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Comment Re:Not having a mobile phone is suspicious... (Score 3, Interesting) 89

Personally if we really wanted to mess with them set up a bunch of disposable e-mail addresses over the course of a week using open WiFi connections with a computer running ToR and then periodically e-mail random data attachments back and forth. Hell I've done this for shits and giggles, when I am at the bank send off some random data since I can connect the Starbucks WiFi across the parking lot, at the used book store connect to McDonalds WiFi next door. Poisson the well make their mining of data useless and make them waste resources trying to decrypt output from /dev/random. The e-mail address are just first names of people in groups (the Beatles, the 12 apostles, Metallica, the US senate judiciary committee, etc) with random letter/number combination passwords. After a couple of months stop using those e-mails and then after a bit create a new set of accounts but a different number of them rinse and repeat. Being a white male with US citizenship, born in the US and residing in the US offers a lot of protection to do this but I wouldn't recommend anyone with a suspicious* background to do this.



* By suspicious I mean someone who might have ties to any protest organization, be a naturalized citizen, have visited any strange countries, be a minority, committed a crime other than a traffic/parking ticket, or any other group the government may want to target or would be ignored by the news media. Basically it would be similar to driving while black, or the opposite of being a young white girl who gets murdered or put on trial in a foreign country. I hate to say it but it is sadly true that the general population would't care about your plight if you could be painted as an undesireable.

Comment Re:There's no $$$ to be made in security (Score 1) 114

I would love to find this out as well given the silly offers I have gotten. The worst offer I got was for $35,000 a year which being someone with 10 years of experience with securing industrial control systems and 15 years experience as a software engineer which I laughed at. Most of the unsolicited offers I have been getting have been for $50K-$60K but frequently there are the stupid low ones.

Comment Re:There are still all sorts of bugs. (Score 1) 86

Like the "Post" and "Load All Comments" buttons show up as light green text on the teal background for me, making them almost invisible. They only turn grey when I hover over them.

Same.

The tab behind the "Comments Filter" is probably 20 px higher than it should be, so the bottom edge of it is half-way through the "All" text.

Same, and weird.

The comments are now too far to the left edge, which is distracting.

You're just used to too much white space on other websites.

Comment Re:Two things (Score 1) 131

1. $600 for endless local (good for allergies) honey is way too expensive?
2. Fluids don't run downhill?
4. I'm not, they are.

I'm guessing you didn't actually go look at the design and see what they did that's different than your assumptions.

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