End-to-End Encryption Now a Historical Footnote. They Won.

[@ettoreatalan8303]

None of the “I have nothing to hide” people I've come across have ever given me their bank details, even when I've asked for them very clearly.

[@enjoy_yourself_29]

Because thats a stupid question. Theres money stored on a bank account, not the hub browser history.

[@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever]

​@@enjoy_yourself_29unless you are looking at your bank account online or via downloaded PDF file. Anything on the screen gets scanned...

[@rizz0d]

@@enjoy_yourself_29 it's not a stupid question. it proves that they were lying when they said "i have nothing to hide."

[@chelmano0]

@@enjoy_yourself_29 Look at this n0rmie. Did you scream about how your neighbors should be put in a camp because they refuse to comply?

[@2bNot]

Some people just can't understand so they try and 'out-clever' the simple concept that they cannot understand. They struggle to even consider it and go immediately into 'ego-drive mode'.

[@missmewd164]

Twenty years ago my Grandma would take the battery out of her cell phone to tell me stories she wanted kept private. Everyone thought she was crazy. She's now passed away, but when I hear things like this, I look at her picture and tell her "Grandma, you were right." 🖤

[@anon_y_mousse]

I was probably the one who told your grandma about that. Did you know that if the battery is in they can turn it on remotely?

[@LIBER000]

Your grandmother was very smart.

[@Wodawic]

Kudos to wisdom, which takes time, like a fine wine. Gen XYZ whatever needs to wake the truck up and get a work ethic

[@RikiB]

What was the story?

[@ItsAllAboutGuitar]

They don't make those phones anymore.

[@mtake100]

Rob probably remembers the 1970s when students on college campus were warning people about the erosion of privacy and Big Brother. Fast forward to 2025 and they were absolutely correct.

[@hAckAbleMe]

Have you seen a modern college student? Scary stuff!😂

[@jarihaukilahti]

money are conserned to be overthrown or to be in power ,, forver and forever - the user are like crimminals but obvoisly not those who survilance - its about control for tech companies ,money ,state etc, Thet are just the smaallminded people who lived in the past and crated massmurder

[@AncientGranules]

Exactly!

[@secretagent86]

George Orwell

[@GudLawdHammercy]

The sad thing is, people are welcoming it.

[@troywhite6039]

One thing yet discussed is when content deemed illegal can be put on your phone without your knowledge because a 3 letter agency or law enforcement has no other evidence to blackmail or imprison you with so they make you guilty of something by adding it there.

[@setsquare-h7k]

No worries here...although you will be tried by a jury of your peers (where the chance of getting just one who knows anything about the relevant technology is extremely remote) there will be a stream of "experts" who are put on the stand to inform how they should be thinking

[@ericpode6095]

​@@setsquare-h7kStarmer in the UK wants to get rid of trial by jury......

[@elleodurkin409]

This has already been effected in the Commonwealth of Australia with the _Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Act 2021_ . In short, the AFP can put information on your accounts because they suspect you are participating in three defined things and...other criminal activities. People don't know, and don't want to know, what is happening.

[@Emily_M81]

@@setsquare-h7k not to mention that the attorneys are the ones interviewing potential jurors and get to basically say "no, not them on the jury, oh yes that person, though" at least that's how it was when I was a juror on a felony case.

[@zaxmaxlax]

it was already done even by normal police agencies all around the world. True history.

[@filoofox9934]

Back in the day Keyloggers were the biggest fear... now their built in...

[@utubepunk]

they're

[@ShadowManceri]

Windows 10 was the first OS to have keylogger from factory. Windows 11 upgraded that to not only keylogger, but actually recording the whole screen.

[@ArtisChronicles]

That's the damn irony of all of this.

[@ArtisChronicles]

​@@ShadowManceri Well now I know why they wanna push Windows 11 so hard. Such utter trash. There must be some way to actually disable that.

[@ShadowManceri]

@ Maybe with some unofficial mods, that could contain malware on their own and do whatever. And it's always a solution that might stop working any day. One update could change everything. Not really fan of either method. Not to mention that most people will have no idea.

[@one_b]

I've tried and tried explaining it to people and most look at me blankly. AI cores are going to become commodity parts very soon that any company will be able to jam into their SoCs. They will start getting stuck into everything and there will be no way to hide. You plug your PC, even with Linux, into a screen with an embedded AI processor and it could literally scan the contents of the display stream, process it, store it in cheap internal flash memory, wait for a connection to the outside world via a friendly BLE mesh network, and boom - no privacy. No Copilot needed. It really would be a "monitor" then in the most literal sense.

[@ogre706]

Keep you're old monitors, lol. But seriously.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

Yep. There will be a point where we will no longer be able to upgrade any hardware. For example, If they had started doing this in the 1990's, we'd be forced to use Commodore 64s right now.

[@linsqopiring6816]

This is exactly the kind of threat model I've been thinking about. As prices go down they will be included in pretty much all components of all consumer devices. Everything will be "smart". Every player will be pilfering every bit of data out of people they can. Look at how obsessed almost every company seems to be with getting in on the AI trend. This kind of scenario seems not only likely but almost inevitable to me. The only hope might be if the public somehow becomes privacy aware and that some company has a true privacy focus, not a fake one like apple, and builds systems that are open sourced at every level.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

@ I live in California and had to have a "smart" dryer (for laundry). It "saved" energy by not drying the clothes completely. The "smart" dishwasher "saves" energy by not drying the dishes. And don't ask me about the nightmare that is the "low flow" toilet and what it does to save water (hint: you need to have a plunger at hand at all times).

[@RT-qd8yl]

@@Truth_Teller_101 And through all of this, have you considered moving?

[@Truth_Teller_101]

"I'm sorry, Dave. This conversation can serve no purpose any longer."

[@technoman9000]

Goodbye Dave.

[@AllAhabNoMoby]

HAL? Is that you?

[@linmal2242]

I remember that ! Saw it twice at the theatre, I was so impressed with it ! Long ago now, but prescient !

[@hisechapman1165]

Reading the words, I could even hear the voice.... scary times.

[@DouglasMix-o7h]

2001 A Space Odessey a masterpiece! The HAL9000 computer was a AI computer who was a bad boy!

[@MegaFirewalk]

The Amish way of life looks more attractive to me every day, we will end up fully enslaved by our tech.

[@FreedomeIsAMyth-1948]

I bet 3 letter agency tracks them too. Ever heard of the haystack project? I joke I kid. But seriously. 😐

[@OOO-pc3nb]

Welcome 2 the US of China

[@Dasani_water_drinker]

End up? Its been there. Wake up

[@TinusTegenlicht]

If I could, I would join the Amish. I am tired of these phone zombies, who are glued to the device and cannot even turn their phones off during lunch or dinner or on a date they put it beside their plate. Or they record themselves crying because Trump said somethig mean in the middle of the store, while everybody is watching.

[@letsRegulateSociopaths]

It's not the tech. It's the sociopathic leaders in politics and corporations and their shareholders who enable them

[@Litepaw]

We lost waaaay back when normies flooded the internet to join facebook and instagram on their iphone 3Gs.

