You mean the bear “Joe Biden” teased until he bit back? Putin has no designs on Europe. Anyone telling you otherwise has no idea what he’s talking about.
Thank you Gato Malo, but Telegram was never encrypted. It should have been completely encrypted the way Signal is encrypted. So nobody especially telegram could read user’s content.
The fact that it was not encrypted opened them up to a lot of requests. Turning down those TPTB requests put them into great jeopardy.
Contrast that with Signal, which has almost no knowledge of any of its users. That is the model, sans the requirement for phone numbers and perhaps more decentralized.
Nostr is the best communication tool available today as it is resistant to censorship, open source, and truly can be anonymous.
Meanwhile, we have a new Julian Assange, regrettably, and I doubt this is going to end any time soon.
I have ex-College friends involved in the "Security Services" who will only use Signal. But even Signal has been questioned. And with Quantum machines coming soon, encryption is a whole new ball game, for which even most VPNs are not yet prepared.
The problem with that viewpoint is that it's moot. The tpm and its equivalents in chromium, macOS, iOS, Android, etc machines already has complete access to what ever device you are accessing anything from and it holds the encryption keys for every app, Signal or whatever. If you can see the message, it can see the message. We need a whole new set of machines and not just a new type of phone. . https://blastedreality.substack.com/p/a-brief-summary-and-analysis-of-the?utm_source=publication-search
in the real world today, I think GrapheneOS on a recent Google Pixel phone is very secure and private, if the user is careful.
Of course, if you are on the cellular network, you aren't really private but you can be secure to some degree.
Keys on the device -- yes but they are heavily sandboxed and special chipsets deployed and clever crypto.
For some in the gubmint that want to read our messages, others in the gubmint are struggling just as hard to make messages undecipherable.
That's why we have things like Tor and cash. The CIA et al finds them useful. There are always people who are in positions of power who want encrypted communications and privacy and secrecy, and these are not possible with backdoors.
Permit me a different opinion. Consider the fact that regularly we see in the press that high-level government officials are flown to foreign nations. For example, a national security staffer flies to an ally for some type of meeting. Now, let’s take a step back and ask some simple questions:
Electronic communications have been available for many decades. They convey information at the speed of light, far more conveniently than even jets carrying personnel. Governments and perhaps to a lesser extent powerful international corporations have secrets to keep so they’ve had access to the best encryption and coding tech that money could buy. In theory at least, powerful governments have phone and other messaging systems that are good enough for “above top secret.”
Or are they? Why would envoys travel regularly halfway around the world, sometimes just to stay a few hours in a foreign capital? These are the events we read in the press; it is a reasonable supposition that many more such travels go unreported.
Wouldn’t it be a reasonable hypothesis that even the supposedly “secure” electronic means cannot be trusted? If even powerful governments, like the U.S., cannot trust their own combs networks for certain matters, that doesn’t speak well of the system as a whole.
Of course, sometimes the issue is not that a secret "message" need be delivered, but something that cannot be sent electronically, such as the ubiquitous briefcase full of cash.
Of course it’s even more conjecture what the hush-huts topics are. But it’s a pretty easy guess that complex “secure” comms networks cannot be fully trusted due to human factors, not directly technological ones. In a complex network, the message simply must pass through too many hands for confidence to be assured. For those who’ve studied a bit of history, it turns out that even the most trusted employees, who had extensive background investigations before they obtained their “Does not exist” clearances, can still fail. History is repute with major security breaches. One can only guess as the ones that have been kept under wraps, or those that were never caught.
"That's why we have things like Tor and cash" - There are also other true peer to peer networks out there like Qortal but less known. Blockchain based communications, trades etc. Very rough around the edges LOL but I feel better using it than the others.
The only real, practical value of the blockchain is the elimination of trusted third party intermediacy, or disintermediation. In which case, it's very appropriate for communications. Thanks for bringing this up.
The titan m2 chip serves the same purpose as the tpm 2.0 chip does in PCs . Same as the other main systems have their own equivalents. The standard itself was created by The Trusted Computing Group for the purpose of benefiting board members of the trusted computing group. Go take a look at their board. Tell me if you see a single consumer rights advocate or any type of privacy centric group on that board.
The links in the description of the video I linked above take you directly to the current usage and proposed future usage of these chips (the links are actually a bit older now, so the proposed usage is now the current usage and the planned usage is even worse. It's their documentation, not mine.) The sandbox you are relying on is a successful marketing concept, not an active security measure working for your benefit.
So, in the really real world, your Pixel is as secure as using a megaphone to speak to your bank. Unless you found a way to remove the titan chip, your personal choice of os is unimportant.
Yes about a year or so. The possibilities are quite mindblowing - not only is it censorship resistant, but it is a completely open protocol for anyone to develop any type of social media platform they like. Most are currently clones of twitter, or others like reddit and substack. But the ideas are not now limited to CEOs / VCs but any kid at home can create something - and all nostr users are already registered. There are payments built in with bitcoin / lightning.
But if you try it, be aware it came from bitcoin - and a lot of the content there is still bitcoin related, so you won't find it a replacement of eg twitter yet - but i've witnessed that changing already and i have now found decent sized communities interested in awake things like covid reparations etc..
Sounds good-I'll run it by my kids to get me up and running. Like many born way back in the previous century, I've got a low TUQ score... and that would be Tech Understanding Quotient :)
Julian assuage is ciA. Don’t fool yourself. If they want your phone number they are tracking you. None of these platforms are private and I suspect this entire story is bs to get people to run to telegram.
All celebrity is owned or controlled and exploited for its influence to shape public perceptions, promote, and propagandize.
There is much shadiness surrounding Assange, and the recent resolution of his predicament gives even more cause for caution. He may indeed have been made to suffer, but that does not preclude the likelihood that it was a manufactured crisis.
By the way, Sketches of Spain is breathtaking. I really regret passing up the opportunity to go see you playing live back in 1989.
"On the other hand, he dumped tons of top secret files about TPTW.
Just because too many were too distracted to look at them doesn't mean he didn't deliver the goods."
Yes, you are very correct. The leaks were extremely compromising - or should have been. Let's face it, there hardly were any consequences of substance. The 2016 election result was unaffected (it went the way it did because the controllers, who are always completely detached from the people, and in '16 they believed their own polling), HRC is still walking freely, NSA is still spying, and Iraqi babies are still dead and no one even knows their names.
