Ethical Hacker Warns: Check Your Charger ASAP & What Happens After Clicking Adult Sites

[@ebutuoy2908]

This scared me so i checked my bank account right away. Still empty.

[@kingofthecatnap5780]

Lol

[@Pepito-1776]

🤣

[@likitadevi]

🤣🤣

[@CarlosAguayojr-s9s]

Same

[@obzrvthegreat2309]

Good the moment you start putting money there that when they get u.

[@rich4rdcyb3r2k77]

Adult film websites and platforms are used as scapegoats for reference, otherwise platforms like KZbin, Dailymotion, and Vimeo aren't any different.

[@blipco5]

Bingo! Right there 👍

[@blazingsonic]

Ever notice how sex is often a scapegoat? Look at Twitch, girls can show their naked bodies but Vtuber need to cover up their thighs, Why is that? Why do mods flag you if you so much as say boobs and butts but they will allow foot fetishes to post to the point where's tons of pics posted for over 20 pages? KZbin demands you censor common words that reference death by saying dumb crap like "Pew pew" and "unalived" but they will allow you to make sick crap staring Elsa and Spiderman and even the ads the allow would be welcomed on a porn site. It's like when it comes to porn the flip back and forth like it's a light switch.

[@limitlessdude7648]

Facebook is a huge one, I love how I add someone to my contacts then suddenly they'll show up in my recommended... like facebook I didn't give you access to my contacts wtf?

[@joshcarlie5231]

Yeah literally all the big sites/apps install keyloggers on your devices. Anything Google, anything from Facebook, snapchat, tik tok, etc etc. The second you install it on any device or visit their sites they install a keylogger. Anything and everything you type is used to show personalized ads. And also stored forever on their servers for whatever else they feel like doing with it.

[@ErrorOptik]

@@limitlessdude7648time to go reread your contract 😂

[@xhames61x]

Note to self.... never buy a USB cable that cost $20,000

[@joaoleitao619]

You can probably make one of these for 30$....

[@jamesodonnell4771]

Glad I watched this video I was literally on the NAS Checkout page...

[@GLJKins]

They give them for free to those they want to infect

[@redhed9776]

@@joaoleitao619 yep

[@contradictorycrow4327]

Someone you know buys it and drops it at the next BBQ.

[@HoytJolly]

2000 - I better clear my browser history. 2024 - I better burn my phone, computer, appliances, car and join a monastery.

[@justanothercatinside]

Roast my HDD drive, burn it scratch it and massage it with the strongest magnet ever

[@lunettesfumees1312]

Tech heresy, tech heresy everywhere

[@BL-sd2qw]

The Simpsons made a joke about it decades ago

[@CienciaAlPoder]

But it doesn't matter because your data is already on the cloud!

[@ohusky271]

i've unironically thought about joining a monastery and leaving modern life behind. we can go together, brother

[@zyzzyvacation]

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. (Ed Snowden)

[@tonysolar284]

Also no different than saying you don't care about the second amendment because you hate guns.

[@downstream0114]

@@justinmillette8737 1.5% of Republicans in the House voted against the Patriot Act. Against 30% of Democrats opposed to it. Feingold was the only Senator to vote against it.

[@mikhalych9748]

To people that say that. Ask them if you can install a camera in thier bathroom.

[@leperface]

Information is a valuable commodity. AI trains on more and more data, soon that training will go beyond text and images. Reddit right now is bombarded with moral dilemmas, with AI training on the public consensus of various situations. With more and more training, a square is hammered into a pentagon, then a hexagon...and with enough aimed hammers it gets closer and closer to a perfect circle. Soon? Being accused of thought crime might be a very real possibility, and odds are you wouldn't even know you've been flagged.

[@EspenFrafalne]

Only reason i would worry about this is because it can provide crucial demographics that Putin can use to instruct Trump on what sales pitches he should use in an election, so the people will look the other way when Trump use "divide and conquer" tactics on NATO (because NATO is the only power strong enough to stand in the way of Putins and Kim Jong Uns plans). They could however get a pretty good idea just by checking how many views certain types of YT videos get, and what random people talk about on FB... So i dont think there is a way to avoid this... The only way to win is if we allow ourselves use similar tactics. Like with nukes, we could have clung to our high morals, and refused to have nukes, but then we would have been crushed by someone with lower morals. The western population is usually against genetic engineering, and especially in humans, but not all countries think like this, and whoever creates a breed of super intelligent people will have all kinds of technological breakthroughs - both with weapons and other things - which will allow them to outcompete the rest of the world. This is one example of how the world does not prioritize good intentions, but only really care about "cause and effect". X+Y=Z. Let the -best person- *biggest brains* win 😏

[@Azarilh]

"Think about how often we charge our phones in public charging stations." Never.

[@Rob-z7k]

...airlines

[@Azarilh]

@@Rob-z7k I don't use them.

[@bigbmessiah]

Cant say I have ever used a public charging station, my phone lasts a full day usually, and even on the days it doesnt I have my own charger and/or powerbank. I dont like plugging my stuff into anything "public"

[@Azarilh]

@@bigbmessiah Yea also many people have power banks.

[@robertthurston6858]

Car charger

[@notjustforme]

What people fail to understand is that we don't hide things because we are terrible people, we hide things so that the terrible people out there can't easily take advantage of us.

[@jerryburns1258]

Amen!

[@Angel.Diez.Ovelar]

good one

[@alexjames2328]

I don't know about all that, I'm pretty terrible.

[@alancadieux2984]

If it weren't for this video, I wouldn't have known that this man perished under suspicious circumstances, or at all.

[@KnownAsKenji]

Funny how we'll hear about some actor celebrity death for a month or more non-stop, this guy helped build modern PC and phone culture and gets nothing.

[@kontoname]

@@KnownAsKenji Mcafee turned into a total lunatic and crazy in his head. Drug and substance abuse were not the only contributors to his downfall. The statements he made like he'd never take his own life can be seen as bullshit - because he also claimed that he had set up a dead man switch, releasing and leaking data after his death - which didn't happen. He really just took his own life - nothing suspicious about that at all considering he was about to be transferred to the US for persecution. Let this idiot rest in peace and hope he didn't drag anyone else down his psychotic path.

[@Autoskip]

I wouldn’t have known that McAfee wasn’t just some brandname.

[@runningman2354]

He did a-lot of weird things as well. I remember McCafee AV, once windows got going, it slowed everything down. But I did lose some school projects that I had to redo, which wasnt that difficult, since I already did them

[@Hazmatguy117]

He may have been smart, but he was also pretty crazy…

[@amsf1]

So basically the government knows im a freaky mf...

[@shoelacedonkey]

Pretty sure they knew that already :p

[@Godismyfoundation]

😂

[@JeremyMartin-cw6lh]

Super Freak😮

[@AlGaragui]

Ultra freak. Let's make a club. 😈

[@misswill8488]

They knew about Diddy and his thousand bottles of baby oil.

[@shyrocket4889]

I hate this hellish world so much

[@queenria7]

me too. But its days are numbered.

[@WilltheDeal-f9x]

I third that hate for this world and its corruption

[@gazzy9136]

@@queenria7days are numbered. You’re being cynical. We live in safer times than ever before and the average lifespan is at the highest recording in history and only going up still. Remember the Black Plague? What about when volcanic eruptions blocked out the sun and the sky turned black for 18 months, snowing all summer with dangerous floods ruining everything too. You need to open your eyes.

[@MERCERENiTY]

So corrupt, my goodness. There's no privacy anymore.

[@Kaasbaas045]

Because you move in darkness, its todays trap. The world is not evil a select few is. People are just gullible, not evil. Keep hope, and be thhe best version of yourself. We will be alright, we are humans, and we are better and stronger then you realise. Dont let the fools make you think this world is only darkness. Its not. Were all going to make it.

[@SerpentStar_]

John McAfee said there's no such thing as internet privacy and your cellphone tracks, records you 24/7

[@JoeyMcSmokey]

Not in a faraday bag.

[@randomCHELdad]

@JoeyMcSmokey Ok, and you using it IN the bag??

[@I.Am.Nobody]

not a de-googled phone.. search for brax degoogled phone

[@LegendsFall1991]

That was before they assassinated him right? 😅

[@Crosshatch1212]

Not just yours I dnt have a dogs bone but if I'm out with my mates I'll get home and ill get adds for things we been talking about ,

[@donloughrey1615]

I was working with my telescope to connect it to my dedicated astronomy computer . When my son came up and asked what I was doing and I told him. Later that night when I turned on KZbin The first video recommended was "How to connect your computer to your telescope". I wasn't online, I didn't search anything. We only talked about it while my phone sitting near us. It isn't the only time such a thing happened.

[@buggs9950]

I usually have the mic and camera turned off on my laptop. One day I'd forgotten to turn the mic off again after using it and had a long, in depth conversation on my (non-smart) phone in the same room. Afterwards I got lots of KZbin video recommendations relating to topics we'd talked about, not things I ever look up on KZbin. I find it downright creepy. I wonder if Orwell ever imagined that the telescreens wouldn't have to be installed by The Party against people's will but would be wanted, coveted, bought and paid for by the proles themselves?

