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In the late 20th Century, Israel invested a lot of money and talent (often ex-Soviet) in startups to create and market telecom software (often with a backdoor for Israeli intelligence).

Carl Cameron did an expose on this issue on Fox News about 20 years ago, but it got spiked pretty fast.

I wrote about Israel’s push to get its hooks into telecom software back in 2013.

 
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  1. You could almost say that our relationship is not all that special.

    • Replies: @Paul Jolliffe
    @James Speaks

    You could “almost”say that.

    But not out loud.

  2. All the smart phones are like a gift from God for any government doing espionage, anywhere. The E. German Stasi employees likely had many wet dreams about devices like these. You don’t even have to hide them under people’s toilets. They voluntarily use them on the toilet.

    The only solution is a wire mesh Faraday cage, a switchable opaque cover for the 2 (? ) camera lenses,, some way to knock out or jam the mike, and/or a GPS jammer too. “I’m a Prepper, he’s a Prepper, wouldn’t you like to be a Prepper too?”

    .

    PS: Even with all that, the gyro and pendulum type sensors can still get rough distances, as we know from the “getting your steps in” apps, though one can always put the piece of iEspionage in the rock tumbler each evening to fool these ones. ;-}

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Achmed E. Newman

    Either that or quit dickin around on your phone day and night.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    , @Bill Jones
    @Achmed E. Newman


    The only solution is a wire mesh Faraday cage, a switchable opaque cover for the 2 (? ) camera lenses,, some way to knock out or jam the mike, and/or a GPS jammer too.
     
    An old microwave works just fine.

    Your new one will too if you are prepared to take the risk, but no-one turns the microwave on without opening the door, do they?

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    , @SunBakedSuburb
    @Achmed E. Newman

    All the smart phones are like a gift from God for any government doing espionage"

    Yep. Data equals intelligence, and the hand computers drive the OPSEC people crazy. Most operatives are issued encrypted devices for short term use but today's spies, having suckled the digital teat since the day they freed themselves from the womb, have short attention spans and will invariably resort to using personal equipment at some point in the operation. What is more troubling is where this invasive technology is taking us: to a posthuman system, the elimination of individual consciousness in favor of the collective. Human-insect hybrids that can be controlled by a signal. It'll be these hybrids that will venture out into the solar system and beyond.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

  3. Carl Cannon did an expose on this issue on Fox News about 20 years ago, but it got spiked pretty fast.

    Carl Cameron from Fox News.

    Israel-based AmDocs provided telecom services to many individuals&organizations in the U.S. The Israel govt utilized AmDocs to spy on Americans who made phone calls.

    • Agree: Jim Christian
    • LOL: JohnnyWalker123
  4. You mean Carl Cameron the former FOX news reporter or Carl Cannon the Chevrolet Buick GMC dealer in Jasper Alabama?

    • LOL: Achmed E. Newman
  5. Is Carl Cameron the reporter who did the story about the “dancing Israelis” with the moving truck on 9/11? The ones who were reportedly observed in New Jersey with a view of the Twin Towers?

  6. Yeah, I’ve been reading warnings about this for a couple decades now, at least. Cameron did good work. Israeli Art Students, etc.

  7. Let me repost an interesting theory that I have.

    If you want to understand how the world really works, watch these scenes from Godfather 2.

    In this first clip, Senator Pat Geary insults Italian-American gangster Michael Corleone, telling him that he loathes Italians and the corruption that they have brought to America.

    In this second clip, Senator Pat Geary is caught with a dead hooker at a Corleone-owned brothel.
    A Corleone mafia family associate then shows up, offering to make this go away.

    Afterward, Senator Geary becomes a huge friend to the Corleone family, helping them out in any way he can. In this third clip, Geary effusively praises Italians (despite holding private animosity towards their ethnicity). He pours cold water onto the Senate’s investigation of the Italian-American mafia families.

    [MORE]

    My theory is this.

    If you substitute in Jews for Italians, the above scenes offer a pretty realistic look at how the American political system works. Shady Jewish hustlers are sexually blackmailing White Gentile elites on an absolutely EPIC scale. Just look at what a staggering fraction of American elites (as well as elites in the UK and various other foreign countries) were sexually blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein.

    The reality is that there are a lot of shady Jewish businessmen, like Epstein. These guys have access to prostitutes, cash, and drugs. So they run huge blackmail operations that target prominent politicians, media personalities, judges, corporate leaders, bureaucrats, entertainers, military/intel officers, and other men of power&influence.

    They seduce prominent men into incriminating themselves in some way (sexually, financially, etc), then hold the evidence as a form of blackmail over their target.

    So there are a lot of Jewish Corleones.

    What do the Jewish Corleones want?

    Mostly, they want various personal favors. In addition to that, they want support for Israel. They also want support for the pro-diversity/globalist project.

    If the Clintons are fanatically supportive of anti-White policies, it’s not because they “hate” Whites. It’s not because they feel “guilty.” It’s not because they’re “empathetic.” It’s because Bill Clinton likely was banging hookers on Epstein’s property, which provided blackmail leverage to the Jews.

    This explains why American politicians support anti-Whiteism in America, but feel comfortable with high-casualty Neocon foreign wars and Jewish racial supremacy in Israel.

    This explains why American politicians cry over a few hundred Southern Blacks who were lynched a century ago, but are indifferent to the lives of over 1 million Iraqis who were slaughtered by the recent Neocon-instigated American invasion (and also indifferent to the Palestinians).

    U.S. leaders are nothing more than puppets of Jewish pimps. So they see nothing contradictory between condemning White supremacy in America and also supporting U.S. genocide in Iraq. They just do as told. There is absolutely ZERO ideological or moral framework to structure their actions.

    By the way, Epstein already had a few mansions (NYC, South Florida, New Mexico) to use as brothels. Ever wonder why Epstein needed a private island that was so far away from home? It was because when they needed to arrange a dead hooker situation, they needed a place where they could dispose of bodies without anyone seeing anything. They needed a place that was unpopulated and remote.

    TLDR Summary:

    Jewish Corleones are running Epstein-style sexual blackmail operations that target prominent Americans. This is why America’s leaders betray their people, while also being fanatically pro-Israel.

    It’s all about the sexual blackmail.

    So when you ask why Israel is spying on all these powerful elites in America, it’s because they want to blackmail them. Find something illegal and/or embarrassing. Especially if it pertains to kinky sex.

    Some politicians will bang your prostitutes and get blackmailed directly. Other politicians will keep their extracirricular activities private, but you can spy on their communication and blackmail them too.

    • Agree: Malla
    • Replies: @anon
    @JohnnyWalker123

    Congrats. You have also figured it all out. As soon as Acosta said Epstein belonged to intelligence, I put it together myself. Bribes are what the public is supposed to notice, but the iron fist behind the velvet glove is blackmail.

    , @Old Prude
    @JohnnyWalker123

    I don't understand how sexual activity can be effectively used as black-mail when society celebrates, proudly, extreme sexual deviancy and perversion.

    Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @JMcG

    , @CMC
    @JohnnyWalker123


    “when they needed to arrange a dead hooker situation”

     

    Kind of an aside, but I had to watch that movie like 20 times and read the book before it dawned on me what I think is the full evil of that scene in the brothel.

    For a long time, I just thought it was all sort of a coincidence. Like, ‘what a hypocrite he is, he lost control of himself, lost himself.’ A coincidence that the criminal organization took advantage of.

    But now I’m convinced the scene depicted a totally pre-arranged operation, including the murder of the girl, after she and the senator had passed out.

    Among other salient facts:

    Geary says he can’t remember; passed out. Says she was laughing; they’d done it —the act and play-acting before. He’s in an excited, traumatized state. I would believe him. I submit that their drinks were probably spiked with some heavy duty stuff.

    Al Neri is there. This is fleshed out more in the book. Neri is Michael’s Luca Brasi. And Brasi is.. well, the book fleshes out Brasi too. These guys are killers. Guys who are ready willing and able to do some seriously dark things for their boss. Without question. Without remorse. Terminators.

    And not only does Neri appear —watch for him to show up at 2:17 in that second clip, but he shows up from, I submit, some sort of bathroom. And he’s either rubbing washing his finger tips or nails, or some sort of small tool(s) equipment. Cleaning the blood from his hands? From under his fingernails?

    All the other girls are blasé. Only one even attempts to look in. None of them say anything. Now that last could be because the filmmakers were trying to avoid giving those actresses any speaking lines which would require higher salaries per the actors guild rules or whatever. And of course it’s possible the girls are moved around as a standard practice in that industry partly to prevent them from forming attachments. But still. Your co-worker gets slaughtered and no one’s losing it? Even a mere recent acquaintance? The whole place is that much under control? That was kind of the lead in for me, after all those viewings. Like maybe _everyone_ there was there as part of an op —not necessarily knowingly, but arranged and playing a part in the con. Like, ‘...another thing, we can’t have any other girls there who know her or are friends with her...’

    Another angle I thought about is whether she’s even really dead. She’s not in rigor, but I’m assuming Geary has enough down home worldly experience and has it together enough to tell whether she’s cold and not breathing. But then again he is in a state of distress.

    Wouldn’t that have been something? To fake it. Put on a show. Con him into becoming a tool.

    Replies: @WaffleStaffel

    , @WaffleStaffel
    @JohnnyWalker123

    The underage version of this blackmail is colloquially referred to as a "Brownstone operation," named after the Brownstone apartment of rep Barney Frank which was used for a number of these ensnarements, whether voluntary on the part of the target, or accomplished by drugging. (The movie strongly suggests Pat Geary had been drugged, and the victim murdered by someone else)

    I'll attest to the fact that the first two scenes are edited out of television broadcasts of the Godfather II. They don't want people to even think about the possibility anymore.

  8. Anonymous[658] • Disclaimer says:
    @Achmed E. Newman
    All the smart phones are like a gift from God for any government doing espionage, anywhere. The E. German Stasi employees likely had many wet dreams about devices like these. You don't even have to hide them under people's toilets. They voluntarily use them on the toilet.

    The only solution is a wire mesh Faraday cage, a switchable opaque cover for the 2 (? ) camera lenses,, some way to knock out or jam the mike, and/or a GPS jammer too. "I'm a Prepper, he's a Prepper, wouldn't you like to be a Prepper too?"

    .

    PS: Even with all that, the gyro and pendulum type sensors can still get rough distances, as we know from the "getting your steps in" apps, though one can always put the piece of iEspionage in the rock tumbler each evening to fool these ones. ;-}

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Bill Jones, @SunBakedSuburb

    Either that or quit dickin around on your phone day and night.

    • Agree: sayless
    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Anonymous

    There are plenty of other problems I've got with people dickin' around on their phones, #658, but that doesn't much stop the iEspionage though. You want to at least carry it with you, as, after all, it is still a telephone. The fact that you don't hear that cool SLR shutter click sound or aren't making an effort to record anything doesn't mean the camera isn't taking pictures or video and recording every sound. Then, even in your pocket, the GPS is tracking you to a few feet everywhere.

    There are some open-source phones for which you could perhaps trust some computer guys to tell you that there's no back door in software at least, that lets the NSA or the CCP upload your life at will.

    Replies: @epebble, @anon, @The Alarmist

  9. because disappearing magic.

    • Replies: @Right_On
    @anon videla

    Fido is right.

    One thing that annoyed me about the film is that the crew member depicted as a die-hard Hitler loyalist is regarded by the rest of the war-weary, disillusioned sailors as a credulous sap.

    In truth, the U-Boat arm was infamously the most fanatically Nazi of all wings of the German armed forces - following the lead of its Commander-in-Chief, Karl Dönitz. (If you wanted to look down your nose at vulgar national socialists, you would have felt at home on the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet.)

    Replies: @anon

  10. Carl Cameron did a report about the dancing Israelis after 9 11. The report was later erased from the Fox news site.

    • Replies: @Ragno
    @WJ

    Ah yes. The first appearance of that deathless credo for our time:


    THIS STORY NO LONGER EXISTS.
     
    20-odd (very odd) years ago, a younger, more idealistic me contacted around a dozen "news" organizations demanding, if they weren't going to investigate it, that they at least acknowledge this.

    Most never responded; two or three let their software do the talking with the blandest-possible pro forma responses. One or two - among the most arch-conservative, oddly enough - questioned my patriotism in this dark hour and told me, in principal's office terms, to shut the hell up.

    Poor Carl Cameron.....it took him 20 years to figure out which side of the bread is buttered best; he's now an "independent" journalist who goes on CNN to badmouth Fox News for daring to suggest that there are perfectly logical reasons to resist taking The Jab. He now watches Tucker Carlson and wonders angrily why his "anti-vax" coverage NO LONGER EXISTS as well. (That the rest of us have been seeking in vain for any major-media voice to openly cast suspicion on the vaccines seems not to have occurred to him. Then again, ex-NewsCorp personnel need to walk a tricky line if they intend to Be Liked and Respected by the rest of the 'opinion journalists' out there.)

  11. “business executives”

    Blackmail. Period. Have assets Israel wants you to sell to a Mossad or CIA linked company? Cheat on your wife? Got you.

    Sell cheap or lose your kids. Television stations, newspapers, and websites are businesses. Gonna control that media in targeted countries, its the tradition doncha know?

  12. The Israeli’s are just trying to keep us safe from Nazis. They’re everywhere, you see.

    • Agree: Hangnail Hans
    • LOL: Escher, Lurker
    • Replies: @Alt Right Moderate
    @Mike Tre

    Surprise, surprise Israeli's don't like Nazis, but they got on fine with Apartheid era South African white people. Much more than white gentile liberals from Jew-lite Sweden and New Zealand, who wanted conservative white South Africans to be murdered by black mobs.

    The world is a complex place.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    , @mc23
    @Mike Tre

    The Israeli government is pretty selective about which genocides to recognize.

    Replies: @ginger bread man

    , @anon
    @Mike Tre

    The Israeli’s are just trying to keep us safe from Nazis.

    Obviously!

    The government of Israel consists of the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human beings I've ever known in my life.

  13. why are ANY comments other than mine approved?

    i don’t get it.

    unless steve is mossad.

    SERIOUSLY!

    • Replies: @ginger bread man
    @pro-racism baby

    Steve working for the Mossad is just about as absurd as Epstein working for the Mossad.

    Replies: @Not Raul, @beavertales

  14. Anonymous[397] • Disclaimer says:

    Unit 8200 is mentioned at the outset of the Apple TV series “Tehran.”

    The show’s clearly aimed to propagandize U.S. audiences (most of the dialogue is in English) but just like “Breaking Bad” you can tell the writers were more interested in the black-hats, judging from the disproportionate attention to depressed/sullen Iranian characters who all seem to hate their lives and yearn to beat up someone, anyone just to pass the time.

  15. Anonymous[264] • Disclaimer says:

    . .. though one can always put the piece of iEspionage in the rock tumbler each evening to fool these ones. ;-}

    What does “rock tumbler” mean?

    • Replies: @kaganovitch
    @Anonymous

    hine for polishing Rocks, metal parts etc. It works by tumbling round and round in an abrasive medium.

    www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Hobby-Rock-Tumbler

    Achmed was suggesting it would drive gyro program nuts.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Achmed E. Newman, @sayless

  16. @Anonymous
    . .. though one can always put the piece of iEspionage in the rock tumbler each evening to fool these ones. ;-}

    What does “rock tumbler” mean?

    Replies: @kaganovitch

    hine for polishing Rocks, metal parts etc. It works by tumbling round and round in an abrasive medium.

    http://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Hobby-Rock-Tumbler

    Achmed was suggesting it would drive gyro program nuts.

    • Thanks: Achmed E. Newman
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @kaganovitch

    Thanks!

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @kaganovitch

    Yeah, thanks. I guess you'd want to leave out the water and grit.

    , @sayless
    @kaganovitch

    Or you could put the smartphone in the dryer, bundled in a towel, on air. Heh-heh.

  17. Name a single act that would not be justified if it had the prospect of reducing the risk of another Holocaust.

    You can’t. The Holocaust was that bad.

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon


    The Holocaust was that bad.
     
    It certainly was.



    https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/hiroshima.jpeg?w=1540&quality=70


    https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2016/08/nagasaki-hibakusha-senji-yamaguchi-816x620.jpg

    Replies: @Hank Williams, Sr., @Rob McX, @Joe Stalin

    , @anon
    @Anon

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Including genocide?


    Troll or hasbara? Hmm...hasbara troll? Hmm....

    Replies: @Anon

    , @Hangnail Hans
    @Anon

    Jack, why so anonymous tonight?

    , @James Speaks
    @Anon


    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.
     
    Narcissistic viewpoint. The Holocaust does not justify the Nakba.

    Replies: @Anon

    , @Hapalong Cassidy
    @Anon

    Early in the morning - I guess my sarcasm detector is broken? Anyway, to answer the question - how about WW3 and the death of billions? The actions of Jewish influencers is the number one thing that could lead to that.

    , @mc23
    @Anon

    Try recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

    , @J.Ross
    @Anon

    What if the Jews prevented a holocaust by doing something which permanently ruined their reputation among gentiles?

    Replies: @Corvinus

  18. Anonymous[264] • Disclaimer says:
    @kaganovitch
    @Anonymous

    hine for polishing Rocks, metal parts etc. It works by tumbling round and round in an abrasive medium.

    www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Hobby-Rock-Tumbler

    Achmed was suggesting it would drive gyro program nuts.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Achmed E. Newman, @sayless

    Thanks!

  19. @Anonymous
    @Achmed E. Newman

    Either that or quit dickin around on your phone day and night.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    There are plenty of other problems I’ve got with people dickin’ around on their phones, #658, but that doesn’t much stop the iEspionage though. You want to at least carry it with you, as, after all, it is still a telephone. The fact that you don’t hear that cool SLR shutter click sound or aren’t making an effort to record anything doesn’t mean the camera isn’t taking pictures or video and recording every sound. Then, even in your pocket, the GPS is tracking you to a few feet everywhere.

    There are some open-source phones for which you could perhaps trust some computer guys to tell you that there’s no back door in software at least, that lets the NSA or the CCP upload your life at will.

    • Replies: @epebble
    @Achmed E. Newman

    Anyone working with classified/sensitive info that uses a "smartphone" has more problems than using smartphones.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

    , @anon
    @Achmed E. Newman

    At the national labs and other secure locations, everyone is required to store cell phones at a checkpoint. The phone storage looks like a post office box. Put phone in, lock, take key. Yes, there is someone watching, and there are cameras as well.

    It is easy to do that in a home. Turn off phone, put in drawer or closet. If you really care, put it in a metal box. Voila, it is off. People I have met who spent time in Saudi said it was standard to turn off the phone and lock it up in a secure place before going to Sunday church. Just because.

    When I was still on a 3-G network, I routinely turned off my little handset except when I wanted to make a call. This bothered some people, but that handset was for my use and my convenience, not theirs. One can still do that with a smartphone, but...if the battery is inside, something can still possibly be "on". So remove the battery. On some phones is is easy, and certainly shuts off all radios. But...many people prefer that fancy phone with the battery that cannot be removed, huh.

    Of course one can buy a cheap phone at any big box store, buy minutes somewhere else, and use it as needed. A new sim costs almost nothing.

    Finally, you've been shown this before, too. Currently on back order. The ones made in USA cost more.

    https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

    PS...all of this is off the topic. The article iSteve is pointing to is a multinational spy scandal. None of us are necessarily the target.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Mr Mox, @Jack D, @Achmed E. Newman

    , @The Alarmist
    @Achmed E. Newman

    They don’t need GPS to track you; they just triangulate your phone’s pings to the various local towers as you pass them. If you can’t pull the battery, you may as well assume you are always on. I’ve modded my phone to put a physical switch on the power line, though a good a Faraday bag will also do.

  20. @kaganovitch
    @Anonymous

    hine for polishing Rocks, metal parts etc. It works by tumbling round and round in an abrasive medium.

    www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Hobby-Rock-Tumbler

    Achmed was suggesting it would drive gyro program nuts.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Achmed E. Newman, @sayless

    Yeah, thanks. I guess you’d want to leave out the water and grit.

  21. Did they spy on John McCain? Or Lindsey Graham? If they did, it could explain a lot.

    • Replies: @anon
    @Rob McX

    Yes, of course. The intels want kompromat on everybody. Keeps them in line. They get em' on the way up now, pre-national office. All your texts, every web site, comment, movie clip, likes, up votes, and rants. Supposedly they have a program that listens to you talk, digitizes the words into searchable text. Want a private meeting? Put your phone in your desk. Epstein wasn't the only intel-paid operator. There are others trained and paid to compromise pols, moguls, corporate-kings, anybody they need.

    Its pitiful.

  22. @Achmed E. Newman
    @Anonymous

    There are plenty of other problems I've got with people dickin' around on their phones, #658, but that doesn't much stop the iEspionage though. You want to at least carry it with you, as, after all, it is still a telephone. The fact that you don't hear that cool SLR shutter click sound or aren't making an effort to record anything doesn't mean the camera isn't taking pictures or video and recording every sound. Then, even in your pocket, the GPS is tracking you to a few feet everywhere.

    There are some open-source phones for which you could perhaps trust some computer guys to tell you that there's no back door in software at least, that lets the NSA or the CCP upload your life at will.

    Replies: @epebble, @anon, @The Alarmist

    Anyone working with classified/sensitive info that uses a “smartphone” has more problems than using smartphones.

    • Agree: Dissident
    • Replies: @Jim Don Bob
    @epebble

    The DoD places I worked would not allow you to bring your cell phone into the SCIF. All the computers had their USB ports disabled which is why the traitor Bradley Manning burned CDs and then carried them out.

    Replies: @epebble

  23. Yes, in 2018-19 the FT did a series on various Israeli hacking firms renting themselves out to all sorts of nasty characters in Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, etc. It also gives Israel global intel on targets not necessarily of interest to their clients but of interest to themselves. Its probably of some use, not sure how useful it really is.