Sadly, you're correct. Just like the limited hangout: deliberate disclosure of a partial truth or some genuine facts in order to pin down their attention or wrong tack truth seekers. It's all about management of perception and keeping the real story concealed.
Do you have any leads for Wikileaks being a CIA op?
It is, but I doubt it because it is open source and the founders and operators seem very sincere to me. I can't evaluate the software, but if I wanted to, I could run my own signal service I believe, by visiting Github and doing an install.
Signal has been subpoened enough times. We know they cannot give anything much out about a person, other than the phone number and when they registered. Apparently the protocol obfuscates, encrypts or doesn't gather anything else.
Youtube has some videos showing the response of Signal Foundation to subpoenas.
That' why nobody is bothering. I will repeat, Instagram was not encrypted, and is not (unless you are in a very specific use case, e.g. 1 to 1 private messaging) and they were and are vulnerable to gubmint actions because the gubmint CAN get the information of who is saying what when.
but with signal, they can't. I think that is why Facebook is moving towards full e2e encryption as they have for years with whatsapp (a licensee of signal technology). They can't afford to have information on their servers, in certain cases, if they are to keep their user's trust.
It's zero knowledge, zero trust that is going to be the key going forward.
Not all Linux distros are (created) equal. Avoid - like the plague! - any and every distro with systemd. systemd is not only the default but the only init system and system/service manager available on all the major and most popular Linux distros (Ubuntu, Centos/Fedora/Red Hat, Suse, Arch, and most others), and that is almost certainly not by accident.
It's great that you weren't put-off by my brusqueness and my penchant for the dramatic. Or maybe you were put-off, nonetheless you're mature enough to still engage with a churlish git like I am (sorry).
Red Hat, which is now openly owned by Microsoft though, arguably, Microsoft may have exerted control in key areas before the full acquisition (for instance, they recruited Lennart Poettering first; Poettering is the creator of systemd while at Red Hat), developed the systemd init system and system/service manager. Unlike the Linux philosophy of, paraphrasing, 'do one thing and do it well,'' simplicity, and open source code, systemd does many, many things, inserts into everything, and is highly convoluted and blob-like.
There are many, many technical problems and issues with systemd (some are listed here: https://nosystemd.org/) but the main issue relevant to this discussion here is not merely a philosophical question. One of the ostensible reasons for systemd was an assumed problem of dealing with fragmentation. The systemd that they came up with is inflexible by design and spreads out like an infestation to intrudes into every process and subsystem. It is becoming like a (binary, closed) operating system within an open source operating system, undermining and overthrowing the open source architecture in the process.
I am speculating here, but a platform like systemd, which infiltrates throughout, tapping into every single process, is an ideal staging framework for surveillance and control by a state/military entity - less like a backdoor, more like a Trojan Horse. Microsoft already has these kinds of capabilities with the Windows O/S. Does it potentially or actually have this with Linux now as well?
It may seem like nothing important to operations and people who don’t really care about ‘under the hood’ as long as their desktop environment keeps running. But this is the kind of thinking that leads to where we are right now, with huge corporations that are outgrowths of the military and 'Deep State' owning and controlling the technology we have (allowed ourselves to) become dependent on.
There is another, broader issue at play, that being whether it should be acceptable that we adopt technology without sufficiently understanding how it is made and how it works, and we don't understand its vulnerabilities and the resultant vulnerabilities to us personally and societally as a result of adopting the technology. But though that's an important discussion that needs to be had, it need not necessarily be had right here and now.
As alternatives to the big, popular distributions that have adopted systemd, you'll see a bunch of Linux distributions that do not use systemd by default at that same link I gave above, https://nosystemd.org/.
For the record I could give a _hit about Brusqueness.
Never even considered it.
I do however care about information and knowledge whatever its origins.
I realize Linux has long been in the crosshairs. Still the best option.
If I were distro shopping would error on the side of caution.
The Systemd issue I suspect is a user interface compromise, as you point out a vulnerabilty.
Distros are many. Coming from the Windows 10 world simply wished a viable alternative. I have zero regrets, partitioned and have been very happy once configured to my liking. File transfer protocols and backups still have not mastered.
I love the fact that having 50 windows open at once, after several days a freeze, just restarting reboots everything to exactly where you left off.
That is gravy on potatoes.
Speculation in not adequate evidence to compel a Distro change. Linux is open source, and holes can be plugged if exploits are discovered.
That is the whole idea. I do appreciate your information and will be uber aware of any Systemd issue.
I drive Euro cars with alot "under the hood" so that is important and Linux has been nearly flawless. I am used to it, have not booted into Windows in many months.
"For the record I could give a _hit about Brusqueness.
Never even considered it.
I do however care about information and knowledge whatever its origins."
You are a fellow after my own heart.
My own part-story: I bought my own first PC in 1996. As with all PC manufacturers, the Microsoft mafia railroaded all OEM to have Windows installed in off-the-shelf units, and at that time it was Windows 3.11 with DOS 6.2. Almost immediately, I felt the GUI got in my way and had to resort to carrying out all the heavy lifting and serious work flows in DOS terminals. A few weeks after that, I experimented with dual-booting, first with IBM OS/2, then Mandrake Linux. Lack of software for OS/2 and lack of drivers for Mandrake soon frustrated me, but I was won over to the UNIX/Linux approach to doing stuff, system architecture, administration and maintenance. I kept trying distributions and eventually settled on Debian. Since 2002, among my professional responsibilities, I've worn the system administrator hat for Linux and Solaris blade, clustered, and racked server platforms. In 2015 when Debian adopted systemd, uncharacteristically for me, I was caught napping and was not prepared for it when things started behaving in unfamiliar, unacceptable manners. I tried other distros, first Funtoo, then Manjaro, but finally with Devuan I found a completely sane and manageable system, over which I have complete control to me, is transparent with the guts fully observable and available, which is exactly how a GNU/Linux system should be.
"I drive Euro cars with alot "under the hood" so that is important and Linux has been nearly flawless. I am used to it, have not booted into Windows in many months."
Yeah, now I'm convinced we're in-tune.
Full disclosure: there still is one instance of Windows in operation that I'll allow anywhere near me. It's an installation of Windows XP, but it only exists in a completely sandboxed virtual environment with no networking. It's there only if anyone wants to play Age of Empires 2, which is all it's really any good for, and nothing else.