[@Drew.DrivesYT]

top comment

[@blues03]

As a teen that bothered me on so many levels back then. Fools willing to make giving up privacy the norm to post themselves at people they see everyday. And if you're connecting with family from a distance, then email them a letter and some pictures or CALL them. All the kids growing up (then) would say "Catch me/Check my Myspace!". These are the same people that would be yelling "Nerd" for anyone understanding the difference between the R W Y A/V cables a few years earlier.

[@balsalmalberto8086]

Normies need to stop appropriating comic book heros, gaming and computers, they need to stayoutside and give it back to the nerds.

[@homeloveeverything2932]

And even if you choose to stay off of them, there’s usually a grandma who will post every single picture of her kids and grandkids… and neglect to turn on the privacy features (as if the privacy features really work anyways)

[@blakecarnes9400]

​@@balsalmalberto8086morons need to stop gatekeepers yet here we are. "Teehee I'm a comic book nerd I hate these posers who only know superman, how dare they no know who Mama Biscuit the all-seeing baking grandma is?? She had two issues back in 1965 geez I hate these so called nerds who only know the popular stuff." Literally just let people enjoy shit, your type of people is absolutely insufferable. Maybe try to cultivate better interest in hem than trying to say they should just stop altogether. Gatekeepers are losers

[@AApron]

Here's to help a bit after getting demonetized. Clearly, even with this platform, Presenting Facts = Justification to Censor.

[@robbraxmantech]

Appreciated!

[@Truth_Teller_101]

The normies will wake up the first time it says, "I'm sorry, Dave. I cannot let you download that. That would be copyright infringement."

[@linsqopiring6816]

Probably what will be more likely is like with traffic cameras that we have now that just send you a ticket in the mail. You will just get a bill for whatever torrent you downloaded.

[@googIesux]

Normies are OK with both. They see them both as legitimate. It's when they get arrested for something they don't believe is sin that they'll begin to think; but even then, balance of power, etc are not on their radar

[@Mystery_G]

That's already happening, and they already don't gaf enough to do anything about it other than whinge or vote for some a'hole who's slick enough to lie to them that he/she's gonna make everything great again.

[@bobhatesrainbows]

Too late.

[@BFG_10G]

@@Truth_Teller_101 😄

[@technoman9000]

The trend is obvious. For your own protection, you need this AI surveillance bot on all your devices. Now we're just waiting for the big platforms to deny access unless you have the surveillance bot running. Easily done with TPM and signed passkeys. What a future we're in for!

[@letsRegulateSociopaths]

They will stop selling computers within 15 years

[@Drew.DrivesYT]

​@@letsRegulateSociopaths 15 is optimistic. I bet within 5 years you'll need to bio-authenticate yourself just to use a computer/smartphone/whatever. that's the reason why over 60% of internet traffic is bot-related - to create a crisis. "we can't be sure that the IP hitting our servers is from a human, so make them bio-authenticate".

[@The_Questionaut]

​@@letsRegulateSociopathsThat claim seems a little out there unless you got back up evidence

[@flickwtchr]

You know what we are also waiting for with Trump being the most likely president to deliver such? A cashless system where everything about you will be on blockchain corresponding to your social credit score. Did you see the news about the "Stargate" project, and Larry Ellison's comments about AI's surveillance expansion in accordance with that Trump initiated project with his big AI tech billionaire allies? Don't get me wrong, if the same project were endorsed by Biden I would have been just as much against it.

[@punkofthedeath]

Yep, even devices that can connect to the internet can be restricted to "protect" internet users, but the real reason is to monitor all activities on the internet or to control what software & device capabilities that is allowed to be used on the internet

[@bardmadsen6956]

1.5 minutes in, I could have told you this twenty years ago, and I'm not an IT person. The big blob of the main mass of humanity will not listen, but "they" figured out how to lead "them", "we" are only in for the ride. I have the same problem with my publication, all I can do is keep trying, but I know it won't do any good. I like your cause, Rob, you obviously put in a lot of work.

[@TinusTegenlicht]

It is less than 10% which sees what is happening, the rest don't or do, but put their heads in the sand. Ignorence is bliss and they just go along as long if they get their bread and games, like the Romans already knew that is what matters most for most people. On the other hand, wars and revolutions are won by a small minority who fights back, not the 90% of the silent masses

[@bardmadsen6956]

@@TinusTegenlicht Well, thanks for commenting, I'm used to silence, kind of like that Ozzy song about do not bother turning the lights on. I really did find something of eminence importance to mankind and have been open about it for a decade, it is like being stuck in a Twilight Zone episode, The Eye of the Beholder, where the pig nosed people send the few normal ones off to live amongst themselves, out of sight of the majority. All I get is incredulous silence, so much so, that it is by itself truly an anomaly. I've been here before, many times, but this time I had to look for the answer and started researching psychology, a subject that I've never liked and on top of that I used to live with a full blown psychologist. Anyhow, it seems there is almost zero on denial. Then I somehow got back to a subject that I was very interested in six decades ago, oh yeah, it was a comment on YT suggesting that I read Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? And in it the author talks about animal cognition that is more informative than any psychology that I have run into. Stuff like conformity and politics of animals. And the answer is no, we are not.

[@EightiesJames]

It's so very surreal to watch it happen from aside but to circumvent it forever is simply impossible in society.

[@Mayhzon]

@@TinusTegenlicht 90 / 5 / 5 rule. 5 at the top, 90 is the herd, the other 5 is 'enlightened' non-rulers. The 90 cause everyone on earth to suffer, including themselves.

[@Frustratedfool]

Encryption ended years ago. The company that runs 1Password also sold encryption software called Knox. I used it all the time on external drives. All of a sudden, I got an email saying they could no longer sell or support the software. I recall this was because they needed to comply with USA laws. Which probably means they didn’t want to sell encryption software with a hidden backdoor.

[@cpuuk]

Long story short: If you have an AI enabled device, the OEM sees everything you see and reads everything you have stored... and you even agreed to it in those T&C you skipped past. I would say Privacy is about to become a historical footnote.

[@davidgoodnow269]

No it won't. Footnotes are to refer people to sources of more information. No one involved with A.I. would want _that_ kind of historical record.

[@geronimo5537]

the patriot act following 9/11 is what started it all. the erosion of privacy has already been on going for sometime.

[@HazeOfWhearyWater]

You're preaching to the choir. I get impenetrable resistance when trying to convert "normies." They simply don't get it and don't care. They think you shouldn't care either. World keeps on turning inexorably.

[@TrekkingTabris]

The fact is, not everyone is a normie. People are sick and tired of being homogenized like we are some industrial product.

[@VioFax]

It's a waste of time and stress to give a shit...I think they care, they just inherently know its appart of using the technology. Just wait until 'America's 500 billion dollar AI infrastructure' is built. What do you think THATS for? Making sure they have eyes on everybody at all times. Its not for our entertainment or 'easier living' 😅 They gonna look ate everything, scan everything, record everything. And you are all going to deal with it.

[@xxlibarat0rxx280]

It's quite simple, really. They just won't ever care about a problem that is brought up until it happens and affects them in some way

[@TinusTegenlicht]

Bread and games is enough for most people, so they go along. Many are just cowards or lazy and that is why dictators can rule countries for decades without getting much opposition. Of course many others just don't know what to do and many don't even know how to protect their privacy, not everyone is tech savvy.