    As far as blackmail goes, that works until it does not. Let me elaborate. There just isn’t the possibility of mass, global blackmail as the approach would have to be tailored individually and some would have no shame, others would head for the nearest synagoge with evil intentions, others would sue. In individual cases, yes it can work, but life is chaotic enough that the compromised person can die, of various causes, sometimes just freak accidents or illness or what have you, and the blackmailer is back to square one. Other times a whole power structure and regime can be replaced which seems to be in the works in South Africa. Maybe France.
    ——-
    Somewhat related, the LAPD went to town on Anti-Fa today, and that was a huge mistake. Today probably marks the disbanding of the LAPD. First, the Regency needs constant agitation and a new cause. People are bored (and also angry/scared) of blacks, so Trannies it is! Nothing says “bigot” like a man naked in the ladies locker room demanding in a deep voice to stop being a bigot! The Regency from top to bottom is invested in this. Anti-Fa does not show up anywhere its not ordered to show up. So the LAPD should have just arrested ordinary people and roughed them up, as ordered to by the Mayor. Garcetti may on his way out to India as Ambassador there, but he’s not going to take that disobedience of cops doing their real jobs lightly. He, or likely his successor, is going to use this to disband the LAPD. Police are just not allowed to mess with Anti-Fa. Anti-Fa are the Regency’s “action corps” and directly protected by them. Expect Gascon to use this to charge pretty much every officer (and convict them) on the scene, and abolish the force via legal decree.

    Now what will take the place of the LAPD? Why, a Federal ACTION FORCE. Comprised of, yes you guessed it, Anti-Fa.

    Pretty soon every ladies locker room will be filled with naked men calling the ladies bigots and transphobic. Its the law.

    • Thanks: Boomthorkell
    • Replies: @gcochran
    @Whiskey

    One less thing to worry about.

    , @LP5
    @Whiskey

    Garcetti is being groomed for one of the top slots in the corporation, in a current rewrite of the Colonel Kurtz role in Apocalypse Now. He can parachute into some role State-side after the international stint polishes another skill.

    As a side benefit, Garcetti will be out of sight and out of mind when those Angelenos go looking for politicians to blame for their mounting ills. Don't expect the LA Times to write about any negative connections to him.

  24. [MORE]

    The Lavender Mafia are the real racists.

    • Replies: @Pericles
    @Desiderius

    The source of the quote, Benedict XVI, is still alive even.

    Replies: @Desiderius

  25. anon[980] • Disclaimer says:
    @Rob McX
    Did they spy on John McCain? Or Lindsey Graham? If they did, it could explain a lot.

    Replies: @anon

    Yes, of course. The intels want kompromat on everybody. Keeps them in line. They get em’ on the way up now, pre-national office. All your texts, every web site, comment, movie clip, likes, up votes, and rants. Supposedly they have a program that listens to you talk, digitizes the words into searchable text. Want a private meeting? Put your phone in your desk. Epstein wasn’t the only intel-paid operator. There are others trained and paid to compromise pols, moguls, corporate-kings, anybody they need.

    Its pitiful.

  26. @Anon
    Name a single act that would not be justified if it had the prospect of reducing the risk of another Holocaust.

    You can’t. The Holocaust was that bad.

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anon, @Hangnail Hans, @James Speaks, @Hapalong Cassidy, @mc23, @J.Ross

    The Holocaust was that bad.

    It certainly was.

    • Replies: @Hank Williams, Sr.
    @Reg Cæsar

    They deserved that for the way they treated our POWs. You anti-American ADHD-addled little shit.

    Replies: @Voltarde, @Reg Cæsar, @sayless

    , @Rob McX
    @Reg Cæsar

    Etymologically, Dresden was the true holocaust..

    , @Joe Stalin
    @Reg Cæsar

    Ever talk to a Chinese person who lived in China during the late 1930s? To a man/woman, WILL tell you the USA didn't drop enough nukes.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar

  27. @pro-racism baby
    why are ANY comments other than mine approved?

    i don't get it.

    unless steve is mossad.

    SERIOUSLY!

    Replies: @ginger bread man

    Steve working for the Mossad is just about as absurd as Epstein working for the Mossad.

    • Disagree: Not Raul
    • LOL: Hangnail Hans
    • Replies: @Not Raul
    @ginger bread man

    Absurd: Steve working for the Mossad

    Sounds absurd: ginger bread man working for the Mossad

    Not absurd at all: Epstein working for the Mossad.

    , @beavertales
    @ginger bread man

    As reported by CBS, Maria Farmer claims to have seen men sitting in front of monitors in a secluded room in Epstein's mansion. The monitors were connected to pinhole cameras in target rooms.

    The FBI and spooks cleaned out the mansion, and it's been sold. The evidence is gone. The island has also been visited by the cleanup squad.

    When Ehud Barak was visiting, did he know about the room? Will this come up at Maxwell's trial?

  28. I would not be surprised, in fact I would wager my real money That someone from Israel’s unit 8200 or a company associated with them is reading this article, and doing checks on every single person who is commenting, including myself.

    I don’t know anyone personally from unit 8200, but my friends in the Israeli military told me that at least in IsraeL and the territories, they have a plethora of highly personalized information on just about anyone with a digital footprint. They use this information to counter terrorism, but also as a way to intimidate the Palestinians and anti-government activists in Israel.

    Since the 1980s, the ADL has used Israeli security services to spy on US elected officials, pro-Arab activists, and anti Apartheid activists back when that was relevant.

    • Agree: Not Raul
    • Replies: @Jack D
    @ginger bread man

    In Gaza, when the Israelis want to destroy your house or your building, they will first phone you up on your cell phone and an Arabic speaker will tell you that you have 10 minutes to evacuate. Implicit in this is that they have the cell phone # of just about everyone in Gaza.

  29. @Anon
    Name a single act that would not be justified if it had the prospect of reducing the risk of another Holocaust.

    You can’t. The Holocaust was that bad.

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anon, @Hangnail Hans, @James Speaks, @Hapalong Cassidy, @mc23, @J.Ross

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Including genocide?

    Troll or hasbara? Hmm…hasbara troll? Hmm….

    • Replies: @Anon
    @anon


    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Including genocide?
     

     
    Do you not understand the right of self defense? It would be genocide in self defense.

    Replies: @anon, @res

  30. @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon


    The Holocaust was that bad.
     
    It certainly was.



    https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/hiroshima.jpeg?w=1540&quality=70


    https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2016/08/nagasaki-hibakusha-senji-yamaguchi-816x620.jpg

    Replies: @Hank Williams, Sr., @Rob McX, @Joe Stalin

    They deserved that for the way they treated our POWs. You anti-American ADHD-addled little shit.

    • Disagree: Voltarde
    • Troll: Gordo
    • Replies: @Voltarde
    @Hank Williams, Sr.


    They deserved that for the way they treated our POWs.
     
    Read the history of this great nation. Our nation's founders abhorred the idea of America becoming involved in foreign armed conflicts.

    War is an abomination, and the mistreatment of POWs is sadly a part of it, in every war.

    Here's a picture of a survivor from Andersonville:

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Andersonvillesurvivor.jpg/351px-Andersonvillesurvivor.jpg

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_prison_camps

    Finally, personal insults are invariably the refuge of someone who cannot muster a reasoned, compelling argument.
    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Hank Williams, Sr.


    They deserved that for the way they treated our POWs.
     
    What did their women and children do to our POWs? Or their bishops? That was a cathedral in the picture.

    It likely had a small library with copies of Augustine and Aquinas. Which, yes, they should have read, too.

    Our cultural rot didn't begin in 1963.

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    , @sayless
    @Hank Williams, Sr.

    The Japanese were horrible to their prisoners of war.

    Eisenhower wasn't better.

    Ground Zero was a kindergarten.

    Take your hat off and put it on the other way.

    And leave Hank Williams, Sr. alone.

  31. anon[326] • Disclaimer says:
    @Achmed E. Newman
    @Anonymous

    There are plenty of other problems I've got with people dickin' around on their phones, #658, but that doesn't much stop the iEspionage though. You want to at least carry it with you, as, after all, it is still a telephone. The fact that you don't hear that cool SLR shutter click sound or aren't making an effort to record anything doesn't mean the camera isn't taking pictures or video and recording every sound. Then, even in your pocket, the GPS is tracking you to a few feet everywhere.

    There are some open-source phones for which you could perhaps trust some computer guys to tell you that there's no back door in software at least, that lets the NSA or the CCP upload your life at will.

    Replies: @epebble, @anon, @The Alarmist

    At the national labs and other secure locations, everyone is required to store cell phones at a checkpoint. The phone storage looks like a post office box. Put phone in, lock, take key. Yes, there is someone watching, and there are cameras as well.

    It is easy to do that in a home. Turn off phone, put in drawer or closet. If you really care, put it in a metal box. Voila, it is off. People I have met who spent time in Saudi said it was standard to turn off the phone and lock it up in a secure place before going to Sunday church. Just because.

    When I was still on a 3-G network, I routinely turned off my little handset except when I wanted to make a call. This bothered some people, but that handset was for my use and my convenience, not theirs. One can still do that with a smartphone, but…if the battery is inside, something can still possibly be “on”. So remove the battery. On some phones is is easy, and certainly shuts off all radios. But…many people prefer that fancy phone with the battery that cannot be removed, huh.

    Of course one can buy a cheap phone at any big box store, buy minutes somewhere else, and use it as needed. A new sim costs almost nothing.

    Finally, you’ve been shown this before, too. Currently on back order. The ones made in USA cost more.

    https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

    PS…all of this is off the topic. The article iSteve is pointing to is a multinational spy scandal. None of us are necessarily the target.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @anon


    everyone is required to store cell phones at a checkpoint
     
    The algorithms keep careful track of NULL periods - exactly where, when and for how long you turned off your phone, how this correlates to calls shortly before and after, etc.

    Replies: @anon

    , @Mr Mox
    @anon

    Turn off phone, put in drawer or closet. If you really care, put it in a metal box. Voila, it is off.

    Rules for paranoids #6:

    "A phone being turned on and off regularly will flag you as a "person of interest" with something to hide."

    Head, we win. Tail, you lose...

    Replies: @Bill Jones

    , @Jack D
    @anon

    There are fewer and fewer phones with removable batteries. The last "flagship" phone with a removable battery was the LG G5 of 2016, never popular to begin with. LG has since quit the phone business.

    It's true that your phone can't be spying on you when it is off, but a phone is only useful when it is turned on. If you keep it off all the time, might as well not have one.

    If I was concerned about spyware on my phone, I'd be a lot more worried about the Chinese than about the Israelis. Even phones made in other countries likely have Chinese chips in them and you never know whether the PLA has implanted a back door in one of them. As hard as it is to find spyware hidden in software, it's even harder to find it in hardware.

    Replies: @anon, @ATBOTL

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @anon

    Firstly, this is off topic of the specific Israeli case, but not off the general topic. Secondly, what do you mean "I've been show this before"? I have checked out open-source phones before, but it was the Pine phones, not this Librem phone (the vid on the page didn't start up for me).

    I wasn't writing about working at a National Lab. I'm talking about everyday life. I had a cheapo phone (see, I don't care for the touch screens that awful much to begin with) for a while, but it was no longer supported.

    I have no reason to be a target. Even so, data is very cheap to store now. Lots and lots of my information can be stored in case someone WANTS to make me a target. I have a feeling that's what happens to a lot of formerly decent politiians.

    PS: Most people want to be able to receive calls. How many people do you know with (real) land-lines anymore?

    Replies: @anon

  32. Israelis are all over cybersecurity, and its inverse, but they are also a lot of hype and less follow through. I am ok with blackmail; say what thou will.

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @Triteleia Laxa

    'Israelis are all over cybersecurity, and its inverse, but they are also a lot of hype and less follow through. I am ok with blackmail; say what thou will.'

    Bu then, you would minimize the seriousness of any offense committed by Israel.

    Replies: @Triteleia Laxa

  33. I have to hand it to the Israelis – their foreign intel unit actually snoops on foreigners. Meanwhile, the laser-like focus of US foreign intelligence agencies seems to be on Americans on the right side of the political isle. Pakistan tests a nuke? No forewarning. India tests a nuke? No forewarning. The Russians don’t try to recruit Trump, and Trump doesn’t offer to work for the Russians, but US foreign intel agencies fabricate a skein of self-referential allegations based on nothing, and the Democrats impeach him anyway. The next time the GOP wins the White House and Congressional majorities, it should transfer the top leaders of the intel agencies to Alaska with an important assignment – to examine bear scat in granular detail so as to divine the intentions of the foreign countries they are tasked with monitoring. Couldn’t possibly be less effective than what they’re doing now.

    • Agree: International Jew
    • Replies: @slumber_j
    @Johann Ricke

    Right. I like this from the WaPo tweets:


    a list of more than 50,000 numbers that are concentrated in countries known to engage in surveillance of their citizens
     
    lol
    , @donut
    @Johann Ricke

    The bright side to the intelligence agencies incompetence is that the people they are targeting like unz.com commenters and followers of other oppositional sites are harmless , hot air and keyboard warriors are not going to overthrow anybody . If there is anybody seriously threatening to this tyranny these bunglers don't know about them .
    What we have going on here is similar to what the Bolsheviks were doing in the 30's in the Soviet Union with the show trials which were then used as an excuse for mass arrests , murders and deportations . Make no mistake that is what Communism leads to in every state where it prevails .
    What I find is that people who openly advocate Communism are quite open about it and accepted in society . Imagine someone in public life declaring them selves to be a National Socialist .

  34. @Triteleia Laxa
    Israelis are all over cybersecurity, and its inverse, but they are also a lot of hype and less follow through. I am ok with blackmail; say what thou will.

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    ‘Israelis are all over cybersecurity, and its inverse, but they are also a lot of hype and less follow through. I am ok with blackmail; say what thou will.’

    Bu then, you would minimize the seriousness of any offense committed by Israel.

    • Replies: @Triteleia Laxa
    @Colin Wright

    I'm minimising their competence. Cybersecurity is an industry full of spivs and Israel is a country famous for them. Give me a break from Israeli startup PR claims.

  35. In the late 20th Century, Israel invested a lot of money and talent (often ex-Soviet) in startups to create and market telecom software (often with a backdoor for Israeli intelligence).

    Carl Cameron did an expose on this issue on Fox News about 20 years ago, but it got spiked pretty fast.

    Our “Greatest Ally”. At least, that’s what Sean Hannity tells me.

    • Replies: @Harry Baldwin
    @Mr. Anon

    Our “Greatest Ally”. At least, that’s what Sean Hannity tells me.

    We're their greatest ally. The reverse? Not so much.

    Sean Hannity also tells us that 99.9% of people who work at the FBI are fine patriotic Americans. Just a few bad apples at the top, who apparently do all the work. Sean also told us back in 2016 that he knew from connections he had inside the FBI that if Hillary weren't indicted on the email scandal, thousands would resign in protest.

    Replies: @Rob McX

  36. @ginger bread man
    @pro-racism baby

    Steve working for the Mossad is just about as absurd as Epstein working for the Mossad.

    Replies: @Not Raul, @beavertales

    Absurd: Steve working for the Mossad

    Sounds absurd: ginger bread man working for the Mossad

    Not absurd at all: Epstein working for the Mossad.

    • Agree: Gordo
  37. @Anon
    Name a single act that would not be justified if it had the prospect of reducing the risk of another Holocaust.

    You can’t. The Holocaust was that bad.

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anon, @Hangnail Hans, @James Speaks, @Hapalong Cassidy, @mc23, @J.Ross

    Jack, why so anonymous tonight?

  38. @Mike Tre
    The Israeli's are just trying to keep us safe from Nazis. They're everywhere, you see.

    Replies: @Alt Right Moderate, @mc23, @anon

    Surprise, surprise Israeli’s don’t like Nazis, but they got on fine with Apartheid era South African white people. Much more than white gentile liberals from Jew-lite Sweden and New Zealand, who wanted conservative white South Africans to be murdered by black mobs.

    The world is a complex place.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Alt Right Moderate

    Vela incident
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The Vela incident, also known as the South Atlantic Flash, was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979 near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident

    The cause of the flash remains officially unknown, and some information about the event remains classified by the U.S. government.[1] While it has been suggested that the signal could have been caused by a meteoroid hitting the satellite, the previous 41 double flashes detected by the Vela satellites were caused by nuclear weapons tests.[2][3][4] Today, most independent researchers believe that the 1979 flash was caused by a nuclear explosion[1][5][6][7] – perhaps an undeclared nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel.[8]

    Replies: @ginger bread man

  39. Anon[153] • Disclaimer says:

    OT

    A little boy with his mother just walked past my office window carrying two stuffed dinosaurs. What would Steve do, I asked? Notice it and ask why. So I Googled, “Why do little boys like dinosaurs?

    The first result was from a New York MagazIne blog about “Kids’ Love of Dinosaurs.” The initial anecdote was about a little girl who insisted on being a particular type of dinosaur for Halloween, and especially wanted the costume to have feathers, which the dinosaur is now known to have had.

    Kids? Girls? Feathers? I’m getting to the age where sometimes my thoughts are scrambled, and it’s terrifying. I could have sworn dinosaurs were mainly a boy thing. Is Alzheimer’s just around the corner for me?

    I skimmed the rest of the article. A boy is mentioned, but mostly girls and women paleontologists appear. But it’s not a “girls and dinosaurs” article. It appears to be a giant gaslight where you’re supposed to read it and think, girls like dinosaurs just as much as boys, no, more than boys. There’s a ton of other articles along these lines out there.

    Somehow dinosaurs have been completely colonized by females. But the articles don’t push the idea that there has been some sort of structural mysogeny keeping girls from dinosaurs, but finally the tables are turning; rather, everything is just a big pretend party where it’s never mentioned that there was, and I’m sure still is, a giant disparity in dinosaur interest in favor of boys.

    One hint is various research that suggests that kids (i.e., boys) with intense interest in dinosaurs, astronomy, or the like (I’d add trains, insects, and giant construction site vehicles, in Japan at least), end up smarter. I think there is a causation directional error that may cause blank slate adults to think that if dinosaurs and the rest can be forced on young girls, they will do better in STEM in college, or something like that, like the way that “grrlz coding” is pushed so hard.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    I went to grade school with a guy who is now a popular professor of dinosaurs at Cal State San Bernardino now, Stuart Sumida.

    https://www.csusb.edu/inside/article/447936/stuart-sumida-biology-professor-defining-future

    Replies: @Corvinus

    , @Anonymous
    @Anon

    A lot of girls genuinely like birds, so now we know dinosaurs were big fluffy feathery things it makes sense they would like those too.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anon, @Anonymous

    , @Mr Mox
    @Anon

    I could have sworn dinosaurs were mainly a boy thing. Is Alzheimer’s just around the corner for me?

    You're not alone, I could have sworn dinosaurs were a fad that passed years ago. A birthday party the other day showed me how wrong I was. (and, yes. It is a Girl Thing now)

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    , @Hangnail Hans
    @Anon

    Brett Sinclair, writing from Ireland.


    https://i.ibb.co/GFXBYvd/Capture-2021-07-19-07-29-28-2.png

    PS: Use Google, get Google results.

  40. All of a sudden, Steve takes the Washington Post’s word on something.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @International Jew


    All of a sudden, Steve takes the Washington Post’s word on something.
     
    Red meat to the base that was alienated by the recent pro-COVID vax post? An eye toward the upcoming fund drive? Too cynical?
  41. Anonymous[249] • Disclaimer says:
    @anon
    @Achmed E. Newman

    At the national labs and other secure locations, everyone is required to store cell phones at a checkpoint. The phone storage looks like a post office box. Put phone in, lock, take key. Yes, there is someone watching, and there are cameras as well.

    It is easy to do that in a home. Turn off phone, put in drawer or closet. If you really care, put it in a metal box. Voila, it is off. People I have met who spent time in Saudi said it was standard to turn off the phone and lock it up in a secure place before going to Sunday church. Just because.

    When I was still on a 3-G network, I routinely turned off my little handset except when I wanted to make a call. This bothered some people, but that handset was for my use and my convenience, not theirs. One can still do that with a smartphone, but...if the battery is inside, something can still possibly be "on". So remove the battery. On some phones is is easy, and certainly shuts off all radios. But...many people prefer that fancy phone with the battery that cannot be removed, huh.

    Of course one can buy a cheap phone at any big box store, buy minutes somewhere else, and use it as needed. A new sim costs almost nothing.

    Finally, you've been shown this before, too. Currently on back order. The ones made in USA cost more.

    https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

    PS...all of this is off the topic. The article iSteve is pointing to is a multinational spy scandal. None of us are necessarily the target.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Mr Mox, @Jack D, @Achmed E. Newman

    everyone is required to store cell phones at a checkpoint

    The algorithms keep careful track of NULL periods – exactly where, when and for how long you turned off your phone, how this correlates to calls shortly before and after, etc.

    • Replies: @anon
    @Anonymous

    The algorithms keep careful track of NULL periods – exactly where, when and for how long you turned off your phone, how this correlates to calls shortly before and after, etc.

    Could be true. What do you suggest we should do about it?

    Replies: @Anonymous

  42. @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon


    The Holocaust was that bad.
     
    It certainly was.



    https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/hiroshima.jpeg?w=1540&quality=70


    https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2016/08/nagasaki-hibakusha-senji-yamaguchi-816x620.jpg

    Replies: @Hank Williams, Sr., @Rob McX, @Joe Stalin

    Etymologically, Dresden was the true holocaust..

  43. @Whiskey
    Yes, in 2018-19 the FT did a series on various Israeli hacking firms renting themselves out to all sorts of nasty characters in Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, etc. It also gives Israel global intel on targets not necessarily of interest to their clients but of interest to themselves. Its probably of some use, not sure how useful it really is.

    As far as blackmail goes, that works until it does not. Let me elaborate. There just isn't the possibility of mass, global blackmail as the approach would have to be tailored individually and some would have no shame, others would head for the nearest synagoge with evil intentions, others would sue. In individual cases, yes it can work, but life is chaotic enough that the compromised person can die, of various causes, sometimes just freak accidents or illness or what have you, and the blackmailer is back to square one. Other times a whole power structure and regime can be replaced which seems to be in the works in South Africa. Maybe France.
    -------
    Somewhat related, the LAPD went to town on Anti-Fa today, and that was a huge mistake. Today probably marks the disbanding of the LAPD. First, the Regency needs constant agitation and a new cause. People are bored (and also angry/scared) of blacks, so Trannies it is! Nothing says "bigot" like a man naked in the ladies locker room demanding in a deep voice to stop being a bigot! The Regency from top to bottom is invested in this. Anti-Fa does not show up anywhere its not ordered to show up. So the LAPD should have just arrested ordinary people and roughed them up, as ordered to by the Mayor. Garcetti may on his way out to India as Ambassador there, but he's not going to take that disobedience of cops doing their real jobs lightly. He, or likely his successor, is going to use this to disband the LAPD. Police are just not allowed to mess with Anti-Fa. Anti-Fa are the Regency's "action corps" and directly protected by them. Expect Gascon to use this to charge pretty much every officer (and convict them) on the scene, and abolish the force via legal decree.

