In light of yesterday's revelation from Millie Weaver, it occurred to me that https encryption will not protect you from profiling:
dig(1) prints the following IP addresses:
kotakuinaction2.win. 53 IN A 172.67.133.248
kotakuinaction2.win. 53 IN A 104.28.26.95
kotakuinaction2.win. 53 IN A 104.28.27.95
thedonald.win. 287 IN A 104.26.9.222
thedonald.win. 287 IN A 104.26.8.222
thedonald.win. 287 IN A 172.67.73.6
This means someone monitoring the network will flag you as someone with objectionable beliefs, even though they might not see the actual content passing through. Likewise for someone who only browses CNN, reddit or even Gab. I do not know if the .win network is in on it.
Everyone is being binned into sets, groups connecting to the same network are likely to hold similar views and therefore open to targeted agitation and false flags. Like what the interview says, they know what pushes your buttons, they know what makes you rage, they know what gets you worked up. None of a particular network's stance on issues are secret, so they just need to tailor propaganda to get a group working towards their goals.
Encrypted DNS will not protect you either, since it is completely dependent on the provider, not to mention a centralized solution. Furthermore, you'll still need to make a connection to the web server serving the content.
While it may be possible to defeat profiling with fake traffic generators, you yourself remains vulnerable to the networking effects of (likely deliberate) polarization.
PS. Long time lurker, and reddit spacing is atrocious.
No they don't. I've been on KiA/KiA2 for over 5 years. I have willingly exposed myself to how bad things are, and it has helped me better understand the world. Nothing I see on here makes me particularly angry.
On twitter I have already been on multiple block lists, the original GG one as well from having Airport follow me. It doesn't change much.
I look forward to Asha Logos upcoming social network if he's ever able to make an actual release of his concepts.
I once got a follow from Sargon, only to be banned by the SJW psychos at Twitter.
I may have poorly worded it, I don't mean agitation to specific individuals. The profiling merely tells them such a person exists, and if there is enough of them to bother researching into, ultimately to form a self-reinforcing network to do their bidding if exposed to tailored propaganda.
Just like how not everyone will turn into antifa thugs overnight when exposed to orange man bad, but by profiling the audience and how they are connected to other groups, you could tell if there are enough angry people to actually take active measures to right perceived wrongs, and from there try to find out how they tick if you want them to explode into action. Why some people rise up to do something isn't really important as so much as they do what are needed to do, bonus if done with the self righteous fervor of a hijacked morality framework.
The key change is that instead of dropping pamphlet fliers from the air and hoping the target takes to it as before, it is being done over the internet through interactive social media, now with realtime feedback to tailor and tune the message as required. If X group isn't receptive to the message, try another group or change the message.
Perhaps if more were more calm as you, agitprop would not work as well as it did.
What do you mean precisely? Who would be the one doing this profiling?
Check out Millie's video https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/GuwvG4YK/millie-weavers-shadowgate-docume/c/.
Snowden's revealed that the NSA is secretly spying on everyone. Now Shadowgate tells us private corporations (read contractors) are just copying NSA's homework for their own use. These private intelligence corporations have the same kind of incestuous relationship as journos, now with congressional support.
Suddenly the whole "defund the police" and BLM movement smells like a massive psyop to push for the adoption of police drones. Yes the police departments may shrink, but now each officer has a fleet of drones to command to achieve the same effect as multiple officers patrolling the streets on foot.
Feds, "glowies", state actors, China, whatever company you work for, whatever companies you might consider working for, journalists, apparatchik thought-policing antifactivist psychotrannies driven by a lethal combination of caffeine, mania, and estradiol, gwen snyder
Did you know that modern computer chips can perform thousands of operations which are not present in any of the documentation available? Literally nobody but the manufacturer really even knows anything about what a computer is actually doing when these functions are active.
Software is not going to protect you from surveillance when your hardware was designed to be compromised.
Why would you think for a single second that both media and hardware wouldn't be targets of the highest priority for those who want to control society?
The Snowden leaks more-or-less confirmed this. I'm begrudgingly living with the thought of being completely hopeless against surveillance from domestic three-letter-agencies if they ever wanted my attention by being boring. They have no reason to make my or most of our lives hell. They can look but they have no reason to touch. We really, really, just wanted to grill and play video games.
The darker, preventable reality that we (I?) are fighting is the chances of whatever sinister forces shifting the overton window getting access to those same tools, framework, whatever. Implementing their sick, perverse, Stasi-esque bullshit with their infernal, psychotic worldview. They've already more-or-less taken over silicon valley. The FAANG's (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) likely already know about your wrongthinker history here and elsewhere and willfully prescreen you ever since Damore. Any savvy enough tech person that can read between the lines knows this. Once they completely take over the country, it'll be mandatory melanotan+estradiol injections for your one state-allowed child or god-knows-what-the-fuck I don't even know what the hell they want anymore.
Also fuck China. Fuck TikTok. Fuck Xi Jinping. Mainland Chinese "culture" is a disgrace. 2,000 years of culture and the commies pissed it away. Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong are worthy of your respect. China most certainly is not.
It's not hidden at all, and none of it is secret. Officially they are functions for product testing during the manufacturing process, and many of them actually are just that.
You've just got to take them at their word that some of them aren't also backdoors.
Don't buy Intel.
Buy whatever you want. Just be aware of what you've actually got in your hands.
TOR is for getting around local censorship, it is not for anonimity. Your ISP knows you're connecting to a TOR network, the whole bunch of glowies in Germany knows too.
Now if they have enough TOR nodes, which they certainly will have given the budget allocated, they can also be the exit node back into the clearnet.
like Sumsuch says, this isn't about what is running on your system, this is what goes out onto the internet, it doesn't really matter if you are on a custom FPGA running TempleOS. As long as you speak TCP/IP to connect to the internet, you will be profiled based on the connections you make.
The only practical solution here is to not engage. But that's not very productive, is it?
It's like someone figuring out your favorite bar by tailing you for a month. They know because they see you going there a few times. The only way to avoid it is to not go at all. Do you really have a favorite bar if you never go to it?
Security is always a balance between absolute protection and being functionally able to do stuff.
We're all just one autist or state actor away from being fully and completely unmasked. You're best figuring out what you're going to do when that happens.
So far, the move seems to be that, when unmasked, your job will immediately stop trying to be the gray man and instead get as famous as possible. With notoriety, it's harder to get disappeared without anyone noticing, and you'll have an in with better connected and powerful people and a better chance at survival versus trying to be a lone wolf.
I'm not so afraid of being unmasked individually, but the notion each of us can be profiled and binned into datasets, and then agitated into action as required with a push of a button.
Even if "we" here at KIA2 aren't as plugged into social media, there are countless of other groups who are, and far more numerous than KIA2 participants in numbers. They make more attractive target for agitation and manipulation.