https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_plot

It’s circular. Facebook and other silicon valley corps intersect with the intelligence community and law enforcement, which has always been the enforcement and surveillance arm of wall st, their cooperation helps ensure their monopoly position. Silicon Valley companies are like pharmaceuticals and heavy arms manufacturing and aerospace, closely guarded as a national security concern and one of the last few monopoly rent collecting industries wall st has. Lots of direct law enforcement involvement in policing social media like snapchat just has a dept of cops already embedded

informants have been getting fucking WEIRD for years and years. an “informant” can mean a guy who just runs a violent drug dealing ring/cult like Charles Manson (who was released dozens and dozens of times despite having insane amts of drugs, firearms, and missing kids, the LAPD lost all evidence of raiding the spahn ranch and fired a guy claiming he misdated the warrant) or Gabriel Worfman (was doing something with a fake cop car, prison guards, and cigarette smuggling before he went on a rampage)

Facebook is letting all kinds of insane shit go down too with their combo of corrupt law enforcement collaboration and incompetent underpaid traumatized mods

So they’re just running whole GLADIO style terror operations and grooming pizza delivery guys to be shooters

Really showing everyone how it’s done.

hYpoTHeSiS

More like a weak reason to just assume, like the other guy, this is exactly what it says on the tin (literally said “I checked the Microsoft article and this looks good!!”), when Win11 has been causing issues with VPNs, Win10 no longer allows you to actually fully cut off traffic with Mullvad, and Google has recently tried to introduce heavy pruning to connections based on how identifiable you are at a basic level of the internet lol?? I’m just assuming they’re going to mark some shit as a harmful DNS server that isn’t or make it harder to use a pihole idk. I’m not insisting what they’re doing is malicious no matter what, you just gave me a shitty reason lmao

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I don’t think I need to point out China again but a lot of the shit decisions they make are often excused as “weakness” towards American imperialism when IMO this doesn’t exempt them from most of the stuff they could do but don’t because of brainworms.

I don’t think you need to point it out unless you want to just emphasize to me that you deal with geopolitics primarily through knee-jerk headline reactions and have a dim view of how other people judge the limitations of the diplomatic situation of peripheral countries.

This kind of language about people “going easy on them because of geopolitics” is typical of people who don’t think geopolitics are real.

Really tired of the “China’s geopolitics suck” meme when you get into it, half the time people are making insinuations about them betraying socialist movements or repeating RFA fake news about them trying to send people guns to murder Maoists.

Yes, I am aware of Norinco’s dealings with “Israel”, I have read all about the Kampuchea debacle and about the Chinese embassy in Chile barricading itself in following Pinochet’s coup instead of giving all the leftists asylum in China, the thing is I also actually judge the diplomatic situation in the context of Aukus-EU-Japan-RoK financial imperialism rather than treating it like a tennis match of goodest opinions judged by the eternal unchanging Marxist standard of goodestness (doesn’t exist if you can’t tell by my tone)

I feel the same, from knowledge and not having infinite disposable income, it’s like my opsec is capped, and tech-libertarians aren’t going to help us. They’re just as concerned with the Chinese as their own govt which is still raking in Silk Road plunder years and years down the line, and that’s all they use it for, illegal finances and drugs. Oh wait I forgot something important. Let’s move on. At the very least I want to skootch people on to solutions which aren’t a complete no-brainer like handing over all your internet traffic to the NSA directly, sending unencrypted text messages about unionizing that Starbucks can try to get a judge to pull. I don’t just drop security procedures but I recognize their insecurity on a higher level.

These people are just being toyed around with by feds to do strategy of tension shit, they pose no threat to the feds

I know I’m going a bit nutty here, but Thailand and Indonesia being added recently kind of raises an eyebrow from me. Not involved with the datacenter business lol, I prefer being a geopolitical nutcase to stay far afield of anything that these people do as shit gets worse…

Thailand recently also started doing shit like mirroring US legislation about sending “nonlethal aid” to US-favored forces in Myanmar. That’s a correlation that tells me I missed a lot of stuff happening.

yannow how ThatOnePrivacySite used to have a thingy which would show you which intelligence-sharing agreements with NATO your VPN’s country is in? I don’t think that’s really foolproof but consider that Mullvad’s secure DNS servers are in Sweden and that would be a great place to attach the wiretap

