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:

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

@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.

@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)