A correction - IBM bought Red Hat, not MS. IMO RH had long been going downhill. It didn't change the trajectory, just the speed. Your points about the distilled awful that is systemd stand, though.
You are absolutely correct, thanks for putting that right.
" IMO RH had long been going downhill. It didn't change the trajectory, just the speed."
While RH had been losing-out to SUSE (IIRC) at the enterprise level over the past several years, they nonetheless trumped everyone when almost all Linux distros embraced systemd, so it may not have made much difference at all in the wider plans that RH were losing market share for their software.
In my opinion, Red Hat is a wedge for military/intelligence/Deep State to penetrate and subvert GNU/Linux. It remains to be proven, but systemd is ideally-positioned to edge-in surveillance and control capabilities that the military/intelligence/Deep State demands. They simply will not tolerate technologies in circulation that are independent and unsubdued.
It’s Milice - the Gestapo equivalent in Vichy France WWII. Only northern coastal France was German occupied and administered because of its strategic position to prevent invasion from Great Britain across the water.
It was the Milice and the French Government who rounded up Jews and shipped them off to the concentration camps, not the Gestapo or SS.
Worth noting. Those who ran the Vichy Government - bureaucrats, minor politicians, judiciary, police, etc - ended up running the French post-war Government. There were no war trials for French big shots.
This could fly under the radar for years Gato. So you have to start knowing that and knowing that it won't achieve everything at once...but the final product could.
You're not going to be able to do this waiting on new cellphones or a currency platform. The platform needs to be built as a scaffold first. And then bring in the "finishings". Much like building a house. You wouldn't/couldn't install the finishings first and then put up the sticks. And you wouldn't be able to put the sticks up for finishings before you had a blueprint. .
My team set out to do something similar to this by building out my ERP. We basically built the bones and reverse engineered the add ons until it became proprietary.
But it took a couple years and I had to raise capital which meant I had to structure a separate SPE that could pay quarterly dividends to the investors for X amount of time from my companies balance sheet until the investors realized the agreed a upon return on their investment.
There's enough app ad-ons right now to accomplish that. Ironically I had to compromise by allowing it to be opened sourced until I was at a point that I could "close"....and I did it with my own team working with developers in Ukraine that worked their asses off for $10/hrs.
There's more to it than I can articulate here. But needless to say capital will have to be raised and it just has to get started. And you also have to bet on the come that some if the tech is at beta now or not that far off. For the platform/application to be feasible you would have to convince investors that it could be monetized. Just no way around that.
I get it. And totally about Metcalfs Law. There are many people much smarter than myself here on Substack that could potentially help in that area...if the effort was collective (god I hate that term).
My message remains the same. We are NOT going to be able to "compete" out of the box and it just has to get started.
I will say I can't think of an easier way to come up with a POC and have a user base out of the gates than to lever all the subscribers on the stacks. Talk about cheap acquisition costs. I mean you have to be pushing 60k-70k alone at this point...not sure tho.
"that's going to be the biggest problem. metcalf's law is no joke."
I think it depends on your expectations. I left twitter for good about a year ago, and only use nostr. There are probably 100x fewer people posting content I like there but it is enough for me, i will never go back.
And as every centralized platform gets shut down, things are only going in one direction.
The substack app does not have an edit choice in the 3 dots. Once you post, you can delete the post if you choose, but I’ve not found a way to edit a post.
I don't think so. Someone first has to like the comment before you can edit. The desktop version allows you that option before anyone likes or responds.
Sorry. I love your points but Durov being locked up in France freaked me out a little. Ok...he has dual citizenship, but France? That country is Bi-Polar. You never know which one you are going to get. The OFF WITH THEIR HEADS HERE IS THE GUILLOTINE or the Vichy traitors trying to save their own ass and picking their powerplay position. Pick one.
People adapt to fit the times. It's been wryly noted for example, that in 1946 any Frenchman you asked would have told you he was in Le Resistance. Similarly, any German male of military age had, of course, served in the regular Wehrmacht. Pity about all those Jews and others who were rounded up in the middle of the night. How were we to know what was going on?
Hahaha. No it was all completely legal...but I did have a lot of legal fees in order to accomplish that.
Bottom line:
I didn't know shit about tech back in 2009 but I just started and figured it out as I went along.
Single most valuable asset to my biz. And the most proud I've ever been with the team. I could sell it but it would be the end of my company....because it is the nexus. The operations could not exist without that platform.
Trust me it wasn't me. It was just an idea. And that's what I'm really trying to say. My system is obviously not a perfect match to what has to happen here....but their are many similarities in terms of getting off the ground.
He is getting the "Ross Ulbricht Treatment" for daring to go against The Machine of the State...
GWB needs to be rotting in prison for "The Patriot Act" and carted out weekly and paraded around as a reminder to those who steal freedom and liberty under the cover of law...
"GWB needs to be rotting in prison for "The Patriot Act""
Start at him, but quickly work down, and especially up, and then spread far and wide at both ends. All government needs to be removed, at all levels, and everywhere.
GWB is like all presidents and prime ministers, and like Trump too, and all their political henchmen. They are all hirelings and servants of the Zionist banker/oligarchic owners. You may think it would make a difference to publicly off a president, but that's already been done (admittedly, it was the same Zionist banker/oligarchic owners who ordered it), and things have only gotten worse.
It's similar to the Kim Dotcom situation. They are holding him responsible for things over which he had no control. But that must be broken because it;s the last line of defense and they have identified clever ways of circumventing the wishes of the Oberfuhrers.
And it's always "But, but, but... the criminals" use these platforms to - well, essentially avoid taxes is their main concern.
I was just stopped by Facebook from sharing this article. They SURVEILLED & CENSORED ME from posting a commentary about CENSORSHIP & SURVEILLANCE.
What they (by "they" I mean the fascists who attempt to impose their will upon me) do not seem to grasp is my reaction to their impertinence. They remind me of teenagers who think they can tell their parents what to do. This parent just says, NO! - Once - And means it.
We all need to remember that tech, government, & corporations NEED US. We do not need them. Without us, without our acquiescence, they are nothing. They only exist because we cooperate with their agendas. Be the parent, not the child.