[@donloughrey1615]

@@buggs9950 Creepy is right. Orwell would be amazed.

[@bluelotus3750]

Did you buy your computer or telescope online? Search for the best ones before buying? Follow YT channels about telescopes with online capabilities or amateur astronomy? Do you use Siri or Alexa? DM with people on social media about your astronomy interests? Those are all ways that those things pop up without even "listening". And if you were attempting to hook up your telescope and "dedicated" computer, but they're using the same network as the other electronics in your house, don't underestimate that it will pop all those things from search histories and it had nothing to do with your phone. Siri and Alexa are always listening btw. That's how they work. And it's hysterical to me that people think the government wanted to microchip people or "bug" them, when people have willingly bugged themselves. People don't even flinch that Musk is trying to sell people a chip that is surgically implanted in your brain. They'll line up to pay for the privilege for that ghoul to track your every move, but somehow the idea of the government doing the same is what they fear? People worry about the weirdest things. This isn't the government, it's capitalism and the thieves, who want your money. Governments don't really care what you buy or what you do, unless you pose a threat to national security.

[@Ichbinnurgutwennkeinerguckt]

One day I was talking to my ex girlfriend on the phone (no text message, no WA, just regular mobile phone service), and out of the blue popped up a question about Machiavelli; later, on Google Play Books appeared "The Prince". Then I understood Google was paying way more attention to me than my girlfriend ever did.

[@Ichbinnurgutwennkeinerguckt]

@@buggs9950 "I need so bad to buy right now a newer surveillance device, this one has only six cameras and three mics!"

[@Overlorddz]

"Excuse us, we notice you are looking away from the ad. Please turn your face towads the screen to continue."

[@billkeithchannel]

...must... get... free... candy... crush... lives.. must .. look.. at ... screen.. 🧐🧐😵‍💫🤑🤑

[@jamest3552]

same for muting

[@XxAlienxX999]

Lmfao this is hilarious

[@bogdanmarcu135]

"resume viewing... resume viewing..." - that Black Mirror episode gets closer and closer to reality

[@rvarsigfusson6163]

Just 1984......

[@JenMarco]

Next time someone says they have nothing to hide, ask them if they don’t mind their banking information, credit card numbers, social security number, investment account details, passwords for everything to be made public

[@MorMacFey-v2g]

There is a big difference in hiding something and your right to privacy. I think that would be a better conversation to have at that point.

[@albatrosseagle8798]

Little do any of us honest people know, all of that is probably already out in the cyber world! And once it is there we cannot undo that! Guaranteed that was by design when it was developed!

[@dan827]

NEVER agree to go paperless....... they want everything online... it takes people like us to fight back against it... but everyone just bends over and spreads their cheeks. Shame on yall

[@mikhalych9748]

I just say then I guess you wont mind if I install a camera in your bathroom.

[@bumperxx1]

If you don't do anything to my stuff I'll give you my info because all you will see in my bank statements is bills and food buys. I don't buy butt plugs and lubrication. Again if nothing will be stolen 🙃 go ahead check me. Iam just a normal human.

[@joemamma98723]

To the people in the comments who do not know, that cable and similar charging ports can be purchased for less than $100. They can be anywhere, a hotel, an airport, a restaurant... NEVER use a free USB charging port. The $20K price tag is just what our government pays, much like they pay $2k for a hammer.

[@Rood67]

The thing is, they pay $100.00 as well, and the $19,900.00 gets funneled off to another account. Because they are dirty and corrupt; they assume everyone else is as well. Gone is due process, and assuming innocent until proven guilty; we are guilty until we can prove our innocence.

[@Juleru]

Yes! That's why you either bring your own power bank while traveling, a regular power adapter or, even better, both.

[@chuckjones9159]

It is actually worse than that. A few years ago I went to buy a new laptop. The sales guy at Wal-Mart said he had a deal for me. He brought it out and showed me the specs. It was a $1000 dollar plus system that someone had special ordered and never picked up. I got it for a tad over $500. Everything was cool for months until I stumbled onto a criminal enterprise that had to have had government connections. I did not outright reveal I knew at the time but I used a code word I had seen them use. The person on the other end of the chat went nuts and Asked who I was and who did I work for then told me never contact them again. Within a couple of weeks the computer issues started. I lost control of my Windows firewall. Then my BIOS password was changed. I called HP for support as I had registered it when I bought it. When i first called I still had four months left on the warranty. They stalled me claiming I would need to call when a supervisor was present as I wanted their BIOS back door program. I finally got ahold of one 2 weeks after warranty expired. They wanted $125 for the program. I told them where to go. The system started acting on its own while I was using it. One day I looked at the camera and asked what they wanted. Nothing happened so I asked if they were to chickenshit to show me what I already knew. I stated flash the command prompt application on screen twice if you can hear me. There it was in two flashes of about 1/2 a second each. A few nights after that I turned on the voice transcription and went to sleep. When I awoke the next morning there was a little over 2 pages of a conversation. No the TV or radio was not on and everyone else was in bed. It was a conversation between two people. Every so often a word would be garbled and they were talking about a meeting with congressmen in a committee. Near the end of the script one of them said "WTF is going on with this?" and the other one said "Shit". By this point I was getting concerned so I called Microsoft Support almost a dozen times in a week. They tried repeatedly to to reset my system but it always reverted within an hour. At last they said they would need to get approval from above to use their systems to force it to take and a supervisor would call when they were ready. I was on the phone with them and it had been going for about 20 minutes when they asked "WTF is going on? Is the laptop connected to any other equipment? It was not and I told them. They stated that another system had popped in from outside and was reverting their work. It was overpowering their systems. They told me they could probably not help me and 20 seconds later I lost the internet connection AND my smartphone service. Two separate providers. The next day I started tearing into the system files. One of the logs stated issues with the bootloader and used a phrase I had not heard at that time. "Elf Magic is broken". I see. So it was Keebler I joked to myself. I started snooping through deep operating files. I had just managed to access one dealing with my firewall and the script on the page was being placed as I watched. It stated "Secret file accessed. system will self wipe in 10..9.. 8.. I laughed because I thought someone was trying to be funny. Until it switched off and was gone. Totally wiped. I went to buy a new copy real quick and discovered the stores no longer sell you physical copies. I had to bribe them to make me a back up copy. Anyway I got it home and it was a new copy with a different key and everything. I had to go to work and when I got home I opened it back up.... and there was my old system... custom screensaver and all. I was about ready to throw it. We moved a week later and I thought that may help as well. When I called the internet provider to cut service until we were ready to transfer it got weird. We had a card with plenty of cash on it dedicated to autopay that bill. The provider told me my service had been disconnected for over a year. They said my equipment had been returned as well which I was staring at as they told me. No money had been removed from the card for 1 year and 3 months. I borrowed a data recovery app and scanned my disk. The oldest files recovered were from a year before I bought the system. It was mostly in Chinese but here and there I found mention of an operating system called Redstone. When I translated the language I found mention of system hardware I did not get with mine and mention of advanced capabilities of a built in sat com via Thunderbolt and enhanced IRT read/write capabilities of the drive. The equipment that I did not receive was an external component. it was basically a multi-media interface with an antenna and broadcast capability. I started paying better attention after that and found that my system updated even when Windows showed no connections. I finally found some of the files/logs where the updates had been tracked. I took ownership and began adding to the text after the last entry made. I spent hours typing all the shit I had been through with this thing and I listed what my suspicions about it capabilities were. This was on a Friday night around midnight. Tuesday morning I awoke to a new file folder on the desktop. It was several dozen pages. They told me they could not specify who they worked for but their systems had alerted them to my addition to the file and it properties. They said they ran servers that kept other computers properly updated When techs noticed my diatribe it caused a crisis. Some thought their system had become sentient and others thought they had been hacked. He said he was not sure himself at the 100% level as to how all of this happened but he took his best shot. First of all I was not supposed to get the laptop. Most likely an affiliate had ordered one for one of their representatives who never picked it up for some reason. As soon as I customized the account and logged back in the server had saved that as its initial copy and then routed control of the firewall via the hypervisor functionality to another system. They said the media component antenna would have allowed for global reach and even video broadcast capabilities via satellite link under the right conditions. As I did not have that piece the tracking system would allow the update stream to be channeled through surrounding receiver systems until it got to one with enough power to transmit a signal to me. They said that range was up to 30 yards in clear weather but this option has flaws. Even without the uplink the Thunderbolt drive can still operate as a local connection but can also be easily penetrated. . The Thunderbolt drive is the combination of the port plus the high speed SSD. My screen got busted and would have cost 4/5 what I paid for the system to replace not including labor. I pulled the SSD out and asked would they let me trade it for another system. The guy snorted a bit derisively but his boss had walked up and was peering at the drive. He said "maybe" and asked for a few minutes to test it out. 10 minutes later he yells to the other guy "Let him get what he wants" . As i was browsing the owner came up beside me and said "can I ask you where you got that and how long you have had it?". I told him I got it in early 2018 and where and asked him why he wanted to know. He said this specific design just hit the consumer market 3 weeks ago and this one is at least twice as fast as the best model now out there. This was in late 2020. It is a much stranger world than most imagine.

