The entire vibe of this article is questionable. At times feeling like they just cut and pasted from a press release. And then finishing off with this:
If you ever happen to feel like illegally entering China through the Vietnam border, now you know who—or what—will be there to whoop your ass!
Because the average person doesn't know what any of that means. It's just something for them nod at.
I remember once around the 2016 era I was reading an article where they were accusing Russia of hacking election offices and it turns out that they were just being port scanned like every other IP is 24/7. But people bought right into that narrative hook, line, and sinker. I had so many arguments with libs in my life about that shit. And I'm someone that can point to my own work being on wikipedia. But my word meant nothing because I'm just some nerd they know, and the news is an authority figure in their lives. The Consent do be manufactured.
It's the intelligence equivalent of throwing someone under the bus to misdirect from the actual perpetrator. They'll release limited info on an operation (or a totally different operation) to sate people's curiosities while keeping back all the more damning information of the bigger picture. In a way, the recent epstein file releases have been kind of a limited hangout.
Eh, the flipper is pretty much a pentest device, I could see it. As mentioned, it should really be a category of numerous hacker devices, but I could see how they could ignorantly land on a pi. Glad to know I'll be fine with my diy pineapple tho!
See if you can find a mutual aid org where you're moving to? They might be able to help financially in the short term, plus helping out and meeting folks might get you a job.
Gonna keep doing this till there's just a skattering of skeletons in a smoldering fortress on the north pole.