• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    It literally just made it easier to pinpoint/digital fingerprint him, technically, because he’s the unusual device in a sea of normal devices.

    This is like how network security monitoring uses heuristics to look for unusual patterns and then alerts an admin.

    These guys really do think they’re in a spy movie, don’t they? Except they actually know nothing about modern spycraft, which requires a deep technical knowledge of computing/networks to be able to hide your digital tracks.