[@raylopez99]

As a taxpayer, I'm outraged at this man-in-the-middle device. Not that it exists, but that the government paid $20k for a $100 device.

[@quanthonytrang]

I got done for a blunt, "commercial quantity, street value 2 million dollars".

[@loosegoose9647]

Odd how McAfee suite is almost impossible to uninstall completely and is essentially malware in it's own right.

[@rich8133]

20 yrs ago everyone was worried about "Big Brother"...now everyone is happy holding hands with "Big Brother".

[@benayers8622]

kids dont even see the problem 💀

[@billkeithchannel]

Are you sure that was his hand? They did mention porn a lot in this video.

[@bigounce999]

​@billkeithchannel big (step)brother what are you doing

[@latetotheparty7551]

True! We can and should take back our privacy. Baby steps add up!

[@rich8133]

@@benayers8622 the adults don't and that's the problem

[@LukeM410]

Your "safety" is never anyone's concern, only yours. Many people seeking power will claim to want to keep you "safe". Remember that.

[@genxer74]

oh man, I hate this so much. You try to do something (anywhere for any reason) and the "policy" won't allow you to "for your safety".... Such BS! Just be straight with me and actually tell me why. Can't stand being patronized.

[@ObjectiveMedia]

Welcome to capitalism

[@edbutzwiggle4227]

No, welcome to Fascism

[@LobotomyTC]

Safety is not for this world. If you want a hint of safety, you can buy firearms, but even then you have no guarantee that you'll be safe. The best you can do is ensure you leave a big crater when the government eventually comes.

[@rvarsigfusson6163]

@@LobotomyTC Remember the terror of unarmed society ..... All around the world.

[@geniferteal4178]

The moment devices got automatic over-the-air updates, you had absolutely zero control of what's on your phone or computer.

[@gwaeron8630]

Add car to that list.

[@joey882286]

@@gwaeron8630what do you mean by Car?

[@Edward_Bernays]

@@joey882286 automobile. Many of the new modals be spying on the user to sell driving data to insurance companies. Also selling subscription based features you have to unlock for a monthly fee.

[@redlionstudio2750]

Custom ROMs and Linux ftw

[@grimblankjustblank4316]

@@redlionstudio2750 Linux is an advanced system that doesn't contain all the factor a casual person usually Uses it require at-least a somewhat advanced understanding of Coding accordingly Linux is easier to compromise as it would probably use you're own created security system unless you're willing to use a publicly available one that probably got 3 backdoor in it. their a valid reason Microsoft is the only computer operating system and it because it the only one that works because they Patented practically everything of it's technology. to my understanding at-least

[@fardeenjoya]

*Turns of microphone access of Google* Me: Hey Google! Google: You've turned off your microphone 🙂

[@Maynardd]

😂

[@7vuja2]

😂

[@galaxxy_step]

Horrifiying shit

[@DnB93]

People amaze me when they think they can turn off camera and microphone and think they are good 😂

[@kenrickkahn]

​@DnB93 Watch some scam videos and they can turn that sh_t right back on when you don't notice it..

[@Soulsmithing]

Edward Snowden just slightly lifted a corner of the huge blanket.

[@yaelz6043]

Imagine someone lifting the corner of the carpet that hides the trapdoor that leads to the basement where you bury the bodies. Explains the extreme reaction.

[@creepyrobsta5509]

@@yaelz6043 Okay google employee.

[@intarsienschrankzwetschgen4224]

And look where it did get him.

[@creepyrobsta5509]

@@yaelz6043 Says Mr. Goo gle.

[@holyarmor578]

And they want to hang him for it. While we people are just accepting it and letting it happen.

[@D45726Lkthsc]

They silenced a powerful voice. We need to protect these people 🙏

[@DANGARANGS]

This isn't real information.

[@creepyrobsta5509]

How do you suppose we do that? I am tired of every comment saying we need to protect so and so yet have zero answers how to do that.

[@themagickmirror]

they are conning you.

[@Joebama.Nicker]

@@creepyrobsta5509 violence 😇

[@spacequack5470]

​@@DANGARANGS Blatantly false

[@aspopulvera9130]

and it's terrifying to know that even if you erased your browser history, it's permanently recorded somewhere 💀

[@vegetablehead]

Regardless of what you call it, a data destruction program is a piece of software designed to overwrite a hard drive so many times, and in a certain way, as to make the ability to extract information from the drive nearly impossible.

[@simonlevett4776]

Use TAILS with TOR browser on a USB stick.

[@addagwenlyn9662]

John McAfee, the real "most interesting man in the world".

[@JaneDough11]

For sure. I have watched a lot about him and he is a mad lad. Fascinating

[@AionDario]

Interesting maybe but not real. He was a creep

[@NunyaBizness-z8f]

And one of the deadest. "Epsteined" before Epsteining was cool.

[@83delgado]

What was creepy about him? ​@@AionDario

[@AionDario]

@83delgado he drugged a bioligist coworker named allison adonizo and raped her...

[@insising]

Adult films do not install keyloggers on computers. While this is technically possible, home computers do not really fall victim to these attacks, and they don't really happen in the first place. Adult websites have other measures put in place to make money, such as subscriptions, partnerships with other platforms, and more. "There are many reasons to stop watching p***. Keylogging is not one of them."

[@The-Real-aPOC]

"There are many reasons to stop watching p***". BLASPHEMY

[@armylrs2391]

You are so fucking ignorant.

[@jsnotlout3312]

yeah that is completely false, To all my knowledge that isn't a thing

[@roundandedgeless.1218]

@@jsnotlout3312 As long as you don't believe those pills, you're gucci

[@warrenarnoldmusic]

​@@jsnotlout3312 yea i work at ph, we dont do that

[@AndreInThe416]

Why stop at porn sites? It could be any website.

[@madero-jb5ri]

Because porn sites are taboo and addicting.

[@granthepworth6955]

Porn, gambling and Sports betting sites are their main targets. All have click through options, thus leaving you vulnerable.

[@colinblythe3710]

Thats why EVERY site now has cookies - it used to be only a few now its ALL OF THEM !!

[@MorMacFey-v2g]

@@madero-jb5ri so is sports pages, political news, religion, pick your poison friend, not everyone is into the same drug.

[@МяВЕдзт]

@@colinblythe3710 that's why you reject them 😏

[@lovejetfuel4071]

This is why I still use a Desktop, with Linux, and dont own or use an iPhone. I know its not bullet proof, but its better then the alterative

[@dukenukem5768]

Have a mobile phone, but only turn it on to make a phone call.

[@loganmedia1142]

Do you use carrier pigeons?

[@TestGearJunkie.]

Same here. No camera or microphone and I also run three ad-blockers. Never see any adverts for anything. Don't have a smartphone any more, either. My 20yr old Nokia 6310i still works perfectly for making phone calls, which is the whole point of a phone. Isn't it..?

[@programmer5855]

@@TestGearJunkie. You do know ad-blockers are tracking your browsing habits etc. and selling your data? lol

[@SavageGoon]

I'm sure everyone in the comments has been hacked including me.

[@markluxton3402]

Not everyone. No sim in my somewhat degoogled spy phone, and my PC's run gnu/Linux OS's ;-)

[@philanders3705]

​@@markluxton3402Somewhat degoogled? Apparently even running one Google app can expose you. I'm not a pro in this field but I have been watching braxman for a while. It's an interesting topic. Good on ya for putting it in action. I like the idea but am somewhat technotarded so I'm still running a regular phone at the moment.

[@geauxfast8u2]

@@markluxton3402God I wish I had the mental capacity to eliminate google from being used‼️ I hate Google, and believe they have a hook in most everyone of us on the internet. I don’t have that much to hide, but can’t stand they have access to my every moment. Though I do often just leave my phone home dead uncharged Living off grid but still paying for a cell service, so not off grid all the way So I assume mark luxton does not leave a trail back to who you actually are 🤣 ❓

[@8jcastro6]

​@@markluxton3402I'm pretty sure the US government can hack into anyone's computer as long as you're online.

[@HomerSimpson514]

I hacked all my neighbors' computers, then I hacked an enemies whole neighborhood to find his computer, and that was 30 years ago. Trust me, we are all victims and snared in the interweb. All I need is a name and age, and within 30 minutes, I can have Google maps of everyone you know. And yes, I'm in a war with a hacker now. He has a tactical advantage now, but I have been playing this game since 1986.

[@ManeeVaughn]

I worked for McAfee Security for 3 years in the late 2000s. RIP, John McAfee.

[@billkeithchannel]

His how to Uninstall McAfee software video is comedic genius.

[@billkeithchannel]

That McAfee software IS the virus.

[@somedudefromapharmacy]

God bless his soul.

[@solotheoneandonly]

If I may add this was awesome video but my question is there anything or way to block from all of this craziness?

[@megcreates2.0]

McAfee IS expensive!

[@erikhicks07]

I'm calling BS on the instant rooting capability of p-rn sites. Trying to root your phone normally with specialized tools is a hassle and typically not possible. If this was so prevelant, it would be all over tech news.

