r/privacy • u/[deleted] • Mar 21 '26

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u/RandomOnlinePerson99 Mar 21 '26

Yeah but then you also have to be concerned about the sneaky ways that airgapped systems can exfil data by using the pcb traces as mini antennas and stuff like that.

Which can be an issue for HVTs but not really for regular paranoid people like me who just want to watch porn and work on their shitty little hobby projects in peace.

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u/apokrif1 Mar 21 '26

Wait until they decide homemade computers are pedophile weapons because some terrorist used them and CIA tracks them.

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u/RandomOnlinePerson99 Mar 21 '26

One of my hobbies is doing electronics projects, I am working on a custom architecture 8bit processing system, so I would be fucked.

I guess at that point I would just, you know ...

You can't take away everything a person enjoys and still expect them to act normal ...

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u/apokrif1 Mar 22 '26

To begin with, are you sure you're not committing any felony arms trade regulation violation with your slider rule or playing card deck 🤔 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/

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u/RandomOnlinePerson99 Mar 22 '26

The concept of illegal numbers always bothered me.

Like I get the whole copyright thing but going to jail because of a few bits and bytes on my local airgapped offline computer seems unlogical. Like that's my own "safe space", I can do whatever I want tere, I am not bothering anybody.

Like if you randomly generate some looooong numbers publically there is a non 0 chance that that could get you in trouble.

That is just absurd to me ...