Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. Edward Snowden
@@jamesdellaneve9005 and im sure corporations care about you waay more... corporations are already using the info they have on us to whip us into a frenzy. We consume the most when on the edge of a mental breakdown! 😂
I've been using Linux for over 15 years but ditched Windows ( never used Apple or ChromeOS ) completely when the British government passed the human rights breaking ( according to the ECHR ,UN and British common law ) mass surveillance act, known as "Snoopers Charter" in 2016. Dumbed my phone too. I saw this coming years ago, if it ain't open source I'm not running or owning it.
Just playing Devils Advocate - Do you have a SMART meter, Do you use Intel or AMD CPU's which use ME or PSP although the latter can be disable in some BIOS's.
@@mrtuk4282 No to a smart meter. AMD cpu ( come on I use Linux of course I'm on AMD ) No other "smart" or internet connected devices in my home. Common sense over a tinfoil hat.
@@notjustforhackers4252 whats wrong with Intel CPU? I think only AMD graphics cards vs NVIDIA is heavily AMD favored if you want to use Linux, but not the CPU?
This isn't 'subversive'. This is being a good citizen who still believes in the US Constitution. This is your civic duty to take back our country from corporations. It says: "We the people..." not 'We the incorporated.' The least we can do.
All of our polititians should be sued, and punished according to the law. This 2 class society we have atm is just disgusting! Life term sentenses to all traitors! ALL of our countries signed stuff like the Geneva convention or the Nurnberg Code, violation of such should be met with the appropriate punishment. Otherwise out "authorities" no longer have ANY right to claim to defend the law. JUSTICE FOR ALL!
You keep talking and see how far that gets you. Me, I'll be here making and reconfiguring stuff, actually doing something practical to protect my data.
1. If end-to-end encryption is phased out....no problem, we will write apps for desktop/mobile to custom-encrypt our own text messages between our peers. 2. We can use non-mainstream chat apps and put encryption ontop of those apps. At the end of the day, we the populous, can create an encryption nightmare for the 'lettered-agencies' and the likes.... just by using different software to encrypt/decrypt.
With respect to Signal threatening to shut down its operations in the UK, if Signal is worried about a MITM attack by the OS, it means that the OS platforms such as macOS would have to intercept key strokes via the input device drivers before the input is passed to the application.... effectively a key logger built into the OS....
You don't have to technologically overcome end up end encryption, you just have to prevent enough people using it that when someone does it's obvious, then go arrest them.
Great video. I wish more people cared about privacy and security. I try to interest people in encrypted email, but how many group emails don't have at least one recipient with a gmail address? That's all that's needed to read and store the entire email thread. I've used Linux exclusively for over 20 years. Yesterday, I was forced to use my sister's Windows computer and it felt like I was tortured by the slow stupidity while it was spying on me. How do people live like that? It would only be possible if they didn't know.
Freedom of speech means freedom of encryption. The end. Any law prohibiting it is completely unconstitutional and illegal. It will have to be done by the corporations which will gladly do it. Gladly we have open source software for everyone :)
Gee thanks for making me think this hard so early in the morning. Orwell had it right. I'm probably on another list by making this comment and I hope them and their AI are bored to tears watching me. Thank you for pointing this out, this is important information.
What about EFI? Hardware Vendors could enforce secure boot enabled and Microsoft or other entity could only sign compromised kernels. Also, there could be no way to sign custom kernels by own. Everything in manner of security.
I think what's coming is pronouncing someone guilty because they simply used open source privacy tool. The French police have already used "defendant uses Tor" as an argument (on the case where Protonmail was ordered to share IP addresses)
I'm always amazed by the amount of developers and IT technicians who keep using Windoze or MacO$. Regular users ignore what runs in such Operating Systems. But people with advanced IT knowledge, what's their excuse???
My journey with linux began in 1999. I was tired of microsofts patented b.s.o.d., and their bizarre notion that a kernel should always be mangled on the fly regardless of system hardware being a fixed thing. That's needless complexity and overhead. So... I tried something new. And as I watched [time and again] the Redmond leviathan take a year or more to patch some problems, linux [thanks to being open sourced] generally got things moving much faster. And isn't it nice to be able to compile what is wanted at startup, and avoid 14 scsi drivers nobody ever used etc? The bloatware factor is at least cut in half, and I don't have to multiply recommended memory x4 to avoid good hardware get rendered to pos status. Just jump: learn a few terms, commands, syntax, and you won't look back.
excellent vid; thanks could you please discuss the impact of the Intel Management Engine on transparency into an O/S -- particularly Debian and Debian derivitives thanks/GW
"Defy math"? No one has proven yet that P != NP. Until that is done, math does not guarantee that encrypted communications involving public key cryptography actually keeps such communications private. We're basically only hoping that P != NP.
what about when the motherboards and video cards, etc all have the 3 letter spyware built in? Make sure you keep several old school CB and HAM radios for when the shtf.
Windows, Mac, Android... they all have tracking, logging, spyware baked deep within the os itself. same for online software and many 3rd party software platforms including social media, email, etc.. also the software in newer vehicles. Just because you use a Linux OS doesn't mean you're invulnerable to the system, it just means its less likely. #1 because the os isn't engineered to transmit data/information from within, bit this doesn't mean it can't be initiated from outside once you log onto an online account/platform. Its not impossible because you're using a Linux OS. But if you're a well versed, savvy Linux user, the chances are dramatically lower, because you know what to look for and what's going on. The general population/society doesn't this is all far beyond their attention span and patience level because they're programmed that way, they willfully refuse to think this way, they just want what's popular, trendy, flashy, shiny, easy and quick to use etc.. the vast majority never even bother to read a tos, they just click the "accept" button. This will never change aside from becoming continually worse. Its jusy too easy
Thanks for the good video. I just discovered your channel. Q: do the tyrants actually expect to bypass the US 4th Amendment by mandating unwarranted scanning? Here is the text of our cherished 4A. Note that it says nothing about whether the govt itself does the searching, or mandates another entity to search on its behalf. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
They are Artificially Intelligent products of the sheep skin mills. Plus lawyers make the rules to benefit lawyers. Oh and AOC? Economics. I guess she got the slide by card like she was in high school. Or as I put it. regurgitate and forget. Next course on the list. Repeat the process.
That's the wrong direction. Playing their game when you know it's rigged is like self-flagellation. Obfuscate and outright break the law. Morality is on your side. Hack them, burn them, donate to Putin, fan the flames of decent and hid even the most mundane of internet activity. Make them waste time decrypting cat pics... All of it is completely justified. They are attacking us and our privacy. They are ENEMIES.
Well I hope they bring back high street shops and banks because I won't trust the internet anymore for my banking and shopping. I could wake one day with no money left in my account.@@user-ir8fs7ss2l
@@user-ir8fs7ss2l They're not immune to social engineering though. The dumbest people are in government and end to end encryption won't protect them from their own ineptitude. Even worse, they're not immune to bribes and blackmail. No encryption needed there. That's how government really runs anyway.
They will certainly except themselves. Prime example is places that have laws against the carrying of firearms. They and their dominions are always exempt.
"I don't care about privacy because I have nothing to hide, is like saying, I don't care about free speech because I have nothing to say" ~ Edward Snowden
Thank you very much for the information I have so much still to learn I send you to communicate with you quite a bit I guess on some podcasts or something but still have a lot to learn
@@terrydaktyllus1320You should check out a paper by Ken Thompson titled, "Reflections on Trusting Trust" it's a fun read, and you'll never trust anything again until you write your own compilers in machine code on your home made CPU.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 But if using Linux to communicate with anyone else who is using one of the other operating systems, that's surely the only 'backdoor' 'they' need?
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I wouldn't know how to switch the OS from my machine. Always wanted LNX since 05, but my then roommate spent days trying to make it work for himself. So I gave up.
Living in technologically and politically backwards Australia, and having ALL my electronic activity examined as part of a court case, I can tell you it's not a fun experience - especially when dealing with technical morons. Rob is 100% accurate and right on the money. What pisses me off the most though, is that the government passes Orwellian laws against the 1% of perps, but make the innocent 99% suffer. To coin a phrase from the film 'War Games': "The only way to win is not to play"
antiX runs completely off of RAM and is very easy to set up and run off of a flash drive (or VM). Unless you save certain things in persistence on that flash drive, any incriminating evidence should disappear once you unmount the flash drive. It is becoming illegal now to do so many things. We all need to become proactive now.
Better 100 innocent men are punished than one guilty man goes free Herman Goering. I thought we fought a World War to prevent this kind of thing. 70 years later here we are embracing it.
@@LilyGazouDon't let that stop you. Start with something easy. Will answer any question you have that I'm capable of answering. Waiting under this comment.
Much of the scanning is happening on the cloud storage side where they push everyone to store their data as backup protection, once the data is in the cloud it can easily be scanned and turned over to the three letter agencies.
They're already scanning cloud storage. This is something entirely different, allowing them to scan even encrypted communications like Whatsapp and Signal.
Quick question, Is there a 'safe alexa echo' alternative? Or are all of those home smart speaker devices a no go? Please any help trying to get someone one if so.
Amen Rob. Great video, agree 100%... these laws are indeed about surveillance. Linux/open source software & communications are critical to combat these draconian efforts.