    Now what will take the place of the LAPD? Why, a Federal ACTION FORCE. Comprised of, yes you guessed it, Anti-Fa.

    Pretty soon every ladies locker room will be filled with naked men calling the ladies bigots and transphobic. Its the law.

    Replies: @gcochran, @LP5

    One less thing to worry about.

  44. @anon
    @Achmed E. Newman

    At the national labs and other secure locations, everyone is required to store cell phones at a checkpoint. The phone storage looks like a post office box. Put phone in, lock, take key. Yes, there is someone watching, and there are cameras as well.

    It is easy to do that in a home. Turn off phone, put in drawer or closet. If you really care, put it in a metal box. Voila, it is off. People I have met who spent time in Saudi said it was standard to turn off the phone and lock it up in a secure place before going to Sunday church. Just because.

    When I was still on a 3-G network, I routinely turned off my little handset except when I wanted to make a call. This bothered some people, but that handset was for my use and my convenience, not theirs. One can still do that with a smartphone, but...if the battery is inside, something can still possibly be "on". So remove the battery. On some phones is is easy, and certainly shuts off all radios. But...many people prefer that fancy phone with the battery that cannot be removed, huh.

    Of course one can buy a cheap phone at any big box store, buy minutes somewhere else, and use it as needed. A new sim costs almost nothing.

    Finally, you've been shown this before, too. Currently on back order. The ones made in USA cost more.

    https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

    PS...all of this is off the topic. The article iSteve is pointing to is a multinational spy scandal. None of us are necessarily the target.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Mr Mox, @Jack D, @Achmed E. Newman

    Turn off phone, put in drawer or closet. If you really care, put it in a metal box. Voila, it is off.

    Rules for paranoids #6:

    “A phone being turned on and off regularly will flag you as a “person of interest” with something to hide.”

    Head, we win. Tail, you lose…

    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    @Mr Mox

    This might be a place to start
    https://privacyphones.net/

  45. @Desiderius


    https://twitter.com/BobStein_FT/status/1416937390514520070?s=20

    The Lavender Mafia are the real racists.

    Replies: @Pericles

    The source of the quote, Benedict XVI, is still alive even.

    • Agree: Desiderius
    • Replies: @Desiderius
    @Pericles

    Abdication of Benedict akin to abdication of last Ming Emperor.

  46. @Anon
    OT

    A little boy with his mother just walked past my office window carrying two stuffed dinosaurs. What would Steve do, I asked? Notice it and ask why. So I Googled, "Why do little boys like dinosaurs?

    The first result was from a New York MagazIne blog about "Kids' Love of Dinosaurs." The initial anecdote was about a little girl who insisted on being a particular type of dinosaur for Halloween, and especially wanted the costume to have feathers, which the dinosaur is now known to have had.

    Kids? Girls? Feathers? I'm getting to the age where sometimes my thoughts are scrambled, and it's terrifying. I could have sworn dinosaurs were mainly a boy thing. Is Alzheimer's just around the corner for me?

    I skimmed the rest of the article. A boy is mentioned, but mostly girls and women paleontologists appear. But it's not a "girls and dinosaurs" article. It appears to be a giant gaslight where you're supposed to read it and think, girls like dinosaurs just as much as boys, no, more than boys. There's a ton of other articles along these lines out there.

    Somehow dinosaurs have been completely colonized by females. But the articles don't push the idea that there has been some sort of structural mysogeny keeping girls from dinosaurs, but finally the tables are turning; rather, everything is just a big pretend party where it's never mentioned that there was, and I'm sure still is, a giant disparity in dinosaur interest in favor of boys.

    One hint is various research that suggests that kids (i.e., boys) with intense interest in dinosaurs, astronomy, or the like (I'd add trains, insects, and giant construction site vehicles, in Japan at least), end up smarter. I think there is a causation directional error that may cause blank slate adults to think that if dinosaurs and the rest can be forced on young girls, they will do better in STEM in college, or something like that, like the way that "grrlz coding" is pushed so hard.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Mr Mox, @Hangnail Hans

    I went to grade school with a guy who is now a popular professor of dinosaurs at Cal State San Bernardino now, Stuart Sumida.

    https://www.csusb.edu/inside/article/447936/stuart-sumida-biology-professor-defining-future

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Steve Sailer

    "I wrote about Israel’s push to get its hooks into telecom software back in 2013."

    China and Russia, too. But, shhh, don't NOTICE.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/opinion/russia-hacking.html



    While Beijing instituted government control over the internet in the 1990s, the internet in Russia (as in most countries) penetrated society relatively unencumbered. Facebook, Twitter and Google — all blocked in China — are accessible in Russia. That’s why the Russian government had to build a digital surveillance infrastructure that could sit on top of an open digital space, using fewer state resources than are used by China.

    Enter the System of Operative Search Measures, or SORM, which is based on a Soviet-era surveillance system for monitoring telephone calls. In 1995, the system was resurrected and expanded to monitor email traffic and online browsing. Today, a growing list of companies, including telecommunications companies, internet service providers and social media platforms, are legally required to install SORM equipment.
     

    Replies: @ATBOTL

  47. @anon
    @Achmed E. Newman

    At the national labs and other secure locations, everyone is required to store cell phones at a checkpoint. The phone storage looks like a post office box. Put phone in, lock, take key. Yes, there is someone watching, and there are cameras as well.

    It is easy to do that in a home. Turn off phone, put in drawer or closet. If you really care, put it in a metal box. Voila, it is off. People I have met who spent time in Saudi said it was standard to turn off the phone and lock it up in a secure place before going to Sunday church. Just because.

    When I was still on a 3-G network, I routinely turned off my little handset except when I wanted to make a call. This bothered some people, but that handset was for my use and my convenience, not theirs. One can still do that with a smartphone, but...if the battery is inside, something can still possibly be "on". So remove the battery. On some phones is is easy, and certainly shuts off all radios. But...many people prefer that fancy phone with the battery that cannot be removed, huh.

    Of course one can buy a cheap phone at any big box store, buy minutes somewhere else, and use it as needed. A new sim costs almost nothing.

    Finally, you've been shown this before, too. Currently on back order. The ones made in USA cost more.

    https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

    PS...all of this is off the topic. The article iSteve is pointing to is a multinational spy scandal. None of us are necessarily the target.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Mr Mox, @Jack D, @Achmed E. Newman

    There are fewer and fewer phones with removable batteries. The last “flagship” phone with a removable battery was the LG G5 of 2016, never popular to begin with. LG has since quit the phone business.

    It’s true that your phone can’t be spying on you when it is off, but a phone is only useful when it is turned on. If you keep it off all the time, might as well not have one.

    If I was concerned about spyware on my phone, I’d be a lot more worried about the Chinese than about the Israelis. Even phones made in other countries likely have Chinese chips in them and you never know whether the PLA has implanted a back door in one of them. As hard as it is to find spyware hidden in software, it’s even harder to find it in hardware.

    • Agree: Achmed E. Newman
    • Replies: @anon
    @Jack D

    There are fewer and fewer phones with removable batteries. The last “flagship” phone with a removable battery was the LG G5 of 2016, never popular to begin with. LG has since quit the phone business.

    So?

    It’s true that your phone can’t be spying on you when it is off,

    For some definition of "off"...

    but a phone is only useful when it is turned on.

    ...useful to whom?

    If you keep it off all the time, might as well not have one.

    Lame strawman, lol.

    If I was concerned about spyware on my phone, I’d be a lot more worried about the Chinese than about the Israelis.

    Yes, Jack, we understand that you are not at all concerned over spying by Israel, we got it.

    I already pointed to an option that avoids Chinese IC's. As a bonus, the phone O/S is available to any users who want to examine it.

    But one cannot help people who really just want to kvetch, can one?

    , @ATBOTL
    @Jack D

    Look, the zionist neocon Jack D. says Israel spying on white Americans is no big deal and the other zionist neocon agrees with him! Who would have guessed?

    Replies: @Anon

  48. @ginger bread man
    I would not be surprised, in fact I would wager my real money That someone from Israel’s unit 8200 or a company associated with them is reading this article, and doing checks on every single person who is commenting, including myself.

    I don’t know anyone personally from unit 8200, but my friends in the Israeli military told me that at least in IsraeL and the territories, they have a plethora of highly personalized information on just about anyone with a digital footprint. They use this information to counter terrorism, but also as a way to intimidate the Palestinians and anti-government activists in Israel.

    Since the 1980s, the ADL has used Israeli security services to spy on US elected officials, pro-Arab activists, and anti Apartheid activists back when that was relevant.

    Replies: @Jack D

    In Gaza, when the Israelis want to destroy your house or your building, they will first phone you up on your cell phone and an Arabic speaker will tell you that you have 10 minutes to evacuate. Implicit in this is that they have the cell phone # of just about everyone in Gaza.

  49. @Achmed E. Newman
    @Anonymous

    There are plenty of other problems I've got with people dickin' around on their phones, #658, but that doesn't much stop the iEspionage though. You want to at least carry it with you, as, after all, it is still a telephone. The fact that you don't hear that cool SLR shutter click sound or aren't making an effort to record anything doesn't mean the camera isn't taking pictures or video and recording every sound. Then, even in your pocket, the GPS is tracking you to a few feet everywhere.

    There are some open-source phones for which you could perhaps trust some computer guys to tell you that there's no back door in software at least, that lets the NSA or the CCP upload your life at will.

    Replies: @epebble, @anon, @The Alarmist

    They don’t need GPS to track you; they just triangulate your phone’s pings to the various local towers as you pass them. If you can’t pull the battery, you may as well assume you are always on. I’ve modded my phone to put a physical switch on the power line, though a good a Faraday bag will also do.

  50. @Mr Mox
    @anon

    Turn off phone, put in drawer or closet. If you really care, put it in a metal box. Voila, it is off.

    Rules for paranoids #6:

    "A phone being turned on and off regularly will flag you as a "person of interest" with something to hide."

    Head, we win. Tail, you lose...

    Replies: @Bill Jones

    This might be a place to start
    https://privacyphones.net/

  51. @Achmed E. Newman
    All the smart phones are like a gift from God for any government doing espionage, anywhere. The E. German Stasi employees likely had many wet dreams about devices like these. You don't even have to hide them under people's toilets. They voluntarily use them on the toilet.

    The only solution is a wire mesh Faraday cage, a switchable opaque cover for the 2 (? ) camera lenses,, some way to knock out or jam the mike, and/or a GPS jammer too. "I'm a Prepper, he's a Prepper, wouldn't you like to be a Prepper too?"

    .

    PS: Even with all that, the gyro and pendulum type sensors can still get rough distances, as we know from the "getting your steps in" apps, though one can always put the piece of iEspionage in the rock tumbler each evening to fool these ones. ;-}

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Bill Jones, @SunBakedSuburb

    The only solution is a wire mesh Faraday cage, a switchable opaque cover for the 2 (? ) camera lenses,, some way to knock out or jam the mike, and/or a GPS jammer too.

    An old microwave works just fine.

    Your new one will too if you are prepared to take the risk, but no-one turns the microwave on without opening the door, do they?

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Bill Jones

    Yeah, but do they make small microwave ovens I can tote around with me, Bill, with the phone?

    ;-}

    .


    For Alarmist, [Agree] and [Thanks]. (Ran out.)

    Replies: @Jack D

  52. @anon
    @Achmed E. Newman

    At the national labs and other secure locations, everyone is required to store cell phones at a checkpoint. The phone storage looks like a post office box. Put phone in, lock, take key. Yes, there is someone watching, and there are cameras as well.

    It is easy to do that in a home. Turn off phone, put in drawer or closet. If you really care, put it in a metal box. Voila, it is off. People I have met who spent time in Saudi said it was standard to turn off the phone and lock it up in a secure place before going to Sunday church. Just because.

    When I was still on a 3-G network, I routinely turned off my little handset except when I wanted to make a call. This bothered some people, but that handset was for my use and my convenience, not theirs. One can still do that with a smartphone, but...if the battery is inside, something can still possibly be "on". So remove the battery. On some phones is is easy, and certainly shuts off all radios. But...many people prefer that fancy phone with the battery that cannot be removed, huh.

    Of course one can buy a cheap phone at any big box store, buy minutes somewhere else, and use it as needed. A new sim costs almost nothing.

    Finally, you've been shown this before, too. Currently on back order. The ones made in USA cost more.

    https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

    PS...all of this is off the topic. The article iSteve is pointing to is a multinational spy scandal. None of us are necessarily the target.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Mr Mox, @Jack D, @Achmed E. Newman

    Firstly, this is off topic of the specific Israeli case, but not off the general topic. Secondly, what do you mean “I’ve been show this before”? I have checked out open-source phones before, but it was the Pine phones, not this Librem phone (the vid on the page didn’t start up for me).

    I wasn’t writing about working at a National Lab. I’m talking about everyday life. I had a cheapo phone (see, I don’t care for the touch screens that awful much to begin with) for a while, but it was no longer supported.

    I have no reason to be a target. Even so, data is very cheap to store now. Lots and lots of my information can be stored in case someone WANTS to make me a target. I have a feeling that’s what happens to a lot of formerly decent politiians.

    PS: Most people want to be able to receive calls. How many people do you know with (real) land-lines anymore?

    • Replies: @anon
    @Achmed E. Newman

    I have checked out open-source phones before, but it was the Pine phones, not this Librem phone

    Ok. Now you have a pointer to Librem. What will you choose to do with this information?

    (the vid on the page didn’t start up for me).

    So? I'm not in charge of their vids. The specs for the handset and other devices are still easy to find and read, if you're interested.

    I wasn’t writing about working at a National Lab. I’m talking about everyday life.

    The same approach works at home, or in another place of business, as I have already explained to you.

    I had a cheapo phone (see, I don’t care for the touch screens that awful much to begin with) for a while, but it was no longer supported.

    So?

    I have no reason to be a target. Even so, data is very cheap to store now. Lots and lots of my information can be stored in case someone WANTS to make me a target. I have a feeling that’s what happens to a lot of formerly decent politiians.

    So? Is there a problem that you are trying to solve, or is this just whining?

    PS: Most people want to be able to receive calls. How many people do you know with (real) land-lines anymore?

    Most people are ignorant. There are trade offs to carrying an easily located radio around with you. There are more tradeoffs involved in carrying a device with three radios. I've outlined some options. If you don't like any of them, that's a shame.

    Do you have a point to make, a problem to solve, or are you just whining like an anxious puppy?

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

  53. @Mr. Anon

    In the late 20th Century, Israel invested a lot of money and talent (often ex-Soviet) in startups to create and market telecom software (often with a backdoor for Israeli intelligence).

    Carl Cameron did an expose on this issue on Fox News about 20 years ago, but it got spiked pretty fast.
     
    Our "Greatest Ally". At least, that's what Sean Hannity tells me.

    Replies: @Harry Baldwin

    Our “Greatest Ally”. At least, that’s what Sean Hannity tells me.

    We’re their greatest ally. The reverse? Not so much.

    Sean Hannity also tells us that 99.9% of people who work at the FBI are fine patriotic Americans. Just a few bad apples at the top, who apparently do all the work. Sean also told us back in 2016 that he knew from connections he had inside the FBI that if Hillary weren’t indicted on the email scandal, thousands would resign in protest.

    • Agree: Hangnail Hans
    • Replies: @Rob McX
    @Harry Baldwin


    Sean also told us back in 2016 that he knew from connections he had inside the FBI that if Hillary weren’t indicted on the email scandal, thousands would resign in protest.
     
    The man is a veritable Nostradamus.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

  54. @Hank Williams, Sr.
    @Reg Cæsar

    They deserved that for the way they treated our POWs. You anti-American ADHD-addled little shit.

    Replies: @Voltarde, @Reg Cæsar, @sayless

    They deserved that for the way they treated our POWs.

    Read the history of this great nation. Our nation’s founders abhorred the idea of America becoming involved in foreign armed conflicts.

    War is an abomination, and the mistreatment of POWs is sadly a part of it, in every war.

    Here’s a picture of a survivor from Andersonville:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_prison_camps

    Finally, personal insults are invariably the refuge of someone who cannot muster a reasoned, compelling argument.

  55. Israel bought Verizon Yellow Pages back in the late 90s or early 2000s through a front name of Idearc that included residential listing for the entire Bell system in the US. The deal included private unlisted numbers, names and addresses. Employees were given the choice of going with Idearc, or with Verizon and being shuffled off to other duties. My contacts were encouraged to stay with Bell. Everything was landlines then, but the individual names and unlisted data were the Israeli take from the deal. Idearc never published yellow pages for distribution the old way even once. Yellow Pages were dead from this point on.

  56. Anonymous[401] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anon
    OT

    A little boy with his mother just walked past my office window carrying two stuffed dinosaurs. What would Steve do, I asked? Notice it and ask why. So I Googled, "Why do little boys like dinosaurs?

    The first result was from a New York MagazIne blog about "Kids' Love of Dinosaurs." The initial anecdote was about a little girl who insisted on being a particular type of dinosaur for Halloween, and especially wanted the costume to have feathers, which the dinosaur is now known to have had.

    Kids? Girls? Feathers? I'm getting to the age where sometimes my thoughts are scrambled, and it's terrifying. I could have sworn dinosaurs were mainly a boy thing. Is Alzheimer's just around the corner for me?

    I skimmed the rest of the article. A boy is mentioned, but mostly girls and women paleontologists appear. But it's not a "girls and dinosaurs" article. It appears to be a giant gaslight where you're supposed to read it and think, girls like dinosaurs just as much as boys, no, more than boys. There's a ton of other articles along these lines out there.

    Somehow dinosaurs have been completely colonized by females. But the articles don't push the idea that there has been some sort of structural mysogeny keeping girls from dinosaurs, but finally the tables are turning; rather, everything is just a big pretend party where it's never mentioned that there was, and I'm sure still is, a giant disparity in dinosaur interest in favor of boys.

    One hint is various research that suggests that kids (i.e., boys) with intense interest in dinosaurs, astronomy, or the like (I'd add trains, insects, and giant construction site vehicles, in Japan at least), end up smarter. I think there is a causation directional error that may cause blank slate adults to think that if dinosaurs and the rest can be forced on young girls, they will do better in STEM in college, or something like that, like the way that "grrlz coding" is pushed so hard.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Mr Mox, @Hangnail Hans

    A lot of girls genuinely like birds, so now we know dinosaurs were big fluffy feathery things it makes sense they would like those too.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Anonymous

    Feathers are fairly feminine.

    , @Anon
    @Anonymous

    Feathers in ladies' hats pushed who knows how many bird species close to extinction before Teddy Roosevelt created dozens of bird sanctuaries. It was a bumpy ride. Roosevelt sent an armed ranger down to Florida, and the guy was promptly shot dead by a bird feather poacher.

    Roosevelt also protected various feather-Indian "antiquities." These laws seemed really narrow, but they effectively kept large swaths of land pristine, beyond protecting birds and pottery. This tactic was later used in endangered species laws that shut down huge projects on the pretense of saving some species of slug.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Dissident

    , @Anonymous
    @Anonymous

    https://www.livescience.com/64936-t-rex-new-look-exhibit.html

  57. @Anonymous
    @Anon

    A lot of girls genuinely like birds, so now we know dinosaurs were big fluffy feathery things it makes sense they would like those too.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anon, @Anonymous

    Feathers are fairly feminine.

  58. @Anon
    Name a single act that would not be justified if it had the prospect of reducing the risk of another Holocaust.

    You can’t. The Holocaust was that bad.

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anon, @Hangnail Hans, @James Speaks, @Hapalong Cassidy, @mc23, @J.Ross

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Narcissistic viewpoint. The Holocaust does not justify the Nakba.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @James Speaks


    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Narcissistic viewpoint. The Holocaust does not justify the Nakba.
     

     
    The Holocaust was unique.

    Replies: @James Speaks

  59. @Anon
    OT

    A little boy with his mother just walked past my office window carrying two stuffed dinosaurs. What would Steve do, I asked? Notice it and ask why. So I Googled, "Why do little boys like dinosaurs?

    The first result was from a New York MagazIne blog about "Kids' Love of Dinosaurs." The initial anecdote was about a little girl who insisted on being a particular type of dinosaur for Halloween, and especially wanted the costume to have feathers, which the dinosaur is now known to have had.

    Kids? Girls? Feathers? I'm getting to the age where sometimes my thoughts are scrambled, and it's terrifying. I could have sworn dinosaurs were mainly a boy thing. Is Alzheimer's just around the corner for me?

    I skimmed the rest of the article. A boy is mentioned, but mostly girls and women paleontologists appear. But it's not a "girls and dinosaurs" article. It appears to be a giant gaslight where you're supposed to read it and think, girls like dinosaurs just as much as boys, no, more than boys. There's a ton of other articles along these lines out there.

    Somehow dinosaurs have been completely colonized by females. But the articles don't push the idea that there has been some sort of structural mysogeny keeping girls from dinosaurs, but finally the tables are turning; rather, everything is just a big pretend party where it's never mentioned that there was, and I'm sure still is, a giant disparity in dinosaur interest in favor of boys.

    One hint is various research that suggests that kids (i.e., boys) with intense interest in dinosaurs, astronomy, or the like (I'd add trains, insects, and giant construction site vehicles, in Japan at least), end up smarter. I think there is a causation directional error that may cause blank slate adults to think that if dinosaurs and the rest can be forced on young girls, they will do better in STEM in college, or something like that, like the way that "grrlz coding" is pushed so hard.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Mr Mox, @Hangnail Hans

    I could have sworn dinosaurs were mainly a boy thing. Is Alzheimer’s just around the corner for me?

    You’re not alone, I could have sworn dinosaurs were a fad that passed years ago. A birthday party the other day showed me how wrong I was. (and, yes. It is a Girl Thing now)

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Mr Mox

    Kids like dinosaurs.

  60. @Bill Jones
    @Achmed E. Newman


    The only solution is a wire mesh Faraday cage, a switchable opaque cover for the 2 (? ) camera lenses,, some way to knock out or jam the mike, and/or a GPS jammer too.
     
    An old microwave works just fine.

    Your new one will too if you are prepared to take the risk, but no-one turns the microwave on without opening the door, do they?

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    Yeah, but do they make small microwave ovens I can tote around with me, Bill, with the phone?

    ;-}

    .

    For Alarmist, [Agree] and [Thanks]. (Ran out.)

