cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1246200/pdf-a-hacker-s-arrest-reveals-microsoft-can-track-users-ip-history-even-with-vpn-full-we
You can read about it yourself here on page 12 (or page 8 of affidavit), then page 33 and down (page 29 of affidavit)
First one to notice this: Security researcher, VX-Underground.


You are correct.
Like, I actually don’t think I have any notes, at all, for once, hah.
No, yeah… once upon a time I was naive bright eyed idiot that thought the system was fucked, but at least theoretically could be fixed.
Worked for a few corps. Some genuinely good people, management never has any humanity.
One day… I walked past a crumpled lump, in the alley, just before the block with my building.
It was a person.
I’d… never actually seen that before, a homeless person, just sheltering under a blanket.
I could not shake this… it bothered me immensely… what was the point of this whole city, if that can happen? What the fuck am I even doing this for? Who am I trying to impress?
… Go out for lunch, walk past the same spot.
The lump is gone.
Men with essentially flamethrowers are burning the… spot, on the ground, where he was.
I had a complete break down, panic attack, whatever.
The existential dread became fully realized in the same moment I realized… I am part of this machine that eats people. I pull its levers. I am having a pathetic break down, whereas that man died.
That was it. That was what radicalized me.
Quit, worked for a non profit helping the homeless, after that.
You’ve seen more people die since. Do you still even count? You probably knew some of them. It hits different, doesn’t it? When its you losing one, rather than killing them? When you know you’ve saved some?