There really is no such thing a public communication on the internet. This may appear as a public conversation, but as long as it's running on corporate owned servers, it's not truly public. For public communication to truly be public, you'd need to run decentralized network for communication. I'm not even sure how that would work. You would basically need to fiind a way to share each other's IP addresses and communicate and share directly, but sharing IP addresses has other issues.
that's not what public means, though. We all have the right to publish our thoughts where others can see them. We are doing that right here in this comment section. What is unacceptable is the political censorship of such content. Google is guilty of human right abuse, as usual @@joemann7971
I fully expect laws that outlaw accessing the network with any device using an "unsecured operating system" to be proposed soon. And the only way an operating system can be declared "secured" is if it has been approved by The State and has the government's spyware and back-doors built in (along with disallowing encryption). They'll get around to banning (or compromising) Linux eventually.
It won't happen. The entire suite of Internet protocols are built on RFCs (Requests For Comments) which are open standards free for anyone to use. No new public communication protocols can be implemented without an RFC - sure, you can create what private protocols you like and do what you like with them in your own closed user groups, but who cares about that. Nothing will be banned - they can't even work out a single set of global legislation to keep minors from accessing adult material on the Internet, and that problem has been kicking around for decades now. You're being overly dramatic and demonstrating you don't understand the problem - it's not the open design of Linux or the Internet that's the problem, it's all the closed source stuff in MacOS, Windows, Google Android and iOS that's the problem, and they are what 99% of the world uses anyway.
They don't want to stop minors from accessing adult material. That's not a goal they have. Reducing demand from something they are involved in does not make money. It's kind of like PFAS. Everyone knows they are f00king toxic and they are everywhere. Recent research that's coming out and the conclusions are sobering and absolutely horrendous. Yet, do you hear any government taking *real* action with this? I mean based on the research that's coming out, you would expect a reaction similar to Covid but on steroids. Yet: crickets. That's because reducing the demand for something doesn't make money. Just my two cents.@@terrydaktyllus1320
Hence the beauty of open source software - with noone is "in charge". No corporate ceo to bend over a barrel. You download it you instal it yourself...
the problem is the evils within which are the government have already won, no matter who we vote for they'll always be against the citizens and will never have our best interests. Even if we all stopped voting it'll give the politicians and government along with greedy satanic corporations an easier time to assign evil individuals to further push their George Orwellian 1984 agendas and put their communist-like laws into effect. Basically, we're all done for, and no one wants to stand up and revolt against these evil organizations and individuals because people are either. A. have too much to lose and or are scared. B. Too lazy and or weak C All of the above@@BaptistJoshua
Remember: UEFI already has OS-like capabilities that would allow it to be compromised and examine local memory then send data from its own network stack under the OS.
@@tom_marsden System76 and StarLabs, and though I dislike them, Purism all ship machines with coreboot. You'll never be fully blob free but with the IME HAP bit and an open source EC, and a non-intel network controller, you're pretty safe.
@@skf957the concept @mawnkey talks about is called data-in-use encryption. see wikipedia on how to align it with the OP topic regarding uefi. (tldr Good luck with it summarises perfectly)
When we do get to the point where they're openly going after "non-compliant" open source / Linux distros then we can look to the past to see their playbook. They would attack the distros the same way they attack and shut down link aggregators: They shut down the servers remotely at the DNS level, move in and confiscate the hardware if it's somewhere they can reach, and then go after the maintainers with lawsuits they can't afford to defend. What I think will be surprising to some at the time is how many distros will quickly become compliant. The rest will have to move their sites to more free countries or move underground. Get your hardware now while you can. I suspect those islands of freedom will just keep shrinking. Unless something changes, we're headed to a crazy time where non-compliant SBCs and OSes will be treated and regulated like deadly weapons. In fact in the US crypto is already considered a munition under the law. The only way to beat this is to stop it *before* it happens by advocating against / protesting against these new laws, and doing what we can to educate people. If we lose then we have to go through the tyranny cycle, and that's going to be a mess.
From time to time, this man descends down like a holy prophet and enlightens us all. Years ago, he prophesied about the benefits of a de-Googled phone, now I guess I should learn to replace the Windows with Linux... he was spot on about de-Googled phones, an ancient Pixel 1 phone I got years ago... still going strong! Now, I'm contemplating swapping Windows for Linux. Thanks for the phone and the 'enlightening' Linux advice!
"Contemplate" all you like but nothing changes until you actually do it. And do it the *RIGHT* way. Don't touch your existing PC because if you break it by trying to dual boot Linux, you will blame Linux. Get some use "piece of cr*p" PC, anything with a Core 2 Duo CPU in it and 3-4 GB RAM will work fine, that's any PC or laptop from around 2007 or after. Put Linux on that as a secondary machine and learn it there - if you break it, you just reinstall it and you don't effect your main PC and being able to use that. You're not *SWITCHING* to Linux, you should be looking to *MIGRATE* to it over a longer period of time.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I al already a Linux user since the MS tried to force Win 10 on me back in 2016 - It was harder back then, now its so easy, dare I say easier than installing Windows at least when it comes to POP-OS for me !
I've always wondered though with the amount of circuitry in a typical CPU chip....how would anyone know if some dedicated back door aspect of the chip be working alongside and independent of it's use by any OS (The OS only operating on and through the 'exposed' side of the chip). With the level of manufacturing tech needed to make such chips like CPUs it's prettry hard to make an open source chip at the same level. I think that is the future 'game' that will play out - Whether one uses something like Linux or not.
That is in fact already happening with the Intel IME on a computer and the baseband modem on a phone (separate CPU). Two chips in one. Both can be abused.
What I expect is that in the future chipsets will only work with "approved" os. Linux won't have the necessary stuff to boot without having to make mods to the processor ic itself. We should have fought long long ago while we still could. Chains are coming to everyone worldwide.
No. A computer running a mainstream Linux distribution like Ubuntu is still a computer. It's like moving to another house. You already know how to live in a house.
A mainstream Linux distro like Mint takes minutes to install, and is as easy to use and maintain as Windows or MacOS. It contains easy to use apps for everything, just like on Windows and MacOS. You can start out by installing it in a VM to give it a shot, and you'll quickly realize how easy it is to do everything in it. Also a vast number of games (though not all of them) work on Linux, though you might want to look at SteamOS for this if you want a user-friendly start.
Not to worry being a normie. We all have immediate relatives and close friends who dig the little of tech Rob is describing. For example I'm a techie and I helped my sister, my nephew, his girlfriend get linux running on their laptops. It's not complicated really. Fear not !
9:17 That's always been my main point/concern when talking about privacy. A friend will be like "oh I'm using whatsapp, which is E2E encrypted, there's no way anybody could see this", then I'm like "Well, you can see it on your screen can't you? How is this displayed on your screen, by magic? The OS can see what's in your screen, it can see all your inputs (typing, sending files, mic, camera, etc.), and it can see what you receive, encrypted or not, and there's virtually no way to tell if you're being watched as a layperson, specially on a proprietary OS. Heck even if you're an expert on the field you could be burned and not even know it and if somehow you do find out, they'll probably have already collected information for a LONG time. There are many other things I could go on about in the rabbit hole of surveillance, but I'll leave it at that.
Here is a thought: if the grubberment wants to force content scanning on the users own end system before data leaves said system, then users have a right to charge for every CPU clock cycle used to perform said scan AND every KB of disk space required to store content scanning code AND every MB of memory required for scanning.
And how do you think "charging for clock cycles" works today, given that Javascript and the entire concept of modern web browsers is that your own browser downloads the components to build each web page and then does a degree of computation to finally render it? Who charges for that currently?
@hitogokochi So what, the core principle is the same. If the web site just consisted of millions of static web pages, rather than dynamic content, my browser would spend less processing time and power loading each page, and therefore less electrical cost, to render the page. Therefore the cost to me is higher when the web site gives my browser more to do. The principle is the same.
@hitogokochi "But that's why we pay for broadband, as opposed to dial-up" That's a side issue - we are talking about processing on the client side or the server side - how much bandwidth is available really isn't relevant to the discussion. "unfortunately, some bad comes with the good." That means nothing, it's a throwaway statement. "Anyway, it's a bit different to a third party hijacking our computers for nefarious ends." Why? How many people actually know what is being processed on their PC when they access a web site? Have you never heard of "drive-by attacks" when someone can me made to run malicious Javascript on their own PC from a seemingly innocent web site that has been compromised? What about ransomware? How does that get onto PCs? "There is worthless EU legislation, for example, forcing every website to tell its users that cookies are being stored on their computers, when browser fingerprinting is the real threat to online privacy, along with software calling home without our knowledge or consent." I am in the EU, it is very valid legislation and good for privacy. One does not negate the other, they are separate privacy techniques - one controls cookies, the other controls the browser identity. It's a bit like someone saying that you don't need seat belts in a car if you have airbags. Completely nonsensical logic that doesn't apply in the first place.
Next time any one says they have nothing to hide ask for their bank account number, all passwords, social security number, and mothers maiden name. I find that gets the point through to them.
yes, and ask them if they would enjoy having an advertiser tell them they have cancer ten times a day...which would be suggestion enough for some people to GIVE Them cancer!!
@@mrlawilliamsukwarmachine4904 That is my plane they ever try and force me to put tramp stamps on my guns, Lets see them enter that in their databases.
