In Relation to the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
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Devon Stack's 2nd to last stream was essentially arguing that opsec is pointless (at least against the surveillance state) because their data gathering & processing is more nightmarish than can be conceived.
Internet anonymity is okay to protect you from your average angry troon but not the totality of private corporations and the Deep State.
Yeah, to truly stay out of surveillance, you need to just go offline.
The problem is that it rarely is the government threatening to kill people, normally it is actually the crazy troon.
No, that's suspicious. You'd need a public normie mask.
There's that too.
This. To paraphrase Miguel Prado, the government can fuck you in ways you can't even imagine. If they truly want you, they will get you. You just have to hope there's enough people in their way and that you don't say or post anything which actually threatens national security.
You might think you type exactly the same as every other member on here, but the fact is, you don't. Everyone has their own "digital handwriting", their preferred vocabulary, phrases, cultural references, chosen methods for emphasis, sentence length etc. and it can all be fed into an AI to match it against millions of other posts made all over the internet with a degree of certainty.
It's like how in real life, a stalker doesn't need to follow you home to know where you live. An Instagram feed will give them all the information they need to know. Schools, colleges, supermarkets, shopping malls, movie theaters and leisure spots will typically create an invisible "halo" around the exact place you live as the center of all those points. Only someone living on X street will visit all these places as opposed to a different school or theater, ones slightly further out.
Just treat places like this as a speakeasy, have fun and don't do anything stupid until you wield the power to do so (i.e. become another Musk figure).
You can still inconvenience them to the best of your ability
Yeah you’ll never get away from govt surveillance if they want to surveil you.
You can at least limit the amount of data you share with private companies which is my preference by taking a few simple steps. And you can do more or less depending on your own preferences.
Currently listening to this podcast. While I already knew a lot of stuff about how bad google was I didn’t know a lot of the stuff he talks about here. It’s a bit long (3hours) but worth a listen and really you can listen to parts of it and still get a lot of info
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw8PQgLrLgI
Against the state? Yes. Against some Reddit NEETs with too much time on their hands? No.
And it's almost always the latter who's going to come at your for saying mild things. Unless you live in the UK. Then you're just fucked.
If 14 year old me knew what 30 year old me knew about digital surveillance, I never would have signed up for Facebook. That's why I don't usually bother using VPNs (mostly because Steam freaks out with Mullvad) unless it is to download something because the second you log into a website like Gmail or Youtube or Itunes or whatever, your digital footprint is tracked. I already clear cookies and use a bunch of adblockers and other extensions just to make the internet usable and I still get targeted ads.
Some random guy on the internet probably isn't going to know where I am but the feds certainly do, and they probably do with everyone on this board.