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Well, you do realize that all of your communications is already transmitted to the Five Eyes? They’re just far more insidious about it. Even if you think you’

Well, you do realize that all of your communications is already transmitted to the Five Eyes? They’re just far more insidious about it. Even if you think you’re using something encrypted, the message will just get recorded and cracked later. Either with a backdoor key, or they’ll just brute force crack the key. Or, even easier, they’ll just record the metadata, then crack you with a rubber hose. So, pick your poison.

ardy42 6y ago
> Well, you do realize that all of your communications is already transmitted to the Five Eyes? There's no equivalence or even comparison. Watch the Youtube video I linked above. If you complain about the police, the Five Eyes aren't going to forward a tip along so you can be locked in a tiger chair to be dominated and made to apologize for your insolence. Five Eyes allow the use of all kinds of technology that makes their jobs hard, rather than mandate all your messages be sent to them directly. China is several orders of magnitude worse. Also, here's relevant lecture about the features of an old version North Korea's homegrown OS: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events/7174.html https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events...: > Investigating functionality that can be used to invade the privacy of users was our primary goal. We found that the features implemented in Red Star OS are the wet dream of a surveillance state dictator. It provides a set of surveillance features like the capabilities to watermark different types of files that can be used to track the distribution of documents and multi-media files. We will have an in depth look on how some of these features built the foundation for a suppressive state in a modern world.
- blackrock 6y ago
  Well, in the west, you’ll get Epsteined before you can do any real damage. And then the media attention is turned off, or turns a blind eye, and the world just moves on. So still, pick your poison.
  - ardy42 6y ago
    > Well, in the west, you’ll get Epsteined before you can do any real damage. That's a bold claim. I thought they'd shoot you from a grassy knoll.

ardy42 6y ago

> Well, you do realize that all of your communications is already transmitted to the Five Eyes? There's no equivalence or even comparison. Watch the Youtube video I linked above. If you complain about the police, the Five Eyes aren't going to forward a tip along so you can be locked in a tiger chair to be dominated and made to apologize for your insolence. Five Eyes allow the use of all kinds of technology that makes their jobs hard, rather than mandate all your messages be sent to them directly. China is several orders of magnitude worse. Also, here's relevant lecture about the features of an old version North Korea's homegrown OS: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events/7174.html https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events...: > Investigating functionality that can be used to invade the privacy of users was our primary goal. We found that the features implemented in Red Star OS are the wet dream of a surveillance state dictator. It provides a set of surveillance features like the capabilities to watermark different types of files that can be used to track the distribution of documents and multi-media files. We will have an in depth look on how some of these features built the foundation for a suppressive state in a modern world.

blackrock 6y ago
Well, in the west, you’ll get Epsteined before you can do any real damage. And then the media attention is turned off, or turns a blind eye, and the world just moves on. So still, pick your poison.
- ardy42 6y ago
  > Well, in the west, you’ll get Epsteined before you can do any real damage. That's a bold claim. I thought they'd shoot you from a grassy knoll.