Hector Martin

You can if you want but ex-FBI agents do not have especially realistic threat models for everyday lifehttps://twitter.com/mental_floss/status/1039323391000543232 …

Honestly, most personal threat mitigations are just fads. E.g. I don't get the whole "tape over camera" thing. If you've pwned my computer enough to remote control my camera, taking pictures of me in unwelcome states of undress is the least of my worries.

It is emphatically not the least of *my* worries. But I actually use the camera so I can’t just tape it up.

That was hyperbole, nobody would enjoy such photos being taken, but my guess is most people in infosec probably have bigger things to worry about if they get compromised to that extent. Is camera pwnage the biggest threat for you?

I've been maliciously targeted specifically on the basis of being a girl/woman more than once in my life.

I understand that. I'm just curious how that becomes the top threat. I might have a different perspective, but I would naively imagine credential and identity theft, or loss of confidential information, could be much more damaging.

I didn't say it's my absolute top threat, I said it was far from the least of my worries. Though anytime someone has been targeting ME, because they know ME, which again, has happened MULTIPLE times, that's definitely been the sort of thing they're after, not the money.