The day I stopped using windows and IOS and after the learning curve on how to use Linux was passed it felt like the first day I rode my first motorcycle, freedom on the road. Of course it had more to do with my first ride was on an enduro which is a street legal dirt bike so I could go off road in an instant but it was like when I looked through the mirrors and saw the paved road behind me with a MS and Apple logo looking sad and unable to follow while the watches the plume of dust as I just disappeared into the forest. Yeah learn linux everyone .
@@johnwilliam2474 it took me a while and what I thought was bad luck turned out to be good luck. See I had only one computer and windows was screwing me bad and just yelled to get a new laptop after doing the usual back in the early 2000 which was upgrade mem and the processor and after going broke trying to fix it I loaded linux and then came what I thought was the worst day in my life. Didn’t know once you loaded grub it was nearly impossible to revert back to windows but this story gets better. Not only did I have to force myself to learn linux which if you only used windows at the time and got used to it since it really makes one lazy and reliant on their gui I slowly and surely became accustomed to it and then a miracle happened. I found on an old BBS how to restore windows from scratch. Once thought impossible but after a week back on windows I missed linux so it took about a month in total and not only did I begin my journey into linux and never looked back but as a unexpected benefit also learned how to screw with windows, gave it the middle finger since about 2005 and never looked back unless I want to get nostalgic like the original mega AKA Hewlett-Packard navigator just for Shitz&giggles . If you want today to get someone started in linux get them an old laptop and load MX on it. Ubuntu rules but MX is great to get kids started and learning , time for MS to go away but one system if you really want to gauge reliability to use then get a cheap used MacBook and pop linux on it. It has more to do with quality in that case. But still, everyone’s diffrent and the curve was about a month.
I have a laptop which came reinstalled with Linux Ubuntu. I don't understand how that will prevent any spying, because almost everyone else I know, is still using Apple IOS, Google or Windows.
@@78tag There are plenty of tutorials on RUclips. My advice is don't dual boot Linux with your existing PC but instead find some old PC or laptop that nobody needs any more and put Linux on that - then you have time to sit and play with it, and if you break it then it doesn't affect your main computer.
I fear the future being no 'personal computers' just a screen, mouse, keyboard and fast internet connection. A thin client connected to a very local server, where you personal files and OS will be hosted. All to save the environment of course and an artificial chip shortage.
You can run Linux perfectly well on an old Core 2 Duo laptop with 4GB RAM from 2007 and still surf the web and play a bit of RUclips. There's no shortage of cheap PCs for you to run Linux on.
@@wrongun635 I like Mint. I don't use it myself (Gentoo is my distro of choice, and for 20 years now) but I always start newbies off with Mint when they ask me to install Linux for them.
Agree 100%. One little thought - some "essential apps" (bank, maybe even govt) most likely won't run on de-Googled phones. I haven't tested this yet, but from their (bank) perspective it would be making sure the client's phone isn't hacked (the irony of it). So it may be that we end up needing 2 phones. 1 set aside soley to authenticate; but the "daily comms" or anything remotely sensitive will have to go non-Big Tech. Or even if we have nothing sensitive; the whole idea is we should all lead private lives, secrets or no secrets.
my banking app won't let me log in on my phone, because it's not a mainstream device. it's not even degoogled, it's just not made by samsung, motorola, or google.
Yes, many of us with de-googled phones have a "Normie" phone for 2FA and those apps that will not run on the degoogled phone - with NO contacts on it and we don't give out that number to anyone to call us on it.
People will start getting notices from internet providers and by mail that their computer has encrypted files and failure to provide passphrase can earn them a life sentence. It’s not far fetched. We are living in a dystopian reality
excellent presentation, i have been solely on linux since about 2008 and have not regretted it, however i still use google for youtube, in the age where we are to be monitored profusely when shopping, banking and visiting the washroom, it would be very opportune if a vast majority would join the linux community to the point where we can avoid all contact with the 5 eyes advocates, we would need banking and other services to be provided, which would mean those with the financial means would have to revoke their participation in the surveillance dominated commercial community, i myself if given the opportunity would gladly join such a privacy orientated community.
Sadly so would agents from the 3,4,5 agencies to subvert it, just like they do to peaceful organization's that protest against the Gov in anyway possible way !
@hitogokochi - Oh, I have used Windows since the Version 3.0 and Window has had many issues and if memory serves me correct then I believe Win 95 had 70,000 known bugs when released. For me as a semi techie although limited in my Linux knowledge I started i=on Linux Mint in 2016 and then Ubuntu in 2018/19 then POP-OS in May 2020. I am very happy with POP-OS, it works great on my ASUS X670E Hero with my AMD 7950X CPU and AMD 6950XT GPU aswell as my other PC's i7-7700 SFF, i5-9500T Mini PC, i7-12700T Mini PC, AMD 3900 Laptop, AMD 5900HX laptop !
@hitogokochi this is the same reason I moved back to Windows. it sucks, but things just work here. on linux I'd spend days fixing issues that would arise out of nowhere, and I'd copy and paste codes and commands from the internet forums hoping I'd work (and it would sometimes lead me to sidequests of solving a new error that would happen due to that code). maybe there are linux distros that are reliable and friendly but they either aren't, or the ones that truly are, are not very heard of, or they are unpolished, and in any case if you want any form of fancy software, then you'd have to face the termial. I have learned a lot of programming since then and nowadays I feel very comfortable with the terminal and I'm thinking about switching back. but not everyone concerned with privacy is a programmer
Great video! Like always. You should put a list in the description for all those acronyms you use (or remind the meaning on screen), because even though you described them at some point, I had forgot when you later used them, and I'm not gonna go scrolling backwards to figure that out. This content can be pretty dense for a lot of people already. Just some feedback with love and respect! 🙏
Great video! I've always questioned whether it makes sense to implement a messaging service which uses E2E-encryption when the operating system it runs on (by you or one of your contacts) is proprietary and potentially spying on messages. That's why I have no huge interest in porting my efforts in GNUnet from Linux to Android even though Android itself is open. Most users unfortunately don't use AOSP but an untrustworthy variant of it by Google and others. Maybe secure messengers should start providing information about your contacts which OS they use. So each user can decide whether they want to send messages to the government or not.
I am the only one who cares in my environment. My husband is sort of on my side but not very tech-literate, so trying to get him to abandon convenience will be tough. Everyone else in my life thinks I'm a paranoid lunatic. It's very frustrating.
yes, grownups don't like the stupidity of learning something new. All of us who love privacy need to get better at teaching skills so others won't be so repelled by our sense of what's important
Linux has become a hobby for me since i switched over from widows 10 about 6 months ago , distro hopping is good trying different flavours of OS. You learn new skills that you would have never learnt on Windoze.
The issue with linux is: its chaos. It does not follow any logic or any set of rules in development. One person coded one dialog, another person coded another dialog (you know the OK/CANCEL or YES/NO ?) Every dialog is random. YES and NO swapped around all the time. Sometimes Dialog has no LOGICAL answer at all. Get your SH!T together developers and come up with a UNIVERSAL rule for dialog boxes and maybe layout for fundamental OS components. Enough is enough. Too much random garbage. Why do you think Windows is so popular ? Its easy to use. Its predictable, its logical. Linux is a MESS.
Linux works fine, you have almost all services you need nowdays in an open source format, what the main issue is lack of free hardware, i hope riscv progresses faster.
@@juliusfucik4011 Good on you, there's plenty of boards, but the key moment when riscv will start taking over is when those sbcs rival the raspberry pi in terms of performance, it will take over the hobbyist and tinkerer space, people will starting building server chips like ampere, and then finally youll have riscv regular ol cpu and standardized sockets.
Worrying about software... alone... is like ensuring that the front door has been secured by a tradesmen. It leaves the backdoor and windows at risk (pun intended). Three factors should be considered: the hardware, the software and the operator. Any or all of these are potential risks to privacy.
I recently updated Ubuntu and now I have a password on the Hard Drive, Then another on the OS log in. I wish the BIOS also had had a log in. Me old lady does not like it. I told her use your phone. Windows games, Edge and Linux don't mix very well. I am not worried about the Gov mint. I worry about the data miners. Like for banking passwords. The Infernal Revenewers already have the into and out info via Massa card and Visa I also believe that ATMs can scan the serial numbers on cash. If it is not already being done. My bank has already upgraded. I am not aware of an any issues with the old ATMs.
Remember that Ubuntu has snaps which is proprietary. Something like mint would be better imo. But if you can also remove snaps from ubuntu if that makes you feel uneasy.
@@himankan I will be using 'mint' in the first instance. :) I have used it before. However, it was many years ago. I don't play games so I don't expect any issues moving over to linux. I currently use quite a lot of the 'portable' apps on Windows. There are the same or very similar to ones on Linux. I don't expect any major issues to switching over. I just need to do it soon. :) Thanks for the advice. :)
From America , we support you greatly , we should all be talking about this more. ---- Thank you for your clear , concise , and most importantly straightforward explanation of this matter. This is a critical national security concern , and I do not work for an agency. I want to thank you for all of your provided content as well , sharing is caring.
Yes! Whenever I buy anything, I'm paranoid there'll be something i don't know in the hardware, especially since less things allow you to open them up or work on them.
