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> Zatko told me, “These tactics should be beneath whoever is behind them.”

Hahahaha! Probably time to get a padlock for your garbage cans.

edit: apparently I should clarify, this was a humorous suggestion that the people who do research for hedge funds will stoop considerably lower than the tactics Mudge was referring to, not a serious suggestion that he actually padlock his garbage cans

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> Hahahaha! Probably time to get a padlock for your garbage cans.

How would that even work? Give the garbageman a key?

Probably time to get a shredder, or a firepit, or both.

DIN 66399 P-5 shredders (1.9x15mm micro-cut) are not that expensive, I paid less than £300 for my HSM Securio C18. Just get the good kind, not the made-in-China junk. The NSA requires P-7, which can still be had for slightly over $1200.

We wore out a commercial shredder on a GOCO proposal.

At the end, we hired a kid to stand there and spray it with WD-40 as he fed it.

Lots of small businesses have padlocks on their garbage bins to prevent others from filling their (paid)bin. Getting rid of a pickup-truck load of garbage (from a house renovation or something) is actually quite expensive.

The garbage area at a lot of retail stores is fenced off behind a padlock. Those places live in constant fear of someone making use of their trash for reasons other than making the trash problem worse.

Yeah my local garbage collection company has an extra fee for locked garbage. It is a pretty standard thing.

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