I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever been this paranoid around privacy in my life for a couple personal and interesting reasons.<p>-I disclosed a major security failure at comcast yesterday. It was surprisingly effectively handled and fixed, but in the process I tweeted their CISO after not being able to find any contact for her or even their security team (their security team told me they&#x27;re going try to fix process this now). She blocked my twitter account the next day, but followed&#x2F;unfollowed me sometime much later in the day. I can&#x27;t help shake a weird feeling from that on so many levels. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;ghT0t8o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;ghT0t8o</a><p>-Suin&#x27; the mayor of Chicago next week for his phone records after struggling to go through FOIA for about a year and a half. In the process, they were willing to disclose phone numbers of non-government phones to me with the last four digits redacted. They won&#x27;t give me government owned phone numbers dialed for &quot;privacy concerns&quot; (HAH). FOIA specifically mentions that their privacy shouldn&#x27;t be considered for redaction&#x2F;non-disclosure. Lots of other things and I&#x27;d like to write something up on it after it&#x27;s all done, but I can&#x27;t help shake a visceral paranoia when I walk outside or do internets at the moment.<p>I&#x27;m not going to let that paranoia turn into meekness, though, and if anything, it&#x27;s made me much more open about my concerns and has even thrown me deeper into these rabbit holes. I&#x27;ve had lawyers, friends and family ask me I&#x27;m afraid that something bad will happen, and the answer is mostly &quot;yes, but it&#x27;s just a fear for the unknown and not for my life, etc&quot;. Being open about it seems to reduce that fear.