*Open Source Hardware* is the solution which *removes Intel Management Engine from the system* . The most robust product that's fully open source hardware is *RaptorCS* . A cheaper option with fully open source hardware _except_ for the GPU (which has no control over the CPU or networking and does not require the graphics driver to be installed to boot the system) is BeagleBone Black. but it is very slow
I set up Linux on my parents new computer 😂 made it super easy with 3 buttons for my father and an extra 2 for my mother. Haven't been called once to be asked for help with the pc. Epic win 🎉
No. Linux is just too complicated for the average user. The only way to make it work is to spend a significant amount of your life learning it and it doesn’t stop there. You then have to continue learning it for the rest of your life in order to keep up with all the changes. Switching to linux may seem like a great idea to Linux power users, but for the rest of us it’s just not feasible.
I'm far from being a power user, in 2008 my Windows Laptop HD had to be formatted and I was about to take it to a travel, lost days trying to get all the drivers working, unsuccessfully. A friend suggested Ubuntu just to be able to use the computer while traveling. Never saw my laptop so fast, in less than a month I could do all I needed, and since then all my computers have been dual boot, using Ubuntu or Mint 99% of the time and Windows for very specific tasks. I'm still not a power user today, any basic Windows user is capable to be a basic Linux Mint user in a week. It's not harder than changing from iPhone to Android and vice-versa.
@@markaspen "Linux was trying hard to become popular in the last two decades." It kicked Microsoft's a$$ in the server space, didn't it, Mark Aspen? "But Windows is still the most popular OS in the world." Incorrect. Android is the most widely installed OS across the globe. "People complain, but use Windows. Complain but use it." That's right, nothing like sitting there behind your keyboard and just whining about it, while doing nothing to stop Windows hatred of your privacy. "Because Linux is millions of times harder to use than Windows." Then that makes me a million times more intelligent than you, Mark Aspen who can't even create a pseudonym on here. I will take that as a compliment.
Sorry to burst your bubble but you couldn't be more wrong. In the olden days, when UNIX was regarded some sort of magic and Linux just saw the light of day, yes that was the poweruser's era and they still benefit greatly from using UNIX/Linux. But those times are no more: Using a modern day Linux is equivalent to using any tablet or smartphone, and the operating systems on said mobile devices are actually flavors of Linux (Android) and UNIX/BSD (Apple IOS). I've used Linux for more than 25 years, using first Ubuntu and since 2010 solely Debian, which is one of the oldest, most stable and robust Linux distributions. Give it a serious try - you just might like it :)
@@markaspen If it's in the GPU driver for Linux then it's also in the GPU driver for Linux anyway. But you're talking complete rubbish because there are security experts over the world constantly doing packet traces on systems to see what they send out over the network at certain times, and that's the case for Linux or you beloved, bloated and privacy-hating Windows. Sure you may not be able to see what is inside an encrypted packet but you can see where it's going to and then you can start asking questions of the manufacturer anyway. This is one thing you forget in your blind Windows fanboy-ism - it applies for both OSes in Linux for adults and Windows for kiddies.
Client side scanning is already being done on Android 11+. I was taking a picture in my garden with my young son running, naked around the pool as you boys do, it flagged him as "inappropriate content warning", and without him even being the focus of the picture.
@@hoboonwheels9289No, as stated this is a mishap, but that is not the point, the point is that it is not the "internet police" responsibility to scan any of my content without the user consent. Privacy is privacy.
Yup... I remember a Canadian Conservative MP standing up in parliament and saying, "He can either stand with us or with the child pornographers" when trying to pass a surveillance bill in 2004. They've been singing this tune for a long time now.
yes, as if the only reason someone would want privacy is to break the law. Wouldn't we need to come up with ten totally accessible reasons why regular people need their privacy...that has nothing to do with breaking the law?
Access to your machine is in the processor it's at the hardware level. They will be able to read your keystrokes, know what your camera is looking at, what your microphone is picking up... what your speakers are picking up. Processessor manufacturers and developers will be mandated by law to give access at the hardware level. So, imaging brain implants, hackable through backdoors at the hardware level... possible access to your private thoughts. If you can think it, someone else is hard at work trying to do it.
@@markaspen How's it gonna transmit data when all the wifi networks have passwords? How is it gonna get drivers and firmware to decipher the I/O of any peripheral? How would it decide that x part of memory is a password?
@@markaspen "The hardware does not needs your OS to send data over the internet." But any information that is was sending out over the Internet would be detected by one of many computer engineers across the globe who are constantly checking for such things. If it was there, they would find it. "There are even bios that have a web browser inside." Yes, Mark Aspen, it's called iLO (Integrated Lights Out) in HP's case and its there to provide remote access to servers when there are problems. Other vendors have their own versions of it, but you only find it on server-level hardware, not on consumer-grade PCs. Another "straw man" argument, Mark?
Your work/videos are laudable but the spiral into the abyss seems complete already. I have tried to raise consciousness of my friends and colleagues but I continually strike out. Don't stop your work.
Yeah, those of us who want to convince others that privacy is important need to get better at convincing them. I've found one of the best methods is to just grab their phone and install "brax.me' (Rob's social network and support site) with a username and password that's easy for them to remember and go then when you're logged in as them, start a chat with you. Then go from there...
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
Edward Snowden
It is only for us, It does not apply to them as THEY have nothing to hide! Right? They really do think we are fools.
Yep. Surveillance and a secret police state are 2 sides of the same coim
My main objection is that I don’t want stupid, untalented people (public sector) knowing anything about me.
Damn that's good 👍 ii
@@jamesdellaneve9005 and im sure corporations care about you waay more... corporations are already using the info they have on us to whip us into a frenzy. We consume the most when on the edge of a mental breakdown! 😂
I've been using Linux for over 15 years but ditched Windows ( never used Apple or ChromeOS ) completely when the British government passed the human rights breaking ( according to the ECHR ,UN and British common law ) mass surveillance act, known as "Snoopers Charter" in 2016. Dumbed my phone too. I saw this coming years ago, if it ain't open source I'm not running or owning it.
How'd you dumb your phone?
Just playing Devils Advocate - Do you have a SMART meter, Do you use Intel or AMD CPU's which use ME or PSP although the latter can be disable in some BIOS's.
@@mrtuk4282 No to a smart meter. AMD cpu ( come on I use Linux of course I'm on AMD ) No other "smart" or internet connected devices in my home. Common sense over a tinfoil hat.
@@notjustforhackers4252 whats wrong with Intel CPU? I think only AMD graphics cards vs NVIDIA is heavily AMD favored if you want to use Linux, but not the CPU?
British need to take their country over and liberate themselves. Embrace freedom.
Encrypt everything - shopping lists, letters to the milkman, pictures of your cat. Let them wade through it all until they die of boredom.
This isn't 'subversive'. This is being a good citizen who still believes in the US Constitution. This is your civic duty to take back our country from corporations. It says: "We the people..." not 'We the incorporated.' The least we can do.
All of our polititians should be sued, and punished according to the law.
This 2 class society we have atm is just disgusting! Life term sentenses to all traitors!
ALL of our countries signed stuff like the Geneva convention or the Nurnberg Code,
violation of such should be met with the appropriate punishment.
Otherwise out "authorities" no longer have ANY right to claim to defend the law.
JUSTICE FOR ALL!
You keep talking and see how far that gets you. Me, I'll be here making and reconfiguring stuff, actually doing something practical to protect my data.
1. If end-to-end encryption is phased out....no problem, we will write apps for desktop/mobile to custom-encrypt our own text messages between our peers.
2. We can use non-mainstream chat apps and put encryption ontop of those apps.
At the end of the day, we the populous, can create an encryption nightmare for the 'lettered-agencies' and the likes.... just by using different software to encrypt/decrypt.
They won't stop there though, they will push for extreme prison sentences or even death penalty eventually for those they deem terrorists
Linux scanning or backdoor is done through the service provision used to calculate updates .
With respect to Signal threatening to shut down its operations in the UK, if Signal is worried about a MITM attack by the OS, it means that the OS platforms such as macOS would have to intercept key strokes via the input device drivers before the input is passed to the application.... effectively a key logger built into the OS....
"It's for the children! It's for the children!"
Algorithm definitely throttled this video when it first came out. Good content.
Beware when you hear the term: "It's for your safety". It is almost always a trap.
yes, I usually translate, sometimes to their face - It's for YOUR cybersecurity safety of your company, not my personal safety.
You don't have to technologically overcome end up end encryption, you just have to prevent enough people using it that when someone does it's obvious, then go arrest them.
Great video. I wish more people cared about privacy and security. I try to interest people in encrypted email, but how many group emails don't have at least one recipient with a gmail address? That's all that's needed to read and store the entire email thread.
I've used Linux exclusively for over 20 years. Yesterday, I was forced to use my sister's Windows computer and it felt like I was tortured by the slow stupidity while it was spying on me. How do people live like that? It would only be possible if they didn't know.
Freedom of speech means freedom of encryption. The end. Any law prohibiting it is completely unconstitutional and illegal. It will have to be done by the corporations which will gladly do it. Gladly we have open source software for everyone :)
I've been running Windows since Win 95, but I've had enough of their spyware, bugs and glitches. Moving to Linux this week.
I remember eMule development stopping dead when laws made it illegal to work on. The law can win against OSS
Gee thanks for making me think this hard so early in the morning. Orwell had it right. I'm probably on another list by making this comment and I hope them and their AI are bored to tears watching me. Thank you for pointing this out, this is important information.
Let's keep Framework on the list of computers. we also have access tot he hardware on these systems.
What about EFI? Hardware Vendors could enforce secure boot enabled and Microsoft or other entity could only sign compromised kernels. Also, there could be no way to sign custom kernels by own. Everything in manner of security.
