[Mutant Fest] Mutantfest mintues Bay Area-SF

[J. Travis Wichert]

Hsuan wrote:

>>At mutantfest, especially this year be aware and
>>cautious who you talk to, and what you talk about
>>Tightening up of security in general and what that
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>means >for us
>
>does being "cautious who you talk to" include not
>saying on an mailinglist that you need to be "cautious
>who you talk to"?
>snarking aside, anyone feel like we live in a time
>where everything we say or do on the internet is
>completely transparent and any attempt to be sneaky
>will only bring undue attention?
>  
>

Yes, that's a symptom of the slow erosion of the Constitution and
society's insecure need to understand and control everything that
doesn't fit within one standard deviation from normal.  Oh, plus
basically everything that isn't encrypted with some heavy shit
can be read in real time, and even heavy crypto is just a time-
delay fuse.

But then, I post with my real name all the time and really
don't give a shit because I'm paranoid and figure I'm always
being watched anyway, mostly because I'm one fucking
vain motherfucker.  If you can't beat it, enjoy it eh?

Anyway, does anything actually think this group is NOT being
watched?  ...Kuz I've got this big ol' clue-by-four I can beat
on you with until you've got a nice fat "clue" on your head.

And it wouldn't be so bad if we weren't living in a time when
stupid people with bad tempers influence global politics.
I dunno, maybe in another couple thousand years we'll
figure it out, that is if we don't blow ourselves off the
planet in the meantime.

IMHO,

J. Travis "Siv" Wichert