Thank you for using proper medical terms!

Plap plip but otherwise perfect.

Yeah, it's really hard to get lay people to understand infosec issues. I had to create a separate VLAN for my wife because she couldn't tolerate being behind a VPN or pihole because she wants to click on sponsored ads on Google.

And don't get me started on how she feels about the fact that I password protect all. She knows my password, but still thinks I'm hiding something.

But I work in InfoSec, so of course I'm hiding everything. Just not from her.

I went to Lowe's a couple of months ago and that night on Amazon I got recommendations for drill bits and cabinet door pulls. The weird thing was that I did buy some drill bits at Lowe's but I just looked at cabinet pulls there. I'm guessing my phone was linked to in-store footage and AI noted where in the store I stopped to look at stuff. As a kid I used to look forward to living in the future, now I kinda regret it.

The seed they need isn't just that they're being spied on, but that it's personally bad for them when compared to not having the device. Alternatives that may be more expensive, but are safer and within their capacity are also valuable.

This is especially a thing with ring cameras. One thing I do is be very upfront about how despite being a victim of the sort of rare crime that inspires people get them out of fear, I didn't respond by buying one or a gun, I then explain why and what alternative I'm going with instead. The cops showed me clearly why they can't be trusted to use camera footage responsibly on behalf of victims when they were loudly demanding answers about my weed bowl but couldn't be bothered to look at the footprints under the window with a cut screen, instead insisting we'd left the door the invader left through unlocked.

So I have this really creepy picture someone painted of Jesus. It's eyes follow you wherever you go I wish I knew how to do that anyways my neighbors are very funny. They put that picture of Jesus on their wiretap.

Yeah, too many people rag on Socrates without really understanding him.

Maybe an important point in all this is you don't have to hide your intentions or even agree. While the idea is to get them to think safely without putting up a defensive perimeter, you can still be genuine about your point of view. How that happens might be circumstantial, but, for example, you can probably always safely say something like, "I'm not saying I agree, but I was curious about your point of view." Of course, every discussion (and how we navigate it) is going to be different.