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   Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 08:44:28 JST Soatok Dreamseeker

   RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116274789062787020

   Tangent, but this is one reason why I don't bother with "burner phones" at DEFCON.

   If my day to day security practices are insufficient for DEFCON, they're insufficient for day to day life. I'm just as likely to get attacked in a random cafe.

   I roll my eyes a bit at people who insist that burner phones are necessary.

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     Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 08:48:03 JST Soatok Dreamseeker

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     A lot of security rituals you hear about from folks online are like this.

     This is the kind of culture that leads to giving blanket paranoid security advice without threat modelling first.

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     Rabbit (ra6bit@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 09:00:46 JST Rabbit

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     @soatok It’s the security equivalent of cargo cults. If the ritual is complex, the protection must be strong!

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     jk (jkmartindale@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 09:35:30 JST jk

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     @soatok personally if I were an evil HACKER who wanted to steal your DATA I would do it at a conference full of turbo nerds who would catch me immediately instead of a random cafe where nobody is looking

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     Jeremy (mischif@fedi.mischivous.com)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 13:48:09 JST Jeremy

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     @soatok Necessary? Of course not. Make me feel cooler and more important than I am, like a named extra in Hackers? Absolutely