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Achmed E. Newman

    They make Faraday cases for phones (also Faraday wallets so people can't read the RFID off your credit cards) that are a lot easier to carry than a microwave (and cheaper too - under $10). This will keep them from locating you (and also from you getting any phone calls) as long as you have it in the bag, but the instant you pull it out, you can be located (and if your phone has been recording audio, it can now be phoned home). Again, this is the Catch-22 - if you render your phone useless to spying it is also useless to you.

    Replies: @Anon, @Achmed E. Newman

  61. @Anon
    Name a single act that would not be justified if it had the prospect of reducing the risk of another Holocaust.

    You can’t. The Holocaust was that bad.

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anon, @Hangnail Hans, @James Speaks, @Hapalong Cassidy, @mc23, @J.Ross

    Early in the morning – I guess my sarcasm detector is broken? Anyway, to answer the question – how about WW3 and the death of billions? The actions of Jewish influencers is the number one thing that could lead to that.

  62. They were providing economical billing services for UK mobile providers some years ago.

    So Cabinet Minister X is calling Dominatrix Y again eh?

    • Replies: @Rob McX
    @Gordo

    I wonder if they were handling Max Mosley's account.

  63. @Anon
    OT

    A little boy with his mother just walked past my office window carrying two stuffed dinosaurs. What would Steve do, I asked? Notice it and ask why. So I Googled, "Why do little boys like dinosaurs?

    The first result was from a New York MagazIne blog about "Kids' Love of Dinosaurs." The initial anecdote was about a little girl who insisted on being a particular type of dinosaur for Halloween, and especially wanted the costume to have feathers, which the dinosaur is now known to have had.

    Kids? Girls? Feathers? I'm getting to the age where sometimes my thoughts are scrambled, and it's terrifying. I could have sworn dinosaurs were mainly a boy thing. Is Alzheimer's just around the corner for me?

    I skimmed the rest of the article. A boy is mentioned, but mostly girls and women paleontologists appear. But it's not a "girls and dinosaurs" article. It appears to be a giant gaslight where you're supposed to read it and think, girls like dinosaurs just as much as boys, no, more than boys. There's a ton of other articles along these lines out there.

    Somehow dinosaurs have been completely colonized by females. But the articles don't push the idea that there has been some sort of structural mysogeny keeping girls from dinosaurs, but finally the tables are turning; rather, everything is just a big pretend party where it's never mentioned that there was, and I'm sure still is, a giant disparity in dinosaur interest in favor of boys.

    One hint is various research that suggests that kids (i.e., boys) with intense interest in dinosaurs, astronomy, or the like (I'd add trains, insects, and giant construction site vehicles, in Japan at least), end up smarter. I think there is a causation directional error that may cause blank slate adults to think that if dinosaurs and the rest can be forced on young girls, they will do better in STEM in college, or something like that, like the way that "grrlz coding" is pushed so hard.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Mr Mox, @Hangnail Hans

    Brett Sinclair, writing from Ireland.


    PS: Use Google, get Google results.

  64. @Mr Mox
    @Anon

    I could have sworn dinosaurs were mainly a boy thing. Is Alzheimer’s just around the corner for me?

    You're not alone, I could have sworn dinosaurs were a fad that passed years ago. A birthday party the other day showed me how wrong I was. (and, yes. It is a Girl Thing now)

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    Kids like dinosaurs.

  65. @Alt Right Moderate
    @Mike Tre

    Surprise, surprise Israeli's don't like Nazis, but they got on fine with Apartheid era South African white people. Much more than white gentile liberals from Jew-lite Sweden and New Zealand, who wanted conservative white South Africans to be murdered by black mobs.

    The world is a complex place.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    Vela incident
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The Vela incident, also known as the South Atlantic Flash, was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979 near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident

    The cause of the flash remains officially unknown, and some information about the event remains classified by the U.S. government.[1] While it has been suggested that the signal could have been caused by a meteoroid hitting the satellite, the previous 41 double flashes detected by the Vela satellites were caused by nuclear weapons tests.[2][3][4] Today, most independent researchers believe that the 1979 flash was caused by a nuclear explosion[1][5][6][7] – perhaps an undeclared nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel.[8]

    • Replies: @ginger bread man
    @Steve Sailer

    Here’s a great resource where you can learn all about it and read some of the declassified documents.

    https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-09-22/vela-flash-forty-years-ago

    Jimmy Carter believed it was an Israeli nuclear test:
    https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/revisiting-1979-vela-mystery-report-critical-oral-history-conference

  66. Anon[152] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anonymous
    @Anon

    A lot of girls genuinely like birds, so now we know dinosaurs were big fluffy feathery things it makes sense they would like those too.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anon, @Anonymous

    Feathers in ladies’ hats pushed who knows how many bird species close to extinction before Teddy Roosevelt created dozens of bird sanctuaries. It was a bumpy ride. Roosevelt sent an armed ranger down to Florida, and the guy was promptly shot dead by a bird feather poacher.

    Roosevelt also protected various feather-Indian “antiquities.” These laws seemed really narrow, but they effectively kept large swaths of land pristine, beyond protecting birds and pottery. This tactic was later used in endangered species laws that shut down huge projects on the pretense of saving some species of slug.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    It's almost as if Teddy Roosevelt was a great American.

    , @Dissident
    @Anon


    Feathers in ladies’ hats pushed who knows how many bird species close to extinction before Teddy Roosevelt created dozens of bird sanctuaries.
     
    The Bird Hat Craze That Sparked a Preservation Movement, Lisa Wade, Pacific Standard

    How a fashion statement at the turn of the 19th century led to the creation of the first Audubon societies.
     
    No mention of T. Roosevelt. Note that article is filed under category "Social Justice"...
    ~ ~ ~

    And looking grim, cause they've been sitting, choosing a hat,
    Does anyone still wear a hat?
    I'll drink to that!

     

    From The Ladies Who Lunch, Stephen Sondheim, Company
  67. @Mike Tre
    The Israeli's are just trying to keep us safe from Nazis. They're everywhere, you see.

    Replies: @Alt Right Moderate, @mc23, @anon

    The Israeli government is pretty selective about which genocides to recognize.

    • Agree: JMcG
    • Replies: @ginger bread man
    @mc23

    I don’t know a lot about this, but a political party was created in Israel to hold the government accountable for selling arms to actual genocidal regimes in Africa, Central America, and Asia.

    They sold weapons to the Hutus in 1994 in Rwanda: https://www.haaretz.com./.premium-the-israeli-guns-in-the-rwanda-genocide-1.5355564

    This article has some good links, but not so much info:
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-arms-sales-transparency-court-decision-ends-hopes

    Here’s an interview with an activist trying to bring light to the arms export of the Israeli government to genocidal regimes. Supposedly the Israeli companies manufacturing the weapons sold them to Pinochet, the Brazilian Police, and other brutal regimes
    https://www.haaretz.com./amp/.premium-turning-blood-into-money-1.5383840

  68. @Whiskey
    Yes, in 2018-19 the FT did a series on various Israeli hacking firms renting themselves out to all sorts of nasty characters in Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, etc. It also gives Israel global intel on targets not necessarily of interest to their clients but of interest to themselves. Its probably of some use, not sure how useful it really is.

    As far as blackmail goes, that works until it does not. Let me elaborate. There just isn't the possibility of mass, global blackmail as the approach would have to be tailored individually and some would have no shame, others would head for the nearest synagoge with evil intentions, others would sue. In individual cases, yes it can work, but life is chaotic enough that the compromised person can die, of various causes, sometimes just freak accidents or illness or what have you, and the blackmailer is back to square one. Other times a whole power structure and regime can be replaced which seems to be in the works in South Africa. Maybe France.
    -------
    Somewhat related, the LAPD went to town on Anti-Fa today, and that was a huge mistake. Today probably marks the disbanding of the LAPD. First, the Regency needs constant agitation and a new cause. People are bored (and also angry/scared) of blacks, so Trannies it is! Nothing says "bigot" like a man naked in the ladies locker room demanding in a deep voice to stop being a bigot! The Regency from top to bottom is invested in this. Anti-Fa does not show up anywhere its not ordered to show up. So the LAPD should have just arrested ordinary people and roughed them up, as ordered to by the Mayor. Garcetti may on his way out to India as Ambassador there, but he's not going to take that disobedience of cops doing their real jobs lightly. He, or likely his successor, is going to use this to disband the LAPD. Police are just not allowed to mess with Anti-Fa. Anti-Fa are the Regency's "action corps" and directly protected by them. Expect Gascon to use this to charge pretty much every officer (and convict them) on the scene, and abolish the force via legal decree.

    Now what will take the place of the LAPD? Why, a Federal ACTION FORCE. Comprised of, yes you guessed it, Anti-Fa.

    Pretty soon every ladies locker room will be filled with naked men calling the ladies bigots and transphobic. Its the law.

    Replies: @gcochran, @LP5

    Garcetti is being groomed for one of the top slots in the corporation, in a current rewrite of the Colonel Kurtz role in Apocalypse Now. He can parachute into some role State-side after the international stint polishes another skill.

    As a side benefit, Garcetti will be out of sight and out of mind when those Angelenos go looking for politicians to blame for their mounting ills. Don’t expect the LA Times to write about any negative connections to him.

  69. @Anon
    Name a single act that would not be justified if it had the prospect of reducing the risk of another Holocaust.

    You can’t. The Holocaust was that bad.

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anon, @Hangnail Hans, @James Speaks, @Hapalong Cassidy, @mc23, @J.Ross

    Try recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

  70. @anon
    @Anon

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Including genocide?


    Troll or hasbara? Hmm...hasbara troll? Hmm....

    Replies: @Anon

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Including genocide?

    Do you not understand the right of self defense? It would be genocide in self defense.

    • Replies: @anon
    @Anon

    Do you not understand the right of self defense? It would be genocide in self defense.

    Well, I haven't seen one of these for a while.

    Troll? Hasbara? or Kook?

    Maybe all three?

    Replies: @ginger bread man

    , @res
    @Anon


    Do you not understand the right of self defense? It would be genocide in self defense.
     
    How exactly does that differ from what Hitler tried (or claimed to anyway) to do with the holocaust?

    We should start a regular feature here. Post polls for select comments (like that one).

    - Sincere or parody?
    - Duckling or not?
    - Hasbara or anti-Jewish troll?
    - Alt-right extremist (of various forms) or false flag?
  71. @James Speaks
    @Anon


    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.
     
    Narcissistic viewpoint. The Holocaust does not justify the Nakba.

    Replies: @Anon

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Narcissistic viewpoint. The Holocaust does not justify the Nakba.

    The Holocaust was unique.

    • Replies: @James Speaks
    @Anon


    The Holocaust was unique.
     
    I see, and Jews are special, God's chosen people, a light unto nations, blah blah blah.

    Israel is unnecessary.

    Replies: @Dissident

  72. @Anon
    @Anonymous

    Feathers in ladies' hats pushed who knows how many bird species close to extinction before Teddy Roosevelt created dozens of bird sanctuaries. It was a bumpy ride. Roosevelt sent an armed ranger down to Florida, and the guy was promptly shot dead by a bird feather poacher.

    Roosevelt also protected various feather-Indian "antiquities." These laws seemed really narrow, but they effectively kept large swaths of land pristine, beyond protecting birds and pottery. This tactic was later used in endangered species laws that shut down huge projects on the pretense of saving some species of slug.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Dissident

    It’s almost as if Teddy Roosevelt was a great American.

  73. Two weeks after 9-11, an Israeli spy ring was discovered working out of kiosks in the malls of America. It went by the wayside pretty quickly. We all spy on each other, even our friends.

    • Replies: @Joe Joe
    @Darth Plastic

    Those Israeli spies are at "skin care" kiosks in every mall in northern Virginia!!!

    Replies: @beavertales

  74. @Johann Ricke
    I have to hand it to the Israelis - their foreign intel unit actually snoops on foreigners. Meanwhile, the laser-like focus of US foreign intelligence agencies seems to be on Americans on the right side of the political isle. Pakistan tests a nuke? No forewarning. India tests a nuke? No forewarning. The Russians don't try to recruit Trump, and Trump doesn't offer to work for the Russians, but US foreign intel agencies fabricate a skein of self-referential allegations based on nothing, and the Democrats impeach him anyway. The next time the GOP wins the White House and Congressional majorities, it should transfer the top leaders of the intel agencies to Alaska with an important assignment - to examine bear scat in granular detail so as to divine the intentions of the foreign countries they are tasked with monitoring. Couldn't possibly be less effective than what they're doing now.

    Replies: @slumber_j, @donut

    Right. I like this from the WaPo tweets:

    a list of more than 50,000 numbers that are concentrated in countries known to engage in surveillance of their citizens

    lol

    • LOL: Johann Ricke
  75. @Harry Baldwin
    @Mr. Anon

    Our “Greatest Ally”. At least, that’s what Sean Hannity tells me.

    We're their greatest ally. The reverse? Not so much.

    Sean Hannity also tells us that 99.9% of people who work at the FBI are fine patriotic Americans. Just a few bad apples at the top, who apparently do all the work. Sean also told us back in 2016 that he knew from connections he had inside the FBI that if Hillary weren't indicted on the email scandal, thousands would resign in protest.

    Replies: @Rob McX

    Sean also told us back in 2016 that he knew from connections he had inside the FBI that if Hillary weren’t indicted on the email scandal, thousands would resign in protest.

    The man is a veritable Nostradamus.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Rob McX

    The man is a veritable Nostradumbass.

    FIFY.

  76. @Gordo
    They were providing economical billing services for UK mobile providers some years ago.

    So Cabinet Minister X is calling Dominatrix Y again eh?

    Replies: @Rob McX

    I wonder if they were handling Max Mosley’s account.

  77. @mc23
    @Mike Tre

    The Israeli government is pretty selective about which genocides to recognize.

    Replies: @ginger bread man

    I don’t know a lot about this, but a political party was created in Israel to hold the government accountable for selling arms to actual genocidal regimes in Africa, Central America, and Asia.

    They sold weapons to the Hutus in 1994 in Rwanda: https://www.haaretz.com./.premium-the-israeli-guns-in-the-rwanda-genocide-1.5355564

    This article has some good links, but not so much info:
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-arms-sales-transparency-court-decision-ends-hopes

    Here’s an interview with an activist trying to bring light to the arms export of the Israeli government to genocidal regimes. Supposedly the Israeli companies manufacturing the weapons sold them to Pinochet, the Brazilian Police, and other brutal regimes
    https://www.haaretz.com./amp/.premium-turning-blood-into-money-1.5383840

  78. @Steve Sailer
    @Alt Right Moderate

    Vela incident
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The Vela incident, also known as the South Atlantic Flash, was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979 near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident

    The cause of the flash remains officially unknown, and some information about the event remains classified by the U.S. government.[1] While it has been suggested that the signal could have been caused by a meteoroid hitting the satellite, the previous 41 double flashes detected by the Vela satellites were caused by nuclear weapons tests.[2][3][4] Today, most independent researchers believe that the 1979 flash was caused by a nuclear explosion[1][5][6][7] – perhaps an undeclared nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel.[8]

    Replies: @ginger bread man

    Here’s a great resource where you can learn all about it and read some of the declassified documents.

    https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-09-22/vela-flash-forty-years-ago

    Jimmy Carter believed it was an Israeli nuclear test:
    https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/revisiting-1979-vela-mystery-report-critical-oral-history-conference

  79. @Pericles
    @Desiderius

    The source of the quote, Benedict XVI, is still alive even.

    Replies: @Desiderius

    Abdication of Benedict akin to abdication of last Ming Emperor.

  80. @Colin Wright
    @Triteleia Laxa

    'Israelis are all over cybersecurity, and its inverse, but they are also a lot of hype and less follow through. I am ok with blackmail; say what thou will.'

    Bu then, you would minimize the seriousness of any offense committed by Israel.

    Replies: @Triteleia Laxa

    I’m minimising their competence. Cybersecurity is an industry full of spivs and Israel is a country famous for them. Give me a break from Israeli startup PR claims.

  81. @Anon
    @anon


    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Including genocide?
     

     
    Do you not understand the right of self defense? It would be genocide in self defense.

    Replies: @anon, @res

    Do you not understand the right of self defense? It would be genocide in self defense.

    Well, I haven’t seen one of these for a while.

    Troll? Hasbara? or Kook?

    Maybe all three?

    • Replies: @ginger bread man
    @anon

    I think Kook is right

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

  82. @Anonymous
    @anon


    everyone is required to store cell phones at a checkpoint
     
    The algorithms keep careful track of NULL periods - exactly where, when and for how long you turned off your phone, how this correlates to calls shortly before and after, etc.

    Replies: @anon

    The algorithms keep careful track of NULL periods – exactly where, when and for how long you turned off your phone, how this correlates to calls shortly before and after, etc.

    Could be true. What do you suggest we should do about it?

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @anon


    The algorithms keep careful track of NULL periods – exactly where, when and for how long you turned off your phone, how this correlates to calls shortly before and after, etc.

    Could be true. What do you suggest we should do about it?
     

     
    Remember when "landline" phones were the only option. Arrange life without relying on obsessive re-confirmation and re-scheduling by cell phone. Of course, there are a myriad other ways we are being tracked, including facial recognition, vehicle tracking WITHOUT license plate recognition, etc.

    Replies: @anon

  83. @Hank Williams, Sr.
    @Reg Cæsar

    They deserved that for the way they treated our POWs. You anti-American ADHD-addled little shit.

    Replies: @Voltarde, @Reg Cæsar, @sayless

    They deserved that for the way they treated our POWs.

    What did their women and children do to our POWs? Or their bishops? That was a cathedral in the picture.

    It likely had a small library with copies of Augustine and Aquinas. Which, yes, they should have read, too.

    Our cultural rot didn’t begin in 1963.

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @Reg Cæsar

    '...They deserved that for the way they treated our POWs.

    What did their women and children do to our POWs? Or their bishops? That was a cathedral in the picture...'

    The bigger problem is the 'they' argument. 'They' turns into fourteen year old German peasant girls repeatedly raped and then 'finished' with a bullet through the head. Since many of the German peasant girls weren't even in Germany proper, and certainly none had voted for Hitler, the case against them was a bit shaky, wasn't it?

    Taken to absurdity, one winds up with the argument Major Trapp presented his men with before they shot the Jews of Josefow in 'Ordinary Men.'

    "'They' [Jews] have been bombing our wives and children back in Hamburg; therefore, we will avenge ourselves by killing 'them' here."

    It's a problem -- morally speaking. Lumping victims together by nationality doesn't make it okay to kill them all.

  84. Etymologically, Dresden was the true holocaust..

    Yes, but the point was that not all that long ago the word holocaust was almost always preceded by nuclear. Its questionable recent use hadn’t come about yet.

    The same was true of another modern misused buzzword.

  85. @Anon
    @James Speaks


    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Narcissistic viewpoint. The Holocaust does not justify the Nakba.
     

     
    The Holocaust was unique.

    Replies: @James Speaks

    The Holocaust was unique.

    I see, and Jews are special, God’s chosen people, a light unto nations, blah blah blah.

    Israel is unnecessary.

    • Replies: @Dissident
    @James Speaks


    I see, and Jews are special, God’s chosen people, a light unto nations, blah blah blah.

    Israel is unnecessary.
     
    Zionists usurped the sacred name Israel for the secular State that they established in defiance of an overwhelming consensus of the foremost rabbis. There have always been plenty of Jews, across the religious, ideological, political and cultural spectrum, that have rejected and opposed Zionism. Conversely, non-Jews have always numbered among the most ardent Zionists. Christian Zionism actually predates the Jewish variety.

    The concepts of Jews as chosen, and as having a mission to be light unto the nations is addressed in this comment of mine from March.

    Replies: @James Speaks

  86. @Rob McX
    @Harry Baldwin


    Sean also told us back in 2016 that he knew from connections he had inside the FBI that if Hillary weren’t indicted on the email scandal, thousands would resign in protest.
     
    The man is a veritable Nostradamus.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    The man is a veritable Nostradumbass.

    FIFY.

    • LOL: Rob McX
  87. @Johann Ricke
    I have to hand it to the Israelis - their foreign intel unit actually snoops on foreigners. Meanwhile, the laser-like focus of US foreign intelligence agencies seems to be on Americans on the right side of the political isle. Pakistan tests a nuke? No forewarning. India tests a nuke? No forewarning. The Russians don't try to recruit Trump, and Trump doesn't offer to work for the Russians, but US foreign intel agencies fabricate a skein of self-referential allegations based on nothing, and the Democrats impeach him anyway. The next time the GOP wins the White House and Congressional majorities, it should transfer the top leaders of the intel agencies to Alaska with an important assignment - to examine bear scat in granular detail so as to divine the intentions of the foreign countries they are tasked with monitoring. Couldn't possibly be less effective than what they're doing now.

    Replies: @slumber_j, @donut

    The bright side to the intelligence agencies incompetence is that the people they are targeting like unz.com commenters and followers of other oppositional sites are harmless , hot air and keyboard warriors are not going to overthrow anybody . If there is anybody seriously threatening to this tyranny these bunglers don’t know about them .
    What we have going on here is similar to what the Bolsheviks were doing in the 30’s in the Soviet Union with the show trials which were then used as an excuse for mass arrests , murders and deportations . Make no mistake that is what Communism leads to in every state where it prevails .
    What I find is that people who openly advocate Communism are quite open about it and accepted in society . Imagine someone in public life declaring them selves to be a National Socialist .

  88. @epebble
    @Achmed E. Newman

    Anyone working with classified/sensitive info that uses a "smartphone" has more problems than using smartphones.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

    The DoD places I worked would not allow you to bring your cell phone into the SCIF. All the computers had their USB ports disabled which is why the traitor Bradley Manning burned CDs and then carried them out.

    • Replies: @epebble
    @Jim Don Bob

    How did they allow blank (burnable) CDs in (and burnt CDs out); and what is the point of blocking USB ports but keeping CD burners?

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

  89. @anon
    @Anon

    Do you not understand the right of self defense? It would be genocide in self defense.

    Well, I haven't seen one of these for a while.

    Troll? Hasbara? or Kook?

    Maybe all three?

    Replies: @ginger bread man

  90. @Reg Cæsar
    @Anon


    The Holocaust was that bad.
     
    It certainly was.



    https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/hiroshima.jpeg?w=1540&quality=70


    https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/wp-content/uploads/sites/102/2016/08/nagasaki-hibakusha-senji-yamaguchi-816x620.jpg

    Replies: @Hank Williams, Sr., @Rob McX, @Joe Stalin

    Ever talk to a Chinese person who lived in China during the late 1930s? To a man/woman, WILL tell you the USA didn’t drop enough nukes.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Joe Stalin


    Ever talk to a Chinese person who lived in China during the late 1930s? To a man/woman, WILL tell you the USA didn’t drop enough nukes.
     