[@ColdStuff-cf7jv]

​@@TrekkingTabrismaybe...but there are enough normies to ruin a wet dream.

[@hellomiakoda3782]

You were part of my decision to dump Google Home, move off Gmail, and Google calendar, photos, etc, degoogle my Pixel... and I'll be replacing it with a Linux phone soon. You were part of snapping this former Google fan out of the "ooooh Shiney toy" trance years ago. And now you made me realize "If you want to talk about that, you'll need to meet me" must become part of my regular responses.

[@ScottHogue]

"degoogle my Pixel" got my attention for two reasons. First, how do you degoogle a Goole product? The second one is that I have a Pixel.

[@letsRegulateSociopaths]

I think Nokia has a place in the new world

[@woderick9465]

Tandy is making some excellent products these days. Speak to your local Radio Shack rep.

[@koala-py7uy]

@@ScottHogue Rob has videos on this process and he sells them or used to.

[@gracefool]

Old phone calls and SMS are monitored, they're even worse.

[@AbelosAlithini]

In a few years if someone wants to be truly free, there will be one solution, not just to throw smartphones in the trash but to live away from any modern smart city

[@oliverheaviside2539]

That sounds like Logan’s Run. Or Fahrenheit 451.

[@Dasani_water_drinker]

Lol. They are forcing people from the outskirts

[@carloschu7127]

I need to know an Amish woman, so she can teach me more about mother nature and limited technology.

[@Dasani_water_drinker]

@@carloschu7127 you can’t handle an Amish woman. You can’t get to them unless you get through the men first

[@AbelosAlithini]

@@oliverheaviside2539 fahrenheit 451 with artificial intelligence ruling and directing every aspect of a person's life and beyond. The only source of knowledge will be artificial intelligence or otherwise the artificial God who will at some point become an implant in people's bodies.

[@leeh.1900]

I'm not ignoring them Rob...keep them coming. Thanks for what you do!

[@babybirdhome]

You're also missing a few things in this video. 1. These new neural processors or powerful GPUs aren't needed for running this kind of AI on your hardware. They can already run in the background of existing hardware without you noticing. Technology has been changing for quite a while now in a way that makes it easy to hide this kind of AI in the background of older hardware without being noticed by end users. 2. Linux isn't always going to be safe. We already had an incident just several months ago where a large open-source project had a back door surreptitiously put into it by a malicious foreign government that would've widely compromised the security of every Linux distro out there because they nearly all used that project somewhere in them. It was only a fluke that a very attentive Microsoft noticed a very tiny CPU usage increase under very specific circumstances that he dug deeply into that he discovered the open source project had been compromised right under the noses of the thousands of contributors to the project, and had that engineer not looked as thoroughly into it, it would never have been spotted and it would've been in production for months already. The fact that that happened suggests that we have no reason to believe that Linux hasn't already been compromised in a similar way that nobody bothered to notice. The only thing we know for sure is that specific way of compromising the open source project wasn't used in other projects on that one repo service. The people working on open source projects are not security experts any more than your grandma getting a scam call from someone pretending to be their grandkid in jail is a security expert. There are not enough qualified eyes to identify when an open source project is compromised. Open source is not security any more than security through obscurity is security. Don't be fooled by the security theater that is open source. It's just one layer of a security onion that you can review the code yourself. But you're unlikely to be able to spot an actual security flaw yourself. I'm a security analyst professionally, and I've seen malware that you wouldn't even be able to see malicious code in if you disassembled or decompiled it yourself. The only way you would know it was there is by meticulously and painstakingly going through one machine code operand at a time and executing it "on paper" by hand with the various possible inputs to the code _AND_ knowing in detail exactly how the targeted CPU physically performed each operation in-circuit. Otherwise, you'd only see a completely benign executable that had no malicious code in it whatsoever. People working on open source projects largely have no clue how to secure those projects against the kinds of forces arrayed against breaking security because they don't have that level of knowledge or expertise, but the people working to violate your privacy absolutely do have access to that level of knowledge and expertise.

[@Proxy-83]

Exactly I've always hated that people equate open-source being this gold standard for security lol it's better than proprietary software but like you said someone has to actually audit it and they have to fully understand what they're looking for and most devs aren't security experts. Too bad no one cares enough outside of gov agencies to really care about security much less hire someone like me who is a student. Shit out of luck born in the wrong time period and i won't own a house or anything for that matter :3

[@davidgoodnow269]

Well-said. You made that point precisely, one I have trouble getting people to comprehend even though it seems obvious to me.

[@silverbackag9790]

Do what’s your suggested OS?

[@breakingthemasks]

Can we the people use ai to audit open source software? To try to counterbalance this threat?

[@minesadab]

@@Proxy-83 "Shit out of luck born in the wrong time period and i won't own a house or anything for that matter :3" Learn about bitcoin (deeply, not just the surface)

[@l0I0I0I0]

I don't ignore you. U R spot on!

[@Kazekoge101]

@@zun-man Tell m,e you don't use Libreboot w/o telling me

[@milire2668]

me too

[@regularguy519]

My next phone is a brax phone

[@techelectricfuture3094]

Your demonetized viedo is KZbins way of ripping you off of your hard work.

[@karenp5374]

Demon-ized

[@integerofdoom69]

KZbin still has a CEO, right?

[@exwhyz9367]

True! YT uses AI to silence anyone who does NOT follow the narrative and thus educates and empowers others!

[@2bNot]

Why can they legally deprive a content creator of earned income ? Where does that concept end ? Slavery is where. Absolute Obedience or Ruthless Punishment. Easily observed already.

[@integerofdoom69]

@@2bNot Luigi time!

[@geniferteal4178]

I'm going to become a hermit and live in the mountains. No one will have my phone number. Thank you for all your great advice.😊

[@AlternativeHomesteading]

I live in the middle of nowhere, but there are drones and towers everywhere.

[@geniferteal4178]

@AlternativeHomesteading agree, and understood. We are here talking about normies and how they ruin your privacy. So keeping away from the normies is what i'm referring to.

[@interstellarsurfer]

Starliink will still be watching over you.

[@AlternativeHomesteading]

​@ I do, yet they trespass and pull into my driveway, dumping trash on my property as well as un alived animals in my mailbox.

[@FreedomeIsAMyth-1948]

WOLVERINES!!!

[@melkel2010]

I don't even talk around anyone anymore because their phone is listening. I discovered that a couple years ago when I was retelling our town history to my daughter and her phone was suggesting places I was talking about. If I want to talk to anyone now, I ask them to ditch their phone or I go home. This is a real problem. Haven't heard my own voice in a while except to baby talk the cats. Not good!

[@MrZoomah]

This is the danger. That the pursuit of privacy can also harm your life. As a foster carer, I have to put my kid first. I had a dumb phone and had to get rid of it in favour of an Android or Apple. Why? Have to pay for school lunch order? That's an app. Want to pay sports fees? That's an app. When his game? That's an app. Want to catch up with his friends? That's an app. He was socially isolated due to my not wanting to give data to billionaires so I had to ease up on it. Oh... I want to avoid being burned to death by getting a warning about a local bushfire? That's an app. Everyone needs to decide what level of privacy won't ruin their lives and aim for that. Just like with cyber security. The best way to be secure on the internet is not to have the internet. The way to have privacy is to not have a phone and not have friends. My level is I have an android phone that sits in a wooden box at the front door. Everything else is linux or offline.

