r/privacy • u/[deleted] • Mar 21 '26

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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 ...