[@theLowestPointInMyLife]

yeah that was nonsense, corn sites probably make a fortune from ads, and are funded by the money printers anyway for demoralisation purposes

[@ArinSauls]

There’s countless corporations that will pay to keep as much suppressed to the public as possible.

[@CharGorilla]

Ironically the larger players in the Adult entertainment industry are on the more ethical end of the privacy spectrum (especially after Ashley Madison). I'd be more worried about that other X account you have, you know the one, the one that takes full advantage of all that free por... I mean speech

[@techmaster242]

Yeah porn sites work differently. The big porn sites like pornhub are basically a bunch of ads. The videos are shortened clips and they tell you where to go to watch the full video. But if you go to the more shady porn sites, they're ran by countries like Russia and China and they use cookies to figure out who is watching certain types of porn. If they can connect powerful people to watching embarrassing videos, they can then blackmail those powerful people.

[@aestheticsbrahh8163]

He was just trying to sell his own software security devices, and this video is clickbait.

[@grant9301]

"never plug your junk into anything public" My grandma warned me about that many years ago! Even before their was mobile phones! how did she know. Oh wait..... 🤭

[@KevinSim-mp1cl]

wtf are you taking about

[@GreatestRiceMuncher]

Why was she talking about your "junk"🤨

[@grant9301]

You guys that don't get this statement really have trouble understanding jokes! Or maybe you need a "app" to understand anything these days! 🤔

[@GreatestRiceMuncher]

@@grant9301 your comment is а Рэпⲓⲋ JⲞⲔⲈ. I don't get how it could be anything else.

[@GreatestRiceMuncher]

@@grant9301 I seriously don't get it

[@lovesongms]

The fact that nobody talks about the forbidden book hidden laws of the game on borlest speaks volumes about how people are stuck in a trance

[@warlockpaladin2261]

Borlest? Is that spelled right?

[@jamespittman9953]

They'll even brag about how they're living the dream 😂😂😂

[@Zenoff64]

LMFAO nonsense spam book.

[@captaincobalt2111]

I had a stroke reading this.

[@TJ_104]

Maybe 'you' are stuck in a trance. But i guess you think of yourself as a smart person who awakened of the matrix. At least you can feel special that way.

[@VworksArt]

That statement "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is so asinine.

[@terrylandess6072]

Yes. We don't care if what you were doing for 20 years was legal - it isn't anymore and you're coming with us as a safety precaution.....

[@bumperxx1]

I agree 👍 I dont have anything to hide. What I eat sleep poop go to work pay bills and I DONT HAVE ANY KINKY SHITZ that's where they get you. Stop sticking things up your butt. 😂. I only like my wife and don't put myself in situations where they can use things against me that's probably why they don't bug me and if they i e the government I am not worth their time. I understand the 5th amendment and plead the 5th as much as you want but they already know

[@ottomanpapyrus9365]

Red rhetoric.

[@WolfsToob]

“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” is not what you think it means, neither does that maniac McAfee. It means you are safe from law enforcement, NOT hackers. In the case of hackers “You have everything to hide, so you SHOULD fear!” Hackers want to steal your personal information so they can steel your identity, credit cards, etc, and take money from you. Law enforcement doesn’t need to steal your information, they already have it (SSN, name, address, etc). Law enforcement isn’t going to steal your credit card or bank info and go on a spending spree… I personally don’t care that law enforcement is spying on me, because I haven’t nor do I ever plan on breaking the law, so they literally have NO interest in me. Corporations on the other hand, selling my data DOES bug me as I am not fond of target ads and such, just as much as I hate door to door sales people. I know what I want and where to get it when the time comes.

[@LobotomyTC]

You can always determine your political enemy by finding out who is most excited to "help you".

[@TheNeverPoet]

What?? You cannot just "jailbreak a device remotely from clicking a link" or anything like that, stuff like Banking apps and many more would cease and refuse to work on a jailbroken iOS device, what kind of kahooey is that?

[@davet5223]

Yeah he was overly paranoid

[@CharGorilla]

The only viable privacy threats are Google, Apple, Samsung and the various brands of the CCP

[@kirbyjoe7484]

No, it all comes down to how much somebody is willing to pay the right hackers, but yes for the average joe, you are not going to run into anything that capable out in the wild, although there is plenty of stuff that is bad enough to successfully rob the average person blind with a few bad choices and poorly made clicks. What keeps the average person safe if they follow basic security protocols, is they aren't worth the effort or cost of wasting a day zero exploit on, along with the fact that 95% of scammers and "hackers" are low skill imbeciles who don't really know what they are doing. Often they are just kids or garden variety scammers playing with scripts they found on the darkweb, likely infecting themselves in the process.

[@gengarclefairy3475]

The video talks about extremes that are possible, just not for every persons device

[@CelestisForgeUK]

The challenge with using extreme language is that it can fuel paranoia among those who aren’t familiar with technology. While the concepts he talks about are technically possible, the costs to develop such tools are enormous-far beyond the reach of an average person. Even those with the ability to develop them generally have no interest in targeting random individuals. However, when these ideas are presented as if they’re all-powerful or mystical, people without a technical background may take them at face value. This can lead to misunderstandings, even harmful actions-like when some believed that 5G towers could somehow transmit Covid. Raising awareness about online security is crucial, but stoking fear by exploiting people’s lack of knowledge can be just as harmful as malicious hacking. It can spread confusion and even do more damage than criminal activity.

[@dutArkham]

"if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" Ok give me your bank account, SSN, address, phone number and full name. Why are you hiding it from me?

[@Riptions]

Maybe I shouldn't have planned that bankrobbery through email.

[@thisworldhasgonemad]

😂

[@BRLaue]

Don’t worry you’re safe, just don’t say anything positive about Trump.

[@bumperxx1]

FBI OPEN UP

[@C.O.G.]

@@Riptions , you were supposed to keep quiet about that, when commenting on KZbin videos. Now, look what you've done.

[@namename1]

Fake link from the bank itself

[@onemoredoll5791]

Interesting that I never take selfies and I get ads of certain clothing down to color combinations I may be wearing....definitely watching and listening.

[@jeremylindemann5117]

Mobile devices have been known to always have their mic turned on and to listen to what is being said whether it's to the phone or with another person nearby.

[@willhavel4525]

​@@jeremylindemann5117Not only mobile devices, but smart TVs, newish vehicles and the like. It's also within the realm that the chem trails being sprayed have nano-tech that is easily breathed in and able to track. It may sound crazy, but the tech is there.

[@Eightfinger]

I remember that one that I was spontaneously visiting a city I never was at before, and never had talked about. There I saw some strange, crazy merchandise on a street vendors display, and made a comment about it to my friend. It was something so out of the ordinary, something I clearly never EVER had talked about before, or even thought about. And yet, only 10 minutes later I got tons of ads on my phone trying to sell me those crazy, extremely specific designs I had made a comment about. This to me was the final proof smartphones are listening in. If it suddenly shows something that I had never seen before in my life, only 10 mins after I saw it for the first time... Where should it have gotten the info from? I didn't even LIKE the thing I made a comment about. It simply found it absurd, and commented on that, so it couldn't have been a random chance interest-advertisement.

[@C.O.G.]

@@Eightfinger , the same thing happens to me all the time. I will be talking to my daughter in law on the phone. She will mention some random thing that she thinks I might like to try (a snack, a beverage, etc.) Within a couple of hours, or sometimes the next day, my phone will show me an ad for the very same thing that my DIL recommended to me. Sort of creepy, really.

[@KasiaVoss]

FB listens to you all the time, also via WhatsApp. Discuss a topic and check the adds on IG and FB over next days. We did that at work and a colleague got adds for something I was talking about a day before. He has never searched for it before. The only connection was me talking about it in the same room with his phone.

[@greenmedic88]

I'll check my charger ASAP. You know; in case there's a TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLAR device attached to it that someone left lying around for someone else to walk off with.

[@Crosshatch1212]

No they'd follow you .see where uou charge out side and replace cable only need to once

[@Yadlina]

129 Dollar. It was NSA Cottonmouth from the Ant catalogue leaked by Snowden. Now you can get it from Hak5 as OM.G.

[@jodyhudson2206]

They're already watching you with your phone

[@spacedghosted]

interestingly enough, theres nothing within the cable worth anywhere near that... its still a cheap cable to mass produce so there's a good chance you might have some sort of version of it in who knows what.

[@Herbst1984-sg7qr]

But if you think about it from a different angle it might make sense. Someone who is able to afford such a device, do you really think money is that big of a deal? I mean if I know all your secrets I can turn your world upside down which might be way more worth. So no matter which way we tell the story we surely can agree on one fact.. if those devices exist we are in ... BIG TROUBLE and I'd argue that thats the point he's talking about.

[@varga88d]

It's lunacy to think that websites will infect a computer just like that. System storage dump on a modern iPhone do not contain the encryption keys, it's way harder to access the data than McAfee described.

[@mchammer5026]

sssh don't threaten the hysteria in here with being rational.

