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I don't. If one has something going on such that state-level actors might want nefarious / adversarial access, well, one should be taking MUCH MORE SERIOUS STE

I don't. If one has something going on such that state-level actors might want nefarious / adversarial access, well, one should be taking MUCH MORE SERIOUS STEPS about personal digital security. Your "regular everyday normal mfer" (as the song apparently incessantly looped on Instagram goes) has no such enemies. My personal digital opsec is designed to keep me and mine safe from likely threats, and the threats I face are pretty banal -- brute force attacks, mostly. I am 100% unconcerned about governmental intrusion into my safe to gain access to, e.g., my online banking passwords.

Test0129 4y ago
You do realize state actors include the IRS, the FBI on a fishing expedition for a crime that occurred near your house, being framed for a crime because you look similar, false DNA matches, etc, right? All of these things are non-zero, and significantly above non-zero that everyone and their grandmother should consider it. Unfortunately, pandora's box opened with Snowden. We are all targets. The only difference is what degree of a target you've made yourself. If you work in tech, you're already high on a priority target list somewhere.
- deleted 4y ago
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- brewdad 4y ago
  By the time the FBI gets a warrant and takes my safe with all my secrets, it's too late. Maybe I'm naive but I don't have time to live my life with your degree of paranoia. Good luck to you in your endeavours to avoid anyone knowing anything about your life.
  - Test0129 4y ago
    It's not about preventing people from knowing anything about my life. It's about control and threat surface. You can do these things without thinking after a little practice. I would like to present the version of myself I want the public to know about and have full control over that. Incursions into my privacy violate that idea. It's not paranoia. That would imply they aren't out to get you. They are. Leave the government out of it for a second. If someone's phone is stolen it's very likely their entire identity, a majority of their secrets, documents like medical ID cards, credit cards, etc have been compromised. This is akin to "getting a warrant to a safe" (which in reality is just court-ordered theft) and it will completely destroy a person. In the context of the discussion if you were able to break into a dead person's phone you could very likely build a complete picture of their life. Perhaps one they weren't interested in you knowing about. I'd prefer to avoid those situations. First, by not making myself a target, and second by protecting any and all data I have the best I can. I rarely think about it but I know if my phone is stolen, my computers are taken, or I get caught up in a fishing expedition the threat surface is extremely limited (provided the information isn't beaten out of me).
    - Godel_unicode 4y ago
      You have chosen to have a different risk tolerance than the person you’re replying to. They explained their threat model, you disagree. That doesn’t make you right or them wrong. It’s simultaneously true that for your model they’re being naive and for theirs you’re being paranoid. That’s fine.
      - the-anarchist 4y ago
        Well said, good sir!
- ubermonkey 4y ago
  Oh, for fuck's sake.
CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that song is a blatant ripoff of "Regular Everyday Normal Guy" which predates it by about a decade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PsnxDQvQpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PsnxDQvQpw
- ubermonkey 4y ago
  I googled the lyric when posted because I only have it from the contextless world of Instagram reels, and I have a fetish for accuracy. It was indeed from Jon Lajoie, but not the song you link. It looks like he did a followup track called "Everyday Normal Guy 2" which includes exactly the loop you hear (with "motherfucker" and not "guy" in the refrain) everywhere on social media right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmG4X9PGOXs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmG4X9PGOXs
  - CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
    TIL, thanks! Takes me back

Test0129 4y ago

You do realize state actors include the IRS, the FBI on a fishing expedition for a crime that occurred near your house, being framed for a crime because you look similar, false DNA matches, etc, right? All of these things are non-zero, and significantly above non-zero that everyone and their grandmother should consider it. Unfortunately, pandora's box opened with Snowden. We are all targets. The only difference is what degree of a target you've made yourself. If you work in tech, you're already high on a priority target list somewhere.

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brewdad 4y ago
By the time the FBI gets a warrant and takes my safe with all my secrets, it's too late. Maybe I'm naive but I don't have time to live my life with your degree of paranoia. Good luck to you in your endeavours to avoid anyone knowing anything about your life.
- Test0129 4y ago
  It's not about preventing people from knowing anything about my life. It's about control and threat surface. You can do these things without thinking after a little practice. I would like to present the version of myself I want the public to know about and have full control over that. Incursions into my privacy violate that idea. It's not paranoia. That would imply they aren't out to get you. They are. Leave the government out of it for a second. If someone's phone is stolen it's very likely their entire identity, a majority of their secrets, documents like medical ID cards, credit cards, etc have been compromised. This is akin to "getting a warrant to a safe" (which in reality is just court-ordered theft) and it will completely destroy a person. In the context of the discussion if you were able to break into a dead person's phone you could very likely build a complete picture of their life. Perhaps one they weren't interested in you knowing about. I'd prefer to avoid those situations. First, by not making myself a target, and second by protecting any and all data I have the best I can. I rarely think about it but I know if my phone is stolen, my computers are taken, or I get caught up in a fishing expedition the threat surface is extremely limited (provided the information isn't beaten out of me).
  - Godel_unicode 4y ago
    You have chosen to have a different risk tolerance than the person you’re replying to. They explained their threat model, you disagree. That doesn’t make you right or them wrong. It’s simultaneously true that for your model they’re being naive and for theirs you’re being paranoid. That’s fine.
    - the-anarchist 4y ago
      Well said, good sir!
ubermonkey 4y ago
Oh, for fuck's sake.

CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago

I'm pretty sure that song is a blatant ripoff of "Regular Everyday Normal Guy" which predates it by about a decade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PsnxDQvQpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PsnxDQvQpw

ubermonkey 4y ago
I googled the lyric when posted because I only have it from the contextless world of Instagram reels, and I have a fetish for accuracy. It was indeed from Jon Lajoie, but not the song you link. It looks like he did a followup track called "Everyday Normal Guy 2" which includes exactly the loop you hear (with "motherfucker" and not "guy" in the refrain) everywhere on social media right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmG4X9PGOXs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmG4X9PGOXs
- CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago
  TIL, thanks! Takes me back