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Random question, but I'm curious
would you rather be taller or shorter
a little taller (couple of inches)
a lot taller (foot or more)
a little shorter (couple of inches)
a lot shorter (foot or more)
don't care
For my two cents, I'd like to be shorter. Just a little guy.
Hey guys it's me Nobody_is_here_01.
Yeah, my account got hacked so now I'm waiting to either get it back, or potentially never get it back. I hope i do get it back though.
I was dumb, and instead of contacting Tumblr support directly, I decided to trust a random user and their 'email of proof' my ass almost got got. Probably has. I haven't noticed any transactions of my banking account yet.
I feel so stupid. I had also just posted something new today that I was excited about after months of being MIA.
This has honestly just bummed me out really bad.
Idk what to do. Or if I should just give up and start posting from here. I guess I'll just wait for Tumblr support to email me back.
QSMP but Sanders Sides
Version 1 (What would happen): Thomas gets to be the Egg and the Sides have to take care of him
Version 2 (What would be more funny): All the Sides gets to be the Egg and Thomas, alone, has to take care of them. Reminder, there are 6 of them.
Okay, because it's becoming very relevant: Let's talk about secure communications in the digital age.
It is important to understand one thing very clearly: There is not now, and has never been, a completely secure form of communication. Admittedly, this is alarmist and paranoid, but as Philo Gant put it, "Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale."
"Secure communication" is like "safe sex". There's always a risk. You could be speaking to someone in a code that only you and they know, in whispered tones, while floating naked in the middle of a lake 200 miles from the nearest person, and there is still the risk that you or they will be compromised. So let's talk about those risks.
When you communicate with someone, that message goes through multiple areas.
You.
Your device (phone/pc)
The connection between you and the server.
The server itself.
The connection between the server and your recipient.
The recipient's device.
The recipient.
So let's break these down and talk about the risks at each phase.
You. Arguably the most and lest secure part of this chain.
You trust you, obviously. But if you don't know how to keep your mouth shut, you're the biggest risk to yourself.
Your Device (PC):
Gonna be honest here, if they get their hands on your PC, they can get into any data you have on it unless you use extra protection. This includes secure messaging apps that keep a history.
Your Device (Phone):
If your phone can be unlocked with your fingerprint, face recognition, or retinal scan, it might as well be unlocked. Anyone who gets their hands on your phone can just physically force you to unlock it. (And might not need you there-- you leave your fingerprints everywhere, and modern hi-def photos can be used to fool them.)
Fun fact: The Supreme Court has ruled that this is legal.
A passcode-locked phone, on the other hand, is STARTLINGLY hard to get into, with the trade-off that too many attempts will wipe your phone. (This makes it MUCH more secure, but ANNOYING.)
The connection between you and the server:
This can be monitored freely. The good news is that the INFORMATION is probably encrypted; even Facebook does this. But the fact that the data has been transmitted is not; your ISP may not know what you are saying, but they know that you are, for example, talking to Facebook.
The monitoring for this can happen at both ends-- they can be watching who you are communicating with, or they can be monitoring who is communicating with the server.
(This is honestly more of a factor when it comes to specific websites-- nobody cares who's visiting facebook, but they might be interested in who's visiting burndownthepatriarchy.com. Or, if you specifically are on their radar, they might be interested in which websites you are visiting.)
The server:
Sure, general communication with Facebook might not be interesting, since you can't tell a shitpost from a bomb recipe when it's encrypted, but Facebook admins can pull your history. And the government might ask them to do so.
The connection between the server and your recipient.
Same as above, but they might be watching the recipient.
The recipient's device.
Same as your device, except you're trusting the recipient to secure their phone properly.
The recipient.
Okay, all the data security in the world won't help you if it's a cop on the other end. Or a snitch.
I'm gonna plug Signal as an app that I love, because it's end-to-end secure; they can't pull the messages off the server. But it's worth noting that several of the Capital Rioters went down because they bragged to their friends over Signal or other secure apps, and their friends just took screenshots and sent them to the FBI.
I wish I didn’t get really invested in my own lore for weeks and then abandon it for months. I still have so many stories to write, but maybe I’ll get them done soon. I did add more dragons to Vaeral though. Kallis and Zervos needed some new friends.
very low effort meme