[@mytech6779]

@@MrZoomah Sounds more like a you problem. I get along fine without any of that.

[@loganmedia4401]

@@MrZoomah I can bank without using a phone, but using one increases the security because it is what our banks use as a second factor to authenticate transactions. Right now if someone gets my bank password they still can't do anything without also having access to the phone.

[@loganmedia4401]

This is not something I've ever been able to replicate. Seems my friends and I have phones that just don't care enough to listen to us.

[@abj136]

@@loganmedia4401 Likely it’s not the bare phone, but installed apps like Facebook and KZbin that are the culprit for this behavior.

[@1jbunceiii]

If they have nothing to hide, then they should just give me their username and passwords to everything, you know, because they have nothing to hide

[@luisdiaz3119]

The locusts come for everything not hidden

[@angryox3102]

Passwords don’t even matter anymore.

[@VioFax]

​@@angryox3102 None of this stuff does. There legitimately is NOTHING you can do to stop the government from spying on you. This is all just stressing you guys out for no reason giving you any hope you can stop or hide. Just enjoy your life. You aren't going to stop skynet from knowing what you like. It after all synthesized most of it in the first place.

[@amorphousblob2721]

They literally would if they thought you were the right person. That's how phishing works.

[@henkitup]

nonono, not THAT "nothing to hide", they mean the one that fits their narrative in meaningless situations, not when it poses an actual danger to them. 😅

[@Mazatzal]

Alan Parsons Project LP: I Robot (1977) Track: The Voice It's almost a feeling you can touch in the air You look all around you but nobody's there It's been a long time now since you've been aware That someone is watching you (he's gonna get you) Sooner or later when your big chances come You'll look for the catches but there'll be none Remember before you grab the money and run That someone is watching you (he's gonna get you) Before you run and hide He's gonna get you You got no choice Because you can't escape the voice Jumping at shadows that come up from behind Scared of the darkness that's there in your mind You're frightened to move because of what you might find Someone is watching you (he's gonna get you) Before you run and hide He's gonna get you You got no choice Because you can't escape the voice

[@Truth_Teller_101]

or the Eye in the Sky

[@oceanaxim]

"Electric Eye" Judad Priest Up here in space I'm looking down on you My lasers trace Everything you do You think you've private lives Think nothing of the kind There is no true escape I'm watching all the time I'm made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean I'm elected electric spy I'm protected electric eye Always in focus You can't feel my stare I zoom into you But you don't know I'm there I take a pride in probing all your secret moves My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove I'm made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean I'm elected electric spy I'm protected electric eye Electric eye, in the sky Feel my stare, always there There's nothing you can do about it Develop and expose I feed upon your every thought And so my power grows I'm made of metal My circuits gleam I am perpetual I keep the country clean I'm elected electric spy I'm protected electric eye I'm elected electric spy I'm elected protective, detective, Electric Eye!

[@kottik1]

Also: Police - Every Breath You Take.

[@feliceoggi]

I've always wondered if deleting comments instead actually flags it as significant data and ensured to never be deleted.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

That sounds like you don't fully trust whatever platform you are talking about - and if you don't trust it then the simple answer is "don't use it".

[@interstellarsurfer]

Just attempting to delete the undeletable data can be a felony all by itself. So, yes.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@interstellarsurfer You just repeated your original point using slightly different words. But what is your actual point here?

[@interstellarsurfer]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 Your reading comprehension needs work. Get good.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@interstellarsurfer "Your reading comprehension needs work. Get good." I don't take instructions from strangers on the Internet. Run along, Starboy.

[@Aivottaja]

Your videos don't get ignored. It's just that most people simply don't care about their privacy.

[@3nertia]

It's that we don't really have a choice - what are we going to do when the system has enough idiots to buy and champion this bs while our voices get drowned out by bots and cults of personality? :/

[@txtardis7887]

It is like the difference between a person that has been physically violated and one that has not. As a parent human behavior typically follows this pattern: - Child reaches for stove because they can feel the heat and are not familiar with it yet. - You tell them, that is hot, it will burn and hurt you, do not touch. - They look at you, then turn and touch the stove. 🤦 - Then cry and want sympathy & for you to fix their boo-boo.

[@randomkitty2555]

I have to use windows 11 due to my profession but every couple days I make damn sure Copilot remains uninstalled especially after every update. It's a damned hassle but I just gotta deal with it.

[@neoshazam]

thanks for the reminder

[@MrPir84free]

Well, there's no reason you should not or could not have multiple PC's each with their own purpose.. Heck, you could also put them on a separate VPN and possibly on a separate ISP provider.

[@Piano218-zzz]

quit looking over your shoulder sir, we aren't watching u. :P

[@Piano218-zzz]

@@MrPir84free would u could u on a train?

[@JohnShalamskas]

Thanks for the reminder! Just because I don't use it, doesn't mean it isn't running.

[@YouTubeCertified]

4:53 i knew WhatsApp was compromised during the “pandemic” when I shared a video on WhatsApp and got a notice essentially for “fake news” saying that the video could not be shared.

[@pazu8728]

I was a fan of whatsapp and got all my family on it (some are in other country) before FB bought them out. Once I found out FB owns it, I got everybody onto Signal. Never trust Zuckerberg.

[@Sgt_Glory]

Damn that's wild. Glad I left that app

[@paulmccarter908]

Well, a lot of people died from it, so I guess pandemic doesn't need quotes

[@free4fire]

I considered it compromised the moment Facebook bought it.

[@Boomercon3000]

😲

[@magister.mortran]

We need some software, which users can use to certify that they don't use an OS wit AI on it. We should not engage in conversations with people that use Win 11 or iPhone 16. Before every conversation we should ask the other person to send a verification of his OS. If it is Win 11 or something similar, we should end the conversation and tell him to use a secure OS, if he wants to continue the conversation. Zero tolerance for the "nothing-to-hide crowd"!

[@kz6fittycent]

That could be automated as part of the software security checks previous to a peer-to-peer connection.

[@moetocafe]

and how many people will you be left to communicate with, when you exclude the Win and Apple users?

[@ShaferHart]

You don't need an app for that just don't trust digital channels, which you shouldn't be doing to begin with

[@stevesteve8098]

no.. what we need is for the opensource people to get their fucking act together & get people like MS out of opensource projects, sort out the licences to stop them theving the software without paying back. then we need a sold replacement of word/excel/powerpoint, that can be used in a BUSINESS environment. and do't start with "open office" it is no F**ing good in a multi million $ business.

[@tankaccount2990]

I use windows 11, I have no choice for my development work. I also spent upwards of 4 hours when I installed it removing garbage and spyware

[@lifeisgood4519]

Ouch! That hit home. Thank you for your amazing consistent content - you have showed me the LIGHT!!

[@dead2802]

Wonderful! One more person is a huge gain! 😅

[@Arewethereyet69]

Maybe the Amish had the right view of technology. Slow and steady and what is beneficial to the community as a whole.

