Will the risk be higher during Trump 2.0

Why would it?

I think you're paranoid and irrational, and should probably step away from social media and go talk to some actual Trump supporters. That's not me, but my family largely voted for that clown, so I think I know a thing or two about what his supporters want.

In essence, they want Trump to cut spending, stop drug trafficking, and create jobs. I think it's far more likely that he cuts the FBI and related law enforcement and potentially merges them than to put them on the attack. He cares more about stopping illegal immigration than spying on residents, so that's where his attention will be.

FOSS

FOSS + self-hostable is always the right answer. I don't think who the President is matters all that much because data requests are an agency level thing and not something the President or even the cabinet member is involved in (outside of perhaps very high profile issues).

If it's not on your machine, you won't know if the server admin has been forced by the courts to give up the data. I use a VPS, but it doesn't actually store anything, it just forwards packets to my computer on my network, so if LE wants my data, they have to get it from me directly.

If you're paranoid about the government spying on you, it doesn't matter who's in the Oval Office, what matters is if they can get access to your data without you knowing. So my tier list for this is:

1. Self-hosted, FOSS, E2EE with no data stored on the server (e.g. Simplex)
2. Self-hosted, with data stored on the server (e.g. Matrix) - only if it's on your LAN
3. FOSS client, E2EE (e.g. Signal)
4. Hosted in a country with strong privacy protections and no agreements with your country for exceptions (e.g. Proton)

Pretty much everything else is unacceptable IMO.

The old adage isn't just for show; if you're up against a state actor, or believe you need to secure yourself against a state actor, you're fucked.

That being said if you're not already secured against the 5/13 eyes and you think Trump makes a difference you're too naive to ever be targeted and nothing you do matters to them.

Trump makes no difference in terms of the US government attempting to breach privacy. Every anti privacy measure the US has ever pushed has been bipartisan, including the patriot act which was written by Joe Biden. You're not paranoid enough or far too paranoid.

I mean, if you want to carry that line of reasoning out, the Linux kernel is governed under a US-based foundation, so should the kernel itself be suspect?

How about FreeBSD? Or something like Debian? Or Ubuntu, which isn't US-based but they're in a typically cooperating jurisdiction?

You're def being paranoid and somewhat irrational, since it's unlikely to happen and if it did, it's not like you could trust anything at all anyways.

To answer your question, yes, you're being paranoid and irrational.

Paranoia is good, but in this case, all the software you mentioned may already be compromised.

RHEL is more likely to be pushed (by unconventional methods) to introduce backdoors under Trump 2.0.

Source is open, and every part of the build can be reproduced openly -- and every file in the deliverable is checksummed into a signed manifest. You can tell when a file is polluted or just rebuild.

Enterprise OSes are different. Levels of validation is one way.

The US has historically had better luck with foreign closed source software/hardware.

What is on Jan 20?

I don't see how Trump makes any difference or how his second term has anymore impact on the glowies and their desire to spy on everything.

You have to assume everything is back doored, you are just making your fed earn his salary with some good habits.

As others have said... Touch some grass lol

Jfc

Your not being irrational, but paranoid but I think in a good way. Many people here don't understand what horrible things may happen to disenfranchised people next year with ~~Nazism 2.0~~ project 2025.

Good to learn and understand these things and figuring it out to help others. Wish more people looked into this. I may not know but makes me feel helpful others are looking into these things more