What the hell happened?

In short, Roe v Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court.

I know I am late for the show (World Password Day was yesterday), but I had no access to the machine I usually write on, so I’ll get this off my chest now. I will illustrate my complaints about the proposed system, as well as potential solutions.

UPDATE

I moved to the “prepaid” card, and now every month, I get about $13 per month taken from my debit card. Sure, it’s still botnet, but it’s less of a botnet, since a virtual card number won’t lead attackers to everything I am.

To start this off, I have to say this: I have not ordered stuff in my real name for about a year now. I have one or two shops that know my name, but the vast number of e-shops have no idea who the package is for. Where I live, it’s not illegal to put a burner card number in (many banks support this feature nowadays) and a fake name in the order. If you can have your shit sent someplace else entirely, even better, although I cannot say I’ve done this (I do not have a private P.O. box at the time of writing).

In recent times, where most people work on their own (entrepreneurs, contractors, etc.), the field of branding has gone from being a thing corporations and companies do to something everyone should think of. However, in this post, I would like to explain the polar opposite I am striving for: Being a ghost (and leveraging that as branding).

Now, this is just gonna be a quick venting on what I heard today. It is for all the folks just starting in cybersecurity, and seems to be endemic to the US. The thing I’m talking about is bootcamps.

Guess who’s back!

It’s been a VERY long time since I’ve been offline, but now I’m back and I’m happy to say that everything’s going fine.

Okay, this will be a story with no tags and no connection to anything else. I just wanted to have fun with this one. This short story is about how I discovered a huge, incredible… standard tool and had fun with it as a teen and how I got a bottle of wine.

How it all started

I have a phone. Surprising, I know. I also like my phone, so much so that I installed TWRP, LineageOS and Magisk. This means I can do whatever I want to my phone, take a full backup and do all sorts of snazzy shenanigans.

You may not feel like you need privacy. I know I felt the same way quite a while ago. Maybe you really know why you don’t want people in your private space, but don’t know feel comfortable enough defending your decisions (the question of do you have something to hide? is difficult to answer). This post will hopefully give you at least some ammunition for people who only have the idea of privacy in their subconscious.