everlastingfan

I know what the words mean. Go meditate if you have trouble understanding.

Right, don't talk about advanced persistent threats here.

Even baby's have a computing device: the brain.

When do they get clearance to use their brains?

Yeah, be prepared to be treated like a paranoid schizophrenic when you do that.

You're going to stop having conversations, or will you be recording them all?

Not to say you shouldn't, but it isn't easy and requires a lot of consideration, energy and discipline.

The digital tools are definitely NOT ready, there's a few gigabytes of raw mathematical data to be processed by humans into algorithms before we get there.

Sneakernet mesh. RF can be triangulated and blocked.

Prisons are pretty expensive, couldn't Mexico be paid to house exiles? I doubt they couldn't handle a few people with violent tendencies if paid the right price.

Is Arduino firmware open? Are the PCB and chip designs open?

Well there is when you design signals that play on the physical properties of the silicon and the silicon design is known, think Rowhammer. The next level of this is making permanent modifications to the silicon, e.g. using focused RF signals to change the properties of individual transistors.

Relying on security through obscurity is bad, but you need some obscurity.

Passwords and keyfiles are ultimately a form of security through obscurity.

It's turtles all the way down.

I'm ruminating on the potential for "regular" electric signals to carry quantum information, that's the next aspect of security to consider with quantum around the corner.

So don't worry, there are and will be bigger things to worry about.

This story doesn't hold a candle to the movie, though... where do I sign for the cyberprivacy arms race?

Some of these practices are forbidden by religious law, so unless you're not in touch with anyone religious it will be socially (passive-aggressively) regulated.

If exile was seen as ruinous enough in the public eye, that could provide a humane alternative to imprisonment.

Racist sentimemts could be exploited for this in a very humorous way. Imagine hackers being exiled to Mexico, and being let in on the precondition that they spend the first X years working on improving Mexico's public infrastructure.

It's not "stolen", it's "copied". Biometric identifiers are a conceptually ass-backwards thing.

Try laughing at the absurdity of that until the nervous edge blunts. You should be feeling some empowerment once the existential terror has worn off.

You know it's gone when you're ready to send them a cost estimate at twice your hourly rate.