Posted On: Tuesday - May 14th 2024 6:34PM MST
In Topics: Music US Police State Globalists Artificial Stupidity ctrl-left Orwellian Stupidity iEspionage
A friend of mine got me onto the Signal app long ago. It has been touted to be an alternate to the standard Texting app* that encrypts one's messages - not sure about images and videos too. (That'd take a lot more capacity.) I've used it a few times, but, contrary to what people on the other end might reckon, I've always assumed that there's not much more security inherent in its use than in regular texting.
It's not that I think the cryptography in Signal is necessarily easy to crack. I have been under the impression that we're on the encryption side of the encryption/decryption waveform, meaning it's cheaper to encrypt (to keys with 100's of characters) than to decrypt. For those non-Derbyshire-level mathematicians, I highly recommend The Code Book by Simon Singh as an introduction to the history and basic theory of cryptography. (It's a very fun read too.)
So what if the messages are nearly impossible to crack? That's not the weak point for this phone software, the "secure" browsers, and what have you. The point to break in is in the software itself, with a backdoor to allow the Orwellian State to download all the messages in their unencrypted states to some people in the State of Utah, for example. Wouldn't the Signal software programmers know if something like this was in there? Maybe at the start, but who knows who can and did get ahold of the (programming) code at some point along the way. Perhaps these spooks hang out in their underwear in the basement of the Apple Store.
Well, anyway, the anti-Wokeness fighter Chris Rufo came at this concern from a different angle, which I'll get to after a short excerpt from his recent City Journal article Signal’s Katherine Maher Problem. Well, I guess that title gives away Chris Rufo's concern, but:
First, the origin story. The technology behind Signal, which operates as a nonprofit foundation, was initially funded, in part, through a $3 million grant from the government-sponsored Open Technology Fund (OTF), which was spun off from Radio Free Asia, originally established as an anti-Communist information service during the Cold War. OTF funded Signal to provide “encrypted mobile communication tools” to “Internet freedom defenders globally.”Who's gonna scrutinize this involvement, teams of Top Men sent by the UniParty? Sure ...
Some insiders have argued that the connection between OTF and U.S. intelligence is deeper than it appears. One person who has worked extensively with OTF but asked to remain anonymous told me that, over time, it became increasingly clear “that the project was actually a State Department-connected initiative that planned to wield open source Internet projects made by hacker communities as tools for American foreign policy goals”—including by empowering “activists [and] parties opposed to governments that the USA doesn’t like.” Whatever the merits of such efforts, the claim—if true—suggests a government involvement with Signal that deserves more scrutiny.
Heavy users of Signal, especially those who are software people, have probably had their concerns already. Mr. Rufo may not have concerned himself with this until seeing who happens to be the current Chairman of the Board of the Signal Foundation:
What the hell,
Then too, as with VPNs and such, the use itself of these is probably a great reason for the Orwellian State to enter such a user's information in that special database on special people. That'd be those who, for some paranoid reason, think the State is spying on them. That shows a lack of civic trust, a bad quality in a citizen, and a damn good reason to put a flag for him in one column of that "Special Citizens" table.
Chris Rufo says Signal users should be "cautious". That's putting it mildly. Then again, maybe Peak Stupidity is just "controlled opposition", as likely are these guys:
Signals was the band Rush's 9th studio album, from September of 1982. I know Peak Stupidity has featured a favorite, New World Man, before, so here's The Analog Kid instead.
Going back to analog signals evades lots of the new technology. Letters written in cursive, HF radio... "Papa Bear to Mama Bear, Goldilocks has left the building." Screw this digital bitch.
PS: One can't help imagine how much better it'd have been for the world and the sanity of Katherine Maher herself had she met a nice hardworking man and had 3 or 4 kids with him years ago. She'd be a happy Conservative that may or may not see the evil wrought by the Globalists like her alt-self. Either way, she'd have been doing good for the world. Alas, Babylon...