Musk should offer his own phone or support the one called "Unplugged" that Erick Prince (of Blackwater fame) has produced. Giving the middle finger to Google (I'm an "androider") was worth changing even though some inconveniences were encountered.
Enslaving us via an Android (Google-based) or Apple phone was ridiculously easy to do. Reminds me of the five billion lab rats captured by the jab juice pushers.
I hope Elon reads this. He should be able to do this, with all the tech he has. Soon as the bird is cleared I would love to join, but now, I hold off, even though there are multiple people I would like to follow.
Seems like the man should not have mistrusted Russia, which is now safer than most western countries, so it seems. If the darn language were not so hard I might move there myself. Plenty of beautiful places. Dubai seems a bit too hot and dry.
I thought of that, but find it unlikely compared to the simple alternative explanation: the US and Europe demand to violate everyone's privacy and aggressively threaten anyone who effectively defends privacy.
{...is really not part of the Deep State...} 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ANYBODY that reached the high echelons of "public service" (an euphemism for 'being compromised to the real ones in power' and valid everywhere in the West) has undergone previous, year-long scrutiny by the Deep State handlers and has shown them his/her deep and unwavering submissiveness. Time will show; very soon indeed !!!
I'm NOT pretending to say that the "shooting" was fake ...
Or those could simply be part of a more elaborate ruse. Or, going the other way, not everything is a black op. For example in the case of the Trump assassination attempt, I agree there are many oddities. But I think it really was a case of a mad lone gunman. Consider that no "rational" hetman would never have taken the job; he would surely know it was a suicide mission. I’m not in the trade, but I’m pretty sure that competent hit men are quite rare; those who have a death wish much rarer still. I supposed a brainwashed killer a la MKULTRA or Bourne Identity is possible but increasingly unlikely.
The attempted assassination just after Biden went down in flames in the debate screams desperation by the DNC / CIA upon realizing that Biden could not possibly "win" even within the 2020 margin of cheating.
I'm sure he was _not_ a lone gunman, and that Oswald wasn't either.
I wonder if Enemies of the State as defined by western Europe are suddenly going to start accidentally falling out of hotel windows from the upper floors.
France shouldn't stop there. Apple and the Android makers should be jailed for allowing the app, and cell carriers should be swooped up, too. Heck, with AI, they should just implement a system where your message has to be pre-approved before being sent.
Same capitalist overlords here as in the USA, gato. Same agendas. Same corporations owning virtually everything and using that to push politics where they want them.
It's called neoliberalism, and was the dream-child of Friedrich Hayek among others.
And it is working exactly as intended: destroy or dismantle actual democracy in favour of capitalist post-nationalist corporativism. I.e. communism but from the opposite direction, so to speak.
Instead of "The Party" owning and controlling everything, it's the corporations while their political proxies get to bear the blame and the shame (as they well should, no excuses - every politician has the power to say "No!" or take the money, bend over and say "Yes, lobby me harder Daddy Warbucks!".
Ain't no wonder an islamic state puts him up. It serves their interests, at present. Soon as it doesn't, he's brown bread.
I do hope Hayek et al are happy. Their theory, conceived as some kind of anti-Keynesianism and anti-Roosevelt's "New Deal"-politics and policies, is now reality. By making greed and egotism (under the guise of "free markets" and "rational choice") the supreme virtues, the West is dying.
For a while you could not buy Oxygen concentrators on Amazon or EBay because they were deemed to be a prescription medical treatment even if you were planning to use it for a glass working blow torch instead of saving the life of a covid sufferer with comorbidities.
Time to pull the plug on NATO, which was created to defend FROM, not FOR this behavior. Huge cost savings.
Time to pull the plug on ALL these agencies!
PS: The government owns the internet regardless of browser/search engine.
Time to pull the plug on government. <=== We're way, way, way late on that one.
Say Neigh To NATO, the Horse Dewormer of Global organizations.
NATO still has a role. Hasn’t anyone noticed the bear problem in the neighborhood?
You mean the bear “Joe Biden” teased until he bit back? Putin has no designs on Europe. Anyone telling you otherwise has no idea what he’s talking about.
Thank you Gato Malo, but Telegram was never encrypted. It should have been completely encrypted the way Signal is encrypted. So nobody especially telegram could read user’s content.
The fact that it was not encrypted opened them up to a lot of requests. Turning down those TPTB requests put them into great jeopardy.
Contrast that with Signal, which has almost no knowledge of any of its users. That is the model, sans the requirement for phone numbers and perhaps more decentralized.
Nostr is the best communication tool available today as it is resistant to censorship, open source, and truly can be anonymous.
Meanwhile, we have a new Julian Assange, regrettably, and I doubt this is going to end any time soon.
I have ex-College friends involved in the "Security Services" who will only use Signal. But even Signal has been questioned. And with Quantum machines coming soon, encryption is a whole new ball game, for which even most VPNs are not yet prepared.
The problem with that viewpoint is that it's moot. The tpm and its equivalents in chromium, macOS, iOS, Android, etc machines already has complete access to what ever device you are accessing anything from and it holds the encryption keys for every app, Signal or whatever. If you can see the message, it can see the message. We need a whole new set of machines and not just a new type of phone. . https://blastedreality.substack.com/p/a-brief-summary-and-analysis-of-the?utm_source=publication-search
in the real world today, I think GrapheneOS on a recent Google Pixel phone is very secure and private, if the user is careful.
Of course, if you are on the cellular network, you aren't really private but you can be secure to some degree.
Keys on the device -- yes but they are heavily sandboxed and special chipsets deployed and clever crypto.
For some in the gubmint that want to read our messages, others in the gubmint are struggling just as hard to make messages undecipherable.
That's why we have things like Tor and cash. The CIA et al finds them useful. There are always people who are in positions of power who want encrypted communications and privacy and secrecy, and these are not possible with backdoors.
Permit me a different opinion. Consider the fact that regularly we see in the press that high-level government officials are flown to foreign nations. For example, a national security staffer flies to an ally for some type of meeting. Now, let’s take a step back and ask some simple questions:
Electronic communications have been available for many decades. They convey information at the speed of light, far more conveniently than even jets carrying personnel. Governments and perhaps to a lesser extent powerful international corporations have secrets to keep so they’ve had access to the best encryption and coding tech that money could buy. In theory at least, powerful governments have phone and other messaging systems that are good enough for “above top secret.”
