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Becky's avatar

General rule of thumb: anything allowed to have millions of views is circulated intentionally.

Eric's avatar

I’m going to just say upfront that I don’t know anything about any of this security stuff. What I do know is that the spirit inside always made me think, all this cyber security has to be worthless. It just never added up. Thank you for the confirmation, and I’m looking forward to your upcoming article.

John Freeman's avatar

This totally correlates with a video I listened to recently on youtube. Confirms the suspicions that this guy brought up. Snowden is definitely an asset. And guess what circles assange was running with in his past. Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel, I would say hey you know it’s so obvious but I don’t know that it is. It takes time for us to kind of see who the players are before we can in hindsight say damn, we’ve been duped. I can post the video this guy did. It is excellent quality, this kid knows his stuff, but I almost want to leave the obscurity, we want these guys to keep breathing you know.

Cricket's avatar

It always stirred something in my spirit when certain kinds of folks would push VPNs on their shows and/or social media- (ie: Ben Shapiro, anyone on The Daily Wire, etc, etc.) Now I know why.

🐺The Wise Wolf's avatar

yep. a massive psy op. volunteer your information to intelligence agencies all around the world and you get the privilege of paying for it yourself to boot!

The Mick's avatar

If it's connected, it's vulnerable.

gadfly's avatar

Real secrecy & anonymity of the future will be hiring a "pizza guy" to deliver your documents to your door. A pizza delivery will always gain you unfettered access & unquestioned trust by everyone in every nation.

Mark Bisone's avatar

This article brought to mind my old professional credo, which has since become something like the Bisone family motto:

"If it lives on the Internet, it is by definition not secure."

My readers have probably noticed this axiom sprinkled into many of my tech articles over the years. It’s not a Luddite slogan, and I am not a Luddite. It's a reminder that you should maintain awareness of the water you are swimming in (and perhaps, if you're unwise, the water you are boiling or drowning in).

🐺The Wise Wolf's avatar

Exactly and someone who I assume has a pretty solid understanding of infosec - I would wager you would not trust a VPN as far as you could throw a xeon workstation. I have tried and tried to explain to people over the years that if they think they are ‘anonymous’ because they are spending 30 bucks a month on a VPN using Bitcoin - they are crazy. I used to daisy-chain 50 socks 5 proxies together and even then I knew I was not ‘anonymous’. You can improve your chances of not being noticed but if you dig deep enough into the shit pile, eventually you are going to get noticed. I don’t even bother trying to hide my online identity from intelligence agencies at this point because my assumption is every chip is backdoored at the kernel now. Remember, Intel was started by a former CIA agent after all.

Helping Other People Evolve's avatar

I agree with everything you said. Plus now most sites won’t allow you in if you are using a VPN. Before 2023 they did. Gab and hulu and YouTube are perfect examples.

Also, and I inform many of this. When you search weather. You are no longer “hidden”. Send a pic via text, well they have the “location” stamped on unless one turns it off- so again, they gotcha. Ordering online and it’s delivered. Well gotcha. Picking it up? Well, gotcha.

They have every angle covered. The people that were instilled to prevent this form happening- are traitors. They failed. Intentionally.

SMH

Mark Bisone's avatar

You win these wagers, and are correct in your assumptions.

The next layer of action is interesting to me. I've noticed many writers and readers at Substack have been experimenting with it. As you probably know, it has more to do with faith than with anything technical. And yet, we are human, and so we devise and improvise techniques.

Neil D's avatar

I run a VPN, but I don't delude myself that 'the government' is fooled by it. If I can fool the odd website, I have achieved my expectations: watch movies that would otherwise be geo-blocked is enough for me. I stumble along, and I'm not pretending that I'm some kind of hacker-extraordinaire by any means, least if all to myself.

The internet was a rugged game from the start: we accept the offer to jump in at our own risk.

Jason Salyer's avatar

Great article

Dr.Don Hall's avatar

I Saw The Light … “We Can’T Go On Together With Suspicious Minds-Elvis” … this makes sense … now I am suspicious (Peter Thiel … the boy is a ROTTEN EGG) how Not dead ??? Good Question!!!

Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

Assange made a real difference in the 2016 election of Trump. The horrible people around Hillary were exposed before the election, and the response added credibility to the documents.

Also, Assange's whistleblower was assassinated, exactly as described as credible.

🐺The Wise Wolf's avatar

You clearly have no experience in intelligence operations.

Assange helped elect Trump and you think that proves he's not an intelligence asset? Who benefited from that election? The same intelligence apparatus that's still running. Different figurehead, same system. Do you think there is not internal struggle inside the CIA?

Hillary's people got exposed with emails that were politically embarrassing but operationally meaningless. Nothing in those leaks compromised active intelligence operations or revealed current surveillance capabilities. It was internal Democratic Party drama dressed up as earth-shattering revelation.

Seth Rich dying doesn't prove Assange is legitimate. It proves someone died. Real whistleblowers die all the time. The question is why Assange is still alive and running a media operation after handling the most sensitive leaks in modern history. You don't get to keep breathing and maintain a global platform after genuinely threatening intelligence community interests. You get disappeared.

The fact that one person connected to the leaks died while Assange became an international celebrity with legal protection should make you ask different questions. Operations need credibility markers. Sometimes that means sacrificing a pawn to make the asset look authentic.

The fact 3 people liked this comment just shows me how blissfully ignorant most are about how power actually operates...

Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

I am a guy on Substack. I never claimed to have any experience in intelligence operations. Lighten up.

AP's avatar
Nov 19Edited

😂 to your “Lighten up”, but the reality is that things are so well managed that many fail to see that the players may change, but the game remains.

My Red Pill? March 2020. One phone call. One. And the world shut down. One call and all, enemies included, just shut it down. Oh, look up African presidents who just happened to have a “medical issue” when they didn’t want to… 🤦🏻‍♂️

Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

The author had a really good point but got a little paranoid in making it.

AP's avatar

And AltMedia, that so many trust, is not to be trusted. Evil just uses what’s available. Hell, our medical system was established over hundred years ago…

Jeanne's avatar

Another excellent article that makes incredible sense! Thank you so much for posting. 😊

Mog's avatar

Rule of thumb. If a lot of fuss is created (in MSM & SM), it's dodgy.

Neil D's avatar

The more I know, the more I realise that I don't know anything. It's humbling, but this is a good thing.

To become truly anonymous, you need to trust nothing and no-one, but if you succeed in achieving that, what kind of life will you actually have?

Interesting article!

Richard Huffmon's avatar

The pattern is there. Once you start seeing patterns, you won't stop.

Thomas Gilligan's avatar

Not to worry, creeping brain fog is their antidote to such emerging awareness 😄

Thelma's avatar

We use the Internet and our cell phones for convenience, ego narcissism, and simplifying communications, most of which is unnecessarily superficial.

We've been trapped by our own stupidity.

Monica's avatar

So, Edward is still alive and in Russia 🇷🇺 right and I thought Julian was a cousin of Donald Trump… so, who was the other whistle blower who was taken out? 🤷🏻‍♀️😕