The Supreme Court has ruled that tracking you via cellphone location requires a warrant. No such restriction exists for tracking via automated license plate readers. Law enforcement can get this data from Flock Safety's massive surveillance network, and if you audit these LE requests, the reasons given for needing to track a particular license plate include such important things as "lalala" or "asdf". They don't need an actual legitimate reason, they can put whatever they want on the data request form. The places you drive to can reveal a detailed picture of your life. There have already been instances of cops misusing this data for non law enforcement reasons, and it is incredibly dangerous to allow them to access this kind of information on any citizen at any time for any reason.
This new surveillance network should not be tolerated by the American people. It is nobody's business where you go throughout the day, and I would love to see some kind of anti license plate movement go viral. Imagine if even a third of people just ripped their license plates off or covered them with mud. There isn't enough cops to pull over that many people for driving without a visible license plate number. The people could instantly destroy the power of this Flock Safety surveillance network, but it would only work if enough people were willing to do it.
Would you be willing to obscure your license plate if you knew others would do the same? Do you have the guts to stand up to this mass surveillance? Or should we just roll over and continue to let America grow more dystopian with every passing day? Now is the time to resist, not when it gets even worse and any dissent is immediately crushed by armed drones reading your brain waves (that's not even a joke any more, mind reading tech is gaining more accuracy every day).
You have a right to keep your personal life private, but it's a right you are probably going to have to fight for. We can bitch about this government overreach all day, but unless we are actually willing to do something about it, nothing will get better and it will only get worse.
We all need to opt the fuck out and throw our license plates in the garbage. Make it a Tik Tok challenge or something, make it viral. How do we make people care enough about this to commit a small act of civil disobedience?
#privacy
Five years in a cage for helping people protect their privacy. The prosecutors and the judge are the ones who should get locked up, they were the real criminals in the courtroom today.
#freesamourai
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Keonne Rodriguez has received the maximum possible sentence on his guilty plea for operating an unlicensed money transmitter.
He will serve 60 mo...
Anytime you move to a new house, apartment, or van down by the river, it is a golden opportunity for a privacy reset.
Tell no one other than trusted friends and family your new address. Don't get anything shipped to your new address under your real name. Don't update your address with any services or businesses unless absolutely necessary, if you do need to share your new address with a service, consider making an entirely new account under an alias.
If you want to go all out, don't put the utilities/internet under your name. If you are considering a move, think about using a trust to rent or buy the property.
Route all internet access at new address through a VPN, proxy, or TOR. Be wary of what devices you bring to the new address.
The goal here is to have as few links between your real identity and your new home as possible, this can protect you from things like five dollar wrench attacks.
It's much easier to keep an address private if you start from day one at your new residence than it is to try to work backwards and protect information that has already been leaked.
#privacy
Federal prosecutors are seeking the maximum sentence for the Samourai devs this week.
Pro-crypto administration my asshole. This case should of been dropped on Trump's first week.
The only part of crypto the Trump administration cares about is the part that makes his family and companies money. He can still make money off of a highly regulated, centralized, and surveilled crypto industry in which anyone actually developing real freedom tech is thrown into a prison cell. That's why CZ got a pardon while the Samourai devs might be getting 5 years in a cage.
Fuck that. Yes it could of been much worse, but ANY amount of prison time for the fabricated "crimes" that they are accusing the Samourai devs of is not acceptable.
This is not what happens in a "free" country. Freedom to transact privately is a fundamental right and if the state is infringing upon that right, they are the criminals, not the software developers who are trying to enable private transactions.
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🚨NEW: US GOVERNMENT SEEKS MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR SAMOURAI WALLET DEVELOPERS
"I co-founded a software company to develop tools that could provide ...
#privacy #freesamourai #bitcoin
I think Bitcoin has a serious risk of being destroyed from within by hubris. Bitcoin represents the majority of portfolio, and every single time over multiple cycles that I began to doubt it, it slaps me upside the head and reminds me who is the boss. After so many times of that happening, you began to assume that Bitcoin will always go up no matter what, that it is unstoppable. The cult of maximalism reenforces this bias wholeheartedly. Why would you ever sell?
That's exactly why I am so worried. Everyone in Bitcoin assumes it will always be number 1 simply because it has always been number 1.
