Didn't realize my wireless plan capped tethering speeds, but now it makes sense. When your phone gets ~10-15 mbps and your tethered computer gets .5 or .6 consistently, you know they're screwing w/ the service you paid for.

Welp, I'm ashamed it took me this long to realize, but changing the TTL on my computer seems to have released the throttling.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/cmxp66/2019_bypass_verizon_hotspot_throttle_no_root/

Many people are surprised to learn that weak cryptography systems (including any systems of any ostensible strength with mandated or other backdoors) are vastly more dangerous than using NO cryptography at all.

Why? Because if someone is lulled into complacency and passes their private information through a compromised system as defined above, it becomes vulnerable to criminal and/or illicit government abuse.

On the other hand, if you KNOW that a communications channel is not encrypted, you know what the limits are about what you should or should not pass through that channel.

Interesting, eh?

I was the victim of an extremely clever card fraud/social engineering hack.

Well, partly a victim since I managed to stop it.

I was called by my bank, as they wanted to “verify some suspect transactions on my account”.

Then things got weird…

🧵