sorry. the second sentence asks whether it's viable to temper proof all data in your home that might be exploited.

some people go through trash, find bills or other stuff that should have been shredded or burned. others even make use of magazines one has read, which is a measure in social engineering and that thing creeps do in chats which is one step beyond that line where kids tell others boat loads of stuff on discord.

then there is even the kind that takes out trash specific to you and drops it somewhere along the way where you walk your dog. just to get you paranoid enough for the next steps.

there's a guy who uses glue and glitter to seal screws and stuff. the glitter creates a pattern that cannot be reproduced. manufacturers do similar things with special stickers. it's really clever but will get you only so far.

it's mostly beyond the scope of the topic, sorry for wasting your time. pointless stuff happened to me and I remember stories and people, whose lives have been ruined and their characters FUBARed, from the past every time I read "nothing to hide".

it's 2025, corporations have completely normalized (the verb as it is used in military contexts, leveled) privacy and turned anonymity upside down, as have social and classic media, both small and big. it's incredibly strange to me that so few regard the consequences as an aggregation of transgressions rather than just violations at points in time.

"whatever bad thing we do, makes the next one so much easier."

Aggregation comes with exponential growth. Why is the law not aware of how badly their ignorance will backfire? Just because, apparently, which is why it's almost pointless to temper proof anything because if you are "hit". nothing and nobody can or will adequately compensate for the loss.

Having to spend a bit of time on mails and phone calls is nothing compared to the consequences of what can and does happen.

One lifetime and there were civilizations and "Empires", or rather colonies before, all with potential and it's because of small "levels" of deliberate ignorance, not the selectivity bias kind of our brains, that leads to civil conflicts, rises in crime, first small, then violence, rape, murder rates explode.

Software and Web Engineers are especially ignorant, I noticed in the last few years. And people think it's a result of demand, or rather a lack thereof and that the cycle that creates an "I don't care" mindset can't be fiddled with for the positive, even though engineers are literally the switch.

There's an inverted spotlight effect at play here, a maximized bystander effect and inverted egocentric bias. Engineers and intelligent academics believe they matter less than they actually do, which results in learned irrelevance, and culminates in the tendency to rationalize and defend existing power structures and "systems" even when they harm pretty much everybody up- and downstream.

I keep getting reminded of Pinker's "Better Angels of Our Nature" where he attempts to show with data over time how everything is getting better, and I think he hints at the nature of spikes and such but he completely failed to account for the aggregation of all these spikes, which there is no data for because law makers and enforcers are, apparently not willing to do the required work now vs leave it for later when the shit hits the fan.

But maybe that's just the reason why human colonies die.

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