    China is amoral.
    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Joe Stalin

    Those gooks sure can hold a grudge:


    SKorea removes banners at Olympic village after IOC ruling

    IOC makes South Korea remove banners from Olympic village

    Relations between Japan and South Korea worsened recently as some territorial rows were triggered by Seoul's military manoeuvres near the disputed Dokdo islands after Japan included them in an Olympic torch relay route.


    https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/south-korea-olympics-banner-001.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1236&h=820&crop=1


    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2a/70/c8/2a70c81317752f5ad37dd737e41f5b4c.jpg

    Replies: @MEH 0910

  91. @Anon
    @Anonymous

    Feathers in ladies' hats pushed who knows how many bird species close to extinction before Teddy Roosevelt created dozens of bird sanctuaries. It was a bumpy ride. Roosevelt sent an armed ranger down to Florida, and the guy was promptly shot dead by a bird feather poacher.

    Roosevelt also protected various feather-Indian "antiquities." These laws seemed really narrow, but they effectively kept large swaths of land pristine, beyond protecting birds and pottery. This tactic was later used in endangered species laws that shut down huge projects on the pretense of saving some species of slug.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Dissident

    Feathers in ladies’ hats pushed who knows how many bird species close to extinction before Teddy Roosevelt created dozens of bird sanctuaries.

    The Bird Hat Craze That Sparked a Preservation Movement, Lisa Wade, Pacific Standard

    How a fashion statement at the turn of the 19th century led to the creation of the first Audubon societies.

    No mention of T. Roosevelt. Note that article is filed under category “Social Justice”…
    ~ ~ ~

    And looking grim, cause they’ve been sitting, choosing a hat,
    Does anyone still wear a hat?
    I’ll drink to that!

    [MORE]

    From The Ladies Who Lunch, Stephen Sondheim, Company

  92. @Mike Tre
    The Israeli's are just trying to keep us safe from Nazis. They're everywhere, you see.

    Replies: @Alt Right Moderate, @mc23, @anon

    The Israeli’s are just trying to keep us safe from Nazis.

    Obviously!

    The government of Israel consists of the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human beings I’ve ever known in my life.

  93. anon[231] • Disclaimer says:
    @Jack D
    @anon

    There are fewer and fewer phones with removable batteries. The last "flagship" phone with a removable battery was the LG G5 of 2016, never popular to begin with. LG has since quit the phone business.

    It's true that your phone can't be spying on you when it is off, but a phone is only useful when it is turned on. If you keep it off all the time, might as well not have one.

    If I was concerned about spyware on my phone, I'd be a lot more worried about the Chinese than about the Israelis. Even phones made in other countries likely have Chinese chips in them and you never know whether the PLA has implanted a back door in one of them. As hard as it is to find spyware hidden in software, it's even harder to find it in hardware.

    Replies: @anon, @ATBOTL

    There are fewer and fewer phones with removable batteries. The last “flagship” phone with a removable battery was the LG G5 of 2016, never popular to begin with. LG has since quit the phone business.

    So?

    It’s true that your phone can’t be spying on you when it is off,

    For some definition of “off”…

    but a phone is only useful when it is turned on.

    …useful to whom?

    If you keep it off all the time, might as well not have one.

    Lame strawman, lol.

    If I was concerned about spyware on my phone, I’d be a lot more worried about the Chinese than about the Israelis.

    Yes, Jack, we understand that you are not at all concerned over spying by Israel, we got it.

    I already pointed to an option that avoids Chinese IC’s. As a bonus, the phone O/S is available to any users who want to examine it.

    But one cannot help people who really just want to kvetch, can one?

  94. anon[195] • Disclaimer says:
    @Achmed E. Newman
    @anon

    Firstly, this is off topic of the specific Israeli case, but not off the general topic. Secondly, what do you mean "I've been show this before"? I have checked out open-source phones before, but it was the Pine phones, not this Librem phone (the vid on the page didn't start up for me).

    I wasn't writing about working at a National Lab. I'm talking about everyday life. I had a cheapo phone (see, I don't care for the touch screens that awful much to begin with) for a while, but it was no longer supported.

    I have no reason to be a target. Even so, data is very cheap to store now. Lots and lots of my information can be stored in case someone WANTS to make me a target. I have a feeling that's what happens to a lot of formerly decent politiians.

    PS: Most people want to be able to receive calls. How many people do you know with (real) land-lines anymore?

    Replies: @anon

    I have checked out open-source phones before, but it was the Pine phones, not this Librem phone

    Ok. Now you have a pointer to Librem. What will you choose to do with this information?

    (the vid on the page didn’t start up for me).

    So? I’m not in charge of their vids. The specs for the handset and other devices are still easy to find and read, if you’re interested.

    I wasn’t writing about working at a National Lab. I’m talking about everyday life.

    The same approach works at home, or in another place of business, as I have already explained to you.

    I had a cheapo phone (see, I don’t care for the touch screens that awful much to begin with) for a while, but it was no longer supported.

    So?

    I have no reason to be a target. Even so, data is very cheap to store now. Lots and lots of my information can be stored in case someone WANTS to make me a target. I have a feeling that’s what happens to a lot of formerly decent politiians.

    So? Is there a problem that you are trying to solve, or is this just whining?

    PS: Most people want to be able to receive calls. How many people do you know with (real) land-lines anymore?

    Most people are ignorant. There are trade offs to carrying an easily located radio around with you. There are more tradeoffs involved in carrying a device with three radios. I’ve outlined some options. If you don’t like any of them, that’s a shame.

    Do you have a point to make, a problem to solve, or are you just whining like an anxious puppy?

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @anon

    Dude, hat is wrong with you? My point was to illustrate how easy it is for a government or any organization tied into the data to spy on anyone who carries a smartphone. That is a large portion of the American population, going from High School age to people in their 60's.

    I illustrated very basically how these smartphones can be used for iEspionage, for those who are blissfully unaware. I have gone without, and I have gone with one. Mr. Alarmist had other suggestions. I appreciate the link to that website, but hey, buddy, the video didn't work!

    I don't know if you got the general point, which is that anyone who doesn't take special measures can be targeted for any damn thing. Nobody has nothing they are embarrassed or ashamed about. That's the very big picture, hence, my original point.

    All that business about the National Labs has not a damn thing to do with what I wrote. People want to USE these phones everywhere - they don't want to throw them into a metal bin at home. It's good to learn about ways to minimize the spying, but most people want the convenience. It's good if they learn some options. I'll avail myself of them when I need to - in the meantime, I just realize what the deal is with these pieces of spyware.

    Got it? Whether you do or don't, don't bother writing back - you can't handle a conversation, and frankly, you come across as an autistic dickhead..

    Replies: @anon

  95. Steve, did you write an article a while back about Israeli locksmiths in America, and how they’re basically low-cost Mossad agents? Blue-collar Israelis go to America, set up shady businesses as locksmiths. Because it’s a one-time job and people are usually in a panic, they can rip off goyim customers. Occasionally they see something interesting or find a weak spot in security in a key target, and pass the information on to their spy friends back home.

    That was the gist of the article; but I can’t find it now.

    • Replies: @anonymous
    @Andrew M


    Steve, did you write an article a while back about Israeli locksmiths in America, and how they’re basically low-cost Mossad agents? Blue-collar Israelis go to America, set up shady businesses as locksmiths. Occasionally they see something interesting or find a weak spot in security in a key target, and pass the information on to their spy friends back home.

     

    Same thing with moving companies.
  96. @James Speaks
    You could almost say that our relationship is not all that special.

    Replies: @Paul Jolliffe

    You could “almost”say that.

    But not out loud.

  97. @Achmed E. Newman
    All the smart phones are like a gift from God for any government doing espionage, anywhere. The E. German Stasi employees likely had many wet dreams about devices like these. You don't even have to hide them under people's toilets. They voluntarily use them on the toilet.

    The only solution is a wire mesh Faraday cage, a switchable opaque cover for the 2 (? ) camera lenses,, some way to knock out or jam the mike, and/or a GPS jammer too. "I'm a Prepper, he's a Prepper, wouldn't you like to be a Prepper too?"

    .

    PS: Even with all that, the gyro and pendulum type sensors can still get rough distances, as we know from the "getting your steps in" apps, though one can always put the piece of iEspionage in the rock tumbler each evening to fool these ones. ;-}

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Bill Jones, @SunBakedSuburb

    All the smart phones are like a gift from God for any government doing espionage”

    Yep. Data equals intelligence, and the hand computers drive the OPSEC people crazy. Most operatives are issued encrypted devices for short term use but today’s spies, having suckled the digital teat since the day they freed themselves from the womb, have short attention spans and will invariably resort to using personal equipment at some point in the operation. What is more troubling is where this invasive technology is taking us: to a posthuman system, the elimination of individual consciousness in favor of the collective. Human-insect hybrids that can be controlled by a signal. It’ll be these hybrids that will venture out into the solar system and beyond.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @SunBakedSuburb


    It’ll be these hybrids that will venture out into the solar system and beyond.
     
    So, WE are going to be the invading alien cyborgs we were worried about when reading all those Sci-Fi books! Good comment, SBS.
  98. @Reg Cæsar
    @Hank Williams, Sr.


    They deserved that for the way they treated our POWs.
     
    What did their women and children do to our POWs? Or their bishops? That was a cathedral in the picture.

    It likely had a small library with copies of Augustine and Aquinas. Which, yes, they should have read, too.

    Our cultural rot didn't begin in 1963.

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    ‘…They deserved that for the way they treated our POWs.

    What did their women and children do to our POWs? Or their bishops? That was a cathedral in the picture…’

    The bigger problem is the ‘they’ argument. ‘They’ turns into fourteen year old German peasant girls repeatedly raped and then ‘finished’ with a bullet through the head. Since many of the German peasant girls weren’t even in Germany proper, and certainly none had voted for Hitler, the case against them was a bit shaky, wasn’t it?

    Taken to absurdity, one winds up with the argument Major Trapp presented his men with before they shot the Jews of Josefow in ‘Ordinary Men.’

    “‘They’ [Jews] have been bombing our wives and children back in Hamburg; therefore, we will avenge ourselves by killing ‘them’ here.”

    It’s a problem — morally speaking. Lumping victims together by nationality doesn’t make it okay to kill them all.

  99. Anonymous[249] • Disclaimer says:
    @anon
    @Anonymous

    The algorithms keep careful track of NULL periods – exactly where, when and for how long you turned off your phone, how this correlates to calls shortly before and after, etc.

    Could be true. What do you suggest we should do about it?

    Replies: @Anonymous

    The algorithms keep careful track of NULL periods – exactly where, when and for how long you turned off your phone, how this correlates to calls shortly before and after, etc.

    Could be true. What do you suggest we should do about it?

    Remember when “landline” phones were the only option. Arrange life without relying on obsessive re-confirmation and re-scheduling by cell phone. Of course, there are a myriad other ways we are being tracked, including facial recognition, vehicle tracking WITHOUT license plate recognition, etc.

    • Replies: @anon
    @Anonymous

    All good advice, although it's not at all difficult to tap landlines. In many cities, such as parts of New York, Chicago, and LA there are so many cameras installed that the entire public space is a panopticon. I'm certain that every vehicle entering and/or leaving Manhattan is imaged.

    What you are essentially proposing is tradecraft in the espionage sense, and most people cannot or will not do it. So they whine about big sibling but refuse to give up their hand held radiotelephone / tracking device.

    It's like complaining about the quality of the food in a jailhouse, and the portions are too small also!

    smh

  100. Anonymous[401] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anonymous
    @Anon

    A lot of girls genuinely like birds, so now we know dinosaurs were big fluffy feathery things it makes sense they would like those too.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anon, @Anonymous

  101. @Anon
    Name a single act that would not be justified if it had the prospect of reducing the risk of another Holocaust.

    You can’t. The Holocaust was that bad.

    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anon, @Hangnail Hans, @James Speaks, @Hapalong Cassidy, @mc23, @J.Ross

    What if the Jews prevented a holocaust by doing something which permanently ruined their reputation among gentiles?

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @J.Ross

    "What if the Jews prevented a holocaust by doing something which permanently ruined their reputation among gentiles?"

    I would say normies (aka normal people) do not share your (and others) perspective regarding how Jews (or Boomers) are the scourge of the earth.

    Replies: @J.Ross

  102. @Jack D
    @anon

    There are fewer and fewer phones with removable batteries. The last "flagship" phone with a removable battery was the LG G5 of 2016, never popular to begin with. LG has since quit the phone business.

    It's true that your phone can't be spying on you when it is off, but a phone is only useful when it is turned on. If you keep it off all the time, might as well not have one.

    If I was concerned about spyware on my phone, I'd be a lot more worried about the Chinese than about the Israelis. Even phones made in other countries likely have Chinese chips in them and you never know whether the PLA has implanted a back door in one of them. As hard as it is to find spyware hidden in software, it's even harder to find it in hardware.

    Replies: @anon, @ATBOTL

    Look, the zionist neocon Jack D. says Israel spying on white Americans is no big deal and the other zionist neocon agrees with him! Who would have guessed?

    • Replies: @Anon
    @ATBOTL


    the other zionist neocon agrees with him!
     
    "Achmed E. Newman" is a Zionist Neocon?

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

  103. @James Speaks
    @Anon


    The Holocaust was unique.
     
    I see, and Jews are special, God's chosen people, a light unto nations, blah blah blah.

    Israel is unnecessary.

    Replies: @Dissident

    I see, and Jews are special, God’s chosen people, a light unto nations, blah blah blah.

    Israel is unnecessary.

    Zionists usurped the sacred name Israel for the secular State that they established in defiance of an overwhelming consensus of the foremost rabbis. There have always been plenty of Jews, across the religious, ideological, political and cultural spectrum, that have rejected and opposed Zionism. Conversely, non-Jews have always numbered among the most ardent Zionists. Christian Zionism actually predates the Jewish variety.

    The concepts of Jews as chosen, and as having a mission to be light unto the nations is addressed in this comment of mine from March.

    • Replies: @James Speaks
    @Dissident


    The concepts of Jews as chosen, and as having a mission to be light unto the nations ...
     
    So, how's that working out, all things considered?

    Back to my original comment, the Holocaust does not justify the continuing war crime that is the Rogue State of Israel. Until I hear and see and read about a multitude of Jews demanding the dismantling of the Israeli regime and returning all land back to Palestinians, your words are nothing if not empty.
  104. @International Jew
    All of a sudden, Steve takes the Washington Post's word on something.

    Replies: @Anon

    All of a sudden, Steve takes the Washington Post’s word on something.

    Red meat to the base that was alienated by the recent pro-COVID vax post? An eye toward the upcoming fund drive? Too cynical?

  105. @ATBOTL
    @Jack D

    Look, the zionist neocon Jack D. says Israel spying on white Americans is no big deal and the other zionist neocon agrees with him! Who would have guessed?

    Replies: @Anon

    the other zionist neocon agrees with him!

    “Achmed E. Newman” is a Zionist Neocon?

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Anon

    First I've heard about it. I do agree with Jack D's take on the Chinese CCP spying for one thing, but know nothing about the Isreali's. The Chinese manufacture about everything. They WILL put a back door in.

    It's his first 2 paragraphs that I mashed the [Agree] tag for, though.

    Replies: @ATBOTL

  106. @JohnnyWalker123
    Let me repost an interesting theory that I have.

    If you want to understand how the world really works, watch these scenes from Godfather 2.

    In this first clip, Senator Pat Geary insults Italian-American gangster Michael Corleone, telling him that he loathes Italians and the corruption that they have brought to America.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG2-FI5_INA

    In this second clip, Senator Pat Geary is caught with a dead hooker at a Corleone-owned brothel.
    A Corleone mafia family associate then shows up, offering to make this go away.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULcJhIoLte4

    Afterward, Senator Geary becomes a huge friend to the Corleone family, helping them out in any way he can. In this third clip, Geary effusively praises Italians (despite holding private animosity towards their ethnicity). He pours cold water onto the Senate's investigation of the Italian-American mafia families.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB-GwYPf4AE

    My theory is this.

    If you substitute in Jews for Italians, the above scenes offer a pretty realistic look at how the American political system works. Shady Jewish hustlers are sexually blackmailing White Gentile elites on an absolutely EPIC scale. Just look at what a staggering fraction of American elites (as well as elites in the UK and various other foreign countries) were sexually blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein.

    The reality is that there are a lot of shady Jewish businessmen, like Epstein. These guys have access to prostitutes, cash, and drugs. So they run huge blackmail operations that target prominent politicians, media personalities, judges, corporate leaders, bureaucrats, entertainers, military/intel officers, and other men of power&influence.

    They seduce prominent men into incriminating themselves in some way (sexually, financially, etc), then hold the evidence as a form of blackmail over their target.

    So there are a lot of Jewish Corleones.

    What do the Jewish Corleones want?

    Mostly, they want various personal favors. In addition to that, they want support for Israel. They also want support for the pro-diversity/globalist project.

    If the Clintons are fanatically supportive of anti-White policies, it’s not because they “hate” Whites. It’s not because they feel “guilty.” It’s not because they’re “empathetic.” It’s because Bill Clinton likely was banging hookers on Epstein’s property, which provided blackmail leverage to the Jews.

    This explains why American politicians support anti-Whiteism in America, but feel comfortable with high-casualty Neocon foreign wars and Jewish racial supremacy in Israel.

    This explains why American politicians cry over a few hundred Southern Blacks who were lynched a century ago, but are indifferent to the lives of over 1 million Iraqis who were slaughtered by the recent Neocon-instigated American invasion (and also indifferent to the Palestinians).

    U.S. leaders are nothing more than puppets of Jewish pimps. So they see nothing contradictory between condemning White supremacy in America and also supporting U.S. genocide in Iraq. They just do as told. There is absolutely ZERO ideological or moral framework to structure their actions.

    By the way, Epstein already had a few mansions (NYC, South Florida, New Mexico) to use as brothels. Ever wonder why Epstein needed a private island that was so far away from home? It was because when they needed to arrange a dead hooker situation, they needed a place where they could dispose of bodies without anyone seeing anything. They needed a place that was unpopulated and remote.

    https://am21.mediaite.com/lc/cnt/uploads/2019/07/Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-12.22.38-PM.png

    TLDR Summary:

    Jewish Corleones are running Epstein-style sexual blackmail operations that target prominent Americans. This is why America’s leaders betray their people, while also being fanatically pro-Israel.

    It’s all about the sexual blackmail.

    So when you ask why Israel is spying on all these powerful elites in America, it's because they want to blackmail them. Find something illegal and/or embarrassing. Especially if it pertains to kinky sex.

    Some politicians will bang your prostitutes and get blackmailed directly. Other politicians will keep their extracirricular activities private, but you can spy on their communication and blackmail them too.

    Replies: @anon, @Old Prude, @CMC, @WaffleStaffel

    Congrats. You have also figured it all out. As soon as Acosta said Epstein belonged to intelligence, I put it together myself. Bribes are what the public is supposed to notice, but the iron fist behind the velvet glove is blackmail.

    • Thanks: JohnnyWalker123
  107. @Darth Plastic
    Two weeks after 9-11, an Israeli spy ring was discovered working out of kiosks in the malls of America. It went by the wayside pretty quickly. We all spy on each other, even our friends.

    Replies: @Joe Joe

    Those Israeli spies are at “skin care” kiosks in every mall in northern Virginia!!!

    • Replies: @beavertales
    @Joe Joe

    When Israelis finish their compulsory military service, they are sent abroad to unwind and blow off steam. A gig at a kiosk, moving company or locksmith job in the West is likely a working holiday.

    The awarding of strictly tourist visas to ex-Israeli soldiers does not entitle them to work, so much of it is illegal. They get busted and deported a lot.

  108. anonymous[353] • Disclaimer says:
    @Andrew M
    Steve, did you write an article a while back about Israeli locksmiths in America, and how they’re basically low-cost Mossad agents? Blue-collar Israelis go to America, set up shady businesses as locksmiths. Because it’s a one-time job and people are usually in a panic, they can rip off goyim customers. Occasionally they see something interesting or find a weak spot in security in a key target, and pass the information on to their spy friends back home.

    That was the gist of the article; but I can’t find it now.

    Replies: @anonymous

    Steve, did you write an article a while back about Israeli locksmiths in America, and how they’re basically low-cost Mossad agents? Blue-collar Israelis go to America, set up shady businesses as locksmiths. Occasionally they see something interesting or find a weak spot in security in a key target, and pass the information on to their spy friends back home.

    Same thing with moving companies.

  109. @anon videla
    https://memecreator.org/static/images/memes/5333305.jpg

    because disappearing magic.

    Replies: @Right_On

    Fido is right.

    One thing that annoyed me about the film is that the crew member depicted as a die-hard Hitler loyalist is regarded by the rest of the war-weary, disillusioned sailors as a credulous sap.

    In truth, the U-Boat arm was infamously the most fanatically Nazi of all wings of the German armed forces – following the lead of its Commander-in-Chief, Karl Dönitz. (If you wanted to look down your nose at vulgar national socialists, you would have felt at home on the Kriegsmarine’s surface fleet.)

    • Replies: @anon
    @Right_On

    In truth, the U-Boat arm was infamously the most fanatically Nazi of all wings of the German armed forces

    Source? Cite?

    For example, I do not recall reading such things in Herbert Werner's semi-autobiographical book about the U-boat service Iron Coffins. So I am very interested in what you have to say to support your claim.

    Thanks.

  110. @anon
    @Achmed E. Newman

    I have checked out open-source phones before, but it was the Pine phones, not this Librem phone

    Ok. Now you have a pointer to Librem. What will you choose to do with this information?

    (the vid on the page didn’t start up for me).

    So? I'm not in charge of their vids. The specs for the handset and other devices are still easy to find and read, if you're interested.

    I wasn’t writing about working at a National Lab. I’m talking about everyday life.

    The same approach works at home, or in another place of business, as I have already explained to you.

    I had a cheapo phone (see, I don’t care for the touch screens that awful much to begin with) for a while, but it was no longer supported.

    So?

    I have no reason to be a target. Even so, data is very cheap to store now. Lots and lots of my information can be stored in case someone WANTS to make me a target. I have a feeling that’s what happens to a lot of formerly decent politiians.

    So? Is there a problem that you are trying to solve, or is this just whining?

