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turns out the feds are running it as a honeypot

A reminder that in the US at least, among other places, consuming pirated content is not illegal. It is distribution that is a problem, hence why torrents are a favorite for companies to target.

the confounding tribalism behind its modularity. options are great, but they also bring out the absolute worst in many of us.

Exactly. Parts of the Linux community, and FOSS in general, are extremely hostile. And for some new users, that’s the first (and probably only) impression they get when they have an issue trying it out for the first time. It’s a very small minority, but they are loud and aggressive, and are not ostracized by the community nearly enough.

Telling a new user that is going out of their way to figure out how to find and post an issue or feature request to Github, telling them to just fix it themselves isn’t a solution, it’s just being a dick. 99.9% of this planet doesn’t know how to code, just because they’re making a post on GitHub doesn’t mean they know how to code. Especially not at a level to fix an issue like that.

Not really. You’re not messing with the hard drive itself at all. A hard drive is a sealed component. Unless you’re taking an extremely strong magnet near it, dripping it, or trying to directly inject power to the pins on the drive, there is no risk of damaging it.

You’re messing with the plastic shell and maybe a small board that handles low power conversion and the LED. These are very simple things.

This is a standard drive in an external enclosure. They’re not opening the drive itself, just the shell around it.

Backup? Psh… That’s what the lab is for.

Not sure about Swiss laws regarding merchant payment card data retention… But they aren’t really going to matter with this situation either way. Even if Proton doesn’t keep any identifying information directly, the payment processor for sure is going to keep identifying data. Proton will have a confirmation number for the payment being processed, which can be correlated via the payment processor anyway.

Not at all. Proton doesn’t require any personal info at all. But if you pay with a credit card… That has your personal info tied to it. It’s their fuck up paying with a credit card. Proton accepts other payment methods that aren’t tied to your identity.

Proton is required by law to provide information they have when the courts say so.

You know the answer. The answer is always money.

Nah, it’s pretty simple actually. If the archive doesn’t exist at all, they can’t even steal from it.