Journalist and essayist. USian in the EU. Migrated before it was cool.
One of the very early terminally online. Long time internet punching bag.
Background image from Occupy Oakland.
In dark times one must carry a candle.
Quinn Norton
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Probably wasn't a great idea to turn incarceration into the profit center, my fellow Americans.
Every threat model is some asshole's business model.
Huh.
Oooh! This is pretty much exactly the hypothetical I used in training activists and journalists on digital threat modeling!
I like to really lean into the mosaic theory, as well as storytelling, in my security training, and keep it fun. Because being afraid makes one much worse at threat modeling and decision making.
Fuck 'em. Dance for the security cameras.
The thing I should add here is this stuff rarely works any where near as reliably as they claim, but they hide their shit behind IP, sec law, and the fact that judges usually don't know much about security.