Me: full disk encryption with boot partition on external drive, webcam and microphone unplugged, 100% open sores software, Intel ME crippled, internet routed through a server in Mexico, using a metadata-fingerprinting resistant E2EE messaging program with post-quantum ciphers and 100% forward and backwards security to share cute cat videos

Jeffrey Epstein:

There is no realistic threat model here, this is just pure autism

@scathach@stereophonic.space It's amazing how dumb this guy was tbh. like he was really fucking stupid it turns out

@scathach I wish my IME were disabled and deleted smdh. however I dont believe in encryption. the only people encryption ever keeps out is me, from reading my own shit.

@scathach nick fantes wants a word with 2006 Epstein

@scathach it's good to be on the inside track

@anemone @scathach good times make weak men

(as we pore over the weakness in grasping these emails that go into incredible tedious detail of how exactly they intended to create these hard times)

@nyx @scathach It's true but just a reminder that going the extra mile to encrypt everything in your life is a futile effort because the true encryption is money.

I wouldn't say futile so much as just some potentially overboard self preservation. the average person gets caught doing something illegal or embarrassing enough to be blackmail worthy and that's a life ruining experience, someone with this level of power gets caught doing the most evil things imaginable and whoever caught them is ending up six feet under. Having enough power and influence enables people to get away with the unspeakable, but for the powerless even something relatively minor can be exploited to have severe negative influence on their life.

moreover having a history of poor security makes it harder to begin being secure once it becomes necessary. Someone might not matter enough for anyone with power to care about exploiting these gaps in security or data that's leaked right now, but if they've been sloppy their whole life, should they ever become notable enough for someone to care about, that leaves a long trail to use against them. Maybe your youtube career takes off and you've got a million subscribers and someone finds a cringe post you made on an alt a decade ago because you used the same username everywhere. Maybe you attend a protest for something you strongly believe in and get arrested and they immediately link all of your political posts back to you. Maybe you strike it rich and suddenly your login data goes from being only useful as part of a dormant spam botnet to being worth a fortune. Who knows.

@Alex @monkey @nyx @scathach Being vulnerable and insignificant also makes one a useful disposable cat's paw. (This is not a good thing.)

@nyx @scathach Plus like even if they get into trouble most likely is they get sued with something that's a rounding error in their budget and typically stuff like a house arrest instead of jailtime.
(And got enough lawyer to lessen it to almost nothing, see Epstein sexual conviction where they managed to make the witnesses court-untrustworthy due to drug usage)

@scathach Im starting to think that the system unironically thinks what he did was legal, he had a private island and took girls from places with 14/15 age of consent countries and every once in a while bought 9 year olds from Muslim counties.

Make a *global* age of consent for Americans traveling; I dont care if it was legal in pakisan. You cant come back after. The child abuse in iraq as well, get the law on the books that america cant support "militia groups" that does that. Make it an amendment, write it into the stone; lets watch those who to refuse to vote for it.

@monkyyy The wealthy are above the law

.. so this is probably illegal as well ..
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-02-04/black-market-baby-farms-darkest-allegation-epstein-files-yet