forward1

Good luck getting a mortgage for your shell LLC - won't happen.

Sure, can you cite which criminal law was broken or demostrate damages for civil claims?

> non-public residential addresses

What is a "non-public" address? All addresses are public information. It is not at all clear what you're protecting and from whom; there is a distinct lack of a coherent threat model.

I recently replaced my 120V receptacles with USB ones. Super convenient and it's allowed me to get rid of the dozens of various transformer plugs around the home.

https://store.leviton.com/collections/usb-outlets

This guy wasted a lot of time and money just to prove to himself that the legal system is unfair and stupid. I have to wonder whether it was worth it.

Python? We don't need no stinkin' Python.

    while sleep 0.1; do printf "%-$(( ( RANDOM % `tput cols` ) - 1))s\e[0;$(( 30 + ($RANDOM % 8) ))m*\n" ; done

Can we please stop regurgitating "encrypted email" as if it's some virtuous accomplishmenet?

Anyone can encrypt something. The challenge is keeping authentication to that encryption valid, accurate and secure.

As far as I can tell, PM does not in any way innovate on that. They just prey and capitalize upon laymen who foolishly equate encryption with security. In fact expecting any privacy from email at all is outright delusional.

2FA only protects login. Pretty much all account security from that point on is based on portable bearer tokens.

A simple XSS turns into RCE with Electron desktop apps. I don't understand how technically competent people can in good faith accept this outrageous risk.

Gmail also spies on everything you do, whereas desktop clients like Thunderbird do not.

Adult life is a series of compromises and adjusting expectations accordingly.

I told the CISO he was an idiot who didn't understand security (in front of many peers), because we disagreed on implementation. Soon after I was fired for "violating company policy".

I realized being right is not the most important thing in the world, certainly not more important than being employed. The other lesson was to never involve myself in office politics again: it is irrelevant and ultimately lowers your standing in an organization.

A few years on, it's 650, so I actually did myself a favor getting fired, even though at the time I was filled with regret and resentment. In retrospect, the job was miserable and I was acting out because I was deeply unhappy.

Growing food absolutely harms the environment. Maybe not one potato, but modern agriculture is a leading cause of climate change (mostly animal ag, but the point remains).

This is not nihilism. This is what capitalism is by definition. Says Rob Urie:

> Economic production that produces toxic externalities like global warming, dead oceans, undrinkable water, unbreathable air, etc, depends on assigning little or no value to these. To make this very clear, Western economic ‘accounting’ places no value on these, on the most fundamental necessities of living beings, by design. As Oscar Wilde put it, a cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. This is in fact a summation of Western economics; circumscription of the ‘knowable’ world by what has had a price tag put on it. The externalized costs of capitalist production are real— more real than the stuff in stores that is only ‘cheap’ because the true costs were lobbed off on people who haven’t yet fought back.

- https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/09/global-warming-is-ec...

It's likely not, but it's my strongest frame of reference.

All business is profiting off misfortune of other people. That is the cornerstore of post-industrial capitalism: maximize the externalization of the costs of production. Name one product, service or industry which does not harm people, animals or the environment - impossible!

I used to have this attitude in my early 30s when I first made >500k. I thought I was indestructable, irreplacable and had an ego to match it. What a humbling experience it was to be laid off, in fact I think it was one of the best things to have happened to me. My relationship to work and business is much healthier now. I just smile at the silly games tech employers and their staff play.

I grew up in communist USSR. You have no idea how grotesque things can be without a free market.

FYI what you're describing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

It would help to know what is warning you.

Simply put, sunk cost fallacy. Apple marketing has completely inundated and exhausted consumers by front-running a BS privacy narrative, to an extent such that users of their products lack even the vocabulary to meaningfully reason about and discuss what privacy is and is not; instead opining an opaque, closed source platform could defend their individual interests from asymmetrically powerful forces at all.

Disagree entirely. With an outdated CPU, you could be owned just by running Javascript on the wrong site. Not so with a vulnerable UEFI/BIOS, that requires additional privesc as is seen here.

> Which still leaves you in a large enough group that it's not practical to deploy full-press individualized surveillance against all of them.

Assuming no advances in technology obscured from public view, of course.

> Some of them depend on this for their livelihoods.

You sort of answered your own question there. Consider whether foreign nationals writing software in near destitute are susceptible to MICE, in relation to Bay Area millionaires.

Thanks. My take is on this is root access -> stealthy bootkit. Further demonstrates "secure" boot and similar DRM is theater only.

Do Libreboot supported hardware devices, which appear quite old, still receive CPU patches? If not, it is probably time to stop using it. Coreboot may give you a fighting chance however.

The risk is "image parsers in UEFIs ... are riddled with roughly a dozen critical vulnerabilities" but what is the attack vector? Has a dropper been identified? Or is this an academic finding only?

Signals Intelligence is not based on mere assumptions.

> NSA: Linux Journal is an "extremist forum" and its readers get flagged for extra surveillance

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extre...

But they totally can't figure out you use a custom OS built to resist surveillance. Go figure!

No competent startup or small business would take on such a legal risk. And anyway, a sure conclusion can already be reached on the basis of reasoning about the complete and total lack of warrant canaries anywhere.

Absolutely and confidently incorrect. Local notification settings have no bearing on this metadata, which is generated, collected and stored with your consent by using Apple/Google app stores.