Welcome to the party. Most people are actually shocked when the facts of these systems is revealed. For us old data dogs that have been in the business for years it's old news.
"Enemy of the State." Great factual movie portrayed his fiction. How about steganography? How about encrypting and encrypted message?
Whatever you're putting on the internet you better believe it's discoverable, readable, modifiable, deletable, retrievable and by people using reasonably simple tools.
As for Ring you only need to consider the case of Nancy Guthrie. Initially they reported that she had Ring but she didn't pay for the data collection or whatever they want to call it and therefore it wasn't a usable source, e.g. it didn't exist. But somehow over about a week to 2 weeks time they were able to find all the data from her ring camera on other people's ring cameras or file servers where her data was not deleted and produce a picture of the possible intruder in her home.
Most people don't realize the evolution of coding techniques. For example when you delete a file the only thing that happens is the operating system changes the first character of the file name in the index of files on the storage device to a special character. It could be a pound sign (#) or it could be an asterisk (*) and so on. Why? Don't make the disc drive do a lot of unnecessary work. The operating system sees that there is no longer a need for that file and those storage addresses and it begins to plug data into that area. So that information you thought was deleted remains until a request for an overwritr is issued.
This really is not as scary as understanding that if somebody's coming after you they'll put the data on your smartphone or your hard drive or your USB stick that they want on there. They don't even have to have the physical device in their hand. I thought not that long ago it was interesting how everyone that certain agencies were interested in always had child pornography on their computer or phone.
That surely doesn't happen!
And it gets worse and it gets worse. What you have to know is that there are some amazingly devious people in the world and if you're putting anything on the internet that they may be interested in they can locate you. Then they will arrest you using statute 1.2.6. That's right. It does not exist but they will make it exist before you ever see the judge......
Here's a brief scenario that you can follow along with quickly:
You are disappointed with the president and his actions more than anything else. As soon as you type the president and his name on your favorite social app you are flagged as it's called. If you go on to write that you would like to see some physical harm come to the person then you are moved up the queue towards the top of the "eyes on" list. Which means eventually you are a primary person of interest that someone sitting in an office of an agency would like to know more about.
A lot of companies in business present themselves as non-governmental entities; private Enterprise. Well maybe as far as the paperwork that's presented to the public is concerned that is true but the other side of the coin is that their data is readily available to the government. Think about Swiss bank accounts and how all of a sudden those people that thought their money was secure found out that the Swiss didn't mind turning it over to the US authorities because they didn't want any problems.
you know, funnily enough you can't buy Enemy of the State as a dvd anymore, nor is it on any of the streaming services and there are very very few clips on YT/etc.
"Robot dogs are increasingly finding real life uses as guardians of sensitive sites like AI data centers, the US-Mexico border, and Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort."
"In a dystopian turn, now they’re also guarding valuable cash crops — at least in the US, where industrial agriculture companies like Bayer are deploying robodogs to watch over hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of raw corn."
Infosec expert here (google me; this is my real name). I feel compelled to post a small correction. Pease do not put Signal and WhatsApp in the same basket. While both use the same message encryption protocol, Signal also encrypts the metadata. The only information Signal has about you is your phone number, when your account was created, and when you last logged in.
Of course, there are attack surfaces common to both. For instance, both use phone numbers for user identification. Signal lets you choose an alias, so that the people you're talking to don't see your phone number - but Whisper Systems (the makers of Signal) certainly know what your phone number is and have the obligation to provide it, if served with a warrant. And unless it's a burner, it means that whoever served that warrant now knows exactly who you are. Spoiler alert: it is practically impossible to get a burner in the EU, because you have to present an ID, in order to get a SIM card. I think Romania is the only exception (which is why many phone scammers operate from Romanian phone numbers) - but that loophole might have been closed lately.
The other avenue of attack is that Signal (and WhatsApp) secure only information in transit. Once it lands on your phone, it is there for law enforcement to seize - if they can break into your phone, which they can, using tools that are nowadays a multi-million dollar business. Sure, you can set disappearing messages in Signal - but if they end up in other databases (like backups, or notifications that appear on the lock screen), they are no longer under Signal's control. And, for some reason, Apple is dragging their feet implementing end-to-end encrypted backups.