Also possible, anti cheat software for videos games is a client side scanning software.
Its the Apps as well, like Telegram or Signal.
This 5 eyes design looks like it's mimicking a Qualcomm SnapDragon, 1+2+2..
I think what's coming is pronouncing someone guilty because they simply used open source privacy tool. The French police have already used "defendant uses Tor" as an argument (on the case where Protonmail was ordered to share IP addresses)
The majority of people don't understand this and the complications, and neither do care.
LOOOOOVE your videos. Thank you. ❤
I'm always amazed by the amount of developers and IT technicians who keep using Windoze or MacO$.
Regular users ignore what runs in such Operating Systems.
But people with advanced IT knowledge, what's their excuse???
"On-line safety"....it's for the common good...
I don't think the point "I use Linux so I'm fine" is valid. They can easily make a law that all "open source" is illegal
My journey with linux began in 1999. I was tired of microsofts patented b.s.o.d., and their bizarre notion that a kernel should always be mangled on the fly regardless of system hardware being a fixed thing. That's needless complexity and overhead. So... I tried something new. And as I watched [time and again] the Redmond leviathan take a year or more to patch some problems, linux [thanks to being open sourced] generally got things moving much faster. And isn't it nice to be able to compile what is wanted at startup, and avoid 14 scsi drivers nobody ever used etc? The bloatware factor is at least cut in half, and I don't have to multiply recommended memory x4 to avoid good hardware get rendered to pos status.
Just jump: learn a few terms, commands, syntax, and you won't look back.
I always enjoyed how Linux was sort of a programmer's portfolio of their best work.
"safety bill" that means less safety... its like Googles new privacy sandbox that is 100x worse than cookies lol. Cant make this up.
What about when they force all hardware manufacturers to only be able to run allowed software, and ISPs to only allow connection to and from these?
excellent vid; thanks
could you please discuss the impact of the Intel Management Engine on transparency into an O/S -- particularly Debian and Debian derivitives
thanks/GW
Sir Brax! Repelling attackx!
The power of the penguin rises.
The end to end to end encryption ..... well will see about that , there's always Tor.
"Defy math"? No one has proven yet that P != NP. Until that is done, math does not guarantee that encrypted communications involving public key cryptography actually keeps such communications private. We're basically only hoping that P != NP.
what about when the motherboards and video cards, etc all have the 3 letter spyware built in? Make sure you keep several old school CB and HAM radios for when the shtf.
Lenovo systems have support for Linux. They make Linux Laptops.
Don't forget Asahi Linux for Apple silicon Macs 😁
I foresee problems for banking and ecommerce.
That four-letter acronym makes me think of the adage "they are always accusing you of what they're doing"
Windows, Mac, Android...
they all have tracking, logging, spyware baked deep within the os itself.
same for online software and many 3rd party software platforms including social media, email, etc..
also the software in newer vehicles.
Just because you use a Linux OS doesn't mean you're invulnerable to the system,
it just means its less likely.
#1 because the os isn't engineered to transmit data/information from within,
bit this doesn't mean it can't be initiated from outside once you log onto an online account/platform.
Its not impossible because you're using a Linux OS.
But if you're a well versed, savvy Linux user, the chances are dramatically lower,
because you know what to look for and what's going on.
The general population/society doesn't
this is all far beyond their attention span and patience level because they're programmed that way,
they willfully refuse to think this way,
they just want what's popular, trendy, flashy, shiny, easy and quick to use etc..
the vast majority never even bother to read a tos, they just click the "accept" button.
This will never change aside from becoming continually worse.
Its jusy too easy
All laws are made to benefit the government.
Thanks for the good video. I just discovered your channel.
Q: do the tyrants actually expect to bypass the US 4th Amendment by mandating unwarranted scanning? Here is the text of our cherished 4A. Note that it says nothing about whether the govt itself does the searching, or mandates another entity to search on its behalf.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
We should start with a law that makes the search history of all politicians, 3 and 4 letter agencies and their staff public.
I don't think I'd want to know.
Never
Nah. I’m not into gay midget amputee porn.
They are Artificially Intelligent products of the sheep skin mills. Plus lawyers make the rules to benefit lawyers.
Oh and AOC? Economics. I guess she got the slide by card like she was in high school.
Or as I put it. regurgitate and forget. Next course on the list. Repeat the process.
That's the wrong direction. Playing their game when you know it's rigged is like self-flagellation.
Obfuscate and outright break the law. Morality is on your side. Hack them, burn them, donate to Putin, fan the flames of decent and hid even the most mundane of internet activity. Make them waste time decrypting cat pics...
All of it is completely justified. They are attacking us and our privacy. They are ENEMIES.
you gotta be weary of any bill with the words "safety", "patriot", "homeland" ....etc in the name
"Patriot's homeland-safety" law has a nice ring to it ;P
@@CnCDune - so does "Trust me, nothing to see here."
But I am from the government and I am here to help !
you should be weary of ANY bill as all they do is slowly restrict your freedoms little by little
I think you could have stopped at "you gotta be weary of any bill"
Imagine an "Online Safety Bill" that bans end to end encryption! I hope the politicians are the first victims of the attacks on these systems!
Rest assured, they will be....😂😂😂
The banning of end-to-end encryption, will ONLY be applicable to the public.
Well I hope they bring back high street shops and banks because I won't trust the internet anymore for my banking and shopping. I could wake one day with no money left in my account.@@user-ir8fs7ss2l
@@user-ir8fs7ss2l They're not immune to social engineering though. The dumbest people are in government and end to end encryption won't protect them from their own ineptitude. Even worse, they're not immune to bribes and blackmail. No encryption needed there. That's how government really runs anyway.
They will certainly except themselves. Prime example is places that have laws against the carrying of firearms. They and their dominions are always exempt.
"I don't care about privacy because I have nothing to hide, is like saying, I don't care about free speech because I have nothing to say" ~ Edward Snowden
Ok - let's hear... more of what you have to say, please?
Nothing to hide ? Let me attach a microphone to the seat of your jeans and let us listen for 24 hours if you dont care for privacy ...😂
the quote "dance like nobody is watching, encrypt like everyone is" is becoming terrifyingly necessary
I'd buy this shirt
Thank you very much for the information I have so much still to learn I send you to communicate with you quite a bit I guess on some podcasts or something but still have a lot to learn
I did that once and lost the password 😂
I'll skip the dance part
Obviously the backdoor will have a backdoor so the "legislators" and their friends can evade the control
Not in Linux - no backdoors for anyone.
@@terrydaktyllus1320You should check out a paper by Ken Thompson titled, "Reflections on Trusting Trust" it's a fun read, and you'll never trust anything again until you write your own compilers in machine code on your home made CPU.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 But if using Linux to communicate with anyone else who is using one of the other operating systems, that's surely the only 'backdoor' 'they' need?
@@melaniebaynes2730 Yes, absolutely. Therefore you need to know who you are communicating with and what platforms they are using.
@@terrydaktyllus1320
I wouldn't know how to switch the OS from my machine.
Always wanted LNX since 05, but my then roommate spent days trying to make it work for himself. So I gave up.
Living in technologically and politically backwards Australia, and having ALL my electronic activity examined as part of a court case, I can tell you it's not a fun experience - especially when dealing with technical morons. Rob is 100% accurate and right on the money. What pisses me off the most though, is that the government passes Orwellian laws against the 1% of perps, but make the innocent 99% suffer.
To coin a phrase from the film 'War Games': "The only way to win is not to play"
The perps are a lot less than 1% and most of them work for the government.
Lucky country mate
Did you see The Sound Of Freedom? These scum politicians are the pedophiles.
antiX runs completely off of RAM and is very easy to set up and run off of a flash drive (or VM). Unless you save certain things in persistence on that flash drive, any incriminating evidence should disappear once you unmount the flash drive. It is becoming illegal now to do so many things. We all need to become proactive now.
Better 100 innocent men are punished than one guilty man goes free Herman Goering. I thought we fought a World War to prevent this kind of thing. 70 years later here we are embracing it.
You can thank the education system for that - no one is taught about history anymore. Actually, no one is taught to think any more.
Encourage your friends and family to use Linux.
You're gonna have to install it for them 😀
I don’t know anything about it. I’ll have to start from scratch.
@@LilyGazouDon't let that stop you. Start with something easy. Will answer any question you have that I'm capable of answering. Waiting under this comment.
Installing Linux has never been easier.
@@LilyGazou Linux Mint (I prefer Debian Edition) is easy to install. You should be able to figure it out if you've ever reinstalled Windows yourself.
Much of the scanning is happening on the cloud storage side where they push everyone to store their data as backup protection, once the data is in the cloud it can easily be scanned and turned over to the three letter agencies.
Putting your information on the cloud is only for retarded sheep who trust their governments. lol Pathetic.
I have never used the cloud,memory is cheap
They're already scanning cloud storage. This is something entirely different, allowing them to scan even encrypted communications like Whatsapp and Signal.
Absolutely!
Quick question, Is there a 'safe alexa echo' alternative? Or are all of those home smart speaker devices a no go? Please any help trying to get someone one if so.
Amen Rob. Great video, agree 100%... these laws are indeed about surveillance. Linux/open source software & communications are critical to combat these draconian efforts.
Even censoring public communications is UNACCEPTABLE and Orwellian, never mind private comms.
Yes, but what are YOU doing to stop them?
