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This is the correct initial reaction but given the extent to which the US monitors every single transaction everyone makes, it's getting awful hard to manage the influx of feral hogs without having them streaming through your door.

It's another thing they have to do. They're not all RF/SW engineers so they'd have to adapt to it the same way they'd adapt to anything else. By building networks that aren't corporate controlled, however, activists can engineer them around anonymity instead of serving the police.

Since nobody has mentioned it, all of this is turbo illegal and the federal courts will absolutely nuke this from orbit. State governments do not control airspace, full stop. The courts have been very clear on this. Manned vs unmanned doesn't matter to the FAA, it's still one hell of a PP slap from the feds for encroaching on their turf. Additionally, any form of jamming (desense, deauth, noise, location spoofing, fraudulent signals etc) is illegal and regulated by the FCC, and doing it with intent to take down an aircraft means you get strung up by both the FCC and FAA simultaneously. In particular doing literally anything to the GPS band will pose a massive and immediate risk to manned passenger aircraft and the feds aren't going to look kindly on that.

I've never seen a screaming flying robot do anything but make people completely irate

Everything seems to be. There was a period where you could kinda have a sane experience browsing over a VPN or otherwise using a cloud service IP range endpoint but especially the past 6 months or so things have gotten worse exponentially by the week. Everything is moving behind cloudflare or other systems

The market can remain irrational longer that you can remain solvent.

The problem isn't that you can't predict when a stock is mispriced, that's sometimes very easy, it's predicting when all the other dipshits will come to the same conclusion because ultimately that's all that matters.

Right now musk still has a personality cult and there are a lot of morons buying the stock like their worldview depends on it. They don't read the earnings reports, they don't read unbiased news, they mostly don't even own the cars, they just think it's going to the moon because...for lack of a better word, propaganda.

What's the deal with libreSSL at this point, it seems like a few distros added it then removed it a few years later, now you don't hear about it much.

Trump could get the case dropped right now though if he wanted to, right? Or is it too far along at the lower level for that to be an option?

What's the play here? Why is trump's DOJ still pursuing anti trust after having all the CEOs at his inauguration? Is he trying to extort concessions out of the tech giants or something?

400 for my use case, we're trying to violate causality

Uh apple is already implementing this too.

The one "saving grace" is that CECOT isn't so much a traditional prison as it is a slave manufacturing complex straight out of the Stat Wars Andor series. It's in their interest to keep everyone alive as long as they can keep them passive.

This doesn't do anything, all these aircraft are already in trusts. You can still track them, the N number/ICAO ID is what people are using

It comes down to looking at the chain they can use to link a post to you. You should be able to express yourself fully without fear of retribution.

First and most importantly, get a password manager and use unique passwords for everything, this covers the overwhelmingly likely scenarios. All your online accounts should either be ~14+ character "dl+ruHgGv6-c0$1hh7" style passwords or 4+ random word "correct horse battery staple" style passwords. The password manager should generate them for you.

Make sure your phone has a password and consider using it instead of biometrics (face/fingerprint unlock). Passwords can't typically be compelled but they can force you to unlock things with your face/fingerprints. Enable whole disk encryption on any computers that have access to your password manager or accounts. Turn these systems off when you're away or asleep. Enable automatic reboot on your phone if supported so it will reboot itself if not unlocked after a set amount of time, preferably 12-24 hours max. This sounds dumb but makes it 10x harder to break into if you're taken into custody due to how phone encryption works.

If you like social media, create accounts that aren't in your name and have no common links (different email addresses, passwords, user names, etc). Do so over a VPN or Tor, ideally with an exit node outside the country and use email aliases through proton or similar so they're all different. Never access them from a non-VPNed connection, your IP is logged every time you connect and kept for who-knows how long on the servers. Rotate these accounts so that your opinions and posts aren't all connected to one identity. If you accidently post something that identifies you (you will make mistakes and should plan for it), that limits the damage to only the posts associated with that account rather than all your activity on that site. Stay logged out of Google/Facebook/Twitter etc as much as possible or use incognito/container tabs to keep those logins isolated from your other web activity. Disable history on everything! Google search, Google maps, Google location history, YouTube, your browser, EVERYTHING. Most of the stuff you see in court is just "well their Google history said they searched for XYZ so clearly they're a terrorist".

If you're really enterprising, setup an old computer that's only for social media and has the VPN enabled full time. Bonus points for using Tails Linux as the operating system but if you keep to the above it's just an added layer of safety.

Right now the stuff we're seeing is mostly low hanging fruit, they seem to be targeting people by literally browsing Canary Mission. They're not employing particularly sophisticated methodology yet. That may change though so the above guards against that, at least somewhat. Your mission isn't to be able to resist the full attention of the NSA, it's to be much more difficult than average so they turn their limited resources elsewhere because they have a quota to meet that week.

Yeah the article is just rehashing a wapo article that's linked, the original one is much clearer

In fairness, I think the possibility that someone might light your car on fire is a stronger incentive to not buy a brand than internet posts making fun of the brand. It also means now they have to beef up security at all of the dealerships. Car sales are surprisingly impulse driven, hence the famous high pressure sales tactics, so it'll be harder to get people in the door if they're strip searching everyone and if they can't have as much inventory on the lot, customers can't drive home with the options they want so less impulse buying. Also full coverage insurance, required for financing, will get more expensive or even impossible to obtain which possibly means a massively decreased customer pool.

I think a better counter argument is the environmental damage caused by lighting all the cancer boxes on fire.

The problem is there's a very real risk the American people will view the move as illegitimate and prevent the land from being taken in the future, ie under a new admin that jails trump or something. The point of collateral is to reduce risks, not introduce new and exciting ones. Nobody is going to accept lower rates on this unless the aforementioned quid pro quo is real, in which case the deal is already illegal and the downside risks now include prison.

Yes this is idealistic, but the threat is still real and that's how finance people calculate interest.

It's mostly a nothing burger. You basically need to have code already running on the chips. It's less of a backdoor and more of just an undocumented function. That may sound scary but it's rather common in production chips. In some ways it's a good thing, it means there are now more possibilities for messing with the chip and doing fun stuff with it.