Or are they? Why would envoys travel regularly halfway around the world, sometimes just to stay a few hours in a foreign capital? These are the events we read in the press; it is a reasonable supposition that many more such travels go unreported.
Wouldn’t it be a reasonable hypothesis that even the supposedly “secure” electronic means cannot be trusted? If even powerful governments, like the U.S., cannot trust their own combs networks for certain matters, that doesn’t speak well of the system as a whole.
Of course, sometimes the issue is not that a secret "message" need be delivered, but something that cannot be sent electronically, such as the ubiquitous briefcase full of cash.
Of course it’s even more conjecture what the hush-huts topics are. But it’s a pretty easy guess that complex “secure” comms networks cannot be fully trusted due to human factors, not directly technological ones. In a complex network, the message simply must pass through too many hands for confidence to be assured. For those who’ve studied a bit of history, it turns out that even the most trusted employees, who had extensive background investigations before they obtained their “Does not exist” clearances, can still fail. History is repute with major security breaches. One can only guess as the ones that have been kept under wraps, or those that were never caught.
Their reason is to talk about Space Aliens.
"That's why we have things like Tor and cash" - There are also other true peer to peer networks out there like Qortal but less known. Blockchain based communications, trades etc. Very rough around the edges LOL but I feel better using it than the others.
"... Blockchain based communications ..."
The only real, practical value of the blockchain is the elimination of trusted third party intermediacy, or disintermediation. In which case, it's very appropriate for communications. Thanks for bringing this up.
The titan m2 chip serves the same purpose as the tpm 2.0 chip does in PCs . Same as the other main systems have their own equivalents. The standard itself was created by The Trusted Computing Group for the purpose of benefiting board members of the trusted computing group. Go take a look at their board. Tell me if you see a single consumer rights advocate or any type of privacy centric group on that board.
The links in the description of the video I linked above take you directly to the current usage and proposed future usage of these chips (the links are actually a bit older now, so the proposed usage is now the current usage and the planned usage is even worse. It's their documentation, not mine.) The sandbox you are relying on is a successful marketing concept, not an active security measure working for your benefit.
So, in the really real world, your Pixel is as secure as using a megaphone to speak to your bank. Unless you found a way to remove the titan chip, your personal choice of os is unimportant.
Fantastic to see someone posting here about nostr - it really is the future.
Anyone who wants to check it out could start at primal.net or https://nostr.com/
Or read this https://www.lynalden.com/the-power-of-nostr/
Never heard of it but it sounds good. Been using it for a while?
about a year. It truly is designed for subverting censorship and maintaining anonymity.
Yes about a year or so. The possibilities are quite mindblowing - not only is it censorship resistant, but it is a completely open protocol for anyone to develop any type of social media platform they like. Most are currently clones of twitter, or others like reddit and substack. But the ideas are not now limited to CEOs / VCs but any kid at home can create something - and all nostr users are already registered. There are payments built in with bitcoin / lightning.
But if you try it, be aware it came from bitcoin - and a lot of the content there is still bitcoin related, so you won't find it a replacement of eg twitter yet - but i've witnessed that changing already and i have now found decent sized communities interested in awake things like covid reparations etc..
Oh yeah it's really awake!
Sounds good-I'll run it by my kids to get me up and running. Like many born way back in the previous century, I've got a low TUQ score... and that would be Tech Understanding Quotient :)
Julian assuage is ciA. Don’t fool yourself. If they want your phone number they are tracking you. None of these platforms are private and I suspect this entire story is bs to get people to run to telegram.
"I suspect this entire story is bs to get people to run to telegram" - That's a possibility most people don't entertain.
I don't entertain most people.
100%
This is such valuable advice.
All celebrity is owned or controlled and exploited for its influence to shape public perceptions, promote, and propagandize.
There is much shadiness surrounding Assange, and the recent resolution of his predicament gives even more cause for caution. He may indeed have been made to suffer, but that does not preclude the likelihood that it was a manufactured crisis.
By the way, Sketches of Spain is breathtaking. I really regret passing up the opportunity to go see you playing live back in 1989.
Maybe right on Assange, and I love your Freudian spelling! On the other hand, he dumped tons of top secret files about TPTW.
Just because too many were too distracted to look at them doesn't mean he didn't deliver the goods.
Time will tell.
" I love your Freudian spelling!"
hehe!
"On the other hand, he dumped tons of top secret files about TPTW.
Just because too many were too distracted to look at them doesn't mean he didn't deliver the goods."
Yes, you are very correct. The leaks were extremely compromising - or should have been. Let's face it, there hardly were any consequences of substance. The 2016 election result was unaffected (it went the way it did because the controllers, who are always completely detached from the people, and in '16 they believed their own polling), HRC is still walking freely, NSA is still spying, and Iraqi babies are still dead and no one even knows their names.
CIA dumps what they want you to know. It’s controlling the opposition
Sadly, you're correct. Just like the limited hangout: deliberate disclosure of a partial truth or some genuine facts in order to pin down their attention or wrong tack truth seekers. It's all about management of perception and keeping the real story concealed.
Do you have any leads for Wikileaks being a CIA op?
Is it possible that Signal is run by the Intelligence agencies?
It is, but I doubt it because it is open source and the founders and operators seem very sincere to me. I can't evaluate the software, but if I wanted to, I could run my own signal service I believe, by visiting Github and doing an install.
Signal has been subpoened enough times. We know they cannot give anything much out about a person, other than the phone number and when they registered. Apparently the protocol obfuscates, encrypts or doesn't gather anything else.
Youtube has some videos showing the response of Signal Foundation to subpoenas.
That' why nobody is bothering. I will repeat, Instagram was not encrypted, and is not (unless you are in a very specific use case, e.g. 1 to 1 private messaging) and they were and are vulnerable to gubmint actions because the gubmint CAN get the information of who is saying what when.
but with signal, they can't. I think that is why Facebook is moving towards full e2e encryption as they have for years with whatsapp (a licensee of signal technology). They can't afford to have information on their servers, in certain cases, if they are to keep their user's trust.
It's zero knowledge, zero trust that is going to be the key going forward.
Thank you very much. This is reassuring.
Signal is not safe either. To date, one must assume that anything written (or even spoken) is seen by someone somewhere.