The third avenue of attack (somewhat related to the previous one) is that end-to-end encryption is only as secure as both ends are. If the person you're talking to is an FBI informant, it matters not that the conversation was encrypted and you had turned disappearing messages on at your end. If you're planning a protest in a Signal chat group, you will still get arrested if somebody had added an undercover law enforcement officer as a member to the group by mistake.
Panopticon is my new favorite word. Will pair nicely with Overlords. Thank you for that! Also, in my mind I am creating the perfect Dream Team for the unavoidable New World Order that will be forged AGAINST these psychopaths…. Dr. Ron Paul for Finance Minister, Judge Napolitano for Justice Minister, Colonel Douglas Macgregor for Defense Minister…. No1 for Prime Minister! To organize lead us out of this madness! 😄🥳⚖️
Yes - trust them because they want to protect you from being exposed, never mind having, 'wrong thoughts'. De-banking has become widespread now; the EU commission can 'sanction' and has already done so to private individuals (use the browser of your confidence and look up 'Jacques Baud'), and are preparing laws to prevent 'wrong-thinking' individuals from buying a home - https://iclg.com/news/23755-germany-could-bar-afd-politicians-from-buying-property
Didn't someone once write something about "One Ring to find them ..."?
...and in the West to bind them? Or is that everywhere. Back in the 1990's a guy named David Brin wrote a book called "The Transparent Society" that detailed what he thought was the only solution to what (as per Davy Jones) was already becoming apparent.
I actually don't mind to be transparent as long as ALL governmental actions are as such too. Until that point: I like my privacy thank you very much. I'll be waiting a LOOONG time...
"Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports the Associated Press. "All without a warrant." The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices. The state is allowed more than 250 queries a month using the tool, which allows officers to track a device's location over long stretches of time and enables them to see what Fog calls "patterns of life," according to company documents from 2022. It can help them deduce where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit, according to privacy experts... Traditionally, police must obtain a warrant from a judge to access cellphone location information — a process that can take days or weeks. And while cellphone users may be aware that they are sharing their location through apps such as Google Maps, critics say few are aware that such information can make its way to police... Other agencies in Nevada have been known to use technology similar to Fog. In 2013, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department acquired something known as a cell-site simulator that mimics cellphone towers and can sweep up signals from entire areas to track individuals, with some models capable of intercepting texts and calls. Police have not released detailed information about the technology since then. "Police in other states have said the technology (and its low price tag) has helped expand investigatory capacity," the article adds. But it also points out that Fog Data Science has a web page letting individuals opt out of all their data sets.
If there's any practical difference between "authoritarian" governments and the supposedly democratic governments we have in the west, I'm at a loss to see it.
I wish I had something reassuring to say about the way western democracies have turned into surveillance states practically overnight. Unfortunately, I believe it's worse even than the dystopia that No1 describes.
As far as the (((globalists))) are concerned - we’re all Palestinians (aka Amalek). We are ultimately the carbon they want to reduce. At best, they want us to be their slaves (we basically already are) -at worst, they want us all dead. As they come up with more and more ways to make the goy irrelevant to their ultimate goal of having a world to themselves, they will make life increasingly unbearable to force us to have fewer children and/or to have higher mortality rates.
The control grid they are setting up ultimately depends on our ignorance and our apathy. Defeating it is as simple as not participating and educating everyone in your circle about it, and why it’s also important for them to not participate. We should obviously be identifying and mapping this system of control so that we (the pheasants) can remove ourselves from it and create a competing system that has a better outcome for us. Dependency = slavery.
As an example, Amazon obviously is an actor of questionable intent here with their ring camera - and even though ring cameras are “convenient,” I’m sure most can live without them or find a more privacy oriented way of achieving the same utility. However, I’m sure 99% of people don’t even know or understand why using an Amazon ring camera is harmful to them long term.
