After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

Not being able to talk to a lawyer is insanity. How is that legal?

A timely article, considering that there are currently hackers attacking Honda, various law enforcement agencies, etc.

What seems poltically urgent to you today will pale in comparison to losing 10 years of your life if you're caught.

> Some people refer to these facilities as “Black Sites” because they are cut off from the media, visitors, and lawyers so that what happens in there, stays in there. Interestingly enough, the Seagoville Federal Correctional Institution was once a Japanese internment camp.

> That’s three showers a week. 23/5 confinement to an 8X10 cell without air conditioning, a fan, or adequate ventilation. That summer the temperature inside my cell reached 125 degrees Fahrenheit. With no evidence to support the inmates’ accusation, I was supposed to be released back into the general population. But to make a long story short, that didn’t happen.

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Its terrible how the American system thinks about prison's.

Imagine he could do/learn something good in those 10 years, when he was locked away to protect the public (and that really should be the only point for prisons (protect the public))

Well, that Dell Inspiron ought to have a BIOS/EFI switch to allow you to deactivate the secure boot features, and there are ways to install ubuntu on secure-boot systems using a shim. Failing that, there's now WSL...

But I guess 10 years is a lot of catching up to do!