    PS: Most people want to be able to receive calls. How many people do you know with (real) land-lines anymore?

    Most people are ignorant. There are trade offs to carrying an easily located radio around with you. There are more tradeoffs involved in carrying a device with three radios. I've outlined some options. If you don't like any of them, that's a shame.

    Do you have a point to make, a problem to solve, or are you just whining like an anxious puppy?

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    Dude, hat is wrong with you? My point was to illustrate how easy it is for a government or any organization tied into the data to spy on anyone who carries a smartphone. That is a large portion of the American population, going from High School age to people in their 60’s.

    I illustrated very basically how these smartphones can be used for iEspionage, for those who are blissfully unaware. I have gone without, and I have gone with one. Mr. Alarmist had other suggestions. I appreciate the link to that website, but hey, buddy, the video didn’t work!

    I don’t know if you got the general point, which is that anyone who doesn’t take special measures can be targeted for any damn thing. Nobody has nothing they are embarrassed or ashamed about. That’s the very big picture, hence, my original point.

    All that business about the National Labs has not a damn thing to do with what I wrote. People want to USE these phones everywhere – they don’t want to throw them into a metal bin at home. It’s good to learn about ways to minimize the spying, but most people want the convenience. It’s good if they learn some options. I’ll avail myself of them when I need to – in the meantime, I just realize what the deal is with these pieces of spyware.

    Got it? Whether you do or don’t, don’t bother writing back – you can’t handle a conversation, and frankly, you come across as an autistic dickhead..

    • Replies: @anon
    @Achmed E. Newman

    Dude, hat is wrong with you?

    What's wrong with you?
    Let's see.

    My point was to illustrate how easy it is for a government or any organization tied into the data to spy on anyone who carries a smartphone. That is a large portion of the American population, going from High School age to people in their 60’s.

    Yeah, so you were "raising awareness", not asking questions or seeking solutions.
    lol

    I illustrated very basically how these smartphones can be used for iEspionage, for those who are blissfully unaware. I have gone without, and I have gone with one. Mr. Alarmist had other suggestions. I appreciate the link to that website, but hey, buddy, the video didn’t work!

    Dude, the vid is just advertising. That's all it is. If you really wanted to know something about that phone, you'd just copypasta the URL and explore the site. So...you're not really serious about your own com security. Just typing words. Got it.

    I don’t know if you got the general point, which is that anyone who doesn’t take special measures can be targeted for any damn thing.

    Lol. You didn't even bother to read any of the simple, elementary, "special measures" suggested?

    All that business about the National Labs has not a damn thing to do with what I wrote.

    smh

    Secure areas in industry or national labs are places where one does not want an active phone. Right?

    Therefore, one secures the phone outside the secure area. Right?

    Suppose you regarded your bedroom as a secure area, you feared letting any three letter agency hear how you snore. What could you do? Oh, wait, I already told you: secure the phone in another room, just like at a National Lab; secure the phone in a metal container, etc.

    Problem solved. Right?

    But you didn't want to solve anything at all. Right?

    People want to USE these phones everywhere – they don’t want to throw them into a metal bin at home.

    Shrug. Not my problem. Most people are stupid. First you whine about phones being a security risk, I tell you how to minimize the risk, now you whine about that. You are just like most people?

    It’s good to learn about ways to minimize the spying, but most people want the convenience. It’s good if they learn some options. I’ll avail myself of them when I need to – in the meantime, I just realize what the deal is with these pieces of spyware.

    Dude, you could have saved us both some time by just typing "I'm not serious, I don't wanna learn anything, I don't wanna solve anything, I just wanna whine and see my own words in a combox" in your first comment.

    Got it? Whether you do or don’t, don’t bother writing back – you can’t handle a conversation, and frankly, you come across as an autistic dickhead..

    The wise Aristotle noted that there are some people who just cannot be taught.
    Thanks for confirming that...and now at last we know what's wrong with you.

    lol @ Achnad the Bonehead.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

  111. @SunBakedSuburb
    @Achmed E. Newman

    All the smart phones are like a gift from God for any government doing espionage"

    Yep. Data equals intelligence, and the hand computers drive the OPSEC people crazy. Most operatives are issued encrypted devices for short term use but today's spies, having suckled the digital teat since the day they freed themselves from the womb, have short attention spans and will invariably resort to using personal equipment at some point in the operation. What is more troubling is where this invasive technology is taking us: to a posthuman system, the elimination of individual consciousness in favor of the collective. Human-insect hybrids that can be controlled by a signal. It'll be these hybrids that will venture out into the solar system and beyond.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    It’ll be these hybrids that will venture out into the solar system and beyond.

    So, WE are going to be the invading alien cyborgs we were worried about when reading all those Sci-Fi books! Good comment, SBS.

  112. @Anon
    @ATBOTL


    the other zionist neocon agrees with him!
     
    "Achmed E. Newman" is a Zionist Neocon?

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    First I’ve heard about it. I do agree with Jack D’s take on the Chinese CCP spying for one thing, but know nothing about the Isreali’s. The Chinese manufacture about everything. They WILL put a back door in.

    It’s his first 2 paragraphs that I mashed the [Agree] tag for, though.

    • Replies: @ATBOTL
    @Achmed E. Newman

    You are a neocon. It's a fact that Israeli companies are running large parts, probably most of the American telecom and internet infrastructures and you are pushing the idea that China is the problem and claiming not to know about widely reported Israeli spying. Yes, "Achmed E. Newman" is a neocon zionist as are many of the regular commenters here.

    There several regular posters here who deny being neocons, yet always repeat neocon talking points and agree with and support the open neocons like Jack D.

  113. @Joe Stalin
    @Reg Cæsar

    Ever talk to a Chinese person who lived in China during the late 1930s? To a man/woman, WILL tell you the USA didn't drop enough nukes.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar

    Ever talk to a Chinese person who lived in China during the late 1930s? To a man/woman, WILL tell you the USA didn’t drop enough nukes.

    China is amoral.

  114. @Joe Stalin
    @Reg Cæsar

    Ever talk to a Chinese person who lived in China during the late 1930s? To a man/woman, WILL tell you the USA didn't drop enough nukes.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar

    • Replies: @MEH 0910
    @Reg Cæsar

    https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1417438059650555929

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  115. res says:
    @Anon
    @anon


    Any act in service of reducing Holocaust risk is justifiable.

    Including genocide?
     

     
    Do you not understand the right of self defense? It would be genocide in self defense.

    Replies: @anon, @res

    Do you not understand the right of self defense? It would be genocide in self defense.

    How exactly does that differ from what Hitler tried (or claimed to anyway) to do with the holocaust?

    We should start a regular feature here. Post polls for select comments (like that one).

    – Sincere or parody?
    – Duckling or not?
    – Hasbara or anti-Jewish troll?
    – Alt-right extremist (of various forms) or false flag?

  116. @Reg Cæsar
    @Joe Stalin

    Those gooks sure can hold a grudge:


    SKorea removes banners at Olympic village after IOC ruling

    IOC makes South Korea remove banners from Olympic village

    Relations between Japan and South Korea worsened recently as some territorial rows were triggered by Seoul's military manoeuvres near the disputed Dokdo islands after Japan included them in an Olympic torch relay route.


    https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/south-korea-olympics-banner-001.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1236&h=820&crop=1


    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2a/70/c8/2a70c81317752f5ad37dd737e41f5b4c.jpg

    Replies: @MEH 0910

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @MEH 0910

    He wasn't coming anyway.

    Replies: @MEH 0910

  117. @Achmed E. Newman
    @Bill Jones

    Yeah, but do they make small microwave ovens I can tote around with me, Bill, with the phone?

    ;-}

    .


    For Alarmist, [Agree] and [Thanks]. (Ran out.)

    Replies: @Jack D

    They make Faraday cases for phones (also Faraday wallets so people can’t read the RFID off your credit cards) that are a lot easier to carry than a microwave (and cheaper too – under $10). This will keep them from locating you (and also from you getting any phone calls) as long as you have it in the bag, but the instant you pull it out, you can be located (and if your phone has been recording audio, it can now be phoned home). Again, this is the Catch-22 – if you render your phone useless to spying it is also useless to you.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Jack D


    (and if your phone has been recording audio, it can now be phoned home).
     
    What do you mean here by “phoned home”?

    Replies: @Jack D

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @Jack D

    Well, we're going back to square one, which was my first comment, with "mesh Faraday cage".

    We both agree, Jack, there is nothing to stop all data taken from being uploaded at some point, and there WILL BE some point, or you may as well throw the phone out, or use it through its Faraday cage as a camera and .mp3 player only. (Buy yourself a nice camera instead.)

    There is a need for a couple of devices, maybe 3 even, for blocking video recording, sound recording, and gps tracking*, so at least you know when you are purposefully recording stuff or tracking yourself (the latter especially for those who no longer can read a damn map).

    Along with whatever pictures/vid/audio you do record on purpose, while you do so, your location will be saved. Commenter Adam Smith here (and on PS) has informed me and experimented with meta-data that comes with images one sends or displays on-line. The best way for me to knock all that out is to do a print-screen on my computer, then paste the "clipboard" of it into MS-paint (or whatever program) and go from there. The original metadata is lost, though there may me new stuff containing info. about the computer and software.

    Anyway, I enjoyed this conversation, and people just need to be aware of all this, at the very least. I don't need that anon guy giving me shit - all we're doing here is discussing how this stuff works. Thanks, Jack.

    .

    * Does the Faraday case block GPS signals or just the cell tower ones?

    Replies: @Jack D, @Joe Stalin, @Adam Smith

  118. @ginger bread man
    @pro-racism baby

    Steve working for the Mossad is just about as absurd as Epstein working for the Mossad.

    Replies: @Not Raul, @beavertales

    As reported by CBS, Maria Farmer claims to have seen men sitting in front of monitors in a secluded room in Epstein’s mansion. The monitors were connected to pinhole cameras in target rooms.

    The FBI and spooks cleaned out the mansion, and it’s been sold. The evidence is gone. The island has also been visited by the cleanup squad.

    When Ehud Barak was visiting, did he know about the room? Will this come up at Maxwell’s trial?

  119. @Jack D
    @Achmed E. Newman

    They make Faraday cases for phones (also Faraday wallets so people can't read the RFID off your credit cards) that are a lot easier to carry than a microwave (and cheaper too - under $10). This will keep them from locating you (and also from you getting any phone calls) as long as you have it in the bag, but the instant you pull it out, you can be located (and if your phone has been recording audio, it can now be phoned home). Again, this is the Catch-22 - if you render your phone useless to spying it is also useless to you.

    Replies: @Anon, @Achmed E. Newman

    (and if your phone has been recording audio, it can now be phoned home).

    What do you mean here by “phoned home”?

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Anon

    The spyware will cache all of the recorded audio/video/text and as soon as it gets a connection it sends it back to the control server.

  120. @Joe Joe
    @Darth Plastic

    Those Israeli spies are at "skin care" kiosks in every mall in northern Virginia!!!

    Replies: @beavertales

    When Israelis finish their compulsory military service, they are sent abroad to unwind and blow off steam. A gig at a kiosk, moving company or locksmith job in the West is likely a working holiday.

    The awarding of strictly tourist visas to ex-Israeli soldiers does not entitle them to work, so much of it is illegal. They get busted and deported a lot.

  121. @MEH 0910
    @Reg Cæsar

    https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1417438059650555929

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    He wasn’t coming anyway.

    • LOL: JohnnyWalker123
    • Replies: @MEH 0910
    @Reg Cæsar

    https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/56798140/huh-uh-you-said-come.jpg

  122. “Hey Siri, are the Israelis spying on me using Waze?”

    • LOL: Achmed E. Newman
    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Old Prude

    Yes, they are, and have tracked you since birth. They have your charts. You in big trouble!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ2msARQsKU

  123. @JohnnyWalker123
    Let me repost an interesting theory that I have.

    If you want to understand how the world really works, watch these scenes from Godfather 2.

    In this first clip, Senator Pat Geary insults Italian-American gangster Michael Corleone, telling him that he loathes Italians and the corruption that they have brought to America.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG2-FI5_INA

    In this second clip, Senator Pat Geary is caught with a dead hooker at a Corleone-owned brothel.
    A Corleone mafia family associate then shows up, offering to make this go away.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULcJhIoLte4

    Afterward, Senator Geary becomes a huge friend to the Corleone family, helping them out in any way he can. In this third clip, Geary effusively praises Italians (despite holding private animosity towards their ethnicity). He pours cold water onto the Senate's investigation of the Italian-American mafia families.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB-GwYPf4AE

    My theory is this.

    If you substitute in Jews for Italians, the above scenes offer a pretty realistic look at how the American political system works. Shady Jewish hustlers are sexually blackmailing White Gentile elites on an absolutely EPIC scale. Just look at what a staggering fraction of American elites (as well as elites in the UK and various other foreign countries) were sexually blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein.

    The reality is that there are a lot of shady Jewish businessmen, like Epstein. These guys have access to prostitutes, cash, and drugs. So they run huge blackmail operations that target prominent politicians, media personalities, judges, corporate leaders, bureaucrats, entertainers, military/intel officers, and other men of power&influence.

    They seduce prominent men into incriminating themselves in some way (sexually, financially, etc), then hold the evidence as a form of blackmail over their target.

    So there are a lot of Jewish Corleones.

    What do the Jewish Corleones want?

    Mostly, they want various personal favors. In addition to that, they want support for Israel. They also want support for the pro-diversity/globalist project.

    If the Clintons are fanatically supportive of anti-White policies, it’s not because they “hate” Whites. It’s not because they feel “guilty.” It’s not because they’re “empathetic.” It’s because Bill Clinton likely was banging hookers on Epstein’s property, which provided blackmail leverage to the Jews.

    This explains why American politicians support anti-Whiteism in America, but feel comfortable with high-casualty Neocon foreign wars and Jewish racial supremacy in Israel.

    This explains why American politicians cry over a few hundred Southern Blacks who were lynched a century ago, but are indifferent to the lives of over 1 million Iraqis who were slaughtered by the recent Neocon-instigated American invasion (and also indifferent to the Palestinians).

    U.S. leaders are nothing more than puppets of Jewish pimps. So they see nothing contradictory between condemning White supremacy in America and also supporting U.S. genocide in Iraq. They just do as told. There is absolutely ZERO ideological or moral framework to structure their actions.

    By the way, Epstein already had a few mansions (NYC, South Florida, New Mexico) to use as brothels. Ever wonder why Epstein needed a private island that was so far away from home? It was because when they needed to arrange a dead hooker situation, they needed a place where they could dispose of bodies without anyone seeing anything. They needed a place that was unpopulated and remote.

    https://am21.mediaite.com/lc/cnt/uploads/2019/07/Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-12.22.38-PM.png

    TLDR Summary:

    Jewish Corleones are running Epstein-style sexual blackmail operations that target prominent Americans. This is why America’s leaders betray their people, while also being fanatically pro-Israel.

    It’s all about the sexual blackmail.

    So when you ask why Israel is spying on all these powerful elites in America, it's because they want to blackmail them. Find something illegal and/or embarrassing. Especially if it pertains to kinky sex.

    Some politicians will bang your prostitutes and get blackmailed directly. Other politicians will keep their extracirricular activities private, but you can spy on their communication and blackmail them too.

    Replies: @anon, @Old Prude, @CMC, @WaffleStaffel

    I don’t understand how sexual activity can be effectively used as black-mail when society celebrates, proudly, extreme sexual deviancy and perversion.

    • Replies: @JohnnyWalker123
    @Old Prude

    Epstein deliberately procured girls who were UNDER the age of legal consent.

    Therefore, any sexual activity with those girls would legally constitute "rape." Even it was a consensual encounter, an encounter would be illegal.

    So if you could produce a sex tape of that sort of activity, the adult male would be prosecuted and go to jail for years. The girl (or at least her family) could also sue for money.

    That's why Epstein entrapped really young girls. Epstein was looking not just for prostitutes, but underage prostitutes. That supercharges the power of the blackmail.

    In this case, the blackmail is not contingent on public morality. It's contingent on prosecution under the law. Which is a much more powerful motivator.

    A guy like Bill Clinton might not be easily shamed for his sexual indiscretions. However, if you had a video of him with a 14 year-old girl, you could put him in jail and enable the girl to sue for a lot of money. That's the sort of thing that would motivate Bill Clinton to be a willing puppet of Epstein.

    Replies: @anon

    , @JMcG
    @Old Prude

    Not pedophilia. Well not for another few weeks, anyway.

  124. @Jack D
    @Achmed E. Newman

    They make Faraday cases for phones (also Faraday wallets so people can't read the RFID off your credit cards) that are a lot easier to carry than a microwave (and cheaper too - under $10). This will keep them from locating you (and also from you getting any phone calls) as long as you have it in the bag, but the instant you pull it out, you can be located (and if your phone has been recording audio, it can now be phoned home). Again, this is the Catch-22 - if you render your phone useless to spying it is also useless to you.

    Replies: @Anon, @Achmed E. Newman

    Well, we’re going back to square one, which was my first comment, with “mesh Faraday cage”.

    We both agree, Jack, there is nothing to stop all data taken from being uploaded at some point, and there WILL BE some point, or you may as well throw the phone out, or use it through its Faraday cage as a camera and .mp3 player only. (Buy yourself a nice camera instead.)

    There is a need for a couple of devices, maybe 3 even, for blocking video recording, sound recording, and gps tracking*, so at least you know when you are purposefully recording stuff or tracking yourself (the latter especially for those who no longer can read a damn map).

    Along with whatever pictures/vid/audio you do record on purpose, while you do so, your location will be saved. Commenter Adam Smith here (and on PS) has informed me and experimented with meta-data that comes with images one sends or displays on-line. The best way for me to knock all that out is to do a print-screen on my computer, then paste the “clipboard” of it into MS-paint (or whatever program) and go from there. The original metadata is lost, though there may me new stuff containing info. about the computer and software.

    Anyway, I enjoyed this conversation, and people just need to be aware of all this, at the very least. I don’t need that anon guy giving me shit – all we’re doing here is discussing how this stuff works. Thanks, Jack.

    .

    * Does the Faraday case block GPS signals or just the cell tower ones?

    • Replies: @Jack D
    @Achmed E. Newman

    I think the Faraday cage blocks all forms of RF, at least those wavelengths that are longer than the holes in the mesh.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    , @Joe Stalin
    @Achmed E. Newman


    * Does the Faraday case block GPS signals or just the cell tower ones?
     
    Cell phone frequencies cover the range from 700-2500Mhz.

    https://www.allconnect.com/blog/cellular-frequency-bands
     

    Each GPS satellite transmits data on two frequencies, L1 (1575.42 Mhz) and L2 (1227.60 MHz).

    http://www.csr.utexas.edu/texas_pwv/midterm/gabor/gps.html
     
    So if the holes in your Faraday cage are small enough to attenuate 2500 Mhz, you got GPS L-band covered as well. Note that your microwave oven magnetron operates at around 2450Mhz, so your Faraday cage holes should be around the same size as the window RF screening as your oven.
    , @Adam Smith
    @Achmed E. Newman


    Does the Faraday case block GPS signals or just the cell tower ones?
     
    As far as I know, a Faraday cage (or case) blocks all radio signals and electromagnetic fields including GPS.

    However, low-level magnetic fields penetrate Faraday cages. (A compass will work in a Faraday cage.) Interestingly, the low-level magnetic field emitted by a CPU can be manipulated allowing attackers to intercept and steal data. This paper describes a malware codenamed ‘ODINI’ which is one such method for doing so.

    Unless you are the target of some intelligence service, I don't think you have to worry about such an attack at this time. (But it is interesting that this can be done.)

    In real life, there are easier ways for an "intelligence service" or a "government" to get your data from you if they wanted to...

    https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

  125. @WJ
    Carl Cameron did a report about the dancing Israelis after 9 11. The report was later erased from the Fox news site.

    Replies: @Ragno

    Ah yes. The first appearance of that deathless credo for our time:

    THIS STORY NO LONGER EXISTS.

    20-odd (very odd) years ago, a younger, more idealistic me contacted around a dozen “news” organizations demanding, if they weren’t going to investigate it, that they at least acknowledge this.

    Most never responded; two or three let their software do the talking with the blandest-possible pro forma responses. One or two – among the most arch-conservative, oddly enough – questioned my patriotism in this dark hour and told me, in principal’s office terms, to shut the hell up.

    Poor Carl Cameron…..it took him 20 years to figure out which side of the bread is buttered best; he’s now an “independent” journalist who goes on CNN to badmouth Fox News for daring to suggest that there are perfectly logical reasons to resist taking The Jab. He now watches Tucker Carlson and wonders angrily why his “anti-vax” coverage NO LONGER EXISTS as well. (That the rest of us have been seeking in vain for any major-media voice to openly cast suspicion on the vaccines seems not to have occurred to him. Then again, ex-NewsCorp personnel need to walk a tricky line if they intend to Be Liked and Respected by the rest of the ‘opinion journalists’ out there.)

  126. @Achmed E. Newman
    @Jack D

    Well, we're going back to square one, which was my first comment, with "mesh Faraday cage".

    We both agree, Jack, there is nothing to stop all data taken from being uploaded at some point, and there WILL BE some point, or you may as well throw the phone out, or use it through its Faraday cage as a camera and .mp3 player only. (Buy yourself a nice camera instead.)

    There is a need for a couple of devices, maybe 3 even, for blocking video recording, sound recording, and gps tracking*, so at least you know when you are purposefully recording stuff or tracking yourself (the latter especially for those who no longer can read a damn map).

    Along with whatever pictures/vid/audio you do record on purpose, while you do so, your location will be saved. Commenter Adam Smith here (and on PS) has informed me and experimented with meta-data that comes with images one sends or displays on-line. The best way for me to knock all that out is to do a print-screen on my computer, then paste the "clipboard" of it into MS-paint (or whatever program) and go from there. The original metadata is lost, though there may me new stuff containing info. about the computer and software.

    Anyway, I enjoyed this conversation, and people just need to be aware of all this, at the very least. I don't need that anon guy giving me shit - all we're doing here is discussing how this stuff works. Thanks, Jack.

    .

    * Does the Faraday case block GPS signals or just the cell tower ones?

    Replies: @Jack D, @Joe Stalin, @Adam Smith

    I think the Faraday cage blocks all forms of RF, at least those wavelengths that are longer than the holes in the mesh.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Jack D

    For you and Mr. Stalin, yeah, then I see no problem then, as those GPS 1.1 to 1.5 GHz signals have wavelengths of on the order of 20 cm - easily done - λf = c- just pulled out the calculator* as a sanity check.