Extrapolating this concept of creating alternative or parallel systems to its logical conclusion - we should also strive towards using Constitutional money and only using their Yew confetti for absolutely necessary purposes. The shift towards an alternative society will not happen overnight - but neither was their system built in a day - theirs is over 100 years in the making and for the majority of that time - we were all completely ignorant.
Such a wonderful world it is! Everything is beautiful! Skipping thru Lollipop Park with puppies! “Oh, the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home”!
Thanks No1 for another spiritual renewal!
And…
I hope you’re not in any fringe group chats, no targeting list, aren’t in any way a liability for reading your cheer! I’d never forgive myself if I was collateral damage.
The more I ponder about my personal ontological relevance (which this report caused), the more I’m convinced there’s no such creature as Free Will, let alone les grande idées Rights, Morality, Justice. One wishes for Instant Karma, but settles for increasing the Single Malt dosage. It’s determined.
This article shares upsetting info about one country in the news. The story isn't about them. Every country has and uses technology in unsavoury ways. Privacy is indeed an illusion.
Welcome to the party. Most people are actually shocked when the facts of these systems is revealed. For us old data dogs that have been in the business for years it's old news.
"Enemy of the State." Great factual movie portrayed his fiction. How about steganography? How about encrypting and encrypted message?
Whatever you're putting on the internet you better believe it's discoverable, readable, modifiable, deletable, retrievable and by people using reasonably simple tools.
As for Ring you only need to consider the case of Nancy Guthrie. Initially they reported that she had Ring but she didn't pay for the data collection or whatever they want to call it and therefore it wasn't a usable source, e.g. it didn't exist. But somehow over about a week to 2 weeks time they were able to find all the data from her ring camera on other people's ring cameras or file servers where her data was not deleted and produce a picture of the possible intruder in her home.
Most people don't realize the evolution of coding techniques. For example when you delete a file the only thing that happens is the operating system changes the first character of the file name in the index of files on the storage device to a special character. It could be a pound sign (#) or it could be an asterisk (*) and so on. Why? Don't make the disc drive do a lot of unnecessary work. The operating system sees that there is no longer a need for that file and those storage addresses and it begins to plug data into that area. So that information you thought was deleted remains until a request for an overwritr is issued.
This really is not as scary as understanding that if somebody's coming after you they'll put the data on your smartphone or your hard drive or your USB stick that they want on there. They don't even have to have the physical device in their hand. I thought not that long ago it was interesting how everyone that certain agencies were interested in always had child pornography on their computer or phone.
That surely doesn't happen!
And it gets worse and it gets worse. What you have to know is that there are some amazingly devious people in the world and if you're putting anything on the internet that they may be interested in they can locate you. Then they will arrest you using statute 1.2.6. That's right. It does not exist but they will make it exist before you ever see the judge......
Here's a brief scenario that you can follow along with quickly:
You are disappointed with the president and his actions more than anything else. As soon as you type the president and his name on your favorite social app you are flagged as it's called. If you go on to write that you would like to see some physical harm come to the person then you are moved up the queue towards the top of the "eyes on" list. Which means eventually you are a primary person of interest that someone sitting in an office of an agency would like to know more about.
A lot of companies in business present themselves as non-governmental entities; private Enterprise. Well maybe as far as the paperwork that's presented to the public is concerned that is true but the other side of the coin is that their data is readily available to the government. Think about Swiss bank accounts and how all of a sudden those people that thought their money was secure found out that the Swiss didn't mind turning it over to the US authorities because they didn't want any problems.
Good article.
🎯
you know, funnily enough you can't buy Enemy of the State as a dvd anymore, nor is it on any of the streaming services and there are very very few clips on YT/etc.
coincidence i"m sure.
Still out there on the torrents. Most recent upload, April 5, 2026.
https://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoon?searchID=CS663031
I've practiced criminal law (from both sides of the isle) for 34 years
This is essentially how many things are "proven" these days
It's only magnified by the fact that a lot of our daily routines depend on this technology
No1 along with many others (some of them still stuck in Russia : )
have pointed out how most of this is now done outside "the rules."