That is dangerous thinking. Keeping Bitcoin as number 1 will take work, not ossification. You can't have a community that is scared of changing a single line of code and expect to stay on top. Don't forget that Bitcoin, at the end of the day, is software. Software adapts and changes or it becomes obsolete.
Bitcoin has the best change of replacing the extractive and flawed fiat monetary system, but only if the community doesn't fuck it up....
I will continue to stack sats, but the Bitcoin community needs to do some serious soul searching and remember why we are here in the first place.
#bitcoin
If your DNA has not made it's way into a state database like the rapidly growing CODIS, AND you haven't ever sent your DNA to one of those stupid ancestry honeypots like 23&Me, then you need to hold on to your non compromised status for dear life.
Do whatever you can to keep it from getting into these databases. DNA is the most dangerous information of all for a state to have, because you can never change it.
You can technically alter your fingerprints, face, and even rip your own eyeballs out I suppose. But DNA? You're cooked.
Who knows what the state will be doing with that kind of information in 10 years, 20 years?
Keeping your DNA to yourself might be the difference between living and dying, or freedom and slavery.
One way to do this is try to avoid felony arrests at all costs, because innocent until proven guilty isn't really a thing anymore and they can force you to give a DNA sample after any felony arrest in most states in the USA. Doesn't even matter if your alleged crime had a victim or not.
And for the love of God don't send your DNA in to a tech start up.
Happy Halloween!
#privacy
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https://paragraph.com/@thoughtcrimetraphouseEvery time you make a purchase or sale of goods or services with Monero, you are committing an act of nonviolent civil disobedience. By opting out and using your economic power within the second realm rather than using fiat currency within the servile society, your transaction becomes an act of resistance against slavery and surveillance.
You can also opt out of the system with Bitcoin and other decentralized cryptocurrencies, but without the privacy that is baked into Monero's base layer, you aren't protecting yourself from surveillance when you do so.
By buying and selling goods and services within our community using tools such as XMR Bazaar you are helping strengthen the entire community by keeping that economic power within our circular economy. The more we do this, we become more powerful as a group instead of wasting our economic power on feeding the fiat system and further enriching the ruling class.
Crony capitalism based on the fiat monetary system is on its way out, it's a system that requires never ending growth to avoid collapsing.
But what we need instead is not socialism or fascism. We need real free markets based on hard money like Bitcoin, without the state's interference.
Truly free markets are the most powerful super computer of all time, capable of efficientally aggregrating disparate information and assigning labor and capital where it is needed the most. As soon as you throw government and their regulations into the equation, it's as if the free market super computer has caught a virus.
#bitcoin
ICE just spent millions on AI based social media surveillance software.
Immigrants are just the test case for the new surveillance state. Don't think for a second the state won't start using these tools on other groups as well.
If you still are using social media under your real life identity, you probably shouldn't post anything but cat pictures. You may have freedom of speech today but who knows what tomorrow will bring. Some political rant you posted 10 years ago might get you thrown in a prison camp one day.
"Oh but the constitution says"....give me a break, the constutution has failed to protect your 2nd amendment or 4th amendment rights. One day it will probably fail to protect your first amendment rights as well.
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ICE is surveilling U.S. citizens’ social media with the same tool that is used by the IDF and the Pentagon. https://t.co/YuEU7psL9Q
Learn how to lie. You will need that skill for what is coming.
No, don't lie to your friends or loved ones.
Learn how to lie to the "authorities".
Learn how to lie to corporations.
It is a skill, practice it, it might keep you alive and out of a prison camp one day.
The AWS outage may of been the United States government testing it's internet kill switch.
There is speculation of a coming "cyber pandemic" in which they will use their kill switch to take down the internet across the entire United States.
They will lie and blame this outage on a cyber attack from Russia, China, or North Korea.
Chaos will ensue. The Federal Government will then use this contrived emergency to justify "locking down" access to the global internet. A firewall could then go up that puts China's to shame. This will conveniently coincide with most states adopting draconian age verification laws that prevent users from accessing websites and apps without sharing their identity. People will be so scared after a week of no internet that they will accept this without question to "protect them" from future attacks.
The free and open internet will be a thing of the past.