Lets play one up. Howz about Linux as a starter. Howz about putting it behind a VPN
Howz about Yandex as a browser for some things, and Brave for others.
Howz about mixing the pot. If like most everything is done with a cell phone and the "carrier" Howz about making a better decision???
We are in the gray zone, Signal is useful only if both parties use it
TG for phone service is said to be encrypted...
Not all Linux distros are (created) equal. Avoid - like the plague! - any and every distro with systemd. systemd is not only the default but the only init system and system/service manager available on all the major and most popular Linux distros (Ubuntu, Centos/Fedora/Red Hat, Suse, Arch, and most others), and that is almost certainly not by accident.
You have been warned.
Pretty stern warning, Howz about some reasoning to follow?
Further what solution are you suggesting?
It's great that you weren't put-off by my brusqueness and my penchant for the dramatic. Or maybe you were put-off, nonetheless you're mature enough to still engage with a churlish git like I am (sorry).
Red Hat, which is now openly owned by Microsoft though, arguably, Microsoft may have exerted control in key areas before the full acquisition (for instance, they recruited Lennart Poettering first; Poettering is the creator of systemd while at Red Hat), developed the systemd init system and system/service manager. Unlike the Linux philosophy of, paraphrasing, 'do one thing and do it well,'' simplicity, and open source code, systemd does many, many things, inserts into everything, and is highly convoluted and blob-like.
There are many, many technical problems and issues with systemd (some are listed here: https://nosystemd.org/) but the main issue relevant to this discussion here is not merely a philosophical question. One of the ostensible reasons for systemd was an assumed problem of dealing with fragmentation. The systemd that they came up with is inflexible by design and spreads out like an infestation to intrudes into every process and subsystem. It is becoming like a (binary, closed) operating system within an open source operating system, undermining and overthrowing the open source architecture in the process.
I am speculating here, but a platform like systemd, which infiltrates throughout, tapping into every single process, is an ideal staging framework for surveillance and control by a state/military entity - less like a backdoor, more like a Trojan Horse. Microsoft already has these kinds of capabilities with the Windows O/S. Does it potentially or actually have this with Linux now as well?
It may seem like nothing important to operations and people who don’t really care about ‘under the hood’ as long as their desktop environment keeps running. But this is the kind of thinking that leads to where we are right now, with huge corporations that are outgrowths of the military and 'Deep State' owning and controlling the technology we have (allowed ourselves to) become dependent on.
There is another, broader issue at play, that being whether it should be acceptable that we adopt technology without sufficiently understanding how it is made and how it works, and we don't understand its vulnerabilities and the resultant vulnerabilities to us personally and societally as a result of adopting the technology. But though that's an important discussion that needs to be had, it need not necessarily be had right here and now.
As alternatives to the big, popular distributions that have adopted systemd, you'll see a bunch of Linux distributions that do not use systemd by default at that same link I gave above, https://nosystemd.org/.
For the record I could give a _hit about Brusqueness.
Never even considered it.
I do however care about information and knowledge whatever its origins.
I realize Linux has long been in the crosshairs. Still the best option.
If I were distro shopping would error on the side of caution.
The Systemd issue I suspect is a user interface compromise, as you point out a vulnerabilty.
Distros are many. Coming from the Windows 10 world simply wished a viable alternative. I have zero regrets, partitioned and have been very happy once configured to my liking. File transfer protocols and backups still have not mastered.
I love the fact that having 50 windows open at once, after several days a freeze, just restarting reboots everything to exactly where you left off.
That is gravy on potatoes.
Speculation in not adequate evidence to compel a Distro change. Linux is open source, and holes can be plugged if exploits are discovered.
That is the whole idea. I do appreciate your information and will be uber aware of any Systemd issue.
I drive Euro cars with alot "under the hood" so that is important and Linux has been nearly flawless. I am used to it, have not booted into Windows in many months.
"For the record I could give a _hit about Brusqueness.
Never even considered it.
I do however care about information and knowledge whatever its origins."
You are a fellow after my own heart.
My own part-story: I bought my own first PC in 1996. As with all PC manufacturers, the Microsoft mafia railroaded all OEM to have Windows installed in off-the-shelf units, and at that time it was Windows 3.11 with DOS 6.2. Almost immediately, I felt the GUI got in my way and had to resort to carrying out all the heavy lifting and serious work flows in DOS terminals. A few weeks after that, I experimented with dual-booting, first with IBM OS/2, then Mandrake Linux. Lack of software for OS/2 and lack of drivers for Mandrake soon frustrated me, but I was won over to the UNIX/Linux approach to doing stuff, system architecture, administration and maintenance. I kept trying distributions and eventually settled on Debian. Since 2002, among my professional responsibilities, I've worn the system administrator hat for Linux and Solaris blade, clustered, and racked server platforms. In 2015 when Debian adopted systemd, uncharacteristically for me, I was caught napping and was not prepared for it when things started behaving in unfamiliar, unacceptable manners. I tried other distros, first Funtoo, then Manjaro, but finally with Devuan I found a completely sane and manageable system, over which I have complete control to me, is transparent with the guts fully observable and available, which is exactly how a GNU/Linux system should be.
"I drive Euro cars with alot "under the hood" so that is important and Linux has been nearly flawless. I am used to it, have not booted into Windows in many months."
Yeah, now I'm convinced we're in-tune.
Full disclosure: there still is one instance of Windows in operation that I'll allow anywhere near me. It's an installation of Windows XP, but it only exists in a completely sandboxed virtual environment with no networking. It's there only if anyone wants to play Age of Empires 2, which is all it's really any good for, and nothing else.
A correction - IBM bought Red Hat, not MS. IMO RH had long been going downhill. It didn't change the trajectory, just the speed. Your points about the distilled awful that is systemd stand, though.
"A correction - IBM bought Red Hat, not MS."
You are absolutely correct, thanks for putting that right.
" IMO RH had long been going downhill. It didn't change the trajectory, just the speed."
While RH had been losing-out to SUSE (IIRC) at the enterprise level over the past several years, they nonetheless trumped everyone when almost all Linux distros embraced systemd, so it may not have made much difference at all in the wider plans that RH were losing market share for their software.
In my opinion, Red Hat is a wedge for military/intelligence/Deep State to penetrate and subvert GNU/Linux. It remains to be proven, but systemd is ideally-positioned to edge-in surveillance and control capabilities that the military/intelligence/Deep State demands. They simply will not tolerate technologies in circulation that are independent and unsubdued.