You don't need to a subpoena, a judge's signature, or a declaration of (fill in the blank)
I remember a discussion a long time ago when it was just revealed that
AT&T had essentially (and secretly) given US intelligence a free pipeline.
We concluded just as No1 points out,
that it doesn't matter what party banner they waive, or rulebook they swear to
The minute the technology is available, they will use it
"Robot Dogs Patrolling Precious Crops as Food Crisis Deepens"
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-dog-food-crisis
"Robot dogs are increasingly finding real life uses as guardians of sensitive sites like AI data centers, the US-Mexico border, and Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort."
"In a dystopian turn, now they’re also guarding valuable cash crops — at least in the US, where industrial agriculture companies like Bayer are deploying robodogs to watch over hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of raw corn."
I guess if my meta data helps the IDF slaughter women and children, I'm all in. /s
I did buy a falafel from a Jordanian yesterday. Hmm? Nah.
Some pigs are more equal than others. It's God's plan.
Infosec expert here (google me; this is my real name). I feel compelled to post a small correction. Pease do not put Signal and WhatsApp in the same basket. While both use the same message encryption protocol, Signal also encrypts the metadata. The only information Signal has about you is your phone number, when your account was created, and when you last logged in.
Of course, there are attack surfaces common to both. For instance, both use phone numbers for user identification. Signal lets you choose an alias, so that the people you're talking to don't see your phone number - but Whisper Systems (the makers of Signal) certainly know what your phone number is and have the obligation to provide it, if served with a warrant. And unless it's a burner, it means that whoever served that warrant now knows exactly who you are. Spoiler alert: it is practically impossible to get a burner in the EU, because you have to present an ID, in order to get a SIM card. I think Romania is the only exception (which is why many phone scammers operate from Romanian phone numbers) - but that loophole might have been closed lately.
The other avenue of attack is that Signal (and WhatsApp) secure only information in transit. Once it lands on your phone, it is there for law enforcement to seize - if they can break into your phone, which they can, using tools that are nowadays a multi-million dollar business. Sure, you can set disappearing messages in Signal - but if they end up in other databases (like backups, or notifications that appear on the lock screen), they are no longer under Signal's control. And, for some reason, Apple is dragging their feet implementing end-to-end encrypted backups.
The third avenue of attack (somewhat related to the previous one) is that end-to-end encryption is only as secure as both ends are. If the person you're talking to is an FBI informant, it matters not that the conversation was encrypted and you had turned disappearing messages on at your end. If you're planning a protest in a Signal chat group, you will still get arrested if somebody had added an undercover law enforcement officer as a member to the group by mistake.
There is always the possibility that Whisper Systems are in fact yet another CIA project.
Panopticon is my new favorite word. Will pair nicely with Overlords. Thank you for that! Also, in my mind I am creating the perfect Dream Team for the unavoidable New World Order that will be forged AGAINST these psychopaths…. Dr. Ron Paul for Finance Minister, Judge Napolitano for Justice Minister, Colonel Douglas Macgregor for Defense Minister…. No1 for Prime Minister! To organize lead us out of this madness! 😄🥳⚖️
Hot damn. I prefer to be opposition. Then I can complain all I want without ever taking responsibility for anything!
😂
😬 Understandable.
TINVOWOOT
Yes - trust them because they want to protect you from being exposed, never mind having, 'wrong thoughts'. De-banking has become widespread now; the EU commission can 'sanction' and has already done so to private individuals (use the browser of your confidence and look up 'Jacques Baud'), and are preparing laws to prevent 'wrong-thinking' individuals from buying a home - https://iclg.com/news/23755-germany-could-bar-afd-politicians-from-buying-property
Didn't someone once write something about "One Ring to find them ..."?
...and in the West to bind them? Or is that everywhere. Back in the 1990's a guy named David Brin wrote a book called "The Transparent Society" that detailed what he thought was the only solution to what (as per Davy Jones) was already becoming apparent.
