sometimes i use macvim so i can move quickly to that program in particular and do other stuff in the terminal, since i use it for general distraction free writing

technically macvim is not vi, but i guess both are considered outdated in an age where if you tell your iphone not to sync to the cloud it erases days on notes on nazis.

(the whole point of privacy was autonomy, not shoving things up to an unencrypted cloud to get a bullshit warrant served on it and tim cook has forgotten what the world was like when storage was scarce)

This is a war, it's time to let military intelligence talk to whichever reporter they picked up at the start of their tour in a bar to feed the good leads and maybe wait a day or two for things that can wait.

With rust there's no buffer overflows, how will folks buy supercars to crash in the desert after escaping "flyover country"

(In all seriousness, people were obsessed with it at Mozilla but also just kept hazing me I was "just" a UX researcher -- do you know of a good primer who knows the basics of languages like Python, bash, and QBASIC but struggles with compiled languages like C/C++?)

compiled languages may be not fun since you have more delays than the sighted.

what did old school phreaks use when learning to program? (i was late the the game in the late 90s, and people always assumed i was older except when it was a context they'd pay me fairly for my intellect -- then it's nothing but precarious, low paying nonprofits or piecemeal consulting designed to keep me in their orbit)

there is a library for the blind in 412, but they also block tor so i have to hope what pops up in duckduckgo is accurate:

https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswz...

>Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped >412-687-2440 >Toll Free Phone Number: 1-800-242-0586

if they give you shit say that it's greg and you're using your one phone call, they'll help you if you don't start asking a bunch of kinsey crap, if they don't suffer a narcicistic meltdown from having to do more than show someone the braile forms for welfare.

(i have to be careful not to hammer resources intended for the visually handicapped when using tor -- my no javascript lifestyle means i often seek out things designed for a screen reader, and i've seen them get overwhelmed in ways i haven't seen since the 2000s)

in general, interpreted languages are easier to keep a mental model of, because they have been iterated on to the point you can write out code that looks like psudocode, it's why i like python

the hackers who trained me were big into perl, which has a lot of issues but the whole there's over 9000 ways to do things -- there's a big library of existing perl code, and since there's more than one way to do things and those people fucking love one liners you'll spend less time dealing with "whitespace" which, as a blind person, i'm gonna guess is a very hard thing to grok, harder than public key encryption, recursion, or the idea that we don't need john taylor gatto to tell us what hellen keller got up to.

I'm involuntarily anonymous.

I made the mistake of using my teenage pormanteau of my first and last name on the email for a vBulletin as a teenager. (Or maybe I'm a persistent troll harassing a well known censorship circumvention researcher... narrators can be unreliable, after all.)

I met some of those folks at my second Defcon and... they were just... so terrible. So terrible I never went back to the forum, because I was a kid, angry at authority figures who abused their access and projecting things on to whole races and relgions when the issue was specific people.

It was a very dark moment -- my first Defcon, I wasn't sure if I was going to graduate from college, on probation for knifecrime awaiting expungement, and my second... and only allowed to attend because they were trying to nudge me to join the NSA or CIA.

Love to sit next to an empty placard for Hans Reiser and be told what shrews the wives of the linux devs are... NOT

I tried do the newbie event but someone physically slammed me down and yelled "YOU WERE HERE LAST YEAR".

So I started joking... my legal name is Gregory... my hacker name is Greg.

Anyways -- why is it when I make a nym for 1-4 years and do nothing but be kind, no one goes "hey, you're smart and kind and I know who you are" but... if I spin up a nym for activism, people sniff it out like bloodhounds and "notice" the most minor thing like they're the TA from Real Genius?

Most of my issues stem from lack of money -- I find myself slipping into depression or anxiety when I eat poorly, when I over caffinate, when I don't get exercise -- but... part of that is because I never had an intership with a kitchen, never had the salary to get a maid, to go to spin class and a takeout salad, and unlike say, Tokyo there simply are no healthy options at a price level of the "menu" in the French sense that they had when I'd crash VMware's cafeteria every day with my coworkers from... a research center in Palo Alto.

(I respected the space. I ate my food, talked about work, in one case watched some football, and left, not wandered the grounds jamming my... things... into... openings.)

It feels like a no win situation -- in order to find work, I will have to demonstrate my skills, but I'm forever beholden to people like the woman who abused one of my old coworkers -- she gave him an internship then said she wouldn't give him a good recommendation to anyone else.

And apologies in advance, for the times in the past I've violated guidelines here or other communities -- I created this handle surrounded by enemies, thinking I'd use it over on Twitter for a weekend in Vegas, and things rapidly escalated in ways too numerous to explain here, but I don't know what to do when folks seem to not grok: there is a very different culture in Appalachia than California -- we're simple, not stupid, with long memories and a rich history that you disrespect when you forever treat someone as some sort of... user experience... to... research.

TL;DR: How did you maintain your handles over the years? Am I just terrible at opsec, or was there some social factor I'm missing aside from not using IRC? (Plaintext sucks)

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I worked for a major K Street NGO. I was removed for refusing to weaken web standards.

I took a pause from all assistance to civil society during Trump, to make folks think and reflect about the consequences of their decisions.

(As I like to joke at open mic: your post Columbine models are broken, I don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the Solar Winds blow, and it is my inaction that will be the death of you.)

Pretty much, I've seen how you're retaliated against. I spent down on a Bellingcat cert, but that's useless -- doesn't matter what I find in public view, folks don't listen.

>If I was grading this; I'd give you a "D" and tell you to try again, with focus this time.

Thanks for that feedback,

>You want a job in politics, is that it?