That day...we wake up and realize we all now are "by" Microsoft.
Europe is basically an architecture museum staffed by mentally retarded sadists.
lol, like-alot
“…however you say “gestapo” in french…”
It’s Milice - the Gestapo equivalent in Vichy France WWII. Only northern coastal France was German occupied and administered because of its strategic position to prevent invasion from Great Britain across the water.
It was the Milice and the French Government who rounded up Jews and shipped them off to the concentration camps, not the Gestapo or SS.
Worth noting. Those who ran the Vichy Government - bureaucrats, minor politicians, judiciary, police, etc - ended up running the French post-war Government. There were no war trials for French big shots.
This could fly under the radar for years Gato. So you have to start knowing that and knowing that it won't achieve everything at once...but the final product could.
You're not going to be able to do this waiting on new cellphones or a currency platform. The platform needs to be built as a scaffold first. And then bring in the "finishings". Much like building a house. You wouldn't/couldn't install the finishings first and then put up the sticks. And you wouldn't be able to put the sticks up for finishings before you had a blueprint. .
My team set out to do something similar to this by building out my ERP. We basically built the bones and reverse engineered the add ons until it became proprietary.
But it took a couple years and I had to raise capital which meant I had to structure a separate SPE that could pay quarterly dividends to the investors for X amount of time from my companies balance sheet until the investors realized the agreed a upon return on their investment.
There's enough app ad-ons right now to accomplish that. Ironically I had to compromise by allowing it to be opened sourced until I was at a point that I could "close"....and I did it with my own team working with developers in Ukraine that worked their asses off for $10/hrs.
There's more to it than I can articulate here. But needless to say capital will have to be raised and it just has to get started. And you also have to bet on the come that some if the tech is at beta now or not that far off. For the platform/application to be feasible you would have to convince investors that it could be monetized. Just no way around that.
the problem is not building the system.
the problem is building a system with sufficient critical mass to be able to compete with the agoras of the current mass platforms.
"good tech" is not even really the starting line, it's just what you need to get to the starting line.
that's going to be the biggest problem. metcalf's law is no joke.
I get it. And totally about Metcalfs Law. There are many people much smarter than myself here on Substack that could potentially help in that area...if the effort was collective (god I hate that term).
My message remains the same. We are NOT going to be able to "compete" out of the box and it just has to get started.
I will say I can't think of an easier way to come up with a POC and have a user base out of the gates than to lever all the subscribers on the stacks. Talk about cheap acquisition costs. I mean you have to be pushing 60k-70k alone at this point...not sure tho.
Metcalfe's Law, meet the Streisand Effect, Streisand, Metcalfe.
Ask Dr. Naomi Wolfe about this:
Banned Again
X Silences Me Yet Again. I am "Dot". So does Youtube.
8/14/24
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/banned-again
It'd be like saying we want a distributive governance model and trying to take down D.C. before local distributive model.
"that's going to be the biggest problem. metcalf's law is no joke."
I think it depends on your expectations. I left twitter for good about a year ago, and only use nostr. There are probably 100x fewer people posting content I like there but it is enough for me, i will never go back.
And as every centralized platform gets shut down, things are only going in one direction.
If you don't know about nostr its an open protocol for social media. No central points of failure. Explainer here: https://www.lynalden.com/the-power-of-nostr/
Don't say Yestr, say Nostr.™
I hate that you can't edit in the substack app. Somehow the most important paragraph didn't make it's way from my cell to the comment. Oh well
Yes you can. The 3 dots offer an edit option.
Also, if you post a comment that doesn’t fully fill, just refresh your screen.
The substack app does not have an edit choice in the 3 dots. Once you post, you can delete the post if you choose, but I’ve not found a way to edit a post.
Can you not copy it, delete it and then repost?
I’ve deleted, then reposted. I’ll copy first next time. Thanks
I don't think so. Someone first has to like the comment before you can edit. The desktop version allows you that option before anyone likes or responds.
Maybe I'm missing something. But try it yourself
You have to select edit BEFORE you hit POST, and for a brief time right after you post.
I just edited my comment after writing it with no likes.
Go to the 3 dots and it offers you edit or delete. 😊
Are you in jail too?
Sorry. I love your points but Durov being locked up in France freaked me out a little. Ok...he has dual citizenship, but France? That country is Bi-Polar. You never know which one you are going to get. The OFF WITH THEIR HEADS HERE IS THE GUILLOTINE or the Vichy traitors trying to save their own ass and picking their powerplay position. Pick one.
People adapt to fit the times. It's been wryly noted for example, that in 1946 any Frenchman you asked would have told you he was in Le Resistance. Similarly, any German male of military age had, of course, served in the regular Wehrmacht. Pity about all those Jews and others who were rounded up in the middle of the night. How were we to know what was going on?
How true is that?!! “This skull on my collar is just a trinket from my father, I swear!”
Yeah...it's certainly a different era
Hahaha. No it was all completely legal...but I did have a lot of legal fees in order to accomplish that.
Bottom line:
I didn't know shit about tech back in 2009 but I just started and figured it out as I went along.
Single most valuable asset to my biz. And the most proud I've ever been with the team. I could sell it but it would be the end of my company....because it is the nexus. The operations could not exist without that platform.
An open source, decentralized protocol for social media already exists, with plenty of 'platforms' build on it (interoperable apps).
The protocol is nostr. If interested you could start at primal.net (a twitter clone) or read https://www.lynalden.com/the-power-of-nostr/
Impressive! Does Elon know about you/your platform?
Trust me it wasn't me. It was just an idea. And that's what I'm really trying to say. My system is obviously not a perfect match to what has to happen here....but their are many similarities in terms of getting off the ground.
We need our own flag emoji for twitter to be more "high profile" A "decentralized flag."
He is getting the "Ross Ulbricht Treatment" for daring to go against The Machine of the State...
GWB needs to be rotting in prison for "The Patriot Act" and carted out weekly and paraded around as a reminder to those who steal freedom and liberty under the cover of law...
"GWB needs to be rotting in prison for "The Patriot Act""
Start at him, but quickly work down, and especially up, and then spread far and wide at both ends. All government needs to be removed, at all levels, and everywhere.
