RetroFedA must watch! Edward Snowden Reveals How They Spy on You. "2016 conversation."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozog_UiKzSU
“Mass surveillance had never stopped a single terrorist attack in more than 10 years of operation, in the United States.” They even view your porn habits…
This was from 2016, think how advanced things are now within the 10 years after this.
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Still couldn’t stop another 9/11 I bet.
Anonymous_LeakerNot to get conspiratorial, there were signs right before 9/11 happened and it still wasn’t stopped.
Get conspiratorial. There is overwhelming evidence that the US government lied about the events of 9/11. Watch this documentary with an open mind.
I usually get called nuts when I mention it…
Not conspiracy the KGB literally warned the US central intelligence of ass I think. If I ever start a brothel it’s going to be called central intelligence of ass.
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Wow, people are waking up now that it’s too late… and after 10 years, they’re suddenly interested in what Snowden revealed back then…
Slow clap—bravo, really…
In 5 or 10 years, people will surely be interested in WikiLeaks, too…
wikileaks lost all credibility after it allowed itself to be a vehicle during 2016 elections.
So you’re saying “Fuck off, Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.” Fuck off, truthful leaks that were even from before 2016… So you’re saying “Fuck off” because you’re acting like a puppet. Okay
I hope you have a lot of fun with Objection when the time comes—keyword: Peter Thiel. (Maybe Look Up Objection.. ;) )
I’m saying, fuck off with using information to turn public opinion into a weapon against political rivals.
wikileaks had the email and benghazi data months before the start of the 2016 campaign but continued to “trickle” information about it that allowed Donald Trump to get elected.
I’m absolutely certain they also had information about the Epstein files as well, but that didn’t come to light until almost a decade later and the public is still not fully aware of what happened today.
so yeah. fuck wikileaks. they’re just a front for Russian intelligence and was leveraged to destabilize world democracy.
That’s really, really stupid… Sure, you can hate WikiLeaks for it, but to say “fuck off” to the truth that was leaked anyway is just stupid. It doesn’t change anything about the published data itself—those are completely different issues.
“the truth” has no motives, only people and organizations do.
what wikileaks did and does is leverage the truth to manipulate opinions and outcomes.
what you’re basically admitting to is that you’re willing to be manipulated because the ends justify the means.
if that’s not the most fucked up perspective I’ve ever had the displeasure of wrapping my mind around, I don’t know what could be worse.
take your brainrot ideas somewhere else.
No, what I’m saying is that you let yourself be controlled like a puppet when it comes to sources and information. Iraq, Afghanistan, “Collateral Murder,” the Guantanamo manuals, diplomatic cables—and you just brush them all off because of something completely different.
And you wanna Talk about brainrot? So stupid It seems you’re the kind of person who would burn books, too.
You’re basically telling that kind of content to “fuck off” https://youtu.be/zYTxuW2vmzk Omg
Having to choose between two of the worst people ever isn’t democratic to me. Clinton is a monster too, which is very obvious when you see people outside the US as human. Obviously Trump’s policies are even worse, but let’s not pretend you needed much help to get that pos elected when even after the files so many people over there still like him.
don’t go moving those goal posts too far.
I’m just asserting you don’t need a foreign state to explain this.
I think it’s great that this continues to wake interest. If anyone is wondering, the surveillance is worse today.
Now that the US is an enemy to western Europe, maybe we can pull the plug on X-keyscore and their other shit at our internet exchange points.
Nah, this just a ml ‘the West bad’ cross-post with a 10-year old content. Seems the tankies run out of stuff.
@cm0002@infosec.pub’s a tankie now‽
News to me lmao
They are cross-posting the biggest bs from ml, and this is another example for this.
Such post are apparently not news, the only intention is portraying the West as bad, and then portray China as the only alternative.
I crosspost all good non-tankie content
This post is a privacy problem that is absolutely pervasive in all dystopian authoritarian or authoritarian-trending states to include China, Russia, US, NK, UK and now worrisomely the broader EU
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
It’s interesting that you are not a bot and have some purpose, but I’m blocking you anyway. Crossposts suck.
Everyone knows that already. This is 10 years old. If we all post things that old because they’re “absolutely pervasive” then Lemmy is a history archive or something.
There’s plenty of room on the Threadiverse for both new and historical posts. Especially historical posts that are still relevant today.
And all the apparatuses discussed in the video are all not just likely still in operation, but expanded upon AND currently under the control of one of the most authoritarian presidents in US history. It’s more relevant now then ever before and worthy of continued discussion
lemmy.ml is a general instance, the instance for MLs is lemmygrad.
I understand if you’re frustrated about political stuff here, unfortunately things like privacy are extremely tied to politics and we can’t avoid that connection unless we avoid talking about privacy. And the first step to push back against surveillance is to be informed.
I am not frustrated about political stuff, it’s just that this is 10 years old. We all know this already.
And lemmy/.ml maybe be ‘softer’ the the grads and bears, but you are also banned there if you criticize China. The mods there pursue the same pro-China, anti-democratic propaganda.
The surveillance landscape has shifted dramatically since 2016. Today, we don’t just have passive state surveillance tapping cables; we have massive, voluntary corporate surveillance through the centralization of AI. Millions of developers and businesses are willingly uploading their proprietary source code, database structures, and internal spreadsheets to cloud LLMs (OpenAI, Google, Microsoft). All this data is logged, parsed, and stored in central cloud databases. We are essentially building the ultimate corporate intelligence database of all private technical infrastructure, completely voluntarily. If you care about privacy today, the absolute priority should be moving towards local-first execution. If you must leverage cloud LLMs, the only safe way is to use architectures that enforce local data isolation, keeping your actual database rows and files local, and sending only empty abstract schemas to the model for reasoning
If you ever want the DUMBEST commentary on the Snowden leaks, check out The Rest is Classified: The leak that changed the world.
I feel people don’t fully appreciate the sacrifice this guy has done for his principles.