Not everyone has the same job, hobbies or other lifestyle choices.
Perfect "op-sec" can always be achieved by simply abandoning the "operation". We can avoid a record of every location we visit being associated with us by giving up on mobile networking. We can avoid a record of our purchases being associated with us by giving up on online shopping. And we can avoid our computer being used against us by giving up on running its CPU.
The true point of security measures like using Qubes should be to achieve comparable security WITHOUT abandoning things essential to our preferred lifestyle. Even just the fact that playing a mildly GPU intensive game has to be done without Qubes is a huge privacy and anonymity roadblock in my eyes, even before looking at anything else.
But even if someone transfers all their games via one-way disposable flash media to the dedicated gaming PC they keep locked up in a faraday cage, or even if someone scoffs at anyone who uses GPU processing for their job or their entertainment, I believe that there are still info-sec considerations even when merely posting text online like you are doing.
I believe that the final front of the personal information war is profiling. That means browser profiling, voice profiling, writing style profiling- you name it. I'm not worried about the "harvest now, decrypt later" paradigm of quantum encryption cracking, but rather a harvest now, profile later approach to human generated information.
We've already seen low stakes examples of how this can start to become relevant to people's privacy and anonymity. Just take Mark Robinson as an example. Idiosyncrasies like Mark Robinson's tendency to refer to a "frog's fat ass", or my own tendency to type "decisionmaking" as one word are things that any random reporter without training data can recognize. But what happens when machine learning models start getting involved? At that point the only way to defend yourself against profiling is to run the information you want to put out through your own machine learning model in order to anonymize it. And have fun running that model without a GPU!
I believe that when someone is defending their freedom, it's important to pay special attention to scoundrels like Mark Robinson and myself. For it is against us scoundrels that oppresive tools are first aimed.
Scoundrel
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