<story><title>OPSEC critique of the Michigan Governor kidnap plot</title><url>https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1314237833276612609</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nabla9</author><text>What you see here is people doing serious crime  without being fully cognizant. They  have to collectively to suppress some lines of thought to be able to get into it. The line between weekend live action role-playing, tough talk,  rebellion and reality has blurred with these people. They attended demonstrations, had fantasy plans based on movies they watched, and then started to act on them.&lt;p&gt;These guys are useful fools for those how ignite them.</text></comment>
<story><title>OPSEC critique of the Michigan Governor kidnap plot</title><url>https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1314237833276612609</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sebmellen</author><text>It always surprises me how hard it seems for people to take OpSec seriously (whether for terrorist plots or darknet markets). There are really a few basic ground rules that &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; seem to be violated, even by those with seemingly sufficient experience, like Ross Ulbricht.&lt;p&gt;On the note of OpSec, there&amp;#x27;s an awesome project called USBKill, which probably would&amp;#x27;ve saved Ross Ulbricht from prison.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;USBKill is anti-forensic software distributed via GitHub, written in Python for the BSD, Linux and OS X operating systems. It is designed to serve as a kill switch if the computer on which it is installed should fall under the control of individuals or entities the owner or operator does not wish it to. It is free software, available under the GNU General Public License.&lt;/i&gt; [1]&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;hephaest0s&amp;#x2F;usbkill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;hephaest0s&amp;#x2F;usbkill&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;USBKill&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;USBKill&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>