* To use Apple's terminology, every one of those icons on the screen besides "Settings" is an app, I guess, even the Phone app, on the
** Peak Stupidity didn't write a post about her current story, but we mentioned her in the recent post Roots Politics from Peak Stupidity.
*** Note, picture of hot chick in post is NOT Nina Totenburg, so no use clicking...
Comments:
Corrupt
Sunday - May 19th 2024 4:51PM MST
PS
Moderator, while encryption isn’t against the law, it is subject to export restriction laws. Exporting the wrong software could put you behind bars for a significant amount of time. I’m not sure if it was real, or what the outcome was, but I remember a story about someone who supposedly had an encryption algorithm tattooed on themselves, who had a hard time leaving the country.
Moderator, while encryption isn’t against the law, it is subject to export restriction laws. Exporting the wrong software could put you behind bars for a significant amount of time. I’m not sure if it was real, or what the outcome was, but I remember a story about someone who supposedly had an encryption algorithm tattooed on themselves, who had a hard time leaving the country.
MBlanc46
Wednesday - May 15th 2024 9:12AM MST
PS Anything built by a large institution will be controlled by the globalists.
Adam Smith
Wednesday - May 15th 2024 8:15AM MST
PS: Found this...
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/if-you-outlaw-encryption-only-outlaws-will-have-encryption
(No relation.)
Cheers! ☮️
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/if-you-outlaw-encryption-only-outlaws-will-have-encryption
(No relation.)
Cheers! ☮️
Adam Smith
Wednesday - May 15th 2024 8:06AM MST
PS: Good morning, Messrs. Alarmist & Moderator!
(Much less sleepy now after 8 good hours in the bed.)
Mr. Alarmist, I heard a rumor that Miss Maher's grandfather was indeed some sort of spy.(?) Her fathers obituary alludes to this as family folklore...
https://goodmorningwilton.com/obituary-gordon-roberts-maher/
And here's an announcement for her parents wedding...
https://www.nytimes.com/1980/09/07/archives/catherine-queeney-a-buyer-married-to-gordon-r-maher.html
Not sure what a buyer is, but they seem pretty well connected. (Ok, so her wikipedia page says Cici worked for the department store Lord & Taylor in 1977 and worked for several years for department stores such as Target Corporation. Buyer makes more sense to me now.)
Her mom is currently a senator for the state of Connecticut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceci_Maher
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"which Globalist outfit DIDN'T she join?"
The international monetary fund? The Asian Development Bank?
But, yeah. Seems she's made a career of hopping from one evil institution to another. It's a shame her net worth is only 2 million. (Unless she's lying, which would be wise.) There's a girl who makes $200,000+ a month eating her own poop on onlyfans, so it seems that for all her globalist whoring and chasing that careerism Miss Maher isn't getting paid all that well.
https://www.weforum.org/people/katherine-maher/
Achmed, it's like the chicken and the egg. (Probably not the best metaphor. Still not totally awake.) If miss Maher had settled down in her 20's and had a couple kids (back before it was trendy to trans them) would she be the evil globalist operative that she is today? I guess we'll never know.
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Florida man comes through again!
https://www.pcmag.com/news/fla-man-fined-48k-for-jamming-cell-signals-while-driving
https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/1/5672762/man-faces-48000-fine-for-driving-with-cellphone-jammer
Though he's not the only one caught tinkering with such technology...
Chicago man...
https://www.cnet.com/culture/man-arrested-for-allegedly-using-cell-phone-jammer-on-train/
Mobile man...
https://www.fox10tv.com/2023/06/12/mobile-man-charged-with-using-sophisticated-jamming-device-block-police-communications/
https://cellbusters.com/cell-phone-jammers/
https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement
They really don't like people using cellphone jammers. The fine for that is 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 as steep as fixing the neighbor's a/c without a license.
When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4YKUJZI5Bg
Or something.
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The Analog Kid just might be my favorite song on signals.
It's a tough call because New World Man is pretty good too.