    .

    * OMG! That calculator is on my phone, meaning the NSA knows what I'm think about ... haha.

  127. @Dissident
    @James Speaks


    I see, and Jews are special, God’s chosen people, a light unto nations, blah blah blah.

    Israel is unnecessary.
     
    Zionists usurped the sacred name Israel for the secular State that they established in defiance of an overwhelming consensus of the foremost rabbis. There have always been plenty of Jews, across the religious, ideological, political and cultural spectrum, that have rejected and opposed Zionism. Conversely, non-Jews have always numbered among the most ardent Zionists. Christian Zionism actually predates the Jewish variety.

    The concepts of Jews as chosen, and as having a mission to be light unto the nations is addressed in this comment of mine from March.

    Replies: @James Speaks

    The concepts of Jews as chosen, and as having a mission to be light unto the nations …

    So, how’s that working out, all things considered?

    Back to my original comment, the Holocaust does not justify the continuing war crime that is the Rogue State of Israel. Until I hear and see and read about a multitude of Jews demanding the dismantling of the Israeli regime and returning all land back to Palestinians, your words are nothing if not empty.

    • Disagree: Dissident
  128. @Jim Don Bob
    @epebble

    The DoD places I worked would not allow you to bring your cell phone into the SCIF. All the computers had their USB ports disabled which is why the traitor Bradley Manning burned CDs and then carried them out.

    Replies: @epebble

    How did they allow blank (burnable) CDs in (and burnt CDs out); and what is the point of blocking USB ports but keeping CD burners?

    • Replies: @Jim Don Bob
    @epebble

    I had two machines - one unclassified that was connected to the WWW, and a classified machine that was connected to DOD's Siprnet. There is NO physical connection between the two networks. I did software development on the unclassified machine, and most testing on the classified machine. I burned the new software developed on the unclass machine to a CD (not a CD-R) and then put it into the classified machine which immediately made that CD a SECRET CD which then had to be locked up or destroyed.

    We also had to keep our monitors faced away from the windows to prevent snooping, and lower the blinds when the window washers rappelled by. We took turns escorting the cleaning lady who emptied the trash and vacuumed the carpet.

    One place I worked had an elaborate series of mirrors on the exterior of the windows such that you couldn't look straight out. I think it was designed to defeat snooping with lasers on the glass.

    These SCIFs were SECRET and TOP SECRET only. Facilities that host SCI programs are even more restrictive.

  129. @Achmed E. Newman
    @Jack D

    Well, we're going back to square one, which was my first comment, with "mesh Faraday cage".

    We both agree, Jack, there is nothing to stop all data taken from being uploaded at some point, and there WILL BE some point, or you may as well throw the phone out, or use it through its Faraday cage as a camera and .mp3 player only. (Buy yourself a nice camera instead.)

    There is a need for a couple of devices, maybe 3 even, for blocking video recording, sound recording, and gps tracking*, so at least you know when you are purposefully recording stuff or tracking yourself (the latter especially for those who no longer can read a damn map).

    Along with whatever pictures/vid/audio you do record on purpose, while you do so, your location will be saved. Commenter Adam Smith here (and on PS) has informed me and experimented with meta-data that comes with images one sends or displays on-line. The best way for me to knock all that out is to do a print-screen on my computer, then paste the "clipboard" of it into MS-paint (or whatever program) and go from there. The original metadata is lost, though there may me new stuff containing info. about the computer and software.

    Anyway, I enjoyed this conversation, and people just need to be aware of all this, at the very least. I don't need that anon guy giving me shit - all we're doing here is discussing how this stuff works. Thanks, Jack.

    .

    * Does the Faraday case block GPS signals or just the cell tower ones?

    Replies: @Jack D, @Joe Stalin, @Adam Smith

    * Does the Faraday case block GPS signals or just the cell tower ones?

    Cell phone frequencies cover the range from 700-2500Mhz.

    https://www.allconnect.com/blog/cellular-frequency-bands

    Each GPS satellite transmits data on two frequencies, L1 (1575.42 Mhz) and L2 (1227.60 MHz).

    http://www.csr.utexas.edu/texas_pwv/midterm/gabor/gps.html

    So if the holes in your Faraday cage are small enough to attenuate 2500 Mhz, you got GPS L-band covered as well. Note that your microwave oven magnetron operates at around 2450Mhz, so your Faraday cage holes should be around the same size as the window RF screening as your oven.

    • Thanks: Achmed E. Newman
  130. @Achmed E. Newman
    @Jack D

    Well, we're going back to square one, which was my first comment, with "mesh Faraday cage".

    We both agree, Jack, there is nothing to stop all data taken from being uploaded at some point, and there WILL BE some point, or you may as well throw the phone out, or use it through its Faraday cage as a camera and .mp3 player only. (Buy yourself a nice camera instead.)

    There is a need for a couple of devices, maybe 3 even, for blocking video recording, sound recording, and gps tracking*, so at least you know when you are purposefully recording stuff or tracking yourself (the latter especially for those who no longer can read a damn map).

    Along with whatever pictures/vid/audio you do record on purpose, while you do so, your location will be saved. Commenter Adam Smith here (and on PS) has informed me and experimented with meta-data that comes with images one sends or displays on-line. The best way for me to knock all that out is to do a print-screen on my computer, then paste the "clipboard" of it into MS-paint (or whatever program) and go from there. The original metadata is lost, though there may me new stuff containing info. about the computer and software.

    Anyway, I enjoyed this conversation, and people just need to be aware of all this, at the very least. I don't need that anon guy giving me shit - all we're doing here is discussing how this stuff works. Thanks, Jack.

    .

    * Does the Faraday case block GPS signals or just the cell tower ones?

    Replies: @Jack D, @Joe Stalin, @Adam Smith

    Does the Faraday case block GPS signals or just the cell tower ones?

    As far as I know, a Faraday cage (or case) blocks all radio signals and electromagnetic fields including GPS.

    However, low-level magnetic fields penetrate Faraday cages. (A compass will work in a Faraday cage.) Interestingly, the low-level magnetic field emitted by a CPU can be manipulated allowing attackers to intercept and steal data. This paper describes a malware codenamed ‘ODINI’ which is one such method for doing so.

    Unless you are the target of some intelligence service, I don’t think you have to worry about such an attack at this time. (But it is interesting that this can be done.)

    In real life, there are easier ways for an “intelligence service” or a “government” to get your data from you if they wanted to…

    • LOL: Achmed E. Newman
    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Adam Smith

    It's funny cause it's true!

    For Big Data and Big Gov though, they don't have enough $600 wrenches (OK, 1970s prices there). Their advantage is that they don't have to really crack anything, as they have the power that a lot of idiots gave them.

    Thanks, Adam.

  131. @Jack D
    @Achmed E. Newman

    I think the Faraday cage blocks all forms of RF, at least those wavelengths that are longer than the holes in the mesh.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    For you and Mr. Stalin, yeah, then I see no problem then, as those GPS 1.1 to 1.5 GHz signals have wavelengths of on the order of 20 cm – easily done – λf = c- just pulled out the calculator* as a sanity check.

    .

    * OMG! That calculator is on my phone, meaning the NSA knows what I’m think about … haha.

  132. @Adam Smith
    @Achmed E. Newman


    Does the Faraday case block GPS signals or just the cell tower ones?
     
    As far as I know, a Faraday cage (or case) blocks all radio signals and electromagnetic fields including GPS.

    However, low-level magnetic fields penetrate Faraday cages. (A compass will work in a Faraday cage.) Interestingly, the low-level magnetic field emitted by a CPU can be manipulated allowing attackers to intercept and steal data. This paper describes a malware codenamed ‘ODINI’ which is one such method for doing so.

    Unless you are the target of some intelligence service, I don't think you have to worry about such an attack at this time. (But it is interesting that this can be done.)

    In real life, there are easier ways for an "intelligence service" or a "government" to get your data from you if they wanted to...

    https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    It’s funny cause it’s true!

    For Big Data and Big Gov though, they don’t have enough $600 wrenches (OK, 1970s prices there). Their advantage is that they don’t have to really crack anything, as they have the power that a lot of idiots gave them.

    Thanks, Adam.

    • Thanks: Adam Smith
  133. @Steve Sailer
    @Anon

    I went to grade school with a guy who is now a popular professor of dinosaurs at Cal State San Bernardino now, Stuart Sumida.

    https://www.csusb.edu/inside/article/447936/stuart-sumida-biology-professor-defining-future

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “I wrote about Israel’s push to get its hooks into telecom software back in 2013.”

    China and Russia, too. But, shhh, don’t NOTICE.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/opinion/russia-hacking.html

    While Beijing instituted government control over the internet in the 1990s, the internet in Russia (as in most countries) penetrated society relatively unencumbered. Facebook, Twitter and Google — all blocked in China — are accessible in Russia. That’s why the Russian government had to build a digital surveillance infrastructure that could sit on top of an open digital space, using fewer state resources than are used by China.

    Enter the System of Operative Search Measures, or SORM, which is based on a Soviet-era surveillance system for monitoring telephone calls. In 1995, the system was resurrected and expanded to monitor email traffic and online browsing. Today, a growing list of companies, including telecommunications companies, internet service providers and social media platforms, are legally required to install SORM equipment.

    • Replies: @ATBOTL
    @Corvinus


    China and Russia, too. But, shhh, don’t NOTICE.
     
    Israeli companies and their spy apps are running all of these communications networks and databases in America, public and private, not Chinese let alone Russian ones.

    Corvinus shows his true agenda.

    Threads like this about Israeli spying on America really bring out the neocons and zionists. All the goys in here should be keeping track of who reveals themselves to be a zionist shill and remembering who they are when you read anything they write.
  134. @J.Ross
    @Anon

    What if the Jews prevented a holocaust by doing something which permanently ruined their reputation among gentiles?

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “What if the Jews prevented a holocaust by doing something which permanently ruined their reputation among gentiles?”

    I would say normies (aka normal people) do not share your (and others) perspective regarding how Jews (or Boomers) are the scourge of the earth.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Corvinus

    Okay. So what, in that case, if anyone did something, in ostensible self-defense, which unintentionally had the effect of disgusting whoever heard about it? The potential objectively exists for a defensive measure to overshoot and recreate the problems it was intended to end.

  135. @Old Prude
    "Hey Siri, are the Israelis spying on me using Waze?"

    Replies: @Corvinus

    Yes, they are, and have tracked you since birth. They have your charts. You in big trouble!

    • Thanks: Achmed E. Newman
  136. @Old Prude
    @JohnnyWalker123

    I don't understand how sexual activity can be effectively used as black-mail when society celebrates, proudly, extreme sexual deviancy and perversion.

    Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @JMcG

    Epstein deliberately procured girls who were UNDER the age of legal consent.

    Therefore, any sexual activity with those girls would legally constitute “rape.” Even it was a consensual encounter, an encounter would be illegal.

    So if you could produce a sex tape of that sort of activity, the adult male would be prosecuted and go to jail for years. The girl (or at least her family) could also sue for money.

    That’s why Epstein entrapped really young girls. Epstein was looking not just for prostitutes, but underage prostitutes. That supercharges the power of the blackmail.

    In this case, the blackmail is not contingent on public morality. It’s contingent on prosecution under the law. Which is a much more powerful motivator.

    A guy like Bill Clinton might not be easily shamed for his sexual indiscretions. However, if you had a video of him with a 14 year-old girl, you could put him in jail and enable the girl to sue for a lot of money. That’s the sort of thing that would motivate Bill Clinton to be a willing puppet of Epstein.

    • Agree: LondonBob
    • Replies: @anon
    @JohnnyWalker123

    That’s why Epstein entrapped really young girls.
    "Really young"? Didn't most of them, at least, easily pass for at least 16-- the age of consent in at least 30 of the 50 United States?

  137. @Corvinus
    @J.Ross

    "What if the Jews prevented a holocaust by doing something which permanently ruined their reputation among gentiles?"

    I would say normies (aka normal people) do not share your (and others) perspective regarding how Jews (or Boomers) are the scourge of the earth.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Okay. So what, in that case, if anyone did something, in ostensible self-defense, which unintentionally had the effect of disgusting whoever heard about it? The potential objectively exists for a defensive measure to overshoot and recreate the problems it was intended to end.

  138. @epebble
    @Jim Don Bob

    How did they allow blank (burnable) CDs in (and burnt CDs out); and what is the point of blocking USB ports but keeping CD burners?

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

    I had two machines – one unclassified that was connected to the WWW, and a classified machine that was connected to DOD’s Siprnet. There is NO physical connection between the two networks. I did software development on the unclassified machine, and most testing on the classified machine. I burned the new software developed on the unclass machine to a CD (not a CD-R) and then put it into the classified machine which immediately made that CD a SECRET CD which then had to be locked up or destroyed.

    We also had to keep our monitors faced away from the windows to prevent snooping, and lower the blinds when the window washers rappelled by. We took turns escorting the cleaning lady who emptied the trash and vacuumed the carpet.

    One place I worked had an elaborate series of mirrors on the exterior of the windows such that you couldn’t look straight out. I think it was designed to defeat snooping with lasers on the glass.

    These SCIFs were SECRET and TOP SECRET only. Facilities that host SCI programs are even more restrictive.

    • Thanks: epebble
  139. @Old Prude
    @JohnnyWalker123

    I don't understand how sexual activity can be effectively used as black-mail when society celebrates, proudly, extreme sexual deviancy and perversion.

    Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @JMcG

    Not pedophilia. Well not for another few weeks, anyway.

  140. @Anon
    @Jack D


    (and if your phone has been recording audio, it can now be phoned home).
     
    What do you mean here by “phoned home”?

    Replies: @Jack D

    The spyware will cache all of the recorded audio/video/text and as soon as it gets a connection it sends it back to the control server.

  141. @Corvinus
    @Steve Sailer

    "I wrote about Israel’s push to get its hooks into telecom software back in 2013."

    China and Russia, too. But, shhh, don't NOTICE.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/opinion/russia-hacking.html



    While Beijing instituted government control over the internet in the 1990s, the internet in Russia (as in most countries) penetrated society relatively unencumbered. Facebook, Twitter and Google — all blocked in China — are accessible in Russia. That’s why the Russian government had to build a digital surveillance infrastructure that could sit on top of an open digital space, using fewer state resources than are used by China.

    Enter the System of Operative Search Measures, or SORM, which is based on a Soviet-era surveillance system for monitoring telephone calls. In 1995, the system was resurrected and expanded to monitor email traffic and online browsing. Today, a growing list of companies, including telecommunications companies, internet service providers and social media platforms, are legally required to install SORM equipment.
     

    Replies: @ATBOTL

    China and Russia, too. But, shhh, don’t NOTICE.

    Israeli companies and their spy apps are running all of these communications networks and databases in America, public and private, not Chinese let alone Russian ones.

    Corvinus shows his true agenda.

    Threads like this about Israeli spying on America really bring out the neocons and zionists. All the goys in here should be keeping track of who reveals themselves to be a zionist shill and remembering who they are when you read anything they write.

    • Agree: LondonBob
  142. CMC says:
    @JohnnyWalker123
    Let me repost an interesting theory that I have.

    If you want to understand how the world really works, watch these scenes from Godfather 2.

    In this first clip, Senator Pat Geary insults Italian-American gangster Michael Corleone, telling him that he loathes Italians and the corruption that they have brought to America.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG2-FI5_INA

    In this second clip, Senator Pat Geary is caught with a dead hooker at a Corleone-owned brothel.
    A Corleone mafia family associate then shows up, offering to make this go away.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULcJhIoLte4

    Afterward, Senator Geary becomes a huge friend to the Corleone family, helping them out in any way he can. In this third clip, Geary effusively praises Italians (despite holding private animosity towards their ethnicity). He pours cold water onto the Senate's investigation of the Italian-American mafia families.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB-GwYPf4AE

    My theory is this.

    If you substitute in Jews for Italians, the above scenes offer a pretty realistic look at how the American political system works. Shady Jewish hustlers are sexually blackmailing White Gentile elites on an absolutely EPIC scale. Just look at what a staggering fraction of American elites (as well as elites in the UK and various other foreign countries) were sexually blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein.

    The reality is that there are a lot of shady Jewish businessmen, like Epstein. These guys have access to prostitutes, cash, and drugs. So they run huge blackmail operations that target prominent politicians, media personalities, judges, corporate leaders, bureaucrats, entertainers, military/intel officers, and other men of power&influence.

    They seduce prominent men into incriminating themselves in some way (sexually, financially, etc), then hold the evidence as a form of blackmail over their target.

    So there are a lot of Jewish Corleones.

    What do the Jewish Corleones want?

    Mostly, they want various personal favors. In addition to that, they want support for Israel. They also want support for the pro-diversity/globalist project.

    If the Clintons are fanatically supportive of anti-White policies, it’s not because they “hate” Whites. It’s not because they feel “guilty.” It’s not because they’re “empathetic.” It’s because Bill Clinton likely was banging hookers on Epstein’s property, which provided blackmail leverage to the Jews.

    This explains why American politicians support anti-Whiteism in America, but feel comfortable with high-casualty Neocon foreign wars and Jewish racial supremacy in Israel.

    This explains why American politicians cry over a few hundred Southern Blacks who were lynched a century ago, but are indifferent to the lives of over 1 million Iraqis who were slaughtered by the recent Neocon-instigated American invasion (and also indifferent to the Palestinians).

    U.S. leaders are nothing more than puppets of Jewish pimps. So they see nothing contradictory between condemning White supremacy in America and also supporting U.S. genocide in Iraq. They just do as told. There is absolutely ZERO ideological or moral framework to structure their actions.

    By the way, Epstein already had a few mansions (NYC, South Florida, New Mexico) to use as brothels. Ever wonder why Epstein needed a private island that was so far away from home? It was because when they needed to arrange a dead hooker situation, they needed a place where they could dispose of bodies without anyone seeing anything. They needed a place that was unpopulated and remote.

    https://am21.mediaite.com/lc/cnt/uploads/2019/07/Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-12.22.38-PM.png

    TLDR Summary:

    Jewish Corleones are running Epstein-style sexual blackmail operations that target prominent Americans. This is why America’s leaders betray their people, while also being fanatically pro-Israel.

    It’s all about the sexual blackmail.

    So when you ask why Israel is spying on all these powerful elites in America, it's because they want to blackmail them. Find something illegal and/or embarrassing. Especially if it pertains to kinky sex.

    Some politicians will bang your prostitutes and get blackmailed directly. Other politicians will keep their extracirricular activities private, but you can spy on their communication and blackmail them too.

    Replies: @anon, @Old Prude, @CMC, @WaffleStaffel

    “when they needed to arrange a dead hooker situation”

    Kind of an aside, but I had to watch that movie like 20 times and read the book before it dawned on me what I think is the full evil of that scene in the brothel.

    For a long time, I just thought it was all sort of a coincidence. Like, ‘what a hypocrite he is, he lost control of himself, lost himself.’ A coincidence that the criminal organization took advantage of.

    But now I’m convinced the scene depicted a totally pre-arranged operation, including the murder of the girl, after she and the senator had passed out.

    Among other salient facts:

    Geary says he can’t remember; passed out. Says she was laughing; they’d done it —the act and play-acting before. He’s in an excited, traumatized state. I would believe him. I submit that their drinks were probably spiked with some heavy duty stuff.

    Al Neri is there. This is fleshed out more in the book. Neri is Michael’s Luca Brasi. And Brasi is.. well, the book fleshes out Brasi too. These guys are killers. Guys who are ready willing and able to do some seriously dark things for their boss. Without question. Without remorse. Terminators.

    And not only does Neri appear —watch for him to show up at 2:17 in that second clip, but he shows up from, I submit, some sort of bathroom. And he’s either rubbing washing his finger tips or nails, or some sort of small tool(s) equipment. Cleaning the blood from his hands? From under his fingernails?

    All the other girls are blasé. Only one even attempts to look in. None of them say anything. Now that last could be because the filmmakers were trying to avoid giving those actresses any speaking lines which would require higher salaries per the actors guild rules or whatever. And of course it’s possible the girls are moved around as a standard practice in that industry partly to prevent them from forming attachments. But still. Your co-worker gets slaughtered and no one’s losing it? Even a mere recent acquaintance? The whole place is that much under control? That was kind of the lead in for me, after all those viewings. Like maybe _everyone_ there was there as part of an op —not necessarily knowingly, but arranged and playing a part in the con. Like, ‘…another thing, we can’t have any other girls there who know her or are friends with her…’

    Another angle I thought about is whether she’s even really dead. She’s not in rigor, but I’m assuming Geary has enough down home worldly experience and has it together enough to tell whether she’s cold and not breathing. But then again he is in a state of distress.

    Wouldn’t that have been something? To fake it. Put on a show. Con him into becoming a tool.

    • Thanks: JohnnyWalker123
    • Replies: @WaffleStaffel
    @CMC

    Yeah, I'd say Neri popping in the doorway rubbing a cloth under his fingernails is a dead giveaway that Geary is not the actual murderer. "Wetwork by Nerí" - sounds like it could be a real upscale business!

  143. @Reg Cæsar
    @MEH 0910

    He wasn't coming anyway.

    Replies: @MEH 0910

  144. @JohnnyWalker123
    @Old Prude

    Epstein deliberately procured girls who were UNDER the age of legal consent.

    Therefore, any sexual activity with those girls would legally constitute "rape." Even it was a consensual encounter, an encounter would be illegal.

    So if you could produce a sex tape of that sort of activity, the adult male would be prosecuted and go to jail for years. The girl (or at least her family) could also sue for money.

    That's why Epstein entrapped really young girls. Epstein was looking not just for prostitutes, but underage prostitutes. That supercharges the power of the blackmail.

    In this case, the blackmail is not contingent on public morality. It's contingent on prosecution under the law. Which is a much more powerful motivator.

    A guy like Bill Clinton might not be easily shamed for his sexual indiscretions. However, if you had a video of him with a 14 year-old girl, you could put him in jail and enable the girl to sue for a lot of money. That's the sort of thing that would motivate Bill Clinton to be a willing puppet of Epstein.

    Replies: @anon

    That’s why Epstein entrapped really young girls.
    “Really young”? Didn’t most of them, at least, easily pass for at least 16– the age of consent in at least 30 of the 50 United States?

  145. @JohnnyWalker123
    Let me repost an interesting theory that I have.

    If you want to understand how the world really works, watch these scenes from Godfather 2.