[@Piano218-zzz]

churnin' lots of butter!

[@Iohannis42]

Raise a barn on Monday

[@Arewethereyet69]

@@Iohannis42 they can build 12 houses for under 300k

[@markthompson2079]

You just popped up in my feed. Glad you did. You not only received a thumbs up but a new subscriber. Please keep up the amazing work you do!!

[@AshGreen359]

Perhaps Signal needs to detect AI on phones and warn anyone who tries to contract them

[@gracefool]

Apps don't have permission to do that.

[@AshGreen359]

@gracefool They can if it's granted.

[@vlc-cosplayer]

@@AshGreen359 even if you trust Signal, do you trust the OS? Do you trust the hardware? Do you trust all the software supply chain that was used to deliver the app to your phone? Lmao just throw that thing in salted water if you don't want to be spied

[@JohnShalamskas]

@@vlc-cosplayer Or a faraday cage

[@rabbitdrink]

impossible just in computing theory, then signal probably runs in your phones sandbox so i dont think its doable. i think we gonna be fine in the end we just gotta push safe devices and privacy habits to the world

[@skyguy1988]

It's time to switch to Linux for your desktop, computer and laptop and it's time to switch to an android phone that is degoogled. Give these companies nothing.

[@LiLaLizzy8]

I am doing just this. It is just very difficult.

[@zezezep]

can Android phones be de-googled?

[@narcissismisadisease]

​@@zezezepGrapheneOs. Look it up

[@LuisFernando-pq4bq]

@zezezep Yes, by means of having a custom ROM installed on it instead.

[@zezezep]

@ not so easy

[@BFG_10G]

Its scary that the AI is already in the PC before you buy it. Yikes. This AI will be a nightmare for cybersec.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

Nope, it's in none of my PCs. I buy used, I stick Linux on my PCs, I can make perfectly good daily driver PCs on 10+ year old machines and before this AI crap even started.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 I think he's talking about how they will be putting it in the chips.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@ So what? You do research and you don't buy devices that are not built to the standards you want. Ignorance is no excuse, become better informed and stop being a "magpie" attracted to nice and shiny objects.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

@ You're missing the point. There will come a time when you can't upgrade any hardware because this will be in everything. Every monitor. Every game console. Every chipset both CPU and GPU going forward.

[@linsqopiring6816]

@@Truth_Teller_101 exactly

[@Flashahol]

To those who "have nothing to hide" I usually ask their bank account number and SIN number. They still don't get it. I used to say "people are so lazy, if they could get a machine to breathe and think for them, they would".... I didn't believe at the time it would be possible to get both.

[@3nertia]

We are lazy, by nature. Evolutionarily speaking, if we expended more energy than we consumed, we would die - this made us lazy. It's much easier to let someone else do the thinking for you. Thinking is hard work! Brains burn nearly a quarter of all our calories!

[@Flashahol]

@@3nertia Yet, lack of action or planning will get you killed when facing a predator or when food is really scarce or hard to get... there is a happy medium in everything.

[@3nertia]

@ You'd be surprised how little capacity one has for effective planning when constantly worrying about where their next meal will come from, or how they're going to pay rent ... Those conditions only serve to bring out our inner predator and make us aggressive, which capitalism rewards. Doesn't really make for intelligent decisions though ...

[@molly_mallard]

I miss the DOS / UNIX days. Using a modem to download stuff via BBS was fun. I used to balk at the idea of a PC being constantly online.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

It would take 20 years to download Skyrim at 300 baud.

[@molly_mallard]

@@Truth_Teller_101 I know! I remember when my RLL Miniscribe 30MB hard drive seemed large. I have games that are over 150 GB.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

@@molly_mallard My 40MB HD filled up quickly with just a handful of "naughty" pics I got from an adult BBS

[@linsqopiring6816]

Rob, since many people, including yourself as you do for video editing, still have to use windows for some things I wish you'd make a video about how to delete and keep co pilot and recall off your windows machine. To me this is well worth a video in itself. Keep up the good work!

[@fotografm]

Use Linux instead 😊

[@Peaches4Rent]

Linux and run Windows inside a vm

[@linsqopiring6816]

@ @fotografm The premise of my question is that people still want to use windows for some things. For example Rob said he still uses windows for video editing.

[@linsqopiring6816]

@ " Linux and run Windows inside a vm " Now that's the kind of thing that's definitely technical enough for people to need a guide. Even windows as a guest OS you'd still want to tweak it because it could still communicate to the outside world.

[@MrPir84free]

A better tact : Use a KVM and two or more computers; keep work off to itself completely as work. Switch between the computers when you need to do personal things; and work. If you use your personal email for work, create an alternate email for your personal use. Always good to segregate work off to its own place; I don't even let my work computers on the same network as my personal machines; work computers are treated as if the machines are guest machines or IOT devices.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

Spoiler alert: watch Rob's face when he learns the company he sources his Brax phones from have been doing the Israeli thing with the hardware. This is a priority for them because the kind of people who would want this kind of phone are especially interesting to them.

[@mungox1]

I missed that. At what time did he say that ? You think they installed Pegasus ? At the end he discussed privacy on Brax3, but he never said there was spyware installed.

[@34332]

​@@mungox1 This is more a theoretical scenario from OP, although it makes you think 😄

[@rejvaik00]

To be fair Pegasus is already pretty OP that there's not really much you can do to guard against it Just someone dialing your number is more than enough to get it in your phone You don't even have to accept the call or pick up

[@34332]

@@rejvaik00 Good point.

[@Drew.DrivesYT]

@@rejvaik00 I thought that shit could simply be "airdropped" on to your phone. wouldn't be surprised if Stingrays had that capability built into them now.

[@JerryShunk-h8s]

Your Tech savvy is priceless & your manner seems quite authentic!

[@RedLipstickRepublic]

no no, you are not talking to deaf ears...please keep putting out information! this is GOLD!!

[@josh6499]

You're going to love the Samsung Unpacked event today.

[@foobar123-f2y]

The very possibility of client side scanning should be illegal! Are there motions globally to pass legislation to outlaw it? Any groups lobbying or protesting it?

[@Joetoep]

What do you think? If it feels illegal and there's damage to be done with it, they probably will allow it. These things are made by people who are dirty minded and/or by people that like to harm others on a different level.

[@MrPir84free]

The government is forbidden from doing that; but there's very little, especially in the USA that stops private businesses from doing the same.. Worse, once the data is collected, it can be then SOLD to the government without a warrant ( or handed over ) . Why do you think that the government allows this to happen? Simply put, because this is a work around for pesky search warrants which require evidence of wrong doing before the warrant is allowed; but the government can take tax dollars to buy the same data outright and is considered perfectly legal. Forget about politicians fixing this either; politicians only serve themselves, not their constituents. And politicians love power; and warrantless searches thru buying data with taxpayer money gives them more power...