[@EclipseClemens]

ok fed

[@Schmitzelhaus]

@@mchammer5026 LMAO, loved that comment! 😅👌

[@wtos9153]

@@EclipseClemensThese people that pretend to know things without even thinking them through. You can’t jailbreak a phone with JavaScript. And being a porn site doesn’t give you magic powers. If it did I’d make a porn site and load it with JavaScript that makes people smarter.

[@JohnnyButtons]

Anyone that accesses my smartphone will be extraordinarily bored lol.

[@z3ro7o]

not if they can steal a doller :D a doller is a doller :D

[@chinos6146]

@@z3ro7oI’m broke let me know when you find one because I need it too

[@MaxCapNibba]

You keep saying this you bootlickers. Its unsightly. They havee your bank accounts, your freindslists, your phone numbers your locations, your children's location, Your family's locations, your addresses, what you buy at the store. What you will buy next time, how much of a threat you are to their plans. You will be singing a different tune bootlicker. When you say something they dont like at armed police show up at your door.

[@curiousmind_]

​@@z3ro7o they won't even find that lol

[@barneyrubble4827]

Internet banking? Medical records? Employment or tax info? Pics of family, chikdren & friends?

[@NotRealValty]

3:00 literally never used a public usb.

[@Bullminator]

Most public usbs would be stolen instantly :P

[@sodenoite45]

if you gonna use that , brings a rubber.

[@blunthex]

Nor would I ever or public WiFi no thanks

[@jefff8130]

A lot of people do

[@blunthex]

@@jefff8130 and they wonder why they have a charge for an 800$ starlink system on their account ☠️

[@some_developer]

To an average user, everything related to their devices is magic, and this is exactly why guys like McAfee can tell you tales about casual remote jailbreaking and rooting...

[@Darsch]

Precisely.

[@LughtMon]

try connecting win 7 to internet nowdays... You'll get ddosed in seconds... Also, why I get recommendations on products I searched up once OR I HAVE JUST TALKED ABOUT?

[@Unknown_Genius]

The funny thing is that while it'd be possible with the correct things, it's kinda moronic to believe that they get so many devices hacked for so cheap when getting the most advanced and hardest to detect spyware on the market installed on a single device already costs a few million. Keeping that in mind it already raises the question (even without a clue) how it can be that easy and "cheap" while the other one didn't go bankrupt/became non-existent.

[@kael13]

Yeah, McAfee saying all that was totally bullshit. The man sold cybersecurity products for a living and then totally fell off the deep end and killed a guy (perhaps by accident, but a man died in his compound)

[@wtos9153]

Yes. The question is why though. Just so they have something to talk about on KZbin?

[@aliasoma]

They listen in. I've had conversations with my dad about something I haven't thought about or spoken about in decades and within days I'll see it recommended in an ad or social media feed.

[@loganmedia1142]

And what's the percentage hit rate? I'm sure you've collected all the data.

[@Unknown_Genius]

That's precisely why you only allow apps to use your mic when the app itself is fully opened (if ever) + make sure that you stop the apps entirely after using them. Works magic on them not knowing where you had been and what you talked about - kinda funny how people still don't check their settings, give all rights possible and then are surprised that companies do what you allowed them to do.

[@aliasoma]

@@Unknown_Genius I don't allow anything to access my mic. Ever. Can't speak for my dad.

[@Unknown_Genius]

@@aliasoma Obviously you do if it still gives you recommendations about what you said, I'd check the settings - haven't gotten a single recommendation over the past decade, neither from what I talk about nor from GPS data.

[@aliasoma]

@@Unknown_Genius I didn't have my phone on me, the conversation was in person. And I know how settings work, tyvm.

[@plasmodesma7569]

If we're this far along in the public domain, imagine the State capabilities we DON'T know about.

[@caralho5237]

The big governments have basically the power to turn earth into hell down to the little details, they just need an excuse to do it now

[@terrylandess6072]

If it weren't for certain individuals, we wouldn't know as much as we do and it's obvious they paid they price.

[@МяВЕдзт]

I'm pretty sure the US forced apple to keep a vulnerabillity open from their Transparency Reports, people aren't as transparent as they sem.

[@KnownAsKenji]

@@terrylandess6072 For sure. Some of the capabilities like this one are even hidden in plain sight, they just don't get exposure. Like surveys, do not trust political surveys, I'm not saying don't do them, just be careful. I could elaborate on why for a while, but I'm just a tiny voice.

[@kirawelty]

@@terrylandess6072 That's why so many of us do it quietly.

[@lucien4980]

I've literally never used a public charging station...it's obvious that's compromised. Everything is anyway but the public ones are going for bank accounts

[@alaakela]

Hotel rooms are public charging stations.

[@МяВЕдзт]

Open up the cable, chop the data lines leaving the positive and negative cables, isolate the data lines to avoid short circuils, use shrink wrap on the cable, and enjoy your hack free cable.

[@AlphaCrucis]

Buy an adapter that blocks the data lines and use your own cable.

[@Juleru]

@@AlphaCrucis Or just use a regular power adapter. They're small and they'll charge your phone faster than a USB-port would anyway.

[@OzMadMan82]

The very reason you can't remove the battery from your phone anymore. They don't want you to disconnect

[@vastirvision]

nah you can remove it. Takes a few special tools and a heat gun, but I get what you mean. They're about to change back to removable batteries with mobile phones though, due to EU regulations. Its mandated by 2027, Apple is already getting ready for it. Its basically Right-To-Repair legislation

[@kalle5548]

You can remove it alright. Getting it back in is the problem

[@Thor-o1v]

Turn it off, wrap it in tinfoil.

[@chaydium2535]

Get a Faraday bag. Once your phone is inside, it can not transmit data.

[@Some_One_One]

Hhhh

[@clinteverett4729]

So.. this video went from a warning/instruction on how to differentiate from USB cables with and without surveillance imbeded.. to a documentary on keylogging of cellular devices.. to an expose on John McAfee's likely dissidence related end.. yet I still don't know what the tell is on the USB thing, except checking for WiFi connections which form after physical connection

[@derkevevin]

A normal cable is just a cable. This cable has complex electronics hidden inside, that act as a tiny computer to hack anything you connect to it. The wifi is just to make it accessible from the distance. For example, the target connects the cable and it hacks everything. Then the hacker, who is nearby, can take control/receive data. Since it makes its own wifi, it probably works even if the target is being careful and not connected to the internet.

[@yaelz6043]

You won't even find the WiFi, it's hidden. You only saw it in the video because that was a demonstration. There is no tell, you just can't use someone else's. Or your own if it's been out of your sight.

[@gerowen]

@@yaelz6043 WiFi networks with hidden SSIDs can still be discovered with spectrum analyzer software. There are several free ones for PC and on on the mobile app stores. You might not be able to see the name of the network, but you can see that it exists, sometimes the MAC of the device hosting it, what frequency it's on, etc.

[@David.5035]

​@@yaelz6043 You can compare the heat dissipation to tell what cable is spying. You need to get a genuine cable and monitor the temperature then compare it to the suspected cable. You should note that some cables have a security chip in them like samsung cables... so you cant assume any heat in a cable is spyware because of these new cables with genuine Samsung security chips.

[@МяВЕдзт]

@@derkevevin You are correct, however, the distance can't be the only barrier. The charger shown has a microcontroller inside that controls the charging, opens an access point that allows Rubber Ducky Scripts to be ran. I'm sure you can flash the microcontroller inside to only run the Rubber Ducky Script when connected, instead of opening an AP. I don't own one of these cables, but at least in windows, logically once the keyboard is connected, it would get connected and recognized as a USB keyboard, making a sound. This is not the case with Ryan's computer, because the cable has been connected before, so maybe only the sound would play.

[@Ephesians-yn8ux]

John didn’t “pass away”, he was assassinated.

[@robertchapman6795]

I was watching a movie tonight while eating my bowl of ice cream. I opened my YT feed during the tv ads, and Lo and behold, immediately up pops an advertisement for the exact ice cream I was eating! The phone watched me eat it and decided it must now show me an ad for the exact same product! Of course your phone isn’t watching everything you do! It’s also listening and making 3D maps of everything in your home, at your work, in your car. It even listens to you in the dark of your room in the middle of the night. Even when it is “turned off”. 😬

[@keithangstadt4950]

My brother and I were going to a concert with a buddy, and he picked us up in his Jeep. My brother said "dude, nice Jeep" as we got in. His phone was off and in his pocket. On the way home he turned on his phone and the first thing to pop up was ads for Jeeps. He never searched any websites about Jeeps, and wasn't shopping for cars at all.

