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This is of course ridiculous. I can be found in a cafe almost more often than not. I... 1) regularly use encryption for all traffic while in a cafe. Would you
by orbitingpluto 15y ago
This is of course ridiculous.
I can be found in a cafe almost more often than not. I...
1) regularly use encryption for all traffic while in a cafe. Would you yell out your credit card in a cafe over the phone? It's easier to encrypt everything than handpick.
2) regularly have multiple phones out on the table. I'm usually doing Android dev.
3) travel up to six kilometers to get my good coffee. Apparently unwillingness to drink McD coffee is a sign of a terrorist?
4) love coffee and drink way too much of it. So if I'm a little twitchy from that third Americano I may be a terrorist?
5) prefer to pay cash to limit my spending so I don't get that fourth Americano.
6) Like to get out. Just because I have Internet at home and I'm using it somewhere else doesn't make me suspicious.
That being said, I have been suspicious of people using Internet at coffee shops before. But usually it's that guy who has parked right in front of the coffee house for the third consecutive day and has his laptop out. (I noticed his car when going to the cafe one day and realized he was just getting porn. The cafe owner and I had a good laugh about it.)
I have also called police about a young man who had made a giant map of downtown and making sniper signs and lines of sight across it. He also really wanted to talk about a recent mass murder. The creepiness and attention seeking was enough to set off internal alarms. The police followed up with me after and were very professional.
The only people I ever terrorised in a coffee house are the Mactards who think it is fine to bittorrent and bring even simple email checking for everyone else to a screaming halt. So far, it is the only useful thing I've ever made in Python.