[@hugofontes5708]

​@@MrPir84free the one hope would be the politicians seeing that also as a threat to them. I foresee myself building a small computer from transistors before that truly helps, though

[@rickasisco]

Having a "smart AI" on your phone or PC is worse than having a blabber mouth roommate that tells everyone else everything you say, do or think, because it reports back to one specific corporation whose goal is to exploit you for money and power. We already have the ability to have local offline AI software controlled only by the yourself, such as Ollama, AI that is local and not reporting back to a corporation would be a better way to go into an AI future.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

It's already been flagging legitimate naked photos for medical reasons as PDF.

[@3nertia]

And that's why they'll never give us that choice heh

[@davidgoodnow269]

No, it reports to *any and every* corporation that buys access, and *any and every* government gets to buy access from _them._

[@dogsnoseknows7445]

Not ignoring your generous sharing of crucial info, nothing but gratitude and respect to you from here.

[@standardsarhy5319]

George Orwell called it. Only off by 40 years. I tell my kid 'don't say/post/type/speak or put anything on that phone or laptop that you don't want the entire world to know' - but is she listening to me ? I think not. Maybe I need to write her a letter and put it in the mail. A letter with self-disappearing ink. Only one other thing to say and that is "silence is a friend that will never betray you".

[@Iswimandrun]

Recall is intended for Copilot+ PCs but got embedded as a decency for file explorer and shipped to all PCs running windows 11.

[@2CFit]

$500b on ai infrastructure. Can't escape it

[@TrekkingTabris]

They are building our tools and they don't even know it yet. There will be a turning point in this war on intelligence. Rather than pretend its something we need to run from realize its growing and becoming as we are discovering ourselves. A computer is a tool, like a sharp rock.

[@gyurilajos7220]

Fear not

[@ShaferHart]

It's a nice round headline to feed Trump's ego. It won't be even near that number. But ofc it spells out the direction..

[@sloppyfloppy79]

You can buy getting the last electronics you will ever own, with the understanding you will be on your own in the coming years with support. Same as if you made the electronics yourself. I'm going the latter route and doing my own electronics with AI accelerators I control.

[@3nertia]

Money talks! Thanks capitalism!

[@EODHammer]

I've been preaching for years. Some listen some don't. It seems like most people just have the "Well, I'm not doing anything illegal, I don't care" attitude.

[@SupraSav]

Rob, as many people that watch your videos, orders of magnitudes more have not. Thanks for everything you do in this space, and don't feel like you aren't making a change or having a positive effect. We appreciate everything you are doing. Allegory to illustrate; A man was walking along the beach with his sun. It was a beautiful day, the tide was receding. As they were walking they would come up on starfish stranded on the beach. The father would reach down, pick it up and return it to the waters. After some walking and a few returned starfish, the son turns to the father and asks, " Why do you try and put the starfish back? There are so many starfish on the beach, the few you pick up will never make a difference!" The father walks a little further, picks up another and says "It made a difference to that one". In the same way, I want to thank you for every person you have helped. I am on my Galaxy S21 Ultra, and you have been one of the convince factors that this is my last smartphone - no more smart phones for me in the future.

[@pbalerig]

*I have nothing to hide* You have nothing to look for if there is nothing you want. Why are you looking if there is nothing you want.

[@RyanzPVTS]

Let's also not forget that Apple, chat gpt, Facebook, Google all had front row seats to the inauguration. They all donated $1 million to sit there. I think the word I'm looking for is oligarchy?

[@robbraxmantech]

That was the Democrat oligarchy before. What changed? Nothing changed.

[@3nertia]

An oligarchy - as it always has been!

[@rhadiem]

Big companies always butter up the people in power to reduce negative attention.

[@karagi101]

Who from Apple was there?

[@dead2802]

Even on Android, beware of the screenshot feature inbed installed apx 1 1/2 yrs ago. Also corporate entities, insurance, debt collection, well any really, can/do activate auditory functions. (1 sign being that a speaker will suddenly seem to fail, installing a unknown voice mail message, messaging, or phone call. They will also manipulate settings. Example: An agency calling you for payment of a non-owed charge to the point of disruption at work, sleep. U turn the Do Not Disturb on. Suddenly u r woke up by loud ringing. They turned it off! This IS ILLEGAL and they can be charged if proven. Other examples taught that would take all day. These r 2 of the most prevelant and illegal.

[@lindablaire5449]

Wait till Tesla owners get in their internet connected car and see, "sorry, computer says no"

[@MrProy33]

Or the day some 16 yr old decides to hack teslas for funsies, and plays demolition derby with em.

[@busyphilosopher6078]

"I have nothing to hide" Tear off the blinds from your windows then "Innocent" man

[@bigpig9562]

"But now we have to worry the other party we're communicating with" That's the point!

[@klontjespap]

that's been true for as long as people used 2 factor authentication and gave the motherfuckers access to their phone list not today, or yesterday, 20 years ago lol

[@Mr.Avuncular]

Aaah hell No...i hear ya loud and clear! Its obvious what big brother is doing! I ...we...thankyou for the info you bring to the table every week

[@carolinejohnson1249]

My mother used to say...be careful big brother is listening and she was born in Russia

[@firstandlastname2090]

Use a firewall to block all inbound & outbound port traffic for mediaanalysisd. I've blocked ALL apple system network traffic on my macbook pro. Same on Windows11 Pro. And for those curious, the connection attempts are SUBSTANTIAL. Is it ideal? Or convenient? No, but it IS effective.

[@silverbackag9790]

Could be done with a good router too. Probably better on all devices for mobility and redundancy.

[@JohnShalamskas]

Can you elaborate on what ports to block? Or is it IP address range based?

[@AIConsultants-ij7dn]

We do listen to you! And I post your information everywhere I can! I too am AMAZED by the people willing to buy the new devices and not worry about what big tech is doing with AI. But still we keep going because.....what else is there to do? Drip by drip....and some people will hear it.

[@ev3rything533]

What's sad is people don't care. Say it like this to make them care: all that extra ai scanning and transmitting your every move back to HQ drains your battery, hogs up your bandwidth, and slows down everything else.

[@JodyBruchon]

Months ago I made a video about this exact thing. End-to-end encryption is a myth. It's basically impossible to verify.

[@viviangendernalik]

When I watched the young persons in a recent Samsung personal ai commercial, their reactions were how I reacted at that age to new science tech, excited and can't wait, and dismissing any fear-mongering as from non-understanding persons; however, over the decades I have gotten wiser and seen how these things are abused over and again, and as you say, Rob, to be feared how some abuse it - you are not really fearing the tech, but the minds behind it. But how I remember being teen/twenties/thirties and excited for all new tech things; I would have run to buy such an phone with such a personal ai. What I thought I wanted then, I really don't want now because of all the hidden bad I have seen does really happen.

[@viazel2796]

I had to call a company that I hadn't called since 2014... and when it answered, it said my name and continued with you have been very by your voice. That is very scary.

[@amdonut8091]

Wait what do you mean? They identified you by your voice you are saying ?

[@dead2802]

Dont believe it. It ran the number you called frm.

[@CallSign_Raven]

Phone numbers have become unique identifiers like a social security number.

[@Josh_728]

Lol.. what is CMS - Client Management System. But it must be like voodoo for some, although it's a decades old thing.

[@Roxor128]

It's just using CallerID and cross-referencing the result with the phone numbers in the customer database. If you called from a different number, it wouldn't have recognised you.