[@CharGorilla]

Correlation != Causation

[@robertchapman6795]

@@CharGorilla I’m totally convinced. The first time I recognised it happened to me was in 2015. We had a fleet of diesel trucks and utes, except for three petrol utes. A worker put diesel in the petrol ute. We talked and laughed about it. When I finished work and turned on my phone, opened YT and bang. First ad? A company named “Wrong Fuel Australia” ad came on. (I’m in Australia). Recently, I have an orange Trek mountain bike in my home. An ad came up for the exact bike. Hmmm, how did my phone know an orange Trek mountain bike ad would “interest” me!? 🤔

[@supressor111]

Yea buddy, when phone is turned off at 0% battery and you try to turn on, you can't because it's 0% but the fool have the energy to show me a "red battery and a white cable" 🤡 from where have the energy to show me those if the battery it's 0%? 😂❤ just scams

[@thebestSteven]

@@keithangstadt4950 I walked into my house and my roommate was watching rugby. I never watched or searched rugby before. He was an Australian rugby fan, but this was the first time he had watched it since I moved in. I stand there for a few minutes as we talked and then grab my phone and open facebook as I walk to my room, and the second post I saw was an ad about Australian rugby. This is one of many times something like this has happened.

[@patrickcrabtree3162]

Well I've lived most of my life without a phone or any device that is connected so if and when it comes down to it, I will put my phone down and walk away, never looking back. No worries

[@yaelz6043]

We no longer have a choice. You have to have an internet connection and bank account just to have a job and be a legal citizen. If you're under 40 you have to have social media and be reachable 24/7 just to land a job and to be socially acceptable.

[@MorMacFey-v2g]

No you've made your choice. Everyone still has a choice.

[@elijahmiller912]

@@yaelz6043 for thousands of years, humans "made a living", by taking care of themselves and utilizing what God gave you for free. Then rockefeller took over schools to program you into believing this is better (too proud of himself to keep it secret). Now, you only exist to make the rich richer

[@vkab8217]

Well you commented just now on KZbin.

[@raketensven3127]

@@yaelz6043 That's just outside pressure. I'm under 40 without any social media or smartphone. I have a social life and a job.

[@akuunreach]

I built this computer from potatoes I grew, running an OS I coded by hand,, and powered by lemons, it's connected to a firewall, that's connected to a vpn, that is also connected to a vpn. I might be safe, except I keep putting all my personal information on facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, google, and any social media that's popular. Word to the wise, if you're just an average person, odds are the one that's taking away your privacy, is you.

[@Tony-rl2fr]

How can you be certain that someone didn't piss malware in the soil you grew your potätoes in?

[@gregoryt1139]

Expand your scope, Average Person. Hackers may not be after your personal data, but data you have access to. A person at my job was compromised by a nation-state, via their home computer, because the adversary believed the person had access to sensitive info at work. 3-letter agencies finally got tired of filtering useless emails and status reports connected to this person from scrapes of foreign databases -- Of course, after our government determined my coworker wasn't a national security threat. Imagine the size of the net that was cast to investigate this person, their family, friends, church members, neighbors, coworkers, and any other casual associates. All these people, now caught-up, because one person got assigned to a project team at work, that a hostile entity was interested in. Our Chief Information Security Officer gives this cautionary tale during speeches. It's just so happened that I know the person at the center of the story. (And No, it's not me.)

[@jd1wildman928]

Yes, people just give all of their information to social media. Hey FB, I'm on vacation now. My house is unoccupied, come over.😅

[@jerryburns1258]

BINGO!

[@Accurize2]

An easy way to tell who the Impostor is… hide the cable and see who has a panic attack looking for it in the office.

[@catherinebrickell]

I had a co-worker loan me a phone charger that really wanted it back...after some time I realized that it was a listening device

[@kspen72]

I was in telecom/IT too long.. my rule has always been never connect to public Wi-Fi never use a public Wi-Fi charging station or a cable that I haven't examined thoroughly. However I could even be fooled with that cable if it were in my home.

[@jeremylindemann5117]

Doesn't the built-security of mobile devices protect you on public wi-fi networks?

[@orangeusername1792]

They should ​@@jeremylindemann5117

[@willhavel4525]

​@@jeremylindemann5117Not if the 'host' is cloned. One capitalized or lowercase number/letter that looks innocuous could be enough. Take into account that any charging cable bought online (Amazon, Walmart, etc...) could have the tech installed, since most of the products come from overseas. If you don't believe that it's a concerted effort by all world governments, to buy 'influence'...think again.

[@kspen72]

@@jeremylindemann5117 no more secure than anything else on the internet. Ask AT&T or Verizon how their security protected them from getting hacked recently.

[@JustinBrunson-q5d]

​@jeremylindemann5117 someone in town created a unsecured wifi label the same as our free towns wifi and disabled the real one but thats probably not how..

[@johnnosmith4417]

We just bloody need a vicious solar storm to throw us back into the Bronze Age and we get rid of these problems once and for all.

[@muntee33]

Haha. The closer you get, the further u realise just how far you still have to go.

[@louiscolborn6715]

Sooner or later it will happen. If for no other reason all the radiation being spread all over the world. This will collapse.

[@carlmagnussen7773]

So the mafia-gov finished him?

[@deckofcards87]

Give it time and mass surveillance will start up all over again in some other form.

[@TheOceanLoader]

And then we get the bronze age equivalent. Maybe the horse mafia or HAY (Horses for American Yankees) where they ensure only their friends get access rights to horses

[@milademjayy]

*they would call those who cover their face cams paranoid* look at this know those ppl knew something.

[@lm3729]

lol one of my client’s always mocks me for having electrical tape on my camera phone

[@JJFX-]

​@@lm3729 Honestly if it's your main phone that's the least of your worries if someone got that level of access but more and more people will start realizing how insecure their everyday life is. We need more regulations for manufacturers to allow owners to control their devices instead of letting them con people into thinking it makes them less secure.

[@RicArmstrong]

Ive had all my cameras covered since the early 2000's

[@MorMacFey-v2g]

The government didn't have to sell these cords for teachers to stare through kid's laptops in their homes.... remember.

[@Ahuntrgw2013]

I have my laptop’s camera covered, have done so for years. My iPad’s too, unless I’m connecting with my old church’s (in England) mid-week Bible study; then, a new bandaid goes on when I’m done. I’ll have to try the electrical tape on the mobile phone now. Maybe I’ll use the “handyman’s friend,” duct tape. 😁

[@Rob-z7k]

This is why i got off Facebook yearsss ago. The more you post...the more they know!

[@gordongray9757]

Crazy that you think KZbin is any different than Facebook or porn.

[@form4li7y]

This why I carry the following two things with me if I think I will need to charge away from home. 1. A mini power bank that easily fits in my pocket 2. A juice jack blocking adaptor or complete cable. Usually, I just make sure my phone is fully charged and turn on the battery saving option if I'm worried about having enough power.

[@mustangracer5124]

I always see 40,000 'finger pointers' revealing how bad and dangerous the world is.. But never once have I heard anyone mention any kind of solution.

[@frazeejr]

They do occasionally mention the only solution...don't use any of this technology. McAfee did mention doing your research the old way, outside of these devices.

[@lukaerceg7275]

Good point, you want a solution? Here is the best solution I can think of right now: It is very important to have hope even when it seems impossible. During WW2 people thought world was ending too, but it didn't. And now in our age with advancing technology, AI, cultural failures we are facing, corruption, censorship and threats to free speech and democracy just to name a few. So here is what I think we can do: Firstly, you yourself become as best of a person as you can be. Smarter, calmer, wiser, stronger, more kind, more articulate, etc. Work on yourself then help others and do as much as you can on small scale if you can't change the world on your own, be the best person you can be and make life of as many people as better as you can. Then try to inspire others to do the same. And I believe if enough people every day wake up and try this we can create a better world and leave a better world to our children. In this divisive world we need to start treating people with more respect and kindness. Never ever lose hope, fight fight fight! There is no other way. That is best solution I have. And I also still have long ways to go too I am by far not who I want to be. Is this a good enough solution? If we find something better sure, but I don't see how we can go wrong there... Thank you for reading this and have a great day! :)

[@lukaerceg7275]

I tried posting a possible solution but seems like YT deleted it. That is so scary because I just tried to give hope and inspire people. Anyhow, I just said that everything starts with you improving yourself first: Work on yourself, be the best person you can be, smarter, wiser, stronger, calmer, more kind, etc. and then inspire others do the same. Don't try to change the world on your own, change yourself, your family and friends lives for better. And never ever ever lose hope. People in WW2 thought the world was ending too, but it didn't. We need more kindness and respect in this world especially to people we disagree with. Together we can create a better world for ourselves and leave a better world for our children. (My initial comment was much better formulated, but we will see if this too gets deleted.)

[@djmartin4776]

I think it's saying don't watch p**n

[@Javz177]

Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.

[@reneehouser2925]

Technology has caused mankind to DEVOLVE

[@TA-zh9rg]

We must understand it

[@madero-jb5ri]

It's not technology; it is our misunderstanding of technology.

[@MorMacFey-v2g]

It's not technology, it's the people themselves. Adapt or die as always. Your decision will decide your fate and fate doesn't care about how you feel about it.

[@godividarr]

@@reneehouser2925 The excessive comfort afforded technology has. Without real problems, you get an idiocracy.

[@ZachVirk]

denial is strong in this chat

[@Accurize2]

Wait a minute, a charger that actually charges the first time it’s plugged in? Now I understand why it’s $20,000.

[@TheLovely990]

Wow! Trust no one.