I actually don't mind to be transparent as long as ALL governmental actions are as such too. Until that point: I like my privacy thank you very much. I'll be waiting a LOOONG time...
You and me both.
Metadata is easily the most underestimated data to leak your privacy.
I think I know what happened. I asked the question other day “Why were entities Dems, Reps, Intel Agencies after Trump in term 1?
It’s a good question imho.
So many canned answers but you must see the big picture. I hear people from the right say “DT locked us down during covid.” This is complete bullshit.
Wondered wtf happened in 2002. I know goddamn good and well the election was stolen from him.
Gonna try and write a piece and send to you. The answers kicked in
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/18/1926216/nevada-police-can-now-track-cellphones-without-a-warrant
"Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports the Associated Press. "All without a warrant." The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices. The state is allowed more than 250 queries a month using the tool, which allows officers to track a device's location over long stretches of time and enables them to see what Fog calls "patterns of life," according to company documents from 2022. It can help them deduce where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit, according to privacy experts... Traditionally, police must obtain a warrant from a judge to access cellphone location information — a process that can take days or weeks. And while cellphone users may be aware that they are sharing their location through apps such as Google Maps, critics say few are aware that such information can make its way to police... Other agencies in Nevada have been known to use technology similar to Fog. In 2013, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department acquired something known as a cell-site simulator that mimics cellphone towers and can sweep up signals from entire areas to track individuals, with some models capable of intercepting texts and calls. Police have not released detailed information about the technology since then. "Police in other states have said the technology (and its low price tag) has helped expand investigatory capacity," the article adds. But it also points out that Fog Data Science has a web page letting individuals opt out of all their data sets.
If there's any practical difference between "authoritarian" governments and the supposedly democratic governments we have in the west, I'm at a loss to see it.
I wish I had something reassuring to say about the way western democracies have turned into surveillance states practically overnight. Unfortunately, I believe it's worse even than the dystopia that No1 describes.
As far as the (((globalists))) are concerned - we’re all Palestinians (aka Amalek). We are ultimately the carbon they want to reduce. At best, they want us to be their slaves (we basically already are) -at worst, they want us all dead. As they come up with more and more ways to make the goy irrelevant to their ultimate goal of having a world to themselves, they will make life increasingly unbearable to force us to have fewer children and/or to have higher mortality rates.
The control grid they are setting up ultimately depends on our ignorance and our apathy. Defeating it is as simple as not participating and educating everyone in your circle about it, and why it’s also important for them to not participate. We should obviously be identifying and mapping this system of control so that we (the pheasants) can remove ourselves from it and create a competing system that has a better outcome for us. Dependency = slavery.
As an example, Amazon obviously is an actor of questionable intent here with their ring camera - and even though ring cameras are “convenient,” I’m sure most can live without them or find a more privacy oriented way of achieving the same utility. However, I’m sure 99% of people don’t even know or understand why using an Amazon ring camera is harmful to them long term.
Extrapolating this concept of creating alternative or parallel systems to its logical conclusion - we should also strive towards using Constitutional money and only using their Yew confetti for absolutely necessary purposes. The shift towards an alternative society will not happen overnight - but neither was their system built in a day - theirs is over 100 years in the making and for the majority of that time - we were all completely ignorant.
"And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.."
Such a wonderful world it is! Everything is beautiful! Skipping thru Lollipop Park with puppies! “Oh, the sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home”!
Thanks No1 for another spiritual renewal!
And…
I hope you’re not in any fringe group chats, no targeting list, aren’t in any way a liability for reading your cheer! I’d never forgive myself if I was collateral damage.
The more I ponder about my personal ontological relevance (which this report caused), the more I’m convinced there’s no such creature as Free Will, let alone les grande idées Rights, Morality, Justice. One wishes for Instant Karma, but settles for increasing the Single Malt dosage. It’s determined.
On a watchlist
https://thumbnailgreen.substack.com/p/watch-list-video?r=nv8me&utm_medium=ios
This article shares upsetting info about one country in the news. The story isn't about them. Every country has and uses technology in unsavoury ways. Privacy is indeed an illusion.