Paranoia

[foxgrrl]

The morning after I made this post: http://foxgrrl.livejournal.com/50642.html I walked into work — that afternoon actually — and was making random chit-chat with a coworker — flint_otter actually — and he said that he was reading this article on C|Net about how there was some new super-exploit already for the recent Windows vulnerability, and I'm like: Yeah, the MS06-070 one, I just wrote an exploit for it last night. And he's like, No it's something really new as of Tuesday. And I'm like, Yeah, that was MS06-070, unless one of the other ones was horribly exploitable. And he's like, Well, someone just wrote an exploit for it, and it's on the front page of C|Net. And I'm like, Um, I just wrote an exploit for it… And made a mention of it in my blog… Having been around C|Net reporters before, I know that they print a lot of hearsay and rumors from questionable sources. [And as I write this, Nyah keeps trying to tickle me → Just you wait until I write about this in my LJ! I exclaim. It's making it a bit hard to concentrate…]

So, I looked the article up…

http://news.com.com/Experts+raise+Windows+security+alarm/2100-1002_3-6136310.html

Paranoia mounting… Right now, I really don't need nameless cyclopean institutions investigating me… again. Especially, if there's suddenly a huge MS06-070 exploiting-worm outbreak. You know, it looks kinda suspicious, since I told a bunch of people that I write 0-day exploits and internet worms for a living; I might be viewed as a suspect. But I quickly figured out that they were referring to this: http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2789 (I still haven't published my MSF3 module anywhere.)

There was a period of time when I wasn't oppressively paranoid all the time, when I wasn't incredibly uptight and stressed out… when I wasn't pretending to be normal. It was right after I transitioned (the first time). In a way, I was really going from one box to another by going stealth - But there was a time in between, when I was outside of the rigid boxes.

Oh yeah, for those of you who didn't know, I'm a MtFtMtWtF transsexual.

What with her being a genderqueer hacker and everything…
or her being a genderqueer lesbian hacker…
or her being a genderqueer lesbian furry hacker…
or her being a genderqueer lesbian pagan furry hacker…
or her being a genderqueer lesbian otherkin pagan furry hacker…
or her being a left-handed genderqueer lesbian otherkin pagan furry hacker…

…life can be pretty difficult on that young lady.

Comments

[obliviousally.livejournal.com]

It's obviously the left-handedness that's going to bite you in the ass. ^_-

[helger.livejournal.com]

Well, being a leftie is an honour, so at least in this part I only can congratulate.

I wonder if furries are a subcommunity of otherkins or is it a bit more complicated?

The same question about genderqueers and lesbians, actually...

[obliviousally.livejournal.com]

I kid, I kid. My mate's a leftie. :3

I know most otherkin/therians tend to keep away from the furries. Furry's more of a childish subculture compared to the spirituality community of the otherkin/therians. At least, that's how it's always seemed to me.

[helger.livejournal.com]

Well, that was a metaphysical question about the essence and not that much about the subcultures...

The scariest subculture may be this (search for other Russell Brand stuff to really appreciate it)

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

Neither Genderqueer nor lesbian is a subcommunity of their other; they are two distinct sets with a non-null union. There are maleish genderqueer people, and lesbians with a wide-variety of gender identities. Furthermore, being lesbian has more to do with sex than identity, although there's obviously a bit of both; drawing exact borders around it isn't a game I'd want to play. One might offer a definition of it as "people who engage in lesbian acts, or choose to identify as such"; defining lesbian acts is easier in some ways, although depending on the definition, that can be a very important or, especially in the case of stone people.