[@Brandon-x9n]

That's what they want is for people not to trust anything or anyone. Makes it easier for them to keep us all separated divided and in chaos! It's more so of "TRUST NO *GOVERNMENT *AGENCIES *CORPORATIONS *NGO'S and *NPO'S. Know your neighbors your neighborhoods, have block parties AGAIN and *TRUST the Mom & Pop shops, they built this country *Trust the people around you unless they give you a reason not to *and MOST of all TRUST YOUR GUT...

[@terrylandess6072]

No one can live long enough to follow all the money. It's insane.

[@jdsmith5060]

The real problem isn't the end of privacy it is who is controlling that power!

[@terrylandess6072]

When I ignore and avoid advertising, refusing to purchase products that engage in price increases to pay for that advertising, I basically deny any of that 'spy information' from having any value. The only other thing I can do is refrain from any activity which could be deemed illegal (downloading/etc.). These are my only options in todays society if I want to continue being a part of society and not a slave to their activities.

[@Overlorddz]

Uhh no it is the end of privacy because the only person that should control that is yourself. You don't want to lose control.

[@Unknown_Genius]

@@Overlorddz His point is still valid tho. People often say they got nothing to loose, his is the counterpoint and it's what's way more to fear than just loosing privacy - all your infos in the wrong hands, as long as they're in proper ones it's only half as bad as it could be.

[@derekwhite2929]

No wonder I've been under constant surveillance for decades! Well this & the fact that as a UK subject, I live in a police state!

[@joechip4822]

It is for a reason that '1984', 'Brave New World' and 'V for Vendetta' all have UK origins... 😑

[@beckballas2078]

We not gonna talk about why my charger cable has that little dent in it? 🤔😱

[@Anunez316]

This is how my phone reads my mind and shows me ads for things ive only had thoughts about.

[@The-Real-aPOC]

NO ONE has ever watched adult films JUST ONCE.

[@jeffreycollins116]

In my day it was nude magazines.

[@The-Real-aPOC]

@@jeffreycollins116 Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler.

[@Rottweilerdsq]

@@jeffreycollins116 And they where not hacked or could be hacked lol.

[@nullaccount7529]

@@The-Real-aPOC Just use Tails or use a coworkers computer?

[@BurrPulch]

I once watched an adult film and thought it was an ad for a non-profit that gives clothing to the poor. What those poor people had to do to keep warm!

[@eqe2e23e]

john mcafee will start with absolute truth and end with unicorns.

[@bamboo1566]

john was always easily distracted

[@Rob-z7k]

Was he deleted on purpose to be silenced?

[@IamLookingforWoody_________786]

Use your own powerbank instead of public charging port

[@learnin....4494]

And.....what if the power bank has a pre-installed spyware

[@atruebossawbw]

The phone listening to you is literally true, I discovered with my friend the other day. Just simply put your phone on standby and put on the table in front of you while you have a conversation with someone (make sure you're talking loudly and clearly enough for the phone to pick up your words). Then after you finished talking open google on that phone and try to google what you were just talking about, the autofills will tell you what it was before you type it in. lol

[@xanperia]

Of course they are listening. How else would "Hey Siri" or "Hey Google" or "Hi Bixby" etc work?

[@IceFire1800]

you've gotta do it with something super obscure that no one would connect together. the autofill is going to be based off past global searches. so even if you dont talk about dogs barking, if you start typing "why is my dog" you're very likely to get "why is my dog barking?" as an autofill option. There is a global dataset of what people search. Yes phones will listen in to prepare targeted advertising for you, but you're also testing it with an expected query lmao

[@Overlorddz]

Discovered.. that fact cannot be news to you unless perhaps you're a highschooler or in a nursing home.

[@Acetyl53]

I've never owned a cell phone and it still knows things I think. Never spoken aloud.

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

@@Acetyl53 That's called Big Data. It stores your core personality, your online activity, your health status, your circles, your daily routines of eating, sleeping, sex, going to the WC, everything.... You don't even have to say a single word, it is listening and scanning your activity with all the sensors on the phone, then a Mapping of all that data creates an Identity, a replica of you. It knows you, more deeply than you know yourself. That's why when you think about something, it then appears in your email in the form of ads (Gmail), or for example on Pinterest suggestions. They have a replica of you so they can make it think like you. It's scary and disgusting....

[@DocRealTalk]

Now I get why I'm always low on space....imagine the number of key loggers lol

[@50calpulse76]

I have literally never used a public charger on my phone I only use the one that came with my phone

[@litpath3633]

that one from china? lol

[@persiagil1488]

​@@litpath3633 Yes.

[@MarcoSaldana]

Also, there are chargers that look exactly like the Apple chargers that have a built in micro-camera and wifi. Their wifi networds are usually network names like 1784t-wly129874 or some nonsense string like that used as their SSID.

[@danp1224]

@@litpath3633lol

[@The-Real-aPOC]

Did it cost $20K

[@tactusxii]

I thought it was strange how we went from USB Micro to USB - C. Mini computers in Best Buy exclusively use USB - C. I thought it was silly but now I get it

[@PaulaHawk99]

We need more white hat hackers!!

[@C.O.G.]

I am fortunate to know a couple of them. They are always helping local people with phone and computer "problems".

[@SouthernBelle5505]

@@C.O.G.❤

[@DANGARANGS]

Lol​@@C.O.G.

[@gamerjenkins2053]

Need people to stop getting in other people's business. It's literally trespassing / theft / etc. All the old crimes just in a digital format.

[@thisworldhasgonemad]

​@@gamerjenkins2053The government does NOT care about your privacy. They don't think you should have any in the first place. They do as they please.

[@tylerkepple640]

The usb c cable i bought from the gas station for 10 bucks appears ti have the little devil notch, but i doubt they are selling a 20k caboe for 10 bucks 😅

[@2ru2pacFan]

@@tylerkepple640 you'll be surprised.

[@H3Et]

Chances are slim but never zero

[@derkevevin]

That's what they want you to think 😄 In all seriousness, they are probably selling these cables at a regular price near target areas. I think they have already done this with USB sticks in Russia. Or Russia did it with them, I forgot which one it was 😅 Also $20,000 are nothing to the government, it's not their own money after all 💀

[@robertmccabe8632]

​@@derkevevinExactly, as you are the "token" they are monitising into living currency.

[@boborenebobo]

the price is much lower now. like few hundred. there is site that selling officialy.

[@dang.2574]

I’m going back to a flip phone

[@althegamer6606]

Atlest ppl can understand why Russia and China etc don't want western countries internet

[@MaxRuso]

​@@althegamer6606lol... Internet is made by pentagon... Do phones belong to United States.... Operating systems belong to the United States. KZbin channel that we comment put on about thieves and dumbasses belongs to usa

[@BoltRM]

Flip phone that doesn't use a charging cable

[@BoltRM]

​@@althegamer6606Might interfere with China & Russia's spying?

[@smthnew861]

​@@althegamer6606russian here. to brainwash their citizens. If you control what info people see, you control what they think. And that's what totalitarian countries do to stay in power

[@alexgibb1084]

At this point, I don't ask myself "how do I keep my data secure?" I ask myself "how do I keep myself safe in the real world now that my data isn't secure, never will be again, and could be used against me at any time in any way?"

[@victorfontaine4943]

Nothing to account for the brain damage it’s done to kids. The breach of the 4th amendment in the “TERMS OF SERVICE” which is nothing more than a “Can’t Sue Me” PDF. They’ve basically made it a point and click to sign your life away to these gadgets.

[@snowww816]

So all the tweakers who have been tearing all of their electronics apart looking for microphones and cameras were actually not paranoid. I have a toddler and we had alexa speaker in her room. She was waking up crying and she always said she was scared of the speaker cause she said it was saying scary things or making scary sounds. Probably 4 nights that went on. Took it out and never plugged it back in. Got an analog radio and set it to k-love. Now she sleeps and is no longer scared at night.

[@aussiebushman9090]

that’s creepy !

[@Useaname]

Ghosts can manipulate radio and other waves to communicate.

[@stevo271]

Who is dumb enough to buy an Alexa?

[@wrawler]

damnnnn

[@benayers8622]

U not seen ppl talking to kids on hacked speakers? She was probably right! Keep everything digital away from kids imo, wait till your a teen, walk then run, develop normally before letting that stuff take effect

[@mifnp8887]

"Any phone can be hacked within 30 minutes"; except Trump's assassin. There, the FBI claims they cannot access the shooter's phone. Does ANYONE actually believe that? 😊

[@terrylandess6072]

I don't believe they were talking about the shooters phone, but rather a planted phone that needs a 'legitimate' history to be installed before being presented as fact.

[@cav4353]

Don't forget the "January 6 pipe bomber" phone, that whoops! got corrupted and then went missing.

[@rj-wz7do]

Nope

[@billkeithchannel]

HSEEP crisis actors excluded.

[@alexsetterington3142]

What!? Pretty sure he is still alive.

[@David_Bower]

I doubt my cellphone could get hacked, it's an original Nokia 3210.

[@missmiller7829]

I'm still hanging onto my iphone 6+ from 2015.

