Don’t be a prick based off of one comment. Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean no one else does. I am well aware of the Swiss complicity in imperial activity. Imagine thinking a communist doesn’t know about how compromised switzerland is. I also understand how individual swiss people do take their reputation for privacy seriously. Just because the CIA uses a service does not mean it is wide open for the world to see. This is exactly what I meant when I referred to how stovepiped the intel world is. The CIA tends to use services specifically to protect them from the US government snooping. The world is not black and white and the imperial governments are not monoliths. There is no institution with a key to enter every single door - otherwise IP theft (between defense contracting companies, for example) would be far more prevalent. There are absolutely precautions which can be taken. So long as you don’t jump to number one on their list these orgs will not dedicate all their resources to finding out who you are. The FBI and CIA are far more interested in fomenting specific types of terrorism than in preventing communist communications, you can be cautious enough to avoid them discovering who you are. Like the US military, these orgs are way better at PR and stirring the pot than at actual surveillance.

Granted, I am no expert on the technical side, but I do understand how the government and intel world works

To add, I am under no illusions that many of my precautions may be for naught and undermined by some of my other activities on the internet, I just think that when you understand the inter-departmental red tape and the internal politics of who gets to see what, and who admits to what operations when, it doesn’t make sense to just throw comsec out the window