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so i'm reading about how the CIA got jealous of the NSA and had to have their own : “The idea that the CIA and NSA can hack into devices is kind of old news,” said Johns Hopkins cryptography expert Matthew Green. “Anyone who thought they couldn’t was living in a fantasy world.” Snowden’s revelations and the backlash made strong encryption a major, well-funded cause for both privacy advocates and, perhaps more importantly, technology companies that had the engineering expertise and budgets to protect data as it flowed across the world. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and many other companies announced major new initiatives, in part to protect their brands against accusations by some users that they had made it too easy for the NSA to collect information from their systems. Many Web sites, meanwhile, began encrypting their data flows to users to prevent snooping. Encryption tools such as Tor were strengthened. Encrypting apps for private messaging, such as Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp exploded in popularity, especially among users around the world who were fearful of government intrusion.... i thought! oh, yes! people were bothering me to sign up for telegram. i was never under any delusions about the security of these things, i just want to use it to share funny cat pictures with other internet people. don't care that it's an open took bo teh world... it's trivial... then... "please enter your phone number" i am agog. to sign up for an IM client, i have to use my phone number as a login. can you imagine if AIM did that ten years ago? it'd have never gotten off the ground. now everyone just happily types in their phone number; is agog when i get mad: "whass duh problem!? just enter your fone numbor, jeez!" no, you go ahead, buddy. i'll sit this one out |
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Some years back craigslist started making people log in with a phone number essentially, and it had to be landline too, no cellphone. Curiously it was around the same time when ebay sales started plummeting to levels impossible to sustain living, especially in a landscape where renting is the new middle class. It sure did seem like the digital economy was being turned off on purpose. Also curiously around the same time bitcoin was gaining in popularity, almost like they were purposely shutting off the old money system to make way for bitcoin. The whole problem is everyone has to fork over a huge chunk of their wages, pretty much all of it, to a land"lord" (they even call themselves lords). Every human should have the freedom to homestead any unused land and live there however they want, growing their own food etc. It would solve homelessness. I think 20 people have half the world's wealth. Some call themselves decentralists and think decentralizing everything is the key. It's very hard to tell what is or isn't true in the whole information landscape now. Even video/audio "recordings" can't be used as proof of anything because software can fake anything now. |
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wapo is such a garbage pile thanks bezos |
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Curiously it was around the same time when ebay sales started plummeting to levels impossible to sustain living, i was waxing nostalgic about the old eras like twenty minutes ago. a guy on ebay was selling illegal VCDs of David The Gnome. i fondly remembered this from childhood, and it was not available legally, so i bought it. once i had them in my hands, though, innovation took hold, and i promptly burned a copy of 'em and listed the copy for sale on ebay. the guy wrote me a note, frothing mad, and i told him to fuck off. made back five times what i paid. still have the episodes. you can't get away with that shit anymore... and it's not some nefarious thing, the internet has simply grown up a bit. ebay would be happy to pocket the fees for piracy, i figure, but ten years after i was doing that they have a massive team of Big Content lawyers streaming down their cracks.... and so, no, i couldn't sell those VCD sets, now. they'd kick me off. they wouldn't want to, but they'd have to... also: paid for my first laptop through banner FTP sites; scamming porn sites out of their ad dollars. the only problem was it worked so well it set off alarm bells and with my second account i had to be careful not to make too much money in order to keep them from catching on. the stupidity of the first dot-com cycle was glorious. if you referred ten friends to a site, they'd ship you a polar fleece for free.... i had my own email server and a domain name, and so i created ten friends (email addresses) in about ten seconds. i still have the polar fleece. it has held up superbly i could go on, but the point is the same: companies have wised up. after two dot com busts, they ask for ten phone numbers |
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especially in a landscape where renting is the new middle class. It sure did seem like the digital economy was being turned off on purpose. Also curiously around the same time bitcoin was gaining in popularity, almost like they were purposely shutting off the old money system to make way for bitcoin. The whole problem is everyone has to fork over a huge chunk of their wages, pretty much all of it, to a land"lord" (they even call themselves lords). Every human should have the freedom to homestead any unused land and live there however they want, growing their own food etc. It would solve homelessness. I think 20 people have half the world's wealth. Some call themselves decentralists and think decentralizing everything is the key. that is a real thing: the cost of housing has skyrocketed. it's actively dragging down an entire generation in the US -- "percentage of wages that go to rent" has gone up and up and up and people have had a hard time keeping up. it's because of overpopulation. it's because people are sour about being a company man for twenty years, and if you can't get a mortage, you have to rent. mortgages are expensive and they got you by the balls, so renting is even more expensive... then, having a "household" is less of a thing, thanks to the internet and general social nastiness flying around. if this is a conspiracy, it's a fucking mess. whoever's behind it couldn't conspire their way out of alex jones's BPA water bottle... but, yes, if you're doing well enough to start renting properties out, you can more or less climb above the rabble and live off of their desperation. escaping the middle class is part of the american dream always important to remember: the roads are paved, more or less. if i call 911, bleeding, an ambulance will show up. fucked as it is, i prefer infrastructure over decentralization |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EGnqQZPcks |
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ha! did those lads get permission to film guns in the church |
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This made me think of that Maddox guy, and how everyone's now a Maddox |
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maddox.xmission he was funny; i enjoy a good caustic rant... but his ego was also suffocating, and so i never read much of his shit |
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i prefer steve albini internet rants over maddox internet rants. |
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