I met a nurse that said one of her family members lived in a small housing development where almost everyone got terminal brain cancer. A certain company that you've heard of handled hazardous materials next door and offered to do the testing in the development. Surprise, no contamination found. And they made it clear that if you implicate them, you'll be contacted by their sizable legal department.
Everyone affected was either dead or bankrupt from paying their family's medical bills. No lawsuits against the company.
Hah, this reminds of a security researcher a few years ago that was reporting malware that he couldn't research without infecting his other machines. I'm fuzzy on the details, but everyone wrote him off as a paranoid delusional and the incident was quickly swept under the rug. Makes me wonder if he found some sophisticated state sponsored stuff and got smeared to hush it up.
I mean realistically, we'd be naive to not expect that state-sponsored hackers have rooted machines somewhere in the supply chain (hardware, firmware and of course software). Is everyone being monitored all the time? No, but I'd stay away from electronics if I expected an intelligence agency was interested in me.
Birmingham Alabama is probably a better choice. Lots of burnt out structures that never got cleaned up, and the people apparently can't afford trash service there so they just leave it on the sidewalk until it eventually piles up over your head. Hotels are filthy too. Garbage and used needles inside the elevators -- and this was a nice hotel.
I would, if the right people were getting shot at. If it were realistic to hold them to account without killing them, guns might actually be unnecessary...unless you're hiking in griz country.
Everyone affected was either dead or bankrupt from paying their family's medical bills. No lawsuits against the company.