each other, kind of a sick hobby of voyeurism, which includes added-value if their subject is good-looking, and there are perverts, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. The information being gathered on ALL OF US is being saved, like in a dossier, about each person.

For instance the Chromium browser has installed a code that turns on the microphone, set up by Google, supposedly in error. You know about apps if you're an android user, 'needing' access to your files, pics, music, and microphone and camera, regardless of whether the is needed for their function.

Now its not just our computers and smartphones, but also our 'smart' devices, many now have voice-recognition software installed. Anything voice-activated.

I may be labeled as a kook, but there is plenty of information out there on this topic now, we can just accept that we live in a surveillance state or we can let it bother us and see what we can do go protect our privacy to any extent possible.