    In this first clip, Senator Pat Geary insults Italian-American gangster Michael Corleone, telling him that he loathes Italians and the corruption that they have brought to America.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG2-FI5_INA

    In this second clip, Senator Pat Geary is caught with a dead hooker at a Corleone-owned brothel.
    A Corleone mafia family associate then shows up, offering to make this go away.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULcJhIoLte4

    Afterward, Senator Geary becomes a huge friend to the Corleone family, helping them out in any way he can. In this third clip, Geary effusively praises Italians (despite holding private animosity towards their ethnicity). He pours cold water onto the Senate's investigation of the Italian-American mafia families.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB-GwYPf4AE

    My theory is this.

    If you substitute in Jews for Italians, the above scenes offer a pretty realistic look at how the American political system works. Shady Jewish hustlers are sexually blackmailing White Gentile elites on an absolutely EPIC scale. Just look at what a staggering fraction of American elites (as well as elites in the UK and various other foreign countries) were sexually blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein.

    The reality is that there are a lot of shady Jewish businessmen, like Epstein. These guys have access to prostitutes, cash, and drugs. So they run huge blackmail operations that target prominent politicians, media personalities, judges, corporate leaders, bureaucrats, entertainers, military/intel officers, and other men of power&influence.

    They seduce prominent men into incriminating themselves in some way (sexually, financially, etc), then hold the evidence as a form of blackmail over their target.

    So there are a lot of Jewish Corleones.

    What do the Jewish Corleones want?

    Mostly, they want various personal favors. In addition to that, they want support for Israel. They also want support for the pro-diversity/globalist project.

    If the Clintons are fanatically supportive of anti-White policies, it’s not because they “hate” Whites. It’s not because they feel “guilty.” It’s not because they’re “empathetic.” It’s because Bill Clinton likely was banging hookers on Epstein’s property, which provided blackmail leverage to the Jews.

    This explains why American politicians support anti-Whiteism in America, but feel comfortable with high-casualty Neocon foreign wars and Jewish racial supremacy in Israel.

    This explains why American politicians cry over a few hundred Southern Blacks who were lynched a century ago, but are indifferent to the lives of over 1 million Iraqis who were slaughtered by the recent Neocon-instigated American invasion (and also indifferent to the Palestinians).

    U.S. leaders are nothing more than puppets of Jewish pimps. So they see nothing contradictory between condemning White supremacy in America and also supporting U.S. genocide in Iraq. They just do as told. There is absolutely ZERO ideological or moral framework to structure their actions.

    By the way, Epstein already had a few mansions (NYC, South Florida, New Mexico) to use as brothels. Ever wonder why Epstein needed a private island that was so far away from home? It was because when they needed to arrange a dead hooker situation, they needed a place where they could dispose of bodies without anyone seeing anything. They needed a place that was unpopulated and remote.

    https://am21.mediaite.com/lc/cnt/uploads/2019/07/Screen-Shot-2019-07-12-at-12.22.38-PM.png

    TLDR Summary:

    Jewish Corleones are running Epstein-style sexual blackmail operations that target prominent Americans. This is why America’s leaders betray their people, while also being fanatically pro-Israel.

    It’s all about the sexual blackmail.

    So when you ask why Israel is spying on all these powerful elites in America, it's because they want to blackmail them. Find something illegal and/or embarrassing. Especially if it pertains to kinky sex.

    Some politicians will bang your prostitutes and get blackmailed directly. Other politicians will keep their extracirricular activities private, but you can spy on their communication and blackmail them too.

    Replies: @anon, @Old Prude, @CMC, @WaffleStaffel

    The underage version of this blackmail is colloquially referred to as a “Brownstone operation,” named after the Brownstone apartment of rep Barney Frank which was used for a number of these ensnarements, whether voluntary on the part of the target, or accomplished by drugging. (The movie strongly suggests Pat Geary had been drugged, and the victim murdered by someone else)

    I’ll attest to the fact that the first two scenes are edited out of television broadcasts of the Godfather II. They don’t want people to even think about the possibility anymore.

  146. @CMC
    @JohnnyWalker123


    “when they needed to arrange a dead hooker situation”

     

    Kind of an aside, but I had to watch that movie like 20 times and read the book before it dawned on me what I think is the full evil of that scene in the brothel.

    For a long time, I just thought it was all sort of a coincidence. Like, ‘what a hypocrite he is, he lost control of himself, lost himself.’ A coincidence that the criminal organization took advantage of.

    But now I’m convinced the scene depicted a totally pre-arranged operation, including the murder of the girl, after she and the senator had passed out.

    Among other salient facts:

    Geary says he can’t remember; passed out. Says she was laughing; they’d done it —the act and play-acting before. He’s in an excited, traumatized state. I would believe him. I submit that their drinks were probably spiked with some heavy duty stuff.

    Al Neri is there. This is fleshed out more in the book. Neri is Michael’s Luca Brasi. And Brasi is.. well, the book fleshes out Brasi too. These guys are killers. Guys who are ready willing and able to do some seriously dark things for their boss. Without question. Without remorse. Terminators.

    And not only does Neri appear —watch for him to show up at 2:17 in that second clip, but he shows up from, I submit, some sort of bathroom. And he’s either rubbing washing his finger tips or nails, or some sort of small tool(s) equipment. Cleaning the blood from his hands? From under his fingernails?

    All the other girls are blasé. Only one even attempts to look in. None of them say anything. Now that last could be because the filmmakers were trying to avoid giving those actresses any speaking lines which would require higher salaries per the actors guild rules or whatever. And of course it’s possible the girls are moved around as a standard practice in that industry partly to prevent them from forming attachments. But still. Your co-worker gets slaughtered and no one’s losing it? Even a mere recent acquaintance? The whole place is that much under control? That was kind of the lead in for me, after all those viewings. Like maybe _everyone_ there was there as part of an op —not necessarily knowingly, but arranged and playing a part in the con. Like, ‘...another thing, we can’t have any other girls there who know her or are friends with her...’

    Another angle I thought about is whether she’s even really dead. She’s not in rigor, but I’m assuming Geary has enough down home worldly experience and has it together enough to tell whether she’s cold and not breathing. But then again he is in a state of distress.

    Wouldn’t that have been something? To fake it. Put on a show. Con him into becoming a tool.

    Replies: @WaffleStaffel

    Yeah, I’d say Neri popping in the doorway rubbing a cloth under his fingernails is a dead giveaway that Geary is not the actual murderer. “Wetwork by Nerí” – sounds like it could be a real upscale business!

  147. @kaganovitch
    @Anonymous

    hine for polishing Rocks, metal parts etc. It works by tumbling round and round in an abrasive medium.

    www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Hobby-Rock-Tumbler

    Achmed was suggesting it would drive gyro program nuts.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Achmed E. Newman, @sayless

    Or you could put the smartphone in the dryer, bundled in a towel, on air. Heh-heh.

  148. @Hank Williams, Sr.
    @Reg Cæsar

    They deserved that for the way they treated our POWs. You anti-American ADHD-addled little shit.

    Replies: @Voltarde, @Reg Cæsar, @sayless

    The Japanese were horrible to their prisoners of war.

    Eisenhower wasn’t better.

    Ground Zero was a kindergarten.

    Take your hat off and put it on the other way.

    And leave Hank Williams, Sr. alone.

  149. anon[142] • Disclaimer says:

    NSO is standing firm on their “we dindu nuffin‘!” defense, even as more “customers” of the Pegasus exploit keep showing up.

    In India:

    https://www.india.com/news/india/pegasus-spyware-report-israeli-firm-nso-says-allegations-of-govt-snooping-far-from-reality-4825386/

    And in Mexico:

    https://www.techgadgetguides.com/news/fifty-people-close-to-the-mexican-president-are-among-the-potential-targets-of-the-nso-mexico/

    Mexican President Lopez Obrador, aka AMLO, claimed around the time of his election that he’d been under surveillance for years, and he was planning to make changes within the Mexican government to curtail such things. So…50 or more people in his family, friends, social circle, administration, etc. were targeted by this hacker tool.

    Seems like a rather clear message was sent to AMLO, eh?

  150. anon[142] • Disclaimer says:
    @Anonymous
    @anon


    The algorithms keep careful track of NULL periods – exactly where, when and for how long you turned off your phone, how this correlates to calls shortly before and after, etc.

    Could be true. What do you suggest we should do about it?
     

     
    Remember when "landline" phones were the only option. Arrange life without relying on obsessive re-confirmation and re-scheduling by cell phone. Of course, there are a myriad other ways we are being tracked, including facial recognition, vehicle tracking WITHOUT license plate recognition, etc.

    Replies: @anon

    All good advice, although it’s not at all difficult to tap landlines. In many cities, such as parts of New York, Chicago, and LA there are so many cameras installed that the entire public space is a panopticon. I’m certain that every vehicle entering and/or leaving Manhattan is imaged.

    What you are essentially proposing is tradecraft in the espionage sense, and most people cannot or will not do it. So they whine about big sibling but refuse to give up their hand held radiotelephone / tracking device.

    It’s like complaining about the quality of the food in a jailhouse, and the portions are too small also!

    smh

  151. anon[419] • Disclaimer says:
    @Right_On
    @anon videla

    Fido is right.

    One thing that annoyed me about the film is that the crew member depicted as a die-hard Hitler loyalist is regarded by the rest of the war-weary, disillusioned sailors as a credulous sap.

    In truth, the U-Boat arm was infamously the most fanatically Nazi of all wings of the German armed forces - following the lead of its Commander-in-Chief, Karl Dönitz. (If you wanted to look down your nose at vulgar national socialists, you would have felt at home on the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet.)

    Replies: @anon

    In truth, the U-Boat arm was infamously the most fanatically Nazi of all wings of the German armed forces

    Source? Cite?

    For example, I do not recall reading such things in Herbert Werner’s semi-autobiographical book about the U-boat service Iron Coffins. So I am very interested in what you have to say to support your claim.

    Thanks.

  152. anon[155] • Disclaimer says:
    @Achmed E. Newman
    @anon

    Dude, hat is wrong with you? My point was to illustrate how easy it is for a government or any organization tied into the data to spy on anyone who carries a smartphone. That is a large portion of the American population, going from High School age to people in their 60's.

    I illustrated very basically how these smartphones can be used for iEspionage, for those who are blissfully unaware. I have gone without, and I have gone with one. Mr. Alarmist had other suggestions. I appreciate the link to that website, but hey, buddy, the video didn't work!

    I don't know if you got the general point, which is that anyone who doesn't take special measures can be targeted for any damn thing. Nobody has nothing they are embarrassed or ashamed about. That's the very big picture, hence, my original point.

    All that business about the National Labs has not a damn thing to do with what I wrote. People want to USE these phones everywhere - they don't want to throw them into a metal bin at home. It's good to learn about ways to minimize the spying, but most people want the convenience. It's good if they learn some options. I'll avail myself of them when I need to - in the meantime, I just realize what the deal is with these pieces of spyware.

    Got it? Whether you do or don't, don't bother writing back - you can't handle a conversation, and frankly, you come across as an autistic dickhead..

    Replies: @anon

    Dude, hat is wrong with you?

    What’s wrong with you?
    Let’s see.

    My point was to illustrate how easy it is for a government or any organization tied into the data to spy on anyone who carries a smartphone. That is a large portion of the American population, going from High School age to people in their 60’s.

    Yeah, so you were “raising awareness”, not asking questions or seeking solutions.
    lol

    I illustrated very basically how these smartphones can be used for iEspionage, for those who are blissfully unaware. I have gone without, and I have gone with one. Mr. Alarmist had other suggestions. I appreciate the link to that website, but hey, buddy, the video didn’t work!

    Dude, the vid is just advertising. That’s all it is. If you really wanted to know something about that phone, you’d just copypasta the URL and explore the site. So…you’re not really serious about your own com security. Just typing words. Got it.

    I don’t know if you got the general point, which is that anyone who doesn’t take special measures can be targeted for any damn thing.

    Lol. You didn’t even bother to read any of the simple, elementary, “special measures” suggested?

    All that business about the National Labs has not a damn thing to do with what I wrote.

    smh

    Secure areas in industry or national labs are places where one does not want an active phone. Right?

    Therefore, one secures the phone outside the secure area. Right?

    Suppose you regarded your bedroom as a secure area, you feared letting any three letter agency hear how you snore. What could you do? Oh, wait, I already told you: secure the phone in another room, just like at a National Lab; secure the phone in a metal container, etc.

    Problem solved. Right?

    But you didn’t want to solve anything at all. Right?

    People want to USE these phones everywhere – they don’t want to throw them into a metal bin at home.

    Shrug. Not my problem. Most people are stupid. First you whine about phones being a security risk, I tell you how to minimize the risk, now you whine about that. You are just like most people?

    It’s good to learn about ways to minimize the spying, but most people want the convenience. It’s good if they learn some options. I’ll avail myself of them when I need to – in the meantime, I just realize what the deal is with these pieces of spyware.

    Dude, you could have saved us both some time by just typing “I’m not serious, I don’t wanna learn anything, I don’t wanna solve anything, I just wanna whine and see my own words in a combox” in your first comment.

    Got it? Whether you do or don’t, don’t bother writing back – you can’t handle a conversation, and frankly, you come across as an autistic dickhead..

    The wise Aristotle noted that there are some people who just cannot be taught.
    Thanks for confirming that…and now at last we know what’s wrong with you.

    lol @ Achnad the Bonehead.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @anon

    You finally got it! Raising awareness is good. There ARE solutions, but not everyone will put the convenience and usability aside during normal times. They need to know there ARE ways that allow some of the usability. Otherwise, you just ditch the smartphone and get a pay-as-you-go little brick one, if supported.

    I am somewhat aware and have learned a bit on my own and with some advice from Adam Smith, just now Alarmist, and a personal friend. Your "put in in a metal box" stupidity is no real solution at all. Anyone can figure that out, and if it's for all night long, anyone can take the trouble to take the battery out. As you wrote, it's not the snoring and the fact that they know where you sleep that's the big problem (after all, they send the bill there, right?)

    There are also wise men who know what they don't know. You don't have a clue what you don't know, making you, generously, slightly less wise than an Aristotle.

    Replies: @anon

  153. @anon
    @Achmed E. Newman

    Dude, hat is wrong with you?

    What's wrong with you?
    Let's see.

    My point was to illustrate how easy it is for a government or any organization tied into the data to spy on anyone who carries a smartphone. That is a large portion of the American population, going from High School age to people in their 60’s.

    Yeah, so you were "raising awareness", not asking questions or seeking solutions.
    lol

    I illustrated very basically how these smartphones can be used for iEspionage, for those who are blissfully unaware. I have gone without, and I have gone with one. Mr. Alarmist had other suggestions. I appreciate the link to that website, but hey, buddy, the video didn’t work!

    Dude, the vid is just advertising. That's all it is. If you really wanted to know something about that phone, you'd just copypasta the URL and explore the site. So...you're not really serious about your own com security. Just typing words. Got it.

    I don’t know if you got the general point, which is that anyone who doesn’t take special measures can be targeted for any damn thing.

    Lol. You didn't even bother to read any of the simple, elementary, "special measures" suggested?

    All that business about the National Labs has not a damn thing to do with what I wrote.

    smh

    Secure areas in industry or national labs are places where one does not want an active phone. Right?

    Therefore, one secures the phone outside the secure area. Right?

    Suppose you regarded your bedroom as a secure area, you feared letting any three letter agency hear how you snore. What could you do? Oh, wait, I already told you: secure the phone in another room, just like at a National Lab; secure the phone in a metal container, etc.

    Problem solved. Right?

    But you didn't want to solve anything at all. Right?

    People want to USE these phones everywhere – they don’t want to throw them into a metal bin at home.

    Shrug. Not my problem. Most people are stupid. First you whine about phones being a security risk, I tell you how to minimize the risk, now you whine about that. You are just like most people?

    It’s good to learn about ways to minimize the spying, but most people want the convenience. It’s good if they learn some options. I’ll avail myself of them when I need to – in the meantime, I just realize what the deal is with these pieces of spyware.

    Dude, you could have saved us both some time by just typing "I'm not serious, I don't wanna learn anything, I don't wanna solve anything, I just wanna whine and see my own words in a combox" in your first comment.

    Got it? Whether you do or don’t, don’t bother writing back – you can’t handle a conversation, and frankly, you come across as an autistic dickhead..

    The wise Aristotle noted that there are some people who just cannot be taught.
    Thanks for confirming that...and now at last we know what's wrong with you.

    lol @ Achnad the Bonehead.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    You finally got it! Raising awareness is good. There ARE solutions, but not everyone will put the convenience and usability aside during normal times. They need to know there ARE ways that allow some of the usability. Otherwise, you just ditch the smartphone and get a pay-as-you-go little brick one, if supported.

    I am somewhat aware and have learned a bit on my own and with some advice from Adam Smith, just now Alarmist, and a personal friend. Your “put in in a metal box” stupidity is no real solution at all. Anyone can figure that out, and if it’s for all night long, anyone can take the trouble to take the battery out. As you wrote, it’s not the snoring and the fact that they know where you sleep that’s the big problem (after all, they send the bill there, right?)

    There are also wise men who know what they don’t know. You don’t have a clue what you don’t know, making you, generously, slightly less wise than an Aristotle.

    • Replies: @anon
    @Achmed E. Newman

    You finally got it! Raising awareness is good.

    Oh, yeah. Like the guy who hangs around outside the Dollar store begging for change. He's all about Raising Awareness about the hungry. Or maybe he just wants to go buy a burger...at least he knows what he's doing, unlike you.

    Dude, if you want to "raise awareness" you need to know something.

    There ARE solutions, but not everyone will put the convenience and usability aside during normal times. They need to know there ARE ways that allow some of the usability. Otherwise, you just ditch the smartphone and get a pay-as-you-go little brick one, if supported.

    Did you finally read my first reply? Good! Good for you.

    I am somewhat aware and have learned a bit on my own and with some advice from Adam Smith, just now Alarmist, and a personal friend.

    So if you are "somewhat aware" should you be trying to teach others from a position of ignorance?

    Your “put in in a metal box” stupidity is no real solution at all.

    Lol. You don't really know what a Faraday cage is, do you?

    Anyone can figure that out, and if it’s for all night long, anyone can take the trouble to take the battery out.

    Sure, if that can be done. Jack whined a bit about that. No way to remove the battery from an iPhone short of breaking open the case. So what to do? Oh, wait, I already explained that to you. More than once, in fact.

    As you wrote, it’s not the snoring and the fact that they know where you sleep that’s the big problem (after all, they send the bill there, right?)

    Dude, I'm just offering information to you. Up to you what you do with it. So far, you've demonstrated a clueless unteachability.

    There are also wise men who know what they don’t know.

    That's called "conscious incompetence" in some quarters.

    You don’t have a clue what you don’t know, making you, generously, slightly less wise than an Aristotle.

    Lol. We can both see who has no clue, dude.

    Say, where is the "pendulum" in a smartphone? What does it look like? How does it work in the context of the overall handset? What would happen to it if the handset was in a rock tumbler for a while?

    Lol @ Achnad the Bonehead.

  154. anon[253] • Disclaimer says:
    @Achmed E. Newman
    @anon

    You finally got it! Raising awareness is good. There ARE solutions, but not everyone will put the convenience and usability aside during normal times. They need to know there ARE ways that allow some of the usability. Otherwise, you just ditch the smartphone and get a pay-as-you-go little brick one, if supported.

    I am somewhat aware and have learned a bit on my own and with some advice from Adam Smith, just now Alarmist, and a personal friend. Your "put in in a metal box" stupidity is no real solution at all. Anyone can figure that out, and if it's for all night long, anyone can take the trouble to take the battery out. As you wrote, it's not the snoring and the fact that they know where you sleep that's the big problem (after all, they send the bill there, right?)

    There are also wise men who know what they don't know. You don't have a clue what you don't know, making you, generously, slightly less wise than an Aristotle.

    Replies: @anon

    You finally got it! Raising awareness is good.

    Oh, yeah. Like the guy who hangs around outside the Dollar store begging for change. He’s all about Raising Awareness about the hungry. Or maybe he just wants to go buy a burger…at least he knows what he’s doing, unlike you.

    Dude, if you want to “raise awareness” you need to know something.

    There ARE solutions, but not everyone will put the convenience and usability aside during normal times. They need to know there ARE ways that allow some of the usability. Otherwise, you just ditch the smartphone and get a pay-as-you-go little brick one, if supported.

    Did you finally read my first reply? Good! Good for you.

    I am somewhat aware and have learned a bit on my own and with some advice from Adam Smith, just now Alarmist, and a personal friend.

    So if you are “somewhat aware” should you be trying to teach others from a position of ignorance?

    Your “put in in a metal box” stupidity is no real solution at all.

    Lol. You don’t really know what a Faraday cage is, do you?

    Anyone can figure that out, and if it’s for all night long, anyone can take the trouble to take the battery out.

    Sure, if that can be done. Jack whined a bit about that. No way to remove the battery from an iPhone short of breaking open the case. So what to do? Oh, wait, I already explained that to you. More than once, in fact.

    As you wrote, it’s not the snoring and the fact that they know where you sleep that’s the big problem (after all, they send the bill there, right?)

    Dude, I’m just offering information to you. Up to you what you do with it. So far, you’ve demonstrated a clueless unteachability.

    There are also wise men who know what they don’t know.

    That’s called “conscious incompetence” in some quarters.

    You don’t have a clue what you don’t know, making you, generously, slightly less wise than an Aristotle.

    Lol. We can both see who has no clue, dude.

    Say, where is the “pendulum” in a smartphone? What does it look like? How does it work in the context of the overall handset? What would happen to it if the handset was in a rock tumbler for a while?

    Lol @ Achnad the Bonehead.

  155. @Achmed E. Newman
    @Anon

    First I've heard about it. I do agree with Jack D's take on the Chinese CCP spying for one thing, but know nothing about the Isreali's. The Chinese manufacture about everything. They WILL put a back door in.

    It's his first 2 paragraphs that I mashed the [Agree] tag for, though.

    Replies: @ATBOTL

    You are a neocon. It’s a fact that Israeli companies are running large parts, probably most of the American telecom and internet infrastructures and you are pushing the idea that China is the problem and claiming not to know about widely reported Israeli spying. Yes, “Achmed E. Newman” is a neocon zionist as are many of the regular commenters here.

    There several regular posters here who deny being neocons, yet always repeat neocon talking points and agree with and support the open neocons like Jack D.

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