We got a new mattress a couple months back, so it was a really good time to take the guitars out from under the bed and clean all the dust bunnies and such. It was also a good opportunity to take my Rickenbacker out and spend some time with her. She was still in tune after all these years. (Seriously, I don't think I've played her in years!)
I was a huge rush fan when I was a kid. Probably how I ended up with that Rickenbacker. (1978 Fireglo 4001) I paid $350 dollars for it when I was ~13 years old. (And it came with a Peavey TNT 150 bass amp.) Pretty good deal. Probably one of the best investments (not that I thought of it that way at the time) I've ever made.
That's about all I've got to say this morning. Time for Breakfast.
I hope you gentlemen have a great day!
☮️
(Much less sleepy now after 8 good hours in the bed.)
Mr. Alarmist, I heard a rumor that Miss Maher's grandfather was indeed some sort of spy.(?) Her fathers obituary alludes to this as family folklore...
https://goodmorningwilton.com/obituary-gordon-roberts-maher/
And here's an announcement for her parents wedding...
https://www.nytimes.com/1980/09/07/archives/catherine-queeney-a-buyer-married-to-gordon-r-maher.html
Not sure what a buyer is, but they seem pretty well connected. (Ok, so her wikipedia page says Cici worked for the department store Lord & Taylor in 1977 and worked for several years for department stores such as Target Corporation. Buyer makes more sense to me now.)
Her mom is currently a senator for the state of Connecticut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceci_Maher
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"which Globalist outfit DIDN'T she join?"
The international monetary fund? The Asian Development Bank?
But, yeah. Seems she's made a career of hopping from one evil institution to another. It's a shame her net worth is only 2 million. (Unless she's lying, which would be wise.) There's a girl who makes $200,000+ a month eating her own poop on onlyfans, so it seems that for all her globalist whoring and chasing that careerism Miss Maher isn't getting paid all that well.
https://www.weforum.org/people/katherine-maher/
Achmed, it's like the chicken and the egg. (Probably not the best metaphor. Still not totally awake.) If miss Maher had settled down in her 20's and had a couple kids (back before it was trendy to trans them) would she be the evil globalist operative that she is today? I guess we'll never know.
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Florida man comes through again!
https://www.pcmag.com/news/fla-man-fined-48k-for-jamming-cell-signals-while-driving
https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/1/5672762/man-faces-48000-fine-for-driving-with-cellphone-jammer
Though he's not the only one caught tinkering with such technology...
Chicago man...
https://www.cnet.com/culture/man-arrested-for-allegedly-using-cell-phone-jammer-on-train/
Mobile man...
https://www.fox10tv.com/2023/06/12/mobile-man-charged-with-using-sophisticated-jamming-device-block-police-communications/
https://cellbusters.com/cell-phone-jammers/
https://www.fcc.gov/general/jammer-enforcement
They really don't like people using cellphone jammers. The fine for that is 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 as steep as fixing the neighbor's a/c without a license.
When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4YKUJZI5Bg
Or something.
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The Analog Kid just might be my favorite song on signals.
It's a tough call because New World Man is pretty good too.
We got a new mattress a couple months back, so it was a really good time to take the guitars out from under the bed and clean all the dust bunnies and such. It was also a good opportunity to take my Rickenbacker out and spend some time with her. She was still in tune after all these years. (Seriously, I don't think I've played her in years!)
I was a huge rush fan when I was a kid. Probably how I ended up with that Rickenbacker. (1978 Fireglo 4001) I paid $350 dollars for it when I was ~13 years old. (And it came with a Peavey TNT 150 bass amp.) Pretty good deal. Probably one of the best investments (not that I thought of it that way at the time) I've ever made.
That's about all I've got to say this morning. Time for Breakfast.
I hope you gentlemen have a great day!
☮️
The Alarmist
Wednesday - May 15th 2024 5:46AM MST
PS
If the Deep State and various bellwether CongressCritters aren’t complainng about the bad guys using an app to subvert the USA, then you can be sure it is either compromised or their Trojan horse app to start with.
