Comment by praptak | Hacker News Reader

Comment by praptak | Hacker News Reader

> Keep in mind that the NSA will start scooping up all of your packets simply because you visited torproject.org.

This particular one might not be true but the general spirit probably is. This is why I sometimes do things which a drug lord would do even though I am not one (I swear). It's for the benefit of possible-future me where I do have something to hide.

The correlation of the time where you started using Tor extensively and the time a particular Darknet service started operating? Certainly a possible leak of a few precious bits of those ~30 bits that are needed to pinpoint you.

It's a generalization of the rule that you should not restrict encryption to only those messages that are important.

> This is why I sometimes do things which a drug lord would do even though I am not one (I swear). It's for the benefit of possible-future me where I do have something to hide.

We need robots that do this constantly.

Also, by the way, I am building a switchblade 300 clone and the charge will be nitrocellulose!!!

I wish you weren't joking, those things are neat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVironment_Switchblade

TIL, they're missiles except drone-based instead of rocket-based

And because of the simplified flight infrastructure they're only $6k

They are a bit more than missiles, as the operator can fly them around, re-target or even call off without hitting anything (I believe they aren't recoverable though).

That's why they are called loitering munitions rather than missiles.

I guess everyone should buy one and put it at their backyard!

> they're only $6k

They probably have a 90% margin on those...

“Add up all the of contracts we know about, and AeroVironment has received at least $105.4 million worth of orders for 1,500 Switchblades produced -- which works out to a unit cost of more than $70,200 per Switchblade. Minimum.”

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/05/11/aerovironm...

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