GWB is like all presidents and prime ministers, and like Trump too, and all their political henchmen. They are all hirelings and servants of the Zionist banker/oligarchic owners. You may think it would make a difference to publicly off a president, but that's already been done (admittedly, it was the same Zionist banker/oligarchic owners who ordered it), and things have only gotten worse.
Hear hear.
It's similar to the Kim Dotcom situation. They are holding him responsible for things over which he had no control. But that must be broken because it;s the last line of defense and they have identified clever ways of circumventing the wishes of the Oberfuhrers.
And it's always "But, but, but... the criminals" use these platforms to - well, essentially avoid taxes is their main concern.
hmm, I dunno. persecuting tax avoiders is sort of old hat, before governments were basically monopoly money printing presses.
I was just stopped by Facebook from sharing this article. They SURVEILLED & CENSORED ME from posting a commentary about CENSORSHIP & SURVEILLANCE.
What they (by "they" I mean the fascists who attempt to impose their will upon me) do not seem to grasp is my reaction to their impertinence. They remind me of teenagers who think they can tell their parents what to do. This parent just says, NO! - Once - And means it.
We all need to remember that tech, government, & corporations NEED US. We do not need them. Without us, without our acquiescence, they are nothing. They only exist because we cooperate with their agendas. Be the parent, not the child.
I got off Facebook and instagram.
They steal your data and they are not your friend.
Plus I realized how much time I wasted.
I do understand Facebook if you need it for your business.
New systems are the answer.
Musk should offer his own phone or support the one called "Unplugged" that Erick Prince (of Blackwater fame) has produced. Giving the middle finger to Google (I'm an "androider") was worth changing even though some inconveniences were encountered.
Enslaving us via an Android (Google-based) or Apple phone was ridiculously easy to do. Reminds me of the five billion lab rats captured by the jab juice pushers.
No, Erik Price is not someone to be trusted. Blackwater "infamy" more like it!!!
https://t.me/brainwashed444/121846
A giant silicon thumb in the eye of Sauron—perfect
I hope Elon reads this. He should be able to do this, with all the tech he has. Soon as the bird is cleared I would love to join, but now, I hold off, even though there are multiple people I would like to follow.
Seems like the man should not have mistrusted Russia, which is now safer than most western countries, so it seems. If the darn language were not so hard I might move there myself. Plenty of beautiful places. Dubai seems a bit too hot and dry.
The arrest of Durov is a good proof that Telegram is trustworthy.
It's similar to the DNC/CIA's attempted murder of Trump. Now you know Trump is really not part of the Deep State.
Could be a "3D Chess move." Make everyone think Telegram must be a secure app, so they don't bother with Signal!
I thought of that, but find it unlikely compared to the simple alternative explanation: the US and Europe demand to violate everyone's privacy and aggressively threaten anyone who effectively defends privacy.
{...is really not part of the Deep State...} 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ANYBODY that reached the high echelons of "public service" (an euphemism for 'being compromised to the real ones in power' and valid everywhere in the West) has undergone previous, year-long scrutiny by the Deep State handlers and has shown them his/her deep and unwavering submissiveness. Time will show; very soon indeed !!!
I'm NOT pretending to say that the "shooting" was fake ...
No, neither are sincere. Psyop.
Or those could simply be part of a more elaborate ruse. Or, going the other way, not everything is a black op. For example in the case of the Trump assassination attempt, I agree there are many oddities. But I think it really was a case of a mad lone gunman. Consider that no "rational" hetman would never have taken the job; he would surely know it was a suicide mission. I’m not in the trade, but I’m pretty sure that competent hit men are quite rare; those who have a death wish much rarer still. I supposed a brainwashed killer a la MKULTRA or Bourne Identity is possible but increasingly unlikely.
The attempted assassination just after Biden went down in flames in the debate screams desperation by the DNC / CIA upon realizing that Biden could not possibly "win" even within the 2020 margin of cheating.
I'm sure he was _not_ a lone gunman, and that Oswald wasn't either.
I wonder if Enemies of the State as defined by western Europe are suddenly going to start accidentally falling out of hotel windows from the upper floors.
France shouldn't stop there. Apple and the Android makers should be jailed for allowing the app, and cell carriers should be swooped up, too. Heck, with AI, they should just implement a system where your message has to be pre-approved before being sent.
Same capitalist overlords here as in the USA, gato. Same agendas. Same corporations owning virtually everything and using that to push politics where they want them.
It's called neoliberalism, and was the dream-child of Friedrich Hayek among others.
And it is working exactly as intended: destroy or dismantle actual democracy in favour of capitalist post-nationalist corporativism. I.e. communism but from the opposite direction, so to speak.
Instead of "The Party" owning and controlling everything, it's the corporations while their political proxies get to bear the blame and the shame (as they well should, no excuses - every politician has the power to say "No!" or take the money, bend over and say "Yes, lobby me harder Daddy Warbucks!".
Ain't no wonder an islamic state puts him up. It serves their interests, at present. Soon as it doesn't, he's brown bread.
I do hope Hayek et al are happy. Their theory, conceived as some kind of anti-Keynesianism and anti-Roosevelt's "New Deal"-politics and policies, is now reality. By making greed and egotism (under the guise of "free markets" and "rational choice") the supreme virtues, the West is dying.
But the money is good.
I don’t think the free market or Mises or Hayek are the problem.
Free trade and cooperation is key.
Please don’t fall into its all corporations.
It’s the government working in tandem with corporations.
Corporatism
Does Amazon have guns???
Or any army??? Or Homeland Security??
No.
The government has the ultimate power.
IRS as an example.
Do you really think you own your home?
The government not corporations will take it away.
You can, however, buy guns on Amazon.
That’s funny.
What can’t you buy on the Goliath Amazon???
I use it occasionally, but work hard to support local business whenever possible.
Covid and its transfer of wealth cannot be forgotten or forgiven.
You can’t go to a small business, but box stores are open. For Amazon what a $ maker. ( never made any common sense)
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Corporatism my point in above post. The government mandates it the corporations and their lobbyists clap with glee.
For a while you could not buy Oxygen concentrators on Amazon or EBay because they were deemed to be a prescription medical treatment even if you were planning to use it for a glass working blow torch instead of saving the life of a covid sufferer with comorbidities.
eventually your vote will be cancelled. ?? or is that already happening😂