Well, not feeding them with data for a start. Also trying to inform people@@terrydaktyllus1320
There really is no such thing a public communication on the internet. This may appear as a public conversation, but as long as it's running on corporate owned servers, it's not truly public. For public communication to truly be public, you'd need to run decentralized network for communication. I'm not even sure how that would work. You would basically need to fiind a way to share each other's IP addresses and communicate and share directly, but sharing IP addresses has other issues.
that's not what public means, though. We all have the right to publish our thoughts where others can see them. We are doing that right here in this comment section. What is unacceptable is the political censorship of such content. Google is guilty of human right abuse, as usual @@joemann7971
Steganography
I fully expect laws that outlaw accessing the network with any device using an "unsecured operating system" to be proposed soon. And the only way an operating system can be declared "secured" is if it has been approved by The State and has the government's spyware and back-doors built in (along with disallowing encryption). They'll get around to banning (or compromising) Linux eventually.
Truth. The answer is not for us to change, but to require good government. Stop voting for the "lesser" of two evils.
It won't happen. The entire suite of Internet protocols are built on RFCs (Requests For Comments) which are open standards free for anyone to use. No new public communication protocols can be implemented without an RFC - sure, you can create what private protocols you like and do what you like with them in your own closed user groups, but who cares about that.
Nothing will be banned - they can't even work out a single set of global legislation to keep minors from accessing adult material on the Internet, and that problem has been kicking around for decades now.
You're being overly dramatic and demonstrating you don't understand the problem - it's not the open design of Linux or the Internet that's the problem, it's all the closed source stuff in MacOS, Windows, Google Android and iOS that's the problem, and they are what 99% of the world uses anyway.
They don't want to stop minors from accessing adult material. That's not a goal they have. Reducing demand from something they are involved in does not make money. It's kind of like PFAS. Everyone knows they are f00king toxic and they are everywhere. Recent research that's coming out and the conclusions are sobering and absolutely horrendous. Yet, do you hear any government taking *real* action with this? I mean based on the research that's coming out, you would expect a reaction similar to Covid but on steroids. Yet: crickets. That's because reducing the demand for something doesn't make money. Just my two cents.@@terrydaktyllus1320
Hence the beauty of open source software - with noone is "in charge". No corporate ceo to bend over a barrel.
You download it you instal it yourself...
the problem is the evils within which are the government have already won, no matter who we vote for they'll always be against the citizens and will never have our best interests. Even if we all stopped voting it'll give the politicians and government along with greedy satanic corporations an easier time to assign evil individuals to further push their George Orwellian 1984 agendas and put their communist-like laws into effect. Basically, we're all done for, and no one wants to stand up and revolt against these evil organizations and individuals because people are either.
A. have too much to lose and or are scared.
B. Too lazy and or weak
C All of the above@@BaptistJoshua
Remember: UEFI already has OS-like capabilities that would allow it to be compromised and examine local memory then send data from its own network stack under the OS.
I guess a libreboot system with an ancient CPU is the only way to be sure.
Good point. Would local (Linux) full disk encryption help with that though?
@@tom_marsden System76 and StarLabs, and though I dislike them, Purism all ship machines with coreboot. You'll never be fully blob free but with the IME HAP bit and an open source EC, and a non-intel network controller, you're pretty safe.
@@skf957 only if you kept the data encrypted in memory at run time with keys you could keep isolated from the UEFI. Good luck with that.
@@skf957the concept @mawnkey talks about is called data-in-use encryption. see wikipedia on how to align it with the OP topic regarding uefi. (tldr Good luck with it summarises perfectly)
When we do get to the point where they're openly going after "non-compliant" open source / Linux distros then we can look to the past to see their playbook. They would attack the distros the same way they attack and shut down link aggregators: They shut down the servers remotely at the DNS level, move in and confiscate the hardware if it's somewhere they can reach, and then go after the maintainers with lawsuits they can't afford to defend.
What I think will be surprising to some at the time is how many distros will quickly become compliant. The rest will have to move their sites to more free countries or move underground. Get your hardware now while you can. I suspect those islands of freedom will just keep shrinking.
Unless something changes, we're headed to a crazy time where non-compliant SBCs and OSes will be treated and regulated like deadly weapons. In fact in the US crypto is already considered a munition under the law.
The only way to beat this is to stop it *before* it happens by advocating against / protesting against these new laws, and doing what we can to educate people. If we lose then we have to go through the tyranny cycle, and that's going to be a mess.
People will just start using more custom roms for Android there is ALWAYS a way around a tree in the road I've never been a apple fan can't stand it
I will, but most people won't. The point of this laws is to be able to spy on the other 98%.
From time to time, this man descends down like a holy prophet and enlightens us all. Years ago, he prophesied about the benefits of a de-Googled phone, now I guess I should learn to replace the Windows with Linux... he was spot on about de-Googled phones, an ancient Pixel 1 phone I got years ago... still going strong! Now, I'm contemplating swapping Windows for Linux. Thanks for the phone and the 'enlightening' Linux advice!
Do it!
I'll be waiting under your comment for any question you might have that i can answer.
Any issues then just google it for help in resolving it.
"Contemplate" all you like but nothing changes until you actually do it.
And do it the *RIGHT* way. Don't touch your existing PC because if you break it by trying to dual boot Linux, you will blame Linux. Get some use "piece of cr*p" PC, anything with a Core 2 Duo CPU in it and 3-4 GB RAM will work fine, that's any PC or laptop from around 2007 or after. Put Linux on that as a secondary machine and learn it there - if you break it, you just reinstall it and you don't effect your main PC and being able to use that.
You're not *SWITCHING* to Linux, you should be looking to *MIGRATE* to it over a longer period of time.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I al already a Linux user since the MS tried to force Win 10 on me back in 2016 - It was harder back then, now its so easy, dare I say easier than installing Windows at least when it comes to POP-OS for me !
I've always wondered though with the amount of circuitry in a typical CPU chip....how would anyone know if some dedicated back door aspect of the chip be working alongside and independent of it's use by any OS (The OS only operating on and through the 'exposed' side of the chip).
With the level of manufacturing tech needed to make such chips like CPUs it's prettry hard to make an open source chip at the same level.
I think that is the future 'game' that will play out - Whether one uses something like Linux or not.
That is in fact already happening with the Intel IME on a computer and the baseband modem on a phone (separate CPU). Two chips in one. Both can be abused.
@@robbraxmantech I'm not surprised. Thanks for the response.
Intel was busted for having a backdoor in their CPU's.
Most Linux Softwares blocks the back door.
But other chips might have backdoors in them.
What I expect is that in the future chipsets will only work with "approved" os. Linux won't have the necessary stuff to boot without having to make mods to the processor ic itself. We should have fought long long ago while we still could. Chains are coming to everyone worldwide.
@@crazysquirrel9425 Sadly, AMD has the equivalent but not sure if its only on Server and Ryzen Pro series or everything !
I’m a Normie and it would take me another 49 years to learn all the things you are talking about til now - and I thank you anyway
No. A computer running a mainstream Linux distribution like Ubuntu is still a computer. It's like moving to another house. You already know how to live in a house.
A mainstream Linux distro like Mint takes minutes to install, and is as easy to use and maintain as Windows or MacOS. It contains easy to use apps for everything, just like on Windows and MacOS. You can start out by installing it in a VM to give it a shot, and you'll quickly realize how easy it is to do everything in it. Also a vast number of games (though not all of them) work on Linux, though you might want to look at SteamOS for this if you want a user-friendly start.
Linux is for normies. I don't see why anyone would use Windows if it doesn't work on specific programs or want to play games.
OK
I'm in 😂❤
Not to worry being a normie. We all have immediate relatives and close friends who dig the little of tech Rob is describing. For example I'm a techie and I helped my sister, my nephew, his girlfriend get linux running on their laptops. It's not complicated really. Fear not !
9:17 That's always been my main point/concern when talking about privacy. A friend will be like "oh I'm using whatsapp, which is E2E encrypted, there's no way anybody could see this", then I'm like "Well, you can see it on your screen can't you? How is this displayed on your screen, by magic? The OS can see what's in your screen, it can see all your inputs (typing, sending files, mic, camera, etc.), and it can see what you receive, encrypted or not, and there's virtually no way to tell if you're being watched as a layperson, specially on a proprietary OS. Heck even if you're an expert on the field you could be burned and not even know it and if somehow you do find out, they'll probably have already collected information for a LONG time. There are many other things I could go on about in the rabbit hole of surveillance, but I'll leave it at that.
can't you use Tails os to solve this problem?
On OS has hardware layers below it that it relies on.
Never under estimate the government's ability to make things worse.
I think we should all keep a couple copies of Linux around - a type of software prepping for survivalists
Thank you for talking about solutions and not just the problems!
That's what everyone should do. Talk about solutions and share them to their neighbor.
That's what everyone should do. Talk about solutions and share them to their neighbor.
Here is a thought: if the grubberment wants to force content scanning on the users own end system before data leaves said system, then users have a right to charge for every CPU clock cycle used to perform said scan AND every KB of disk space required to store content scanning code AND every MB of memory required for scanning.
And how do you think "charging for clock cycles" works today, given that Javascript and the entire concept of modern web browsers is that your own browser downloads the components to build each web page and then does a degree of computation to finally render it? Who charges for that currently?
@hitogokochi So what, the core principle is the same.