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Netherland, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK, and of course USA

for Wireguard they also have Ukraine, Indonesia, and Thailand and I may be forgetting others

it’s like a list of countries where a removed established member of the intelligence community wouldn’t be shitting their pants about THE SEE SEE PEE

not even any funny symbols

I’m not afraid of the term Zero Trust lmao that would be funny “oh my god… zero trust… … they’re lying to us bros”

sure DNS over HTTPS is more secure but in practice isn’t it just everyone handing over all their browsing history directly to google and cloudflaremost of the time anyways? watch them just leak all of the traffic to a third party server or something like apple

this is really not bad at all for math grow up ppl

They probably threatened his family 😱

Have you seen the ai relatable memes and their bots circulating Reddit?

let me give you an even weirder example of security technology being circumvented by the feds, even though it actually works Tor relies on the exit notes not being compromised en masse by an incredibly resourceful entity with I mean, untold financial resources you know I’m talking about the US

let’s say one sat there for hours. Debating with somebody whether tor was secure I would come to the conclusion it’s great security software, and I have to use it without thinking about whether literally every single exit node or at least a large majority of them have literally been bought by feds so I’m asking for stuff. I’m not gonna think about that you know. I want access to the paranoias of more competent nerds than I am

I mean, I just really think my reach exceeds my grasp on the subject and that’s not a reason to be less paranoid and assume security software is working. I am not really big on how security seems to be synonymous with US national security half the time with computer dudes. I mean hell on this DNS issue I’m speculating this could be some move by Microsoft to get around VPN but I don’t know if they’re already doing that. I’m sure they are. Maybe they’re making it easier. VPN companies are compromised anyways I mean look at server map for Mullvad it belongs in always the same map that community on Lemmygrad.

However could just be a case of like you say, MicroSSoft being forced to actually compete, eventually, on security issues

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Can’t wait to hear the things Zionists say about this woman, who is braver than all of them combined

Google didn’t release Kubernetes to the world so they can at-will hijack everybody’s containers

great point, software being open-sourced is ALWAYS a gesture of goodwill by Silicon Valley companies, silly conspiracy theorists!

as long as there isn’t a direct backdoor, there cannot be an ulterior motive!

i love it, just like the “why would this be an op, it trashes amerikkkans” logic of Black Hammer

@RnaudBertrand

Extraordinary story that just happened in France ahead of Xi Jinping’s visit, straight out of a spy novel, and that very much looks like an attempt to disrupt the visit.
Yesterday, one of the flagship programs of French TV, Envoyé Spécial, published a report where they show an alleged “clandestine operation of the Chinese police in Paris” in which there is an attempt to forcibly repatriate a Chinese “dissident” back to China. This is the trailer for the show: x.com/EnvoyeSpecial/status/1…
However, the Chinese embassy in France just published the most extraordinary (never seen a statement like this by a Chinese embassy anywhere) and detailed rebuttal to the story. It’s here in French: (http://fr.china-embassy.gov.cn/fra/zfzj/202405/t20240502_11292331.htm Let me translate it in full:

"On the evening of May 1, France 2 broadcasted a report based on lies and a completely fabricated narrative in which two Chinese diplomats were accused of 'forcibly repatriating a dissident. The magazine Challenges also published a report on the same case. The Chinese Embassy wishes to express its strongest protest against this report and intends to publish the facts to restore the truth.
The so-called ‘dissident,’ a certain Ling Huazhan, arrived clandestinely in France in September 2023, traveling through the Netherlands and Germany. In October 2023, he received an expulsion order from France from the police of the ninth district of Paris for disrupting the normal operation of several Chinese restaurants in the district. At the end of January 2024, GHU Paris psychiatry & neurosciences contacted the Chinese Embassy stating that they were treating a Chinese national (whose identity as Ling Huazhan was confirmed) who wanted to commit suicide. However, when the Embassy was discussing this matter with the hospital, Ling Huazhan voluntarily left the hospital on February 15.
On March 4, Ling Huazhan approached the consular service of the Chinese Embassy. According to him, he had been deceived into participating in activities of the “Falungong” cult and now realized that he had made mistakes. […]