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Comment by willcipriano | Hacker News Reader

Infosec folks should live a little. You can have more than one computer and not everyone is a head of state.

Not in the context of this project:

Please don't dismiss this so easily. You don't need to be the head of anything to take security seriously. Regardless of who you are or what you do, everybody has secrets they should protect.

And I mean secrets not only in the "human" sense (what you like/dislike), but also technical (credentials and so on).

Losing say, your bank account because you plugged in a USB can be devastating no matter who you are.

If you wanted to do something nefarious, using a medium that has your contact details printed on it seems unwise.

We all have a line. You may not plug things into your USB ports, some people don't even connect to the internet.

Either way, if I have a secret I'm sure as hell not going to write it down, let alone put evidence of it on a computer. Defraud my bank if you want, that's between you and them and honestly they can afford it.

If you wanted to do something nefarious, using a medium that has your contact details printed on it seems unwise.

Then put someone else's contact details on it "Hey man, I just found this 'linux business card' with Linus Torvald's contact information on it -- plug it in and try it!"

I'd notice it isn't Linus handing me his business card. The author is handing this to people in person. I wouldn't use it if he was wearing a ski mask. If you are already there, showing your face, commiting crimes, just use a gun to get whatever you want and skip the cloak and dagger stuff.

I have enough faith in my own abilities to evaluate if the dude I'm talking to is a scumbag or not.

Thank goodness that bank accounts are heavily regulated and something like that is really hard in this era with AML efforts!

Cryptocurrencies on the other hand...

That's a very unrealistic view of how that works. If you plug a USB into your computer and your computer is compromised, the next time you log into bank account your cookies are snagged and they do something with your money.

If it’s that easy to do, why do I get spam emails and texts with broken English? Seriously the earlier comment was accurate, if you feel the need to comment on the security of this obviously not nefarious project change fields, you don’t have the stomach for infosec.

Only heads of state are targets of black hat hackers?

The proliferation of virus scanners, firewall products and spam filters either means we have a lot of heads of state or a lot of people rich enough to own several computers and not give a damn about at least one of them.

Or the risk assessment is wrong, of course.

It’s all fun and games until your wife’s nudes or your most private messages are leaked.

The world would be a much better place if we all agreed everyone’s naked under their clothes and it’s no big deal.

Oh and most grownups have consensual sex occasionally. Shocker!

And they drink too :O

Sometimes even break minor laws!!

> everyone’s naked under their clothes and it’s no big deal

Until the day you render human biological urges inconsequential to the one experiencing them, all that phrase adds up to is the kind of line a teenage boy uses to get his girlfriend's clothes off.

Human nature is not infinitely malleable. A video of a woman sucking a dick becoming public will always be humiliating to almost everyone.

I can think of vastly more humiliating things, like a video of a woman spreading antivax or pro-choice propaganda. And, differently from a blowjob, which is just a religiously motivated prejudice, those acts are actually harmful and evil.

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