Maher, like her late father, has a Spook pedigree.
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If the Deep State and various bellwether CongressCritters aren’t complainng about the bad guys using an app to subvert the USA, then you can be sure it is either compromised or their Trojan horse app to start with.
Maher, like her late father, has a Spook pedigree.
🕉
Moderator
Wednesday - May 15th 2024 5:44AM MST
PS: I wonder if this Kathy Maher would be a demon of any kind at all, though, had she taken a different path, such as the kind of life that suits most women much better. Maybe you're right, and we sure don't need any more trans kids. The kids surely don't need that done to them, is the way I should put it.
Yeah, I didn't cover all of it, UNICEF, the CFR, World Bank... the question is, which Globalist outfit DIDN'T she join?
No, they haven't outlawed encryption - I guess only outlaws will have it then, but the algorithms are readily available, so I guess anyone who can program a bit can do it.
What I read about is the outlawing of GPS jamming, IIRC. Now, I can see fines or punishment for deliberately jamming or spoofing (worse) navigation signals to aircraft, etc. However, one may want to go short range and jam his own phone or car, for instance.
Yeah, I didn't cover all of it, UNICEF, the CFR, World Bank... the question is, which Globalist outfit DIDN'T she join?
No, they haven't outlawed encryption - I guess only outlaws will have it then, but the algorithms are readily available, so I guess anyone who can program a bit can do it.
What I read about is the outlawing of GPS jamming, IIRC. Now, I can see fines or punishment for deliberately jamming or spoofing (worse) navigation signals to aircraft, etc. However, one may want to go short range and jam his own phone or car, for instance.
Moderator
Wednesday - May 15th 2024 5:40AM MST
PS: Thanks for another on-line book for our readers, Mr. Smith. The Code Book is excellent. That is unless you are a math geek totally into this stuff, as it's a few decades behind the times.
Good morning. I'm glad you like Rush (the band), because we're all over that music here.
Good morning. I'm glad you like Rush (the band), because we're all over that music here.
Adam Smith
Tuesday - May 14th 2024 10:11PM MST
PS: Good evening, Achmed, Fellow Peakers,
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Maher worked for UNICEF, the National Democratic Institute, the World Bank and Access Now before joining the Wikimedia Foundation. She subsequently joined the Atlantic Council and the US Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
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I don't know. Maybe you're right? But I'm not sure it would be a good idea for this demon woman to have children.
Doesn't America already have enough trans kids?
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Like signal, TOR is funded by the state department and other "government" agencies. That's how you know it's secure!
- It's not like they would spy on people who are trying to keep their communications private. Also, I'm a little surprised they haven't tried to outlaw encryption yet. You know, for the children or national security or something.
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Not sure what else to say, kinda tired. Do love the Rush song. One of my favorites.
Good night y'all...
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A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Maher worked for UNICEF, the National Democratic Institute, the World Bank and Access Now before joining the Wikimedia Foundation. She subsequently joined the Atlantic Council and the US Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
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I don't know. Maybe you're right? But I'm not sure it would be a good idea for this demon woman to have children.
Doesn't America already have enough trans kids?
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Like signal, TOR is funded by the state department and other "government" agencies. That's how you know it's secure!
- It's not like they would spy on people who are trying to keep their communications private. Also, I'm a little surprised they haven't tried to outlaw encryption yet. You know, for the children or national security or something.
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Not sure what else to say, kinda tired. Do love the Rush song. One of my favorites.
Good night y'all...
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Peak Stupidity Book Club
Tuesday - May 14th 2024 10:10PM MST
PS: Howdy,
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (22.5mb .pdf)
https://tinyurl.com/32ju3sc5
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (22.5mb .pdf)
https://tinyurl.com/32ju3sc5
☮️
Why did he do that, do you think? Is it something he couldn't memorize, or did he want to let other people in on it?
Sorry for the late reply, Mr. Corrupt.