"doesn't matter if you're not a terrorist or major criminal"
And, of course, nobody's ever been shot dead in their own home by out of control cops, in full body armor "by mistake" or "he/she made a threatening movement", buck naked at home
The ONLY thing that can guarantee you safety is to give $100,000+ to your congress person/senator and to live in a RICH neighborhood!
But OS/2 still works fine on my AMD 386DX40, just kidding!
I'm getting REALLY old, as this is the first I'm hearing this. It's tough when you're 70 and still trying to keep abreast of the open source movement! I think I will be going back to Slackware.
Dancing toddlers, Catholic 4th grade school girls, guy's doing the robot, all with this crippled, expensive, proprietary crap that nobody's gonna want when you can get an Android tablet at the drug store for $99.00!
"Terrorism" a tactic, NOT a thing you can fight a "war" against!
"Terrorism" with the exception of 911 is just background noise, it's been going on for hundreds of years, everywhere!
The government of these USoA's have joyously pounced on "Terrorism" as an excuse to radically seize/expand more power and destroy even more of the Constitution in the process! Wasn't it Bush that said "It's terrible to let a disaster go to waste" or something along those lines?
Everytime you drop a bomb, fire a missile, shoot a
If you live in a condo complex/apartment building it's more than likely that the doorway to your unit/apartment is in a common (publicly accessible) hallway with Sheetrock walls that can be easily breached with a fist! Why have a heavy door with a Medico lock in a shitty wall? or between sidelights (flanking glass panels)? or an iron gate in front with ground level glass windows on the sides/sliding glass doors in back?
Why have a pick proof padlock when a cordless 4" angle grinder with a carbide cut off wheel can go through a boron shackle in seconds?
The people who are buying these $250.00 laptops probably would not know or care what the OS of their machine is, nor do they know what "OS" stands for!
And for most of these people $250.00 is quite a lot of money!
Some poor bastard in a village blacksmith shop who can't read or write can produce AK47 clones day in, day out, that work!
Unless somebody "prints" a REAL rifle (one that can fire thousands of rounds of a useful cartridge (7.62x51) without a major failure I call this just more kids indulging in mental masturbation, trying to entertain themselves.
I really think that despite the quoted 40 ISP(s) serving the US's borders, the fact that our new "Emperor Obama" publicly announced that he wanted an Internet kill switch should be enough to put us all on notice!
You wrote & I quote, " this is Belize, not the states, if somebody high up enough says your guilty, the facts don't matter".
And I scream in response, ARE YOU KIDDING!
Did you forget the NDAA, the Patriot Act, secret grand juries, Guantanamo Bay, targeted assassinations, suspended Habeas Corpus, etc?
More than likely everything there is extinct by the time it gets that far!
"What backup plan, if any, should the average nerd have for something like this?"
Encrypted backups to SDXC 1TB card(s) as they are very small, put them in small plastic waterproof/airtight containers and hide them in out of the way public places.
And as an aside do this sort of thing on an offshore COLO and communicate using a netbook running a read only distro like DSL.
Where have I heard that before?
A small company could solder these new CPU's to a daughterboard to allow it to be socketed!
When the world's biggest polluters (China, USofA) turn their backs on hard science (especially the USA) disaster will be closer/worse than anybody thinks!
In less than a century, computers will be making substantial progress on ... the overriding problem of war and peace. -- James Slagle
