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I have nothing to hide, but I also have nothing I want them to see.
Given the coice between paranoid and lazy more need to choose the former.
What they could see is the transmission over the internet to the tablet. If they detect torrent activity to the tablet, it wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out where the files went, and it wouldn’t even matter because the crime is in the transmission. They wouldn’t even have to raid your house or anything, they would just sue you and show IP logs.
My IP logs?
Bold of you to assume I don't have a cantenna pointed at a deli half a mile away.
And the air gap is for malware, not for hiding your IP from swarm scraper bots.