As a matter of opsec, I mostly agree. But security is always best achieved in layers (and to a degree, redundancy). People running any CIA/NSA-backdoored operating system are compromised before even thinking about being discrete.
Always assume you will be surveilled. Always assume you will be caught. Ultimately it's strong encryption and total rejection of closed-source software that gives you the best defense against the pigs.
Wells keeps pointing at random butterflies and going “Is this Socialism?”
Fuckin Keynesians, man. I hate how rehabilitated that shit has become when talking to libs.
To that last bit, I found that remarkable too. Stalin seemed to have a such greater bead on what is happening in the US than the "plugged in" armchair intellectual who came all that way to sing the praises of misunderstood capitalism, and to specifically name some pretty grotesque people as champions. He points to the expansion of a capitalist state bureaucracy under FDR that produced the USMIC which functions as the largest anti-communist force on earth. Hmmmm.... maybe socialism is not just about people having jobs? It really would have been the cherry on top if Wells had brought up how Germany just started organizing under a new "socialist" party...
Thanks. I appreciate your time looking into that.
Uhh, hey, Donnie? We're going to need you here to open on saturday too, okay, thanks. And, uh, please tuck in your shirt; I heard corporate is doing inspections this week.
The UN was built to rinse the blood from the hands of imperialism, not to stop it.
This was even before 2-3 attempted assassinations
Trump winning, constantly looking over his shoulder, jumping at every loud noise and gazing too long at every 18 wheeler he sees might be the funniest outcome for a manhattan billionaire
They may even see a farm and call it "heaven"
Even the most hostile western documentaries show DPRK citizens working on normal farms. Oh, right, these chuds think they eat rats and dogpoop.
"We love our families almost as much as we love exterminating Arabs"
Thanks for the link. I've only read one of Wells' books and had never considered whatever his political views were. Even good science fiction tends to intertwine with very disappointing politics. Wells takes so many giant Ls here, not least of which is to fingerwag at Soviet success for its revolutionary necessities, which I'm sure would have been apparent had he been there to experience those conditions. He seems to imply he would have simply debatebro'd the Tzar into accepting some reforms. I get the impression Wells was convinced Keynesianism was some new higher and evolved form of socialism, which has to be the biggest L of them all.
It's a bit horrifying, but I've met people who would unironically think this is a great idea.
No. Current TLS ciphers and key exchanges, are EXTREMELY FAR from "pretty crackable" with anything, quantum or otherwise, especially when considering the lifetime of the keys are so short. The only entities we can reasonably foresee as capable of performing any kind of quantum cracking in the future are going to be global superpowers (arguably only the US and China).
But the keys to all TLS transactions are based in root CAs, and nearly all of those are subject to US/western intelligence jurisdiction. There's no need for the state to crack RSA to compromise TLS. Look into how chain of trust works.
MITM has been commercialized, it's basically what Cloudflare does. If a host is behind CF your connection is only encrypted to CF, which then decrypts and re-encrypts the connection from itself to the host. Cloudflare is busy swallowing up the internet, so it's not just state-level attacks that can openly compromise TLS with zero cracking required. VPNs can't protect you from this, either.
I'm sure you have good intentions, but you shouldn't be making statements like this.