Consulting.

(Or a delete button tbh -- keep regretting my posts on the internet.)

I used to just encourage slow change -- get people to register to vote, not tell them how to, and hope that with each iteration, we'll get closer to how it was when America was formed -- more of a right libertarian versus democratic socialist debate, if we're going to force a two party system. After all, folks seem to forget that George Washington, like myself, was an independent -- I only registered as a democrat out of grave concern for our democracy, after being told by one of the local election judges it is how it is -- you need to declare a bias, or you're suspect...

I'm very good at telling people what to say and do to get into office. I'm less good at keeping them there, but... I also, like the Italian Five Stars, believe that politics should not be a profession.

And unlike the not-so-crypto-anarchists, I do think government can be a good thing, if done from the bottom up -- my experience has been that most politicians, and I've met scores of them in the informal context, having met scores of them... they're like that bald guy who gets gassed by Kevin Spacey on house of cards[1]. Or Frank Sabotka on The Wire[2]. Starting out with good intent, perverted by evil men (and women) who do not want to listen to the voice of the people, who think we have an "excess" of democracy[3].

Based on the above... where, if anywhere, should I apply? Who should I talk to?

I was immature, in 2016. I was too focused on childish things, like being a penetration tester, a job I'm not suited for... 80/100% out of state or country travel, juggling clients, and... I wasn't even making much -- I got roped into yet another nonprofit, one offer at a time, so I didn't have the nest egg to land gracefully.

Anyway -- I'm good at this. Picking people, putting them in, knocking them out (metaphorically).

How do I do it... for money?

Has anyone done this pivot, and if so, are you willing to drop your contact information in the comments?

My email is this username at proton m a i l dot c h if you want to reach out to me rather than go that way.

I'm off to return some library books.

(Apparently that's become the new "I'm off to return some video tapes"[4]) == SPOILERS IN CITATIONS 1, 2, and 4: [1] Peter Russo... was a Democratic Congressman from PA's 1st Congressional District. Divorced with two children... when Frank saw that Peter was becoming a liability, he killed him and made his death look like a suicide. [2] Frank is a respected Polish-American treasurer for the International Brotherhood of Stevedores at the Baltimore docks. As the pater familias for the docks' longshoremen population, it is his job to manage the finances of the labor union and make sure that workers are taken care of - a task made harder by the decline of the local shipping industry and lack of available hours... Suspicious of how a longshoreman could have so much disposable income, Valchek manages to persuade Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell to assemble a detail to investigate Sobotka's activities. [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20120309011043/http://www.trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8coOHhotXY

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for those of us who began forming memories as the berlin wall fell, it's been quite a ride -- it seemed, for this brief moment that we'd all kind of live in arcologies with solar powered desalination or something and instead... [tabs over to Al Jazeera] yikes!! russia are JERKs.

strive to be the ghost in the machine if you want to be a hacker.

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And now, I must hand off this nym to the new owner.

Goodbye!

I once (after making my whole thing for over fifteen years that I won't speak to the FBI because they beat my townsfolk and local journalists during the G20) walked into an FBI field office, handed them a stack of what are called CCR numbers, and described a series of serious issues with my local police department. The woman's eyes went wide and she promised to open a civil rights investigation, then they ghosted me like I was a bad tinder date (which, to be fair... I can be, but we're at work now dear, so do your job or don't DARE interfere with mine.)

They need to focus on believing victims and utilizing existing sources of investigation before they "express concern", especially considering some of their agents who obstructed on this issue literally ran up on Congress.

Conversely, I've seen folks the FBI claims they need these extraordinary measures for wander around conferences like Defcon, HOPE, and the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium with their laptop unlocked like the venue was a hipster coffee shop.

(Not gonna name the guy, but he used to tweet a lot about opsec for someone who gets pilled up and runs around the venue loudly saying the N word with his laptop FULLY unlocked.)

Anyways... they need to rely more on human methods and less on computer intrusion, like the FBI agent who gave me my card back when I was an angry young man posting Facebook zero days on my blogspot.

(Apparently it creates a bit of an international incident if you find a way to spoof your location on Facebook, get angry they declined to interview your for a summer internship, and spoof your location as with the protesters when you're not retaking discrete math over the summer, and apparently in 2009 the best the FBI had was a guy who knew what IRC was and would basically just... do undercover stuff but on the computer? Guy couldn't even get the powerpoint to work when he came to speak at CMU, which I have, to be clear... never, ever attended. I just show up in Newell Simon occasionally to grab a refreshing grass jelly drink, ask lewd questions to the roboceptionist, and look at whatever posters folks decided to put in public view.)

Anyways, I'm not clear why we are listening to an agency staffed by criminals who misunderstand on purpose anytime their job involves anything other than messing up on purpose, but I'm speaking from the perspective of a lower middle class Appalachian thrust into these crypto wars by forces beyond my control :-)

(Even today, many a "privacy" role seems to be "help my bitcoin company avoid the Treasury Department)

Good luck with your project.

(It’s still cool research just jogged my memory- iirc they had Mark Hamill telling you the benefits of closing the lid on the toilet before flushing.)

(Same for an sd slot.)

Especially paired with a form factor like the 6s for those who don’t want a phablet.

(If I wanted a sob story about how it’s hard to be a mom I’d install the Lifetime application… I’m on Tinder to smoke trees and get laid, and that should have been abundantly obvious from the copy in my profile, which I’ve since edited to be more… explicit.)

Don’t they hire John Callas in like 1997? ;-)

(Sorry, couldn’t resist a bit of good natured ribbing.)