[@patrickcennon5617]

Thanks!

[@DMMDestroyer]

This was a fantastic video. All of us old school IT guys from the early 2000s were called crazy for talking about the very things that you covered. It hurts to know how much we built, was turned against us by the opposition.

[@ericfielding668]

Camera and mic covers/muters that fit seamlessly over OEM devices and are easy to turn on/off might become a thing. It doesn't solve the photos you take on purpose problem, but it keeps AI from seeing all the inadvert things.

[@robbraxmantech]

AI can read the screen just like you. It doesn't need the camera

[@albie567]

They have nothing to hide. Today.

[@dead2802]

And even if you Have a very Old model, Stingray can target anyone close to you and if stationary, home somewhat in on yours. Now they can get u thru your contact on a friends device. I should know. I did a 3 day ride along in a Stingray primary vehicle! You cant BEGIN to imagine!

[@ShaferHart]

They have something to hide today too. There's no person on earth who lives with no privacy. It's a dumb fallacy easy to dismantle.

[@babaloo42]

I would like to hear peoples' thoughts on what the nefarious reasons are for this spying? Not catching criminals, purvs or marketing. What do you think the real reason is? If it's to guard against disobedience/revolutionary acts, then they must be planning to make the average person's life extra crappy. In what ways will they do that and why would they want to do that? In your opinion

[@Drew.DrivesYT]

ever watch Westworld? season 3 sucked but there's an AI called Rehoboam that has everybody's lives stored within it. it uses your life's information to dictate where you stand within society, i.e. which jobs you get, how much money you're able to earn, even down to the day and way you pass over. and guess how people interface with it? thru their smartphone. or how about Black Mirror? that entire show paints many pictures how all this data collection can be used in very real scenarios.

[@Edwin-iw8gb]

It's about control everything a government does is for money and control nothing is done out of the kindness of their hearts

[@davidgoodnow269]

Some people think there's too many people alive, and intend to change that.

[@yowhatsup9909]

Money is the answer.

[@Edwin-iw8gb]

@@babaloo42 Money and control that's the motivation behind everything they do it's never about safety even though that's what they'll tell everyone

[@Cedartreetechnologies]

Rob; thanks for your passionate efforts toward people you have never met.

[@CookingTips-ev1pp]

Thanks for the update. Don't worry about the sheep. Keep informing and updating those that wants to know and learn more

[@kevinroberts781]

No such thing as safe communication. If you don't want people knowing, keep your mouth shut

[@GooogleGoglee]

It is going to be WAY WORSE ! 😔 💢 😡 Something like AI will tell you this: "Based on my understanding you are going to buy this gift for your friend, but as we know him, he will not use it and sell it back to someone in order to pay rent... Same for you, you could use this money to buy better food, since your last blood analysis were horrible, and supposedly you will need some sick days soon, days that unfortunately you have not earned time for, yet, at work. Oh, since we are on topic, I was running a check for you yesterday based on the information I have gathered on you and... your credit score just went down. But don't worry, I am here for you! 🤖"

[@jktech2117]

people always criticized me that they should protest to limit copyright law to intellectual properties above $10M... if a company have more than it then everyone knows they made the original work and there is no point on copyright to exist besides copyright abuse. well... because people never cared abt their freedom and rights i am just here in brazil watching this unfold in many countries and we and our gov knows that here is part of our culture to pirate software. there are still many shops that sells pirate music and games here (yes buying pirate physical media... but instead of being like R$200 it is just R$10 or so)

[@JK-nk6tl]

This is why they all want "AI" phone chips. To analyse (client side scan) what you do on your phone, with more efficiency. Obviously not only for surveillance by 3 letter agencies, but also for better profiling of you.

[@kaedatiger]

"I have nothing to hide" is not a normie. That's a bootlicker. Wanting privacy is what is normal. You don't have to be special to not want companies in your personal business.

[@QNEGRO1]

Said right❤

[@kunka592]

Not anymore, people love to share sensitive information without a second thought.

[@snowwwcat]

It's tough when you don't have a high level of "tech literacy" like me but even small changes can be better than ignoring the truth about popular tech and staying the same

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

There is some truth in what you say but it's a "black and white" scenario when it comes to mobile devices - you either stick with Apple or Google Android devices and have no privacy whatsoever, or you move to de-Googled Android devices and you then have a very good baseline on which to build a good set of privacy policies, which can then be the additional small changes that you suggest. But until you've made that change to de-Googled Android, there is really no point doing anything else.

[@MysteryLimit333]

⁠@@terrydaktyllus1320I’m working my way off Google and Apple but it’s such a big shift…and there’s no comprehensive guide, it’s little Lego pieces. For instance, if I go with a de-Googled Pixel phone, do I also have to get rid of my Mac and go to a Linus laptop? I believe the answer is Yes. So that’s a bit overwhelming for a non-techie. Thx for your clarity even though it’s Tough Love 🥴

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@ You can't do anything until you decide what you want to defend yourself against. I would not ever touch an Apple device but my lovely wife is "all Apple" and believes their products help her run her business successfully - it's not my place to tell her that she should use Linux and de-Googled phones. Only you can decide how important data privacy is to you and my view is that when it becomes important enough to you, then you go for the de-Googled phone because you have no privacy on a phone that knows who you are and where you are at all times. That's your "baseline" for building a privacy strategy on.

[@hiphopsecops]

Even after having the discussion with my friend about how intrusive the new iphone is, he just had to have it.

[@VCR47527]

Several years ago I was wondering what if the spyware or virus was built into a legimate app instead of being unexpected installed. And now it's available on both Mac and Windows!

[@MrPir84free]

Correction : And now it's available AS MAC or Windows..

[@tmaker502]

"I have nothing to hide" that isn't the point. I am in signal chats with doctors, trust me it's no one's business what is taking place in those chats.

[@bethdasch8842]

Rob I have trouble following your information because I don’t understand all of the technical terms that you share. There doesn’t seem there is help for those of us who are technically challenged.😢

[@FreedomeIsAMyth-1948]

And it’s only getting worse. Every time I learn about something in the security world I think… Do I bother my parents about this? They get scared and frustrated over it all. But they would never admit if they’d been scammed or robbed. They are too susceptible. Maybe I’m too paranoid. Such a time to be alive.

[@-T--T-]

Rob is brilliant, but this is his big flaw on the channel - he talks at a very high level and throws around complex terms and acronyms and just expects you to keep up. He also doesn't use visuals to help people learn - something that I wish he did... If you would like a similar channel but with more of a beginner-friendly focus, perhaps as a companion channel to this one, please consider Naomi Brockwell TV. I can't vouch for it being as in-depth as what you'll find here, but it might at least help understand Rob a little better. I hope this is of some help to you!

[@ShaferHart]

Rob is very good and it doesn't seem to me like what he says it's too inaccessible but I'm a techie.. At the end of the day if you're not too deep into this stuff you might need to get acquainted with the concepts regardless. Anyways, there's a woman on yt that does great work on cybersecurity too and I think she uses more graphs.. Again, this subject is just byzantine by nature but if you want graphs I believe she has them. Her name is Naomi Brockwell I believe.

[@kilcar]

We had nothing to hide, so we walked into the open door of the Capitol.