[@eddyh7747]

This is 15 year old technology... Now imagine what they have now 😂

[@nickcrane2126]

I think what people miss understand about data mining isn’t the idea that “oh you’ll find my secrets” but more of a economic change in priorities for large companies to be investing so heavily in lying to the public. The data itself isn’t important to us but it is to them as producers of manipulation and over time they will get better and they will figure stuff out about us that we don’t even know because we aren’t studying ourselfs like they are starting to do The fear isn’t in the present but in what this means for the future when we as people become products to those with powers we don’t have

[@loganmedia1142]

That's an ongoing problem that predates the current data mining.

[@0dayCTF]

Thank you for sharing my video, although John McAfee is not my favorite person lol 🙏🚀

[@worstyasuo]

The part about corn sites installing rooting software is such bs.

[@VeronicaGorositoMusic]

Hey Ryan, you rock!!

[@kneau]

⁠@@worstyasuo it's not though. The TikTok app has a similar "feature" in their code. It is at the center of why they are being forced to sell

[@tripleb7232]

Use a charging bank if you go off in public and especially on an airplane. Don’t use there USB ports.

[@joetoe9947]

☝️… wth is a charging bank?… does it pay interest or dividends?…🤷

[@Just_Call_Me_Tim]

​@@joetoe9947 It's just a battery that your devices can pull power from to charge back up.

[@zsix6]

wait. airplane USB port hacking our device now?

[@TheDeepThinker-sq3iy]

@joetoe9947 I got thrown off by the word as well. I didn't really know it by name either, but that description given by that *Just_Call_Me_Tim* guy kinda roughly told me what it was. My mom was given one of those from an old friend of her's. I'm gonna give my own description because that other guys description may have still been a bit too vague. It's a portable USB charger! Basically, you can plug this in and charge this at home, it'll HOLD that charge, you can then take it with you. Then, whenever your cell phone is out of charge(or whatever) and you're far from home, you can plug it into that thing and it'll give your device a charge!

[@derkevevin]

I think as a workaround you could figure something out that only transmits power, but no data. There are probably cables that do this, or maybe you could charge your power bank and connect your phone to the power bank. But you gotta look into it if you want to do it properly.

[@ubiquitousreverser]

I believe he’s alive. And is doing some backdoor work for the world. He rocked!

[@WeTHEPreordainedPeople...]

❤❤❤

[@isaacjohnson615]

Alwight. You also believe Abraham Lincoln and Adolf hitler are alive too right?

[@ubiquitousreverser]

@@isaacjohnson615 He had doubles, several. His wife made some comments on his twitter after his death that was strange to be using his account. I’m not saying he didn’t die but for what we’re up against one of his guys could have been willing to bite the bullet so he could advance getting this whole network of scum. But I don’t know. He just seemed way too smart & he was really tight with his people especially his doubles, they had to take death attempts on all the time.

[@Astrothunder_]

@@isaacjohnson615what sorta rhetorical garbage is this? Of course they are alive!

[@Gamblor3809]

RIP John Mcafee

[@DanakarEndeel]

After seeing the thumbnail, I grabbed a random charging cable and sure enough it had that little notch. So I guess I'm now the proud owner of a $20k cable that came with an old Motorola phone. Brb, gonna plug it into the White House and see everything LOL /s

[@lagomorphia9]

McAfee was a wise man.

[@isaacjohnson615]

Yea. He had to speak out because either way everyone including himself is in soup.

[@bumperxx1]

He also dated a very young Asian woman did lots of cocaine or blow lots of drugs the guy wasn't a saint so I wouldn't consider him wise but he definitely knows things a wise man would stay away from all of the crap

[@CharGorilla]

No, he was a crack-head.

[@benayers8622]

@@bumperxx1 so drugs = bad person but if a random dr gives you permission then its medicine? Yet somehow your intelligent enough to judge what 'wise' is🤣🤣joke. Another victim of the systems indoctrination

[@pyro226]

As a software engineer... McAfee has no idea what he is talking about. Ars Technica did an article about this exact clip. He doesnt even get the definition of ISA (instruction set architecture) corect.

[@anneloving8405]

I think the correct term is "had",past tense.

[@pyro226]

@@anneloving8405 Yes, he has died, but often in writing, we use literary present tense.

[@timesquare5473]

@@anneloving8405 The "r" in correct got hacked too.

[@Ricksteady8]

Who is "we"?

[@pyro226]

@@Ricksteady8 I'm guessing you are poking fun at the use of first person. Writers often use literary present tense :)

[@AnonMedic]

On android: in developer options go to "default USB setting/config" and select "no data transfer" Your android no longer can use usb for data transfer.

[@eatplastic9133]

But if you break your screen you'll no longer be able to access anything too...

[@eatplastic9133]

You can use an sd card tho

[@electronicsandewastescrapp7384]

@@eatplastic9133 many androids have no SD card slot these days

[@loganmedia1142]

@@eatplastic9133 I've solved that problem by not breaking the screen on my phones.

[@ThegodofpiesTUEO]

FBI: "We wan't you to make a backdoor into all devices." "OK, however for the first year we will only apply that to every device that the FBI, an FBI employee or anyone that the FBI contracts uses, and we will have to have easy to understand instructions on how to use the backdoor available to the public. Is that acceptable?"

[@godividarr]

Malicious USB cables have been around for 20 years now. At their inception, they would have cost $20k. Now they're under $200 with the bootloader. They're technologically moot as far as surveillance goes.

[@dave3657]

Bring your own charging cable. If charging publicly use your cable and chargers, disconnect from wifi. Use your incognito mode on sketchy sites, it won’t save anything downloaded.

[@tommybotts]

What is 'incognito mode'?

[@raketensven3127]

People still believe this incognito bs? lmao

[@shoelacedonkey]

I honestly wouldn't even know how or where to find a public USB *cable* . I've seen the ports of course but never a cable that I have to plug into my device directly.

[@mason4163]

bro said incognito mode

[@NobodysCats]

Ah, so that's why those conspiracy theorists have been detecting rogue wifi signals all over the place and they thought it was the hoomans when it was actually the tasty cables I like to bite. But what do I know, I'm a cat.

[@BxPanda7]

wasn't it bluetooth networks they we're finding ? Like, you know, people's phones with bluetooth turned on ? 🤣

[@Some_One_One]

Username checks out

[@nullaccount7529]

@@NobodysCats Obviously a Fed

[@peliodas1060]

I think the government stopped watching me a long time ago 💀

[@markpaterson2053]

Anyone remember when you had to find a phonebox to make a call, and when no one could reach you if you wanted to hide, not even your partner? No, me neither; I'm too used to the shit we're now in.

[@julianblake8385]

I do :( We're old, mate

[@mattramirez7912]

Get a flip phone

[@Jessica-J.ones.]

Yes... back when you could go grocery shopping without being interrupted with a call or text. And when you could carry on conversations and mingle with members of the community before everyone became glued to their phones.

[@Olslowhand1]

@@Jessica-J.ones. and without being flagged by facial recognition software , following your eye movements as you shop , without being filmed while you scan your crap imported from who knows where food like stuffs

[@ishabellanamthrak1015]

It was good times...magic was in the air! Born in 1950s😊now it feels like prison. I am moving to Wyoming....

[@stuffhappens5681]

Remember the days when the debate over internet privacy was only about cookies? How quaint.

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

The only thing I use my phone for is making phone calls. I don't use it for anything else. My laptop is what I use everyday. No need to lecture me about a laptop also being vulnerable. I'm well aware of that.

[@terrylandess6072]

Yeah but most PC users were well 'schooled' in the use of 'online protection'. People that raised their noses at the thought of using a computer are all suddenly addicted to the pocket version and have no history of experience becoming easy targets. One must be as clever as possible or join the sheep.

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

I don't even own a phone, I only have a ten-year-old laptop, I use Linux, and my webcam and microphone are covered up. I know I'm still not 100% safe, but it is better than living online 24/7.

[@dukenukem5768]

I have an old dumb ("feature"?) phone that I only turn on to make a call. At home I use Linux and mostly browse in Firefox with Ublockorigin in Private mode. Every couple of days I check for cookies anyway and delete any except for by bank and KZbin (or I couldn't make this comment). I never see an ad on my PC.

[@loganmedia1142]

My mobile devices are actually a more secure way to access banking than any computer and browser.

[@dukenukem5768]

@@loganmedia1142 Keep telling yourself that.

[@moroboshidan7960]

They don't need a keylogger. Your keyboard app is provided by the greatest ad company in the planet.

[@loganmedia1142]

Logitech?

[@GODBLESS43478]

We talking about phones but theres more devices that literally listen and recording us !!! Synthesizers ,music systems ,mics ,watches ,cars etc WE NEED TO THROW THE NEW WORLD IN THE LAVA WHERE IT BELONGS!!!

[@terrylandess6072]

AI doesn't need access to Nukes, just all the devices connected to the internet to cause a catastrophic societal collapse.

[@CharGorilla]

What kind of world are we living in when you can't even trust your Synthesizer,

[@loganmedia1142]

@@CharGorilla 🤣