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 (DIR) Post #B9jqWC5hUNm2tLEdSS by hyphen@duwa.ng
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       one thing i've seen often with privacy-focused communities is their complete lack of imagination. all technical solutions are thought of from within the rules and parameters of interaction with authorities and agencies of western liberal democracy. and they enjoy larping about being persons of interest under threat of remote hacking, storage cloning, or evil maid attacks.but thinking within such parameters is a luxury and a privilege often not recognized. so whatever solutions deemed optimal within them might be actively harmful or at best irrelevant outside of them.there are people in the world living in sanctioned countries or hyper-inflated economies where buying a "cheap vps subscription" is actually a tough financial decision. there are people bound by bandwidth or internet availability. people who can't have a self-hosted home lab because they don't have a stable home situation. people who suffer mass untargeted surveillance but at isp level not from commercial actors.more importantly, there are people whose threat model revolves around purely statistical encounters. let's say random searches in the street that you shouldn't deny even if it's technically within your rights to do so, because the authorities aren't fully lawful. or dealing technically incompetent authority. or domestic abuse victims.such people would benefit tremendously from game-theoretic approaches because they're simply not worth the effort or money for more invasive methods, or such methods are totally not considered by the adversary. or the adversary lacks the tools to properly execute them.so approaches which focus on security by obscurity and plausible deniability where avoiding raising suspicion or looking like an anomaly is better than full protection are incredibly effective for that slice of people, yet often discarded wholesale in forums as if the poor op just doesn't know any better for asking such foolish questions.a consequence of this collective myopia is that the people technically capable enough to implement interesting (and often low-effort) solutions to these problems end up allocating very little resources if not scoffing at the ideas discussed as "toy security".witnessed and experienced.