The Doctor

They said straight up, “I googled you and couldn’t find a Twitter or Facebook account. What are you hiding?” I had to teach them who Armand Jean du Plessis was.

Opting out of social media these days is considered inherently suspicious. It definitely came up the last time I had to undergo a background check for work.

I think I still have a copy of that book in a box somewhere. I know I have a scanned copy in my archive. Lots of fun.

They sure make the task of keeping an eye on the chuds easier. Their OPSEC eats donkey ass.

Why would they hide anymore? They figure they won. No sense in not taking advantage of everything that implies.

This is a thing that folks have done in the past:

• http://kacangbawang.com/encrypting-stored-email-with-postfix/
• https://www.grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_Email and https://www.grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_Email_Part_2
• https://jnphilipp.org/posts/auto-encrypt-all-incoming-email-with-postfix/
• https://www.mydreams.cz/en/hosting-wiki/9663-configuring-automatic-email-encryption-in-postfix-on-centos-7-using-gpg.html

The Great Game continues, same as it always has.

It’s pretty nice. The REST API for running searches makes running SearxNG worth it, if nothing else.

The true final exam would be writing code on an airgapped system.

I’ve tested wifi calling on AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. How well it works (call quality, whether or not the call gets dropped, how often it gets dropped) has always been a crapshoot. Using a real VoIP client to connect to my Asterisk box? Significantly more stable and usable.

No. There are easier and more reliable ways to backdoor stuff that don’t run the risk of somebody’s fuzzer stumbling across it. Which, I hasten to add, can be installed in such a way that disabling it bricks the device (which means that nobody will bother).

Gee. What a surprise.

I usually don’t take the rewards - I like to pay it forward for the few times I really needed them.

I usually just say “Nah, no time, just ring me up.”

Grocery stores. Picking up prescriptions at the pharmacy (there have been a couple of months where I couldn’t have afforded the cost if there weren’t discount points on 510-867-5309). Stuff at the hardware store. Target, occasionally.

Thank you - I’ve added them to my list.

You missed the point.

That’s great, I didn’t say you were. I was speaking specifically about people who, on the one hand lamented the risks of smart TVs, but on the other hand didn’t realize that they would just be plugging their existing digital cable STB’s HDMI cable into what amounts to a very large flat panel display.

The best way is to use comms channels that avoid their Windows install entirely. If Recall never sees it, it never gets recorded.

From trying to get people to do that (with no success), it’s because it seems too much like work. Folks want something they can plug in and go… but plugging in one extra thing is just a bridge too far these days. It’s frustrating as shit.