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1. It's completely possible to treat your phone as an insecure device. Maybe I'm naive, but I think it's possible to run a daily Linux system with a reasonable assumption of privacy.

2. When you act as if you are being monitored and judged for your words/actions, you begin to self govern them to be more acceptable to the presumed omnipresent agent. Sometimes the fear of being surveilled is as powerful as actual surveillance.




> 1. It's completely possible to treat your phone as an insecure device. Maybe I'm naive, but I think it's possible to run a daily Linux system with a reasonable assumption of privacy.

Your computer is running several operating systems under ring 0 that Linux has no idea about, same goes with many components and peripherals. Those operating systems have direct memory access.


But not if we assume compromise.

How would you hide in plain sight? That is the question.

Bruce Lee said: be water. But maybe you need to: Be Hamlet


Stab the guy behind the curtain ?


Hahah, that's an unexpected connection that's funny!

No, I was thinking more, be a dissembler.


Talk to skulls.




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