Luckily, I guess, securing yourself against state level actors keeps you safe from everyone else that's trying to do bad things, so, win/win?
We don't have locks on our front doors to make it impossible for unwanted people to get inside our houses, we do it to prevent the average person, deter the interested criminal, and hopefully give us warning when it is or has happened.
> Luckily, I guess, securing yourself against state level actors
To be clear, there is no securing yourself against state level actors. You can harden yourself, and reduce your target area and/or footprint, but there's no way to actually make yourself secure.
Yes. Your best bet is hiding. Once you're identified, it's basically over. It's just another facet of the state monopoly on force.
I mean, consider guns. In the US, citizens can own guns. And armed private security is OK, too. But there's consistent push-back against private militias, armies, etc. Unless they work only outside the country, in acceptable contexts.
You can, if you gain the support of an opposing, comparable state actor. That's what Snowden has employed. But 100% security is still a myth, not only against state actors... reality itself is just not like that. Unless you can hide inside a black hole.