Ok sir, I called 988 and was told not to kill myself and was told that if I am feeling suicidal they can send out a crisis worker. This will lead to me being possibly institutionalized in a shitty situation worse than the one I am in now.
I’ll drink coffee today with my remaining cash, and I’ll await a response from Google to explain themselves to me.
**Google, you have until today. I tried reaching out to you repeatedly and it’s all fallen on deaf ears. Last chance, scumbags.**
After today when google inevitably doesn’t respond, I’ll know for sure that this society is corrupt. I will be further cemented in my position: this society is doomed and I have zero desire to be part of it.
Nah, amongst dozens of other incidents: Google mocked the suicide of a close childhood friend to me, then put me into a nonconsentual undisclosed matchmaker algo with a schizophrenic felon to discredit me, ostensibly/clearly on behalf of some wealthy folks with google exec connections. Any attempt to seek clarity on this from google has been ignored. I refuse to go forward in a society where ubiquitous technical surveillance is wielded by irresponsible malicious unaccountable entities like Sundar Pichai’s corp.
I was stalked and harassed using my private iMessages during the death of a parent. I refuse to go forward in a society where such coordinated bullying is allowed to occur. America is supposed to be first world but it’s a total shithole filled with low class, unaccountable scum. A lifetime of experience confirms this. Looking at the next generation, American culture will become far worse by 2030, 2040.
I don't consider scrapping for manual labor jobs for food money (certainly not rent) to be any form of recovery.
For those who are currently unemployable (in a professional setting making a living wage), they are either prepared for this financially, or their survival is threatened.
Are you out of work? What's the longest you've been out of work, in years?
@reddit contributed to my learned helplessness. Big tech has engaged in a gnarly pattern of dossier-building rumor-perpetuating algorithmic-targeting abuse practices. @google, @reddit, @twitter and others have all participated. They all maintain secret dossiers that the end citizen never gets to see.
People will handle this differently. Some love the attention. Others find the presence of cameras on the front of every cell phone unsettling. I find the current state of affairs to be a new form of natural selection, a new filter to see who can adapt to the impending ubiquitous technical surveillance society towards which we're headed.
Given the stakes, would a reasonable minimum for security involve an ephemeral node, perhaps an HSM, transfer your “digital currency” to a fresh wallet, then offline the fresh keypair to sneakernet, then wipe the node?
The article mentioned that Metamask was involved. How that can be considered a safe way to hold millions of dollars worth of these libertarian digital currencies?
I know libertarians love crypto, but they also love net neutrality. Calling crypto "libertarian digital currencies" is like calling end to end encryption "libertarian anit-state-surveillance cloaking technology"
E2EE and blockchain/btc/alt are all, indeed, “just math”.
You’ve noted the status quo that is rapidly becoming cemented, albeit in an hn echo chamber presumptuous of a supermajority consensus on E2EE as it may or may not correlate to libertarian ideals vs. state surveillance (i.e. most don’t even have the technical proficiency to vote, thus this assertion is flawed from the start).
This issue is more complex and dynamic, given proliferation of ubiquitous technical surv not monopolized by nation states. Cooperation is the social lubricant of a functioning government, which is often lost on libertarians. Technical libertarians are often the worst offenders of provincial groupthink.
I think they mean more a currency with libertarian aspirations, not a currency for libertarians. There is certainly an anti-state, above the law sentiment prominent in the ecosystem.
Bitcoin !== crypto, and there are a lot of blockchains whose founding teams are far from libertarian.
Also, please point me to the places where the white paper espouses libertarianism?
The bitcoin genesis message isn't a direct criticism, and the politics can be interpreted in different ways. One narrative is certainly libertarian-aligned (government shouldn't interfere with businesses and just let market forces drive things). But it's not the only interpretation; for example, there's an argument to be made for a message like: letting banks overextend themselves and then needing to be bailed out is a regulatory failing, and peer-to-peer digital currency offers an alternative to a system that lacks regulation that protects consumers and instead relies on corporate bailouts.
I will concede that the Venn diagram with Bitcoin maximalists and libertarians is significant. But again, Bitcoin !== crypto, and if you look at other blockchains, there's a very wide range of ideologies in the apocrypha.
Exactly, politics is embedded in the crypto ecosystem, where most want to be extragovermental. If you are building something that tries to be money or a security, where people are voting, or is a "token with utility" then you cannot avoid politics being part of it.
Is there any evidence to suggest kompromat has ever been used to blackmail American tech executives to backdoor their products for NSA or other agency?
If there were any solid evidence, then the program would be unable to continue, because -in large part- the folks being blackmailed would have solid reason to distrust that the blackmailer would actually keep their secrets.
There is circumstantial evidence that the NSA is shady as shit. A few notable items:
1) The NSA coerced nearly every major and minor telco in the US to assist in their ongoing highly-illegal domestic wiretapping operations. (When this came to light, Congress retroactively immunized (from prosecution) those telcos that assisted the NSA in breaking the law.)
2) The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper knowingly lied by omission before Congress about the scope and nature of NSA's domestic wiretapping operations.
3) The NSA's lawyers lied under oath to the US Supreme Court about the NSA's various domestic wiretapping operations.
In a similar way, there's no solid evidence that TSA was a combination jobs program, massive money-making program for then-VP Dick Cheney's business buddies and their pretty-useless microwave-imaging device company, and internal contraband-and-warrant checkpoint-establishment program. But when you compare the organization's stated goals with what it actually achieves, and how it responds to criticism at the difference between the two, it's pretty clear that its stated aims are substantially different from its actual aims.
This is a fantastic comment for someone (like me) hungry to learn about security concepts. Do you have any more pointers to useful info about security topics?
Security is a pretty broad topic and it's not really my speciality I'm afraid.
That being said, I used to be very interested in capability-based security because it promised solutions to so many security problems but nobody seemed to know about the ideas, and the people who had heard the term often had significant misunderstandings of what was possible with capabilities.
It's been about 20 years but I mostly had it right ;)
Is the Keychain DB (SQLite) stolen in encrypted form? As I understand, the Keychain DB is stored on the file system, but the DB's key is held in the Secure Enclave.
Do you have any other advice?