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She should be paying in Euro then. Never know when the USD is going to collapse.

There's not enough info in here to know how Google was involved if he sent the emails from Proton. Proton absolutely does not cotton to illegal shit, and actionable threats would be up there with LEO compliance.

My guess is he was on a VPN and had logins from a Proton account, validated with a burner phone he kept, and was also logging on to a personal Gmail or using some Google service that identifies him while in the same VPN location. Proton and the VPN give up an IP address that corroborates to what Big G tracks to him.

Edit: even a no-log VPN would likely be compelled to confirm a user at an IP address at a certain time. That's not a a "log" per se...

Idiot should have known to change his VPN location between instances and/or use TOR like a big boy, but mental health issues seem to be there driving force, not rationality.

Sadly not. Super common, and the obvious result of RIFing everyone without a care for who does what or why. Strategy was apparently on the DEI forbidden words list.

These people have zero idea how the government works, they only operate on "loyalty." Which is simply not having the audacity to speak up when something is profoundly stupid, lest it harm their ego. Everything else is scams inside of scams for personal benefit at the taxpayer's expense.

The pattern repeats over and over. Hundreds of embarassing court cases, constant incompetence beyond anything rank and file government ever did before, blatant lies the only way to save face. Clowns elected by fools to spin up a circus to entertain them all while the crops rot in the fields, with no one willing to harvest them.

OK, well, when that happens you let me know. This is honestly such an unlikely thing.

Mutually assured destruction.

The Vienna Convention is what the US uses constantly to keep their people insulated. Which is why there's a nice diplomatic line at Dulles, and no CBP officer would mess with a diplomatic passport holder from any county.

But hey, anything's possible anymore.

Rubio called this fake news and gloated about how easily the NYTimes fell for it. I've seen a copy, and it's flat out bonkers. Missing even mentioning entire segments of what State does. Not formatted for an EO, and at 16 pages, would be one of the longest EOs ever.

What's most likely is that Pete Marocco drafted this months ago while high on himself, and when he was fired last week, he "leaked" this to prove that he was the MAGA purist and that Rubio isn't a true believer.

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Is...is that how I get permission?

I am currently in the smoky dimension of Burek9.

What took you to Sahel?

Airplane.

There's a way to finagle a straw in a hole in the top for maximum convenience ;)

Yes, and the Vienna Convention is what outlines that Swiss or any other country's diplomatic officials don't have to do that with work devices.

Man, I've been multidimensional poor.

Homeless as a kid in the States. Decade or so later, lived in a mud hut in the Sahel for 3 years and carried my water from the well. Raised my own livestock.

Looking forward to teaching people how to make a bidet from a water bottle so you only have to use leaves for faster drying ;)

The concern is that even encrypted communicatons, intercepted via the heavily Chinese-tapped US telecommunications company networks, can be used to gain access to other systems. Unencrypted data, sure, that's a legit concern. China can likely read every SMS sent to any US phone number and no one seems to care at all. Things like downgrade attacks, other man-in-the-middle attacks, and skimming SMS 2FA codes are likely possible with poorly defended systems.

If the data it's encrypted, then it's more about the paranoia that China is collecting everything and planning to decrypt later with quantum processors. Not exactly a huge and urgent worry, but one day they will crack how to decrypt what they collect and will have a record of everything said online.