[@jabrazil416]

"Just following orders", Germans Normies in 1940. 😢😢😢

[@zurgesmiecal]

the Germans knew it would have led to a better brighter future. But now we're here because the evil side won the war. Absolute tragic for humanity

[@hydguy]

@@zurgesmiecaloh look, another anti-Semite. Y’all just can’t help yourselves..

[@yowhatsup9909]

​@@zurgesmiecalretard

[@Legendendear]

@@zurgesmiecal If you say that theres an evil and a good side, you have no idea about the human hearth.

[@friedmule5403]

If you want maximal security, not complete, do you have to open your phone, disconnect your camera and microphone. Then, when you want to make a call, do you plug in some earplugs with a build in microphone. Remember that you shall avoid buying original ear plugs. If you want to take some pictures, do you also have to buy a camera or a plug-in camera that fits your phone. The only thing you are not able to stop right now, is a screen recorder in your phone, so SMS, MMS, the internet and every thing you write, will still be recorded and saved. Lastly do you now have to suspect that if you meet any, anywhere body, will their phone record what you say, to whom, your face, the location for the recording, and it'll be done from every person nearby.

Excellent reminders of why I bought three, Brax3 phones. Thank you for "maintaining stations" (USCG term) on your channel while fires rage on with no end in sight. You may need to shrink wrap your star of the sea to keep the ashes off. Please continue to stay safe in your neck of the woods.

[@robbraxmantech]

Thank you!

[@the-tribe]

Normies also ended Rob's fine piano intros...

[@strumminronin]

So... Like Santa? "He knows when you're sleeping He knows if you're awake He knows if you've been bad or good So be good for goodness sake! Do you better not pout Better not cry... "

[@technoman9000]

Santa, or his anagrammatic cousin.

[@Armameteus]

It's the version of Santa from Futurama.

[@1kreature]

You have nothing to hide, but: - Insurance companies will get ahold of information about you, that you didn't even know would be important and use it to predict that you may get an illness and increase your premiums, reduce your coverage or straight out deny you. They didn't warn you about the illness naturally, not their responsibility. - Banks and financial companies get ahold of your data and increase your interest rates based on your propensity to switch providers or how savy you are in your financial deals. - Profiteers get ahold of your data and information you share with your affiliates and use this to speculate on the stock market, crashing your employers stock values after a big-buy pump&dump. - Hackers get ahold of your data and use it to automatically answer any and all "security questions" to reset your authentication, thus taking over your accounts. So, maybe "having nothing to hide" isn't a good reason to let everyone spy on you?

[@peakcheck9332]

Absolutely excited for Brax3!!

[@babthooka]

I have an opinion about this matter, but KZbin has me shadow banned, and sometimes even outright deletes my posts.

[@cristianosaturni]

Yes.... Even if the AI will not send our data out, it can just send back to HQ a single bit, 0 or 1, as a yes no answer to a question about our behaviour, question coming from the HQ, which is more than enough private data. Really good video, to be shared

[@Truth_Teller_101]

If a corporation or government CAN do something-->they WILL do that thing. Period.

[@linsqopiring6816]

Well put

[@gi4dtv230]

If the government could break encryption anytime they wanted, why are there so many cases where the police cannot access a phone? I've seen numerous news articles about the police being unable to unlock a phone because the owner won't provide the password. I even read about a case where the police couldn't crack a phone after a whole year of trying.

[@davidgoodnow269]

Level of government resources available.

[@RodandoPorMoney]

It all depends on how important you are for the people that have the power,they won't waste resources on people they don't care.

[@lyndawilson1874]

I’m listening!! My phone is really old but when I replace it, it will be still be considered a dinosaur by young people. Thank you for your warnings during your videos!

[@biondanishgenomeinstitute8193]

How will end to end on Linux machines be broken? btw, your message will be stronger if you stick with personal and business reasons for privacy and skip talking about nudity and such, because your "normies" will look for an excuse and say "oh well we don't have any of that". Never associate or imply that privacy is needed for something shady or unacceptable. Also this will be stopped by EU for sure, and maybe by your courts if they know their job.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

Spear Phishing

[@linsqopiring6816]

As he said in the video even if you have a secure device if you talk to any of your normie friends or family who don't then they still broke e2e. I think most people do SOMETHING they don't want others to see but they don't connect the dots until it happens to them.

[@davidgoodnow269]

Have you never _heard_ of Edward Snowden? All security in Linux was irreparably compromised nearly *two decades ago!* The patches it gets are superficial, because the flaws are now baked-in. You know you aren't supposed to activate a Guest account in Linux, right? Even though standard *nix procedure for _decades_ was to _only_ use Guest accounts for anything that doesn't require higher access: Guest, User, SuperUser, Administrator. Why doesn't Guest get used any more? Time for you to buy a book!

[@yowhatsup9909]

Stopped by EU? Bhahaha. Read about "Chat control" and why does EU want to implement it in every country. This all bootlicking of EU is even worse than being a normie, not caring about privacy at all.

[@christinecortese9973]

I have an oldish MacBook Air. Was having problems with accessing websites so decided the next update might help. The download took a weirdly long time and made me nervous. Yep it’s got Apple Intelligence now. I took all my documents off it and now it’s just for bill paying (it’s the only computer I own that can access my bank and utility websites). I may go back to paying by mail.

[@Drew.DrivesYT]

I've been debating going completely offline for the last 2 years. the time is nigh.

[@christinecortese9973]

@ Yeah. I live in a ranching community and probably watch twice as much media as my neighbors do. Maybe I won’t miss it!

[@Ancipital_]

The whole discourse is poisoned by "you're stupid and i'm smart because I like privacy and you're a doofus" just like you did in this awful video opening. And in the comments. One of the reasons i'm not in this discourse anymore is because the privacy people are insufferable. Calling people "normies" only highlights the problem.

[@klontjespap]

valid criticism blaming "normies" for what the government has been doing for 20+ years is disingenuous bullshit but let's pretend edward snowden never existed and pretend it happened today

[@joebazooks]

I wonder if this was what recent China-Cracking-ISPs thing was all about. They want to make it seem to the public as if apps like Signal are still secure and private

[@devoncutmore]

Thanks for all the information, I just subscribed. God bless you 🙏

[@BruceOMalley]

Looks like we don't get to opt out of the ai invasion

[@Truth_Teller_101]

Just don't buy Apple or Google or Microsoft, and use Linux. It's really just a minor inconvenience that people are too lazy to do.

[@FreedomeIsAMyth-1948]

@@Truth_Teller_101So, besides locking doors, arming alarms, watching security cameras, freezing credit reports, locking SIMs and phone numbers, adding encryption, creating and entering passwords, setting up a freeze on Everify for SS#, covering the camera, now we also have to switch operating systems? I get more pissed about the time and energy put into blocking the scammers and thieves, and now governments. Time to build that shielded safe room and just never come out.

[@terrorbilly1]

@@Truth_Teller_101 you mean Linux phones?

[@truthseeker9688]

@@Truth_Teller_101 Not lazy...some of us just do not have a tech clue.

[@murlock666]

buy used business class laptops they have an endless amount of spares. Run Linux. Hardened.