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It's clear that they feel that way also. The engineer Andreas Spiess recently appeared in a briefing on dangerous, anarchy-enabling technologies simply for maki

It's clear that they feel that way also. The engineer Andreas Spiess recently appeared in a briefing on dangerous, anarchy-enabling technologies simply for making a youtube video on an encrypted messaging protocol over lora mesh networking. They're carefully watching and cataloging any communications technology they can't compromise.

s3p 3y ago
It's also hard to distinguish between legitimate security threats and scare tactics designed to make us think we're in danger. Remember the Bloomberg Supermicro "bombshell"[0]? I still don't know if that was ever confirmed true or false, but to my knowledge Bloomberg never retracted it. [0] https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomberg_spying/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomberg_...
- Lammy 3y ago
  I still believe it. Wouldn't surprise me if ASPEED were a "SIGINT enabled" vendor as well. It would be foolish not to target the most widespread BMC platform.
SamPatt 3y ago
The guy with the Swiss accent? What's your source on this?
- dariosalvi78 3y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQI2ZSmxPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQI2ZSmxPU
lawlessone 3y ago
TBF that same tech would probably be great for them or militaries to have.
- dkqmduems 3y ago
  Well advertising is a form of psychological warfare.
madars 3y ago
Which briefing was that? Edit: it appears to be this https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/NCRI-White-Paper-Network-Enabled-Anarchy-25-Sept-259pm.pdf https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/NCRI-White-Pa... ("Network-Enabled Anarchy: How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Instigate Widespread Violence Against Political Opponents and Law Enforcement" via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQI2ZSmxPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQI2ZSmxPU; thanks to a sibling comment)
dfc 3y ago
The guy's video was linked to from /r/SocialistRA and a screenshot of the link was included in a paper about "How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Instigate Widespread Violence Against Political Opponents and Law Enforcement." The paper never mentioned Spiess or meshtastic. What are we supposed to infer from that?

s3p 3y ago

It's also hard to distinguish between legitimate security threats and scare tactics designed to make us think we're in danger. Remember the Bloomberg Supermicro "bombshell"[0]? I still don't know if that was ever confirmed true or false, but to my knowledge Bloomberg never retracted it. [0] https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomberg_spying/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomberg_...

Lammy 3y ago
I still believe it. Wouldn't surprise me if ASPEED were a "SIGINT enabled" vendor as well. It would be foolish not to target the most widespread BMC platform.

SamPatt 3y ago

The guy with the Swiss accent? What's your source on this?

dariosalvi78 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQI2ZSmxPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQI2ZSmxPU

lawlessone 3y ago

TBF that same tech would probably be great for them or militaries to have.

dkqmduems 3y ago
Well advertising is a form of psychological warfare.

madars 3y ago

Which briefing was that? Edit: it appears to be this https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/NCRI-White-Paper-Network-Enabled-Anarchy-25-Sept-259pm.pdf https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/NCRI-White-Pa... ("Network-Enabled Anarchy: How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Instigate Widespread Violence Against Political Opponents and Law Enforcement" via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQI2ZSmxPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQI2ZSmxPU; thanks to a sibling comment)

dfc 3y ago

The guy's video was linked to from /r/SocialistRA and a screenshot of the link was included in a paper about "How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Instigate Widespread Violence Against Political Opponents and Law Enforcement." The paper never mentioned Spiess or meshtastic. What are we supposed to infer from that?