What do you think about the cyber pandemic theory?
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The SEC has approved in kind transactions for Bitcoin ETFs, which means you can convert spot BTC into ETF shares without taking a tax hit.
The state would love for you to do this, it makes seizing your Bitcoin incredibly easy for them. They want you to think that holding an ETF is "safer" than risking self custody.
You may be thinking, "oh they wouldn't take anything from me, I'm just a normal guy with nothing to hide."
I got news for you, noone holding ETFs are safe. The state seizes assets and cash from innocent people all the time, they don't even need to prove that a crime occured to do so. They don't care if you aren't a criminal. This will only get worse in the future.
Do not give up your Bitcoin to Blackrock, without self custody, you lose the biggest advantage of holding Bitcoin.
Non KYCed Bitcoin in self custody is like an insurance policy against state oppression and currency debasement.
Bitcoin ETFs are a scam. You cannot truly own anything in the traditional financial system other than cash. Everything else can be stolen from you at any time for any arbitrary reason.
They want your Bitcoin, there is only 21 million of them, don't give yours up.
#bitcoin #selfcustody #ETF #blackrock
Better late than never I suppose. I just hope more people realize that the foundation for what Trump is doing was built a long time ago.
Where were the massive protests when the Government increased it's power exponentially during every other administration?
Now people care about the constitution and due process all of a sudden?
Some people tried to warn us about what the Government could do one day with the power it was being given. Piece by piece our 4th amendment was destroyed through various abuses that became sanctioned by the courts, including DUI check points, drug dogs, the third party doctine, the Patriot Act, and more. To protect themselves from any possible armed resistance to their tyranny, they simultaneously eviscerated the 2nd Amendment as well.
Not many people cared or listened and dismissed the warnings as "conspiracy theories" by anti government kooks. They said the Government had to violate our constitutional rights to protect us from drugs and terrorists.
Now we are a few steps away from an AI powered dystopian surveillance state nightmare. The actions being taken against immigrants and the domestic military deployments are a test of their power. They are ok with these tests going all the way to Supreme Court because the Supreme Court is currently stacked with very authoritarian leaning judges. Once the 9 high priests give their blessing to some of these abuses of state power, we are cooked.
These people really think that if we just elect a Democrat next time, we will be magically saved and our freedom restored.
We need something different, not another corrupt Republican or Democrat, but an entirely new system in which no one is in charge. Not just no kings, but no rulers at all.
#politics
America functioned just fine for more than 150 years without requiring photo IDs. The state has spent decades normalizing "showing ID" for more and more activities, so that now you have been conditioned to not think twice about doing it. Now 3 states are about to require age verification to download any application through the Play Store or Apple's app store.
This is not ok. We are not ok. The people of Texas should be rioting in the streets over this but most people are incapable of second order thinking and are dismissing this as a minor inconvenience. It is so much more than that.....
#privacy
The ruling class have succesfully used fear to create mass psychosis in the population. Many people now believe that undocumented immigrants are so dangerous that it's ok if we violently kidnap people off the street based solely on their appearance.
Remember, crossing the border illegally the first time is a civil and not a criminal offense. ICE is treating all immigrants as if they are criminals. Even citizens with valid ID are being detained for being brown, and are told they are liars with a fake ID.
The left is not immune to fear based mass psychosis just because they aren't falling for this particular fear campaign. The left showed how easy they are to also manipulate with fear during Covid when they were so afraid of Covid that they ostracized and demonized anyone who wasn't.
What will the next fear campaign be? I think the next one will target everyone of the right and the left, and will get them to give up more rights in exchange for the state's protection from a new threat.
One possibility is a massive cyber attack that is orchestrated by the state to create a justification for the complete takeover and full control of the internet by the state.
What do you think the next fear campaign will be? When it comes will you fall in line with the sheep or will you stand up and refuse to let fear be used against you?
#politics #voluntaryist #immigration #covid
Wow. Overwhelmed with the irony of a Ethereum "privacy" L2 in testnet asking me to have a valid ID to join that testnet....
I don't give a fuck what ZK magic you use to KYC me, it is still KYC.
More than a billion people don't have valid ID.
I also don't have an ID, by choice.
Because I am not livestock to be tracked, traced, and branded by the state.