If the web site just consisted of millions of static web pages, rather than dynamic content, my browser would spend less processing time and power loading each page, and therefore less electrical cost, to render the page.
Therefore the cost to me is higher when the web site gives my browser more to do. The principle is the same.
@hitogokochi "But that's why we pay for broadband, as opposed to dial-up"
That's a side issue - we are talking about processing on the client side or the server side - how much bandwidth is available really isn't relevant to the discussion.
"unfortunately, some bad comes with the good."
That means nothing, it's a throwaway statement.
"Anyway, it's a bit different to a third party hijacking our computers for nefarious ends."
Why? How many people actually know what is being processed on their PC when they access a web site? Have you never heard of "drive-by attacks" when someone can me made to run malicious Javascript on their own PC from a seemingly innocent web site that has been compromised?
What about ransomware? How does that get onto PCs?
"There is worthless EU legislation, for example, forcing every website to tell its users that cookies are being stored on their computers, when browser fingerprinting is the real threat to online privacy, along with software calling home without our knowledge or consent."
I am in the EU, it is very valid legislation and good for privacy.
One does not negate the other, they are separate privacy techniques - one controls cookies, the other controls the browser identity.
It's a bit like someone saying that you don't need seat belts in a car if you have airbags. Completely nonsensical logic that doesn't apply in the first place.
And then the government pays for it with tax payer money? 😂 nah. The solution is simple. The people need to rise and do away with these governments.
Next time any one says they have nothing to hide ask for their bank account number, all passwords, social security number, and mothers maiden name. I find that gets the point through to them.
yes, and ask them if they would enjoy having an advertiser tell them they have cancer ten times a day...which would be suggestion enough for some people to GIVE Them cancer!!
I use LInux but probably not as secure as it should be. Always room for improvement.
But it will be secure from this potential backdoor.
As an extra layer of security/privacy, name the files and folders in a pidgin dialect of Klingon!
@@markaspenBest of luck to nouveau then.
@@markaspen Have you heard of Asahi Linux? Running Linux on M1 ARM CPU Mac with drivers written from scratch.
@@mrlawilliamsukwarmachine4904 That is my plane they ever try and force me to put tramp stamps on my guns, Lets see them enter that in their databases.
The day I stopped using windows and IOS and after the learning curve on how to use Linux was passed it felt like the first day I rode my first motorcycle, freedom on the road. Of course it had more to do with my first ride was on an enduro which is a street legal dirt bike so I could go off road in an instant but it was like when I looked through the mirrors and saw the paved road behind me with a MS and Apple logo looking sad and unable to follow while the watches the plume of dust as I just disappeared into the forest. Yeah learn linux everyone .
how must time did you have to put in to break free from the curvier part of the learning curve, and what resources do you use to learn?
@@johnwilliam2474 - was thinking exactly that. I have no tech support.
@@johnwilliam2474 it took me a while and what I thought was bad luck turned out to be good luck. See I had only one computer and windows was screwing me bad and just yelled to get a new laptop after doing the usual back in the early 2000 which was upgrade mem and the processor and after going broke trying to fix it I loaded linux and then came what I thought was the worst day in my life. Didn’t know once you loaded grub it was nearly impossible to revert back to windows but this story gets better. Not only did I have to force myself to learn linux which if you only used windows at the time and got used to it since it really makes one lazy and reliant on their gui I slowly and surely became accustomed to it and then a miracle happened. I found on an old BBS how to restore windows from scratch. Once thought impossible but after a week back on windows I missed linux so it took about a month in total and not only did I begin my journey into linux and never looked back but as a unexpected benefit also learned how to screw with windows, gave it the middle finger since about 2005 and never looked back unless I want to get nostalgic like the original mega AKA Hewlett-Packard navigator just for Shitz&giggles . If you want today to get someone started in linux get them an old laptop and load MX on it. Ubuntu rules but MX is great to get kids started and learning , time for MS to go away but one system if you really want to gauge reliability to use then get a cheap used MacBook and pop linux on it. It has more to do with quality in that case. But still, everyone’s diffrent and the curve was about a month.
I have a laptop which came reinstalled with Linux Ubuntu. I don't understand how that will prevent any spying, because almost everyone else I know, is still using Apple IOS, Google or Windows.
@@78tag There are plenty of tutorials on RUclips. My advice is don't dual boot Linux with your existing PC but instead find some old PC or laptop that nobody needs any more and put Linux on that - then you have time to sit and play with it, and if you break it then it doesn't affect your main computer.
I fear the future being no 'personal computers' just a screen, mouse, keyboard and fast internet connection. A thin client connected to a very local server, where you personal files and OS will be hosted. All to save the environment of course and an artificial chip shortage.
yup we're mostly there already.
muh…do it to save us from climate change
You can run Linux perfectly well on an old Core 2 Duo laptop with 4GB RAM from 2007 and still surf the web and play a bit of RUclips. There's no shortage of cheap PCs for you to run Linux on.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 I know dude. Been running Linux Mint for years on various HP laptops.
@@wrongun635 I like Mint. I don't use it myself (Gentoo is my distro of choice, and for 20 years now) but I always start newbies off with Mint when they ask me to install Linux for them.
Agree 100%. One little thought - some "essential apps" (bank, maybe even govt) most likely won't run on de-Googled phones. I haven't tested this yet, but from their (bank) perspective it would be making sure the client's phone isn't hacked (the irony of it). So it may be that we end up needing 2 phones. 1 set aside soley to authenticate; but the "daily comms" or anything remotely sensitive will have to go non-Big Tech. Or even if we have nothing sensitive; the whole idea is we should all lead private lives, secrets or no secrets.
my banking app won't let me log in on my phone, because it's not a mainstream device. it's not even degoogled, it's just not made by samsung, motorola, or google.
google authenticator for me
Yes, many of us with de-googled phones have a "Normie" phone for 2FA and those apps that will not run on the degoogled phone - with NO contacts on it and we don't give out that number to anyone to call us on it.
People will start getting notices from internet providers and by mail that their computer has encrypted files and failure to provide passphrase can earn them a life sentence. It’s not far fetched. We are living in a dystopian reality
We're gonna need to have two PCs soon enough - the older one that is never connected to internet and used for more personnel things.
Rob you are doing great work
excellent presentation, i have been solely on linux since about 2008 and have not regretted it, however i still use google for youtube, in the age where we are to be monitored profusely when shopping, banking and visiting the washroom, it would be very opportune if a vast majority would join the linux community to the point where we can avoid all contact with the 5 eyes advocates, we would need banking and other services to be provided, which would mean those with the financial means would have to revoke their participation in the surveillance dominated commercial community, i myself if given the opportunity would gladly join such a privacy orientated community.
I started to use the Brave browser. I can watch the RUclips videos ads free.
*Bitcoin* will *kill fiat banking* and *end the fascist world government*
Sadly so would agents from the 3,4,5 agencies to subvert it, just like they do to peaceful organization's that protest against the Gov in anyway possible way !
@hitogokochi - Oh, I have used Windows since the Version 3.0 and Window has had many issues and if memory serves me correct then I believe Win 95 had 70,000 known bugs when released. For me as a semi techie although limited in my Linux knowledge I started i=on Linux Mint in 2016 and then Ubuntu in 2018/19 then POP-OS in May 2020. I am very happy with POP-OS, it works great on my ASUS X670E Hero with my AMD 7950X CPU and AMD 6950XT GPU aswell as my other PC's i7-7700 SFF, i5-9500T Mini PC, i7-12700T Mini PC, AMD 3900 Laptop, AMD 5900HX laptop !
@hitogokochi this is the same reason I moved back to Windows. it sucks, but things just work here. on linux I'd spend days fixing issues that would arise out of nowhere, and I'd copy and paste codes and commands from the internet forums hoping I'd work (and it would sometimes lead me to sidequests of solving a new error that would happen due to that code). maybe there are linux distros that are reliable and friendly but they either aren't, or the ones that truly are, are not very heard of, or they are unpolished, and in any case if you want any form of fancy software, then you'd have to face the termial.
I have learned a lot of programming since then and nowadays I feel very comfortable with the terminal and I'm thinking about switching back. but not everyone concerned with privacy is a programmer
Dream tool for dictators
What is?
Because they *are.*
CBDC's are not really a currency, they're a control tool" ~Richard Werner, Economics Professor
Great video! Like always. You should put a list in the description for all those acronyms you use (or remind the meaning on screen), because even though you described them at some point, I had forgot when you later used them, and I'm not gonna go scrolling backwards to figure that out. This content can be pretty dense for a lot of people already. Just some feedback with love and respect! 🙏
Great video! I've always questioned whether it makes sense to implement a messaging service which uses E2E-encryption when the operating system it runs on (by you or one of your contacts) is proprietary and potentially spying on messages. That's why I have no huge interest in porting my efforts in GNUnet from Linux to Android even though Android itself is open. Most users unfortunately don't use AOSP but an untrustworthy variant of it by Google and others.
Maybe secure messengers should start providing information about your contacts which OS they use. So each user can decide whether they want to send messages to the government or not.
I am the only one who cares in my environment.
My husband is sort of on my side but not very tech-literate, so trying to get him to abandon convenience will be tough. Everyone else in my life thinks I'm a paranoid lunatic. It's very frustrating.
this is the problem . people trust government . but they are not to be trusted because they just serve themselves not the people.
yes, grownups don't like the stupidity of learning something new. All of us who love privacy need to get better at teaching skills so others won't be so repelled by our sense of what's important
Linux has become a hobby for me since i switched over from widows 10 about 6 months ago , distro hopping is good trying different flavours of OS. You learn new skills that you would have never learnt on Windoze.
