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I beg you, please stop applying rule-of-law mindset against might-makes-right adversaries. It creates blind spots giving the illusion that the attack surface is
by lou1306 2y ago
I beg you, please stop applying rule-of-law mindset against might-makes-right adversaries. It creates blind spots giving the illusion that the attack surface is way smaller than it actually is.
Muskolites are taking on the SSN system without any Congressional oversight as we speak. The President is attacking ius soli which is a Constitutional right. If they decide that sending their sleuths to Cambridge MA to physically destroy this data is in their best interest, they will do so and handle the courts later. Just stop pretending they will play by the book.
- squigz 2y agoHow do you recommend engaging with the situation then? Throw out the book too?
- maaaaattttt 2y agoNot OP but torrent would be my go to for a short term solution.
- anonzzzies 2y agoTorrent would do it but 16TB is still not that cheap to just have running in your house nas (otherwise I would).
- lou1306 2y agoOf course this is more of a job for responsible universities/libraries/research centres around the world, rather than single individuals. I would be surprised if Harvard didn't already go through their contact list to ensure as many copies are being made as possible.
- bilekas 2y agoTorrent would definitely be a great approach, 16TB is a commitment, but there's no problem with partial seeding also. I would choose selective chunks which consist of completed files.
- IsTom 2y agoYou can download and share only selected parts of a torrent. With enough people you're going to get full coverage anyway.
- nicce 2y agoAssuming that people randomly select the portions.
- vincnetas 2y agohow do you coordinate who downloads which part?
- IsTom 2y agoTorrents track availability of pieces, you can seed ones with least availability if you want that.
- WhyNotHugo 2y agoPotential attack vector: seed excessive copied of a portion from many sock-puppets. Wait for non-sock-puppet seeds to dwindle. All the existing copies are now under your control.
- Fnoord 2y agoEuropean chiming in here. We need to backup, hash, and distribute this data. I bought four 12 TB HDDs (second hand enterprise) for about 360 EUR from USA (included tax & S&H). I could buy more, but I am feeling financially insecure now, and not buying anything from the USA anymore. I do have 3x 4 TB drives spare though. Might use these instead of going to some great parties.
- tuukkah 2y agoTake these new attack vectors into account in your threat analyses. In this specific case, perhaps start by shipping copies to non-US jurisdictions.
- matwood 2y ago> Take these new attack vectors into account in your threat analyses. Exactly. And while it might not be possible to protect against all the new vectors day one, no one should be surprised.
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- lou1306 2y agoOn the technological side torrents, IPFS, and the like, urging international collaborators to make copies of everything public. On the political side mass protests, strikes, whistleblowing, general unrest that goes beyond mere social media activism.
- greenie_beans 2y agoread curtis yarvin, find the weaknesses in his arguments, and use those weaknesses against their ideology. for start, he thinks FDR was a dictator but the only reason FDR had such power was because the support of labor and some parts of capital. he would know that if he was a historian instead of LARPing as one. so organizing and supporting the labor movement would be a good place to start, since a organized labor could become a powerful poltical force. otherwise everybody is fragmented on both sides which further enables their ideology. a recent blog of his gave me this idea: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-pleasure-of-error https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-pleasure-of-error he legit thinks trump is about to be FDR 2.0 but his mistake is ignorance about how the power worked during that time. you can even use his "differential" idea in that essay against him. the differential now is labor against wealth. always has been, especially when FDR wielded all the power yarvin thinks was a dictatorship since a lot of that power was given to him by the support of the massive labor movement at the time. more practically, this blog has some good insight into the "what do i dooooo?????" question https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/ https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-tru...
- globalnode 2y agoIm predicting no more elections for you guys in 4 years. Something makes me think theres gonna be some "reason" to turn them off.
- lou1306 2y agoI'm not one of the "guys" as I am from the EU. There is a narrow way through for the US, but treating the incumbent as Just Another Guy is not that.
- milesrout 2y ago[flagged]
- labster 2y agoSo it’s a delusion that the guy who tried to overthrow the vote last time will prevent the next election this time? Tyrants tried multiple times before succeeding in Athens, why not today?
- input_sh 2y agoNot to mention specifically saying "you won't have to vote anymore" on multiple occasions.
- milesrout 2y agoHe didnt try to "overthrow the vote" any more than Clinton did in 2016 or Gore did in 2000.
- labster 2y agoThe people whom Trump rallied and told to march to Capitol Hill went there for the express purpose of preventing the results of the people’s vote via the Electoral College from being accepted. This was proven in many courts of law. Not only did Trump prevent the military from responding to the putsch in his benefit until it was clear the effort had failed, he later issued a full pardon to all those involved in the attack on Congress. I can’t remember any Democratic President or candidate thereof in the history of the republic doing anything similar. Can you provide examples?
- milesrout 2y ago[flagged]
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoDidn't his vice president already suggest he should ignore the courts? Or did I imagine that?
- hypothesis 2y agoThere is no need to lie, as this is easily verifiable, eg: > A federal court on January 31 temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s government-wide pause on federal grant funding. But soon after, the administration argued the president’s directives were still in effect. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/billions-dollars-us-projects-remain-frozen-by-trump-managers-advocates-say-2025-02-06/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/billions-dollars-us-project...
- nicce 2y agoWho has the power to enforce directives? Will police and military soon go the White House/other places so that federal grant continues, if court asks? Because if court cannot do that, it is already lost.
- lazide 2y agoSince the military reports to Trump directly, and they have a lot more guns than the police….
- lou1306 2y ago[flagged]
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- milesrout 2y ago