[sweetbitter]

> can just wait for you to make a mistake.

Anyhow, if one slip-up is enough, you're doing it wrong. Imagine you were a mad scientist testing out a jetpack- you are confident yes? But I imagine you would feel more confident with a bunch of nets, and a trampoline underneath that, and a lightning rod in case of a storm, and a requirement that you hold down multiple buttons at once to play with the controls, etc.

That is, if you are serious you will put in multiple safety nets at every layer of the stack so that "one slip" is not enough.

You like to talk to people, but you know that a long-term pseudonym is the gravest danger of them all.

You like virtualization, but you keep some crucial data and keys(treams) on a un-networked machine.

You like anonymizing networks, but you know the caveats of traffic tunneling and didn't connect from your home router.

You connect to a randomly-chosen wireless AP, but you know that just in case your MAC-spoofing fails or you get pwned or something, you are glad that you bought the device with cash and never tied its characteristics to your identity.

You are glad that the only transceiver connected to the device is an external wireless dongle so that when you are done, you don't accidentally connect with your device from home.

You are glad you waited for an overcast day so that you could thwart spy satellites that use visible/infrared light, and that you connected to the AP from afar to thwart cameras.

The list goes on. The guy whose face you see plastered in the news? Yeah, that guy thought his experimental jetpack was the shit. And it was- until it wasn't.