Sovereignty is not necessarily about spying but about having control over their destiny.

That student was shameless for success. I’m sure she has navigated her way through plenty of institutions by now, confusing getting away with it for being clever.

Sounds like 30 under 30 material.

She probably started a YC startup ("tell us about the time you hacked the system")

If OP remembers her name I’d be really curious to hear what she’s doing now (anonymized of course).

I have no recollection of the student's name.

~150 students in the class, so they were all a blur.

This was also a few years before the web took hold, so I could not have "Google-stalked" her even if I had been so inclined.

I do remember my fellow TA's name! But that's probably not surprising.

EU wokeup from their sleep with backstabs all around. What a rude awakening indeed. Possibly some were dismissed when they raised this scenario as unlikely.

I didn't say never. I just said, if America gets a sane administration again, things won't be automatically back to normal. There will be caution for years. Also, any new administration will spend years undoing all the destruction that has been done until things can be considered normal again.

And yes I don't trust Hungary.

Trust needs to be earned again, it’s a long process but ultimately it can be gained back

Im sure there are other would be Orbans ready to jump in. In fact the current US admin is stoking the fire openly.

Yeah but fewer ransomes would be paid out regardless of who is attacking. They could be spoiling their own market and am sure they would

That's a motivation to avoid tragedy of the commons, not because they're trying to maintain their own reputation to victims. It benefits the criminals even if they change their name.

I find that forced yawning helps me relax and fall asleep when I couldnt otherwise.

I wasn't too impressed by Matrix as much as I was impressed by Animatrix [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix

> Meanwhile I've personally found myself completely unable to take it seriously due to the subliminal messages being "marry and reproduce" and "consume". Like people need sinister brainwashing to fall in love, have sex, or engage in hedonistic consumption.

I thought the billboards and other displays were not subliminal but only viewed by the aliens and the sunglasses could see through that.

Ok, so drop all pretense then and blatantly scavenge through private conversations? Then take whatever from there and maybe sell it to highest bidder?

Code may be easy to write once you know what the code needs to do.

Or even worse, it gets fed back into the AI slop machine