I have not really made lifetime friends there either but I'm not a team player. If I were in the military everyone would hate me (like they did when I was forced to play team sports at school).

But many people will never pay for Linux and it's even causing people to move away (eg to Mint which removes snap)

Perhaps it makes sense in the enterprise market though. They're always trying to push launchpad to us at work and I'm sure this will integrate with snap. But launchpad doesn't work for us because it only works with Ubuntu. So it's just a non starter for us, we have more distros to support. Sure Ubuntu is the biggest in our environment but we want a single pane of glass for everything. More similarities between distros would make that a lot easier.

And the one I had was more of a toy than a real one with kilometers of range

Well yeah because at that time they were the only one who had a nuclear bomb. That situation didn't last long.

I think it's really great that it's such a taboo, otherwise these things would be used a lot, incurring all sorts of pollution, mass casualties and chances to escalate. It's a good thing that these have not been used since WWII though I do think their existence as a deterrent has brought us a bit more peace.

But in this case it seems to be an event (CCC) recording so it makes more sense.

I think they just look at the traffic shape. Real-time traffic requires a lot of constant similar sized traffic per second, rather than texting or images which is much more bursty.

However yes a very limited entropy in the private key is much harder to detect especially because on this kind of device you can't see the private key directly.

It's a pretty great ecosystem, most hardware smartcards are surrounded by a lot of black magic and secret handshakes and stuff like pkcs#11 and opensc/openct are much much harder to configure.

I use it for many things but not for email. Encrypted backups, password manager, ssh keys. For some there are other hardware options like fido2 but not for all usecases and not the same one for each usecase. So I expect to be using gpg for a long time to come.

It was a bit of my OCD being triggered as well. I love neat cabling at work (at home it is chaos funnily enough).

Also, if they manage to reach "too big to fail" status by that point, whatever punishment will be nothing more than a slap on the wrist.