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Anonymous

79 months ago

Edward Snowden speaks about the current state of #surveillance_💬 in 2019.
(24 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFns39RXPrU

This video was posted October 23, 2019

He describes how difficult it is to tell whether a phone is spying on you. He says the only way to be sure a phone is off is if you can take out the battery, although you can also monitor it with a meter that detects radio waves. He also mentions that he uses faraday cages for his own devices, to physically prevent signals from coming and going.

He goes on to discuss the larger issues of mass surveillance; how "terms of agreement" have been used disingenuously to force us into this situation; how certain legal precedence has disingenuously forced us into this situation by grossly extrapolating certain exceptional legal cases to apply to everyone at all times; and how big data has become such big business that there is a lot of power and influence in motion to try and maintain this era of surveillance.

He has also mentions his recently released book called "Permanent Record" all about how this surveillance stuff all works, and the implications.

He also plugs an article that he wrote with Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang called "Introspection engine" that goes into a lot of detail about one way to mediate these intrusions by using an always-on meter to detect whether radio radiation is going in or out of a phone. Ideally, the meter could be built into the cover on your phone. That article can be found here: https://www.aneddoticamagazine.com/introspection-engine/ - but it looks like that's just a proposal, taken from the full 16 page booklet that goes more in depth about making it work here: https://assets.pubpub.org/aacpjrja/AgainstTheLaw-CounteringLawfulAbusesofDigitalSurveillance.pdf

#security_💬 #surveillance_💬 #video_💬

tagged: #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

80 months ago

In this #video_💬, #Anonymous_💬 provides an excellent introduction to securing your internet traffic with encrypted software and anonymizing your internet connection for using the internet without being tracked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLcJa1nKRcU

Stay #anonymous_💬!

#encryption_💬 #anon_💬 #video_💬

tagged: #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

80 months ago

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

#quote_💬

tagged: #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

80 months ago

A couple builds a tiny home for just $420! They use mostly found materials, and they aren't perfectionists, but the result is quite adorable!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ppB72v-8nY
#video_💬

#diy_💬 #justsaynotolandfills_💬 #tinyhome_💬

tagged: #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

80 months ago

"Maybe raising children really is a thankless task. Maybe there’s no reason to thank someone for putting their energies into a human who did not need to born. Then should we be trying to work against this impulse—as Miles said—pass through our childbearing years without bearing a child, no matter how much we might desire it; but to selflessly and with all our might do whatever we can to avoid it? To find our value and greatness in some place apart from mothering, as a man must find his worth and greatness in some place apart from domination and violence, and the more men and women who do this, the better off the world will be? Miles said we value warring and dominating men, the same way we revere the mother. The egoism of childbearing is like the egoism of colonizing a country—both carry the wish of imprinting yourself on the world, and making it over with your values, and in your image."

tagged: #quote_💬 #foodforthought_💬 #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

81 months ago

To find a strike near you, or announce a new one: https://strikewithus.org/

#globalwarming_💬 #ClimateStrike_💬

tagged: #FridaysForFuture_💬 #SchoolStrike4Climate_💬 #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

81 months ago

Facebook and other social media herd us into a Monoculture through positive reinforcement. Nothing new can ever be created artistically or politically if popularity is required to reach people.

To learn more about Monoculturalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoculturalism

tagged: #psychology_💬 #socialmedia_💬 #popularity_💬 #monoculture_💬 #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

82 months ago

REMINDER: Install HTTPS-Everywhere on your browser, if you haven't already!

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts your communications by always trying to redirect any HTTP to a HTTPS version of the same website. That way you won't accidentally access the insecure version of a website, if it has a secure tunnel set up.

This #protip_💬 is especially important right now, because https://tilde.camp has HTTPS now! But I haven't managed to set it up to redirect from http to https on the server-side, so it's up to you to remember the httpS, or install HTTPS-Everywhere so you don't have to remember a thing! This means, although the dark forces can see that you're visiting tilde.camp, they won't be able to deduce what exactly you're doing there without great effort, so this makes your browsing much more secure.

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

#browser_💬 #encryption_💬 #security_💬

tagged: #https_💬 #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

82 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism

Crypto-anarchism (or crypto-anarchy) is a form of anarchy accomplished through computer technology. Crypto-anarchists employ cryptographic software to evade persecution and harassment while sending and receiving information over computer networks, in an effort to protect their privacy, their political freedom, and their economic freedom.

One motive of crypto-anarchists is to defend against surveillance of computer networks communication. Crypto-anarchists try to protect against government mass surveillance, such as PRISM, Tempora, telecommunications data retention, the NSA warrantless surveillance, Room 641A, the FRA and so on. Crypto-anarchists consider the development and use of cryptography to be the main defense against such problems.

#philosophy_💬 #encryption_💬 #anarchy_💬

tagged: #fskynet_💬

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Anonymous

83 months ago

We're starting to see some more effects of global warming...

"It's So Damn Hot Around The World Right Now"
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j5w3k8/its-so-damn-hot-around-the-world-right-now

..these symptoms are a sign of all of us humans failing each other, and they will only worsen as long as we fail to rapidly and radically alter our lifestyles to better suit our biosphere.

Excerpts:

"[wildfires are] also burning throughout the Arctic Circle, particularly in Siberia. The flames release climate-heating carbon dioxide into the atmosphere."

“The amount of CO2 emitted from Arctic Circle fires in June 2019 is larger than all of the CO2 released from Arctic Circle fires in the same month from 2010 through to 2018 put together,” Thomas Smith, a geography professor at the London School of Economics, told Motherboard.

"The heat baked France, which shattered its temperature record: In Gallargues-le-Montueux, in southern France, temps hit 114 degrees Fahrenheit on June 28, beating the 2003 record of 111 degrees during a heat wave that left 15,000 dead."

"Temperatures hit 120 degrees Fahrenheit in early June in Churu in Northern India. They’ve abated since, but water reservoirs are still drying up."

"In the Chinese capital, temperatures hit at least 102 degrees Fahrenheit in early June, according to the Beijing News. That’s the hottest day the city’s seen in the last 50 years."

#climatechange_💬 #globalwarming_💬

tagged: #fskynet_💬

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