WHY IS IT WATCHING YOU?

 

In the case of a scam or malware operation run by a criminal organization, you are being watched in the hope that you can be ripped off. Regardless of their sophistication, the people who run these operations are little more than thugs. They care about nothing other than their next dollar, and they will do anything they can to squeeze it out of you.

Governments aren’t trying to steal your identity or financial information, they just want to draft your computer in the next big war. Planning for big wars is one of those things governments do, even when the likelihood of there ever being one is slim to none. This is not to say that military malware couldn’t be repurposed to spy on you, just that it’s probably not doing so at the moment.