What type of new skills?
@@maccagrabme I keep learning new programs and apps...
hacking skills. its great fun hacking your neighbors wi fi@@maccagrabme
The issue with linux is: its chaos. It does not follow any logic or any set of rules in development.
One person coded one dialog, another person coded another dialog (you know the OK/CANCEL or YES/NO ?)
Every dialog is random. YES and NO swapped around all the time. Sometimes Dialog has no LOGICAL answer at all.
Get your SH!T together developers and come up with a UNIVERSAL rule for dialog boxes and maybe layout for fundamental OS components. Enough is enough. Too much random garbage. Why do you think Windows is so popular ? Its easy to use. Its predictable, its logical. Linux is a MESS.
Linux works fine, you have almost all services you need nowdays in an open source format, what the main issue is lack of free hardware, i hope riscv progresses faster.
Good point. I will buy a RISC V sbc just to test it and make sure I support the people making these devices.
@@juliusfucik4011 Good on you, there's plenty of boards, but the key moment when riscv will start taking over is when those sbcs rival the raspberry pi in terms of performance, it will take over the hobbyist and tinkerer space, people will starting building server chips like ampere, and then finally youll have riscv regular ol cpu and standardized sockets.
Great content. Love the work you do. Sadly there are still too many fools walking to the slaughter.
Nearly all of us...😢
If you believe this ends badly, for us. The wealthy parasites have tried to globalize the world many times before and failed.
It's not possible to enslave people without controlling what they say first.
Worrying about software... alone... is like ensuring that the front door has been secured by a tradesmen. It leaves the backdoor and windows at risk (pun intended). Three factors should be considered: the hardware, the software and the operator. Any or all of these are potential risks to privacy.
I am going to have to move over to Linux on my computers here. Thanks for the excellent advice and assistance you provide. :)
I recently updated Ubuntu and now I have a password on the Hard Drive, Then another on the OS log in. I wish the BIOS also had had a log in.
Me old lady does not like it. I told her use your phone. Windows games, Edge and Linux don't mix very well.
I am not worried about the Gov mint. I worry about the data miners. Like for banking passwords.
The Infernal Revenewers already have the into and out info via Massa card and Visa
I also believe that ATMs can scan the serial numbers on cash. If it is not already being done.
My bank has already upgraded. I am not aware of an any issues with the old ATMs.
Remember that Ubuntu has snaps which is proprietary. Something like mint would be better imo. But if you can also remove snaps from ubuntu if that makes you feel uneasy.
@@himankan I will be using 'mint' in the first instance. :) I have used it before. However, it was many years ago.
I don't play games so I don't expect any issues moving over to linux. I currently use quite a lot of the 'portable' apps on Windows. There are the same or very similar to ones on Linux. I don't expect any major issues to switching over.
I just need to do it soon. :)
Thanks for the advice. :)
Ubuntu is a mess now, doesn't it hide some security updates behind paywall? I'm not gonna put my eggs in that basket anytime soon @@himankan
Ignore random distro recommendations. Make your choice based on what you want to do and what hardware you have.
Already a two year Linux user Arch & Debian, also looking into FreeBSD too because well...reasons:).
FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD and I've built some really solid NAS systems for friends and family with it. It does have its uses.
The tech is there for apple to appease China initially, but like China says to our government, they are on the same side.
You're dreaming. China despises western governments
From America , we support you greatly , we should all be talking about this more. ---- Thank you for your clear , concise , and most importantly straightforward explanation of this matter. This is a critical national security concern , and I do not work for an agency.
I want to thank you for all of your provided content as well , sharing is caring.
I was thinking they would embed this in hardware itself like some cellular technology already is.
Yes! Whenever I buy anything, I'm paranoid there'll be something i don't know in the hardware, especially since less things allow you to open them up or work on them.
*Open Source Hardware* is the solution which *removes Intel Management Engine from the system* . The most robust product that's fully open source hardware is *RaptorCS* . A cheaper option with fully open source hardware _except_ for the GPU (which has no control over the CPU or networking and does not require the graphics driver to be installed to boot the system) is BeagleBone Black. but it is very slow
@@tacokoneko *searches for one on sale *
I set up Linux on my parents new computer 😂 made it super easy with 3 buttons for my father and an extra 2 for my mother.
Haven't been called once to be asked for help with the pc. Epic win 🎉
Can you tell us which version please?
@@jozefserf2024 Endeavor Os, so Arch based distro.
No. Linux is just too complicated for the average user. The only way to make it work is to spend a significant amount of your life learning it and it doesn’t stop there. You then have to continue learning it for the rest of your life in order to keep up with all the changes. Switching to linux may seem like a great idea to Linux power users, but for the rest of us it’s just not feasible.
I'm far from being a power user, in 2008 my Windows Laptop HD had to be formatted and I was about to take it to a travel, lost days trying to get all the drivers working, unsuccessfully. A friend suggested Ubuntu just to be able to use the computer while traveling.
Never saw my laptop so fast, in less than a month I could do all I needed, and since then all my computers have been dual boot, using Ubuntu or Mint 99% of the time and Windows for very specific tasks.
I'm still not a power user today, any basic Windows user is capable to be a basic Linux Mint user in a week.
It's not harder than changing from iPhone to Android and vice-versa.
@@alfaxgoNicely said. Thanks
its a hobby and you can learn some good hacking tricks with Linux
@@markaspen "Linux was trying hard to become popular in the last two decades."
It kicked Microsoft's a$$ in the server space, didn't it, Mark Aspen?
"But Windows is still the most popular OS in the world."
Incorrect. Android is the most widely installed OS across the globe.
"People complain, but use Windows. Complain but use it."
That's right, nothing like sitting there behind your keyboard and just whining about it, while doing nothing to stop Windows hatred of your privacy.
"Because Linux is millions of times harder to use than Windows."
Then that makes me a million times more intelligent than you, Mark Aspen who can't even create a pseudonym on here. I will take that as a compliment.
Sorry to burst your bubble but you couldn't be more wrong. In the olden days, when UNIX was regarded some sort of magic and Linux just saw the light of day, yes that was the poweruser's era and they still benefit greatly from using UNIX/Linux. But those times are no more: Using a modern day Linux is equivalent to using any tablet or smartphone, and the operating systems on said mobile devices are actually flavors of Linux (Android) and UNIX/BSD (Apple IOS).
I've used Linux for more than 25 years, using first Ubuntu and since 2010 solely Debian, which is one of the oldest, most stable and robust Linux distributions.
Give it a serious try - you just might like it :)
this will be done at the hardware level as part of the out of band management engine
time for router-level packet filtering
@@markaspen If it's in the GPU driver for Linux then it's also in the GPU driver for Linux anyway. But you're talking complete rubbish because there are security experts over the world constantly doing packet traces on systems to see what they send out over the network at certain times, and that's the case for Linux or you beloved, bloated and privacy-hating Windows.
Sure you may not be able to see what is inside an encrypted packet but you can see where it's going to and then you can start asking questions of the manufacturer anyway.
This is one thing you forget in your blind Windows fanboy-ism - it applies for both OSes in Linux for adults and Windows for kiddies.
Client side scanning is already being done on Android 11+. I was taking a picture in my garden with my young son running, naked around the pool as you boys do, it flagged him as "inappropriate content warning", and without him even being the focus of the picture.
This was on a Samsung btw.
Oh but pornography in children's library is acceptable🙄
@@hoboonwheels9289No, as stated this is a mishap, but that is not the point, the point is that it is not the "internet police" responsibility to scan any of my content without the user consent. Privacy is privacy.
Linux is not hard to grasp as long as you take your time and have a little patience. Been using Linux for over 16 years and love it.
They seem to like using that trick, trying to dismantle Internet privacy under disguise of "child protection".
Yup... I remember a Canadian Conservative MP standing up in parliament and saying, "He can either stand with us or with the child pornographers" when trying to pass a surveillance bill in 2004. They've been singing this tune for a long time now.
yes, as if the only reason someone would want privacy is to break the law. Wouldn't we need to come up with ten totally accessible reasons why regular people need their privacy...that has nothing to do with breaking the law?
Access to your machine is in the processor it's at the hardware level. They will be able to read your keystrokes, know what your camera is looking at, what your microphone is picking up... what your speakers are picking up. Processessor manufacturers and developers will be mandated by law to give access at the hardware level. So, imaging brain implants, hackable through backdoors at the hardware level... possible access to your private thoughts. If you can think it, someone else is hard at work trying to do it.
I remember reading somewhere advertisers/companies want your thoughts or something along those lines...
And how would it store and transmit the data? It obviously can't rely on the operating system.
@@markaspen How's it gonna transmit data when all the wifi networks have passwords? How is it gonna get drivers and firmware to decipher the I/O of any peripheral? How would it decide that x part of memory is a password?
@@markaspen btw fyi I also don't like the whole management engine thing in CPUs either, though I just feel it might be a tad overblown.
@@markaspen "The hardware does not needs your OS to send data over the internet."
But any information that is was sending out over the Internet would be detected by one of many computer engineers across the globe who are constantly checking for such things. If it was there, they would find it.
"There are even bios that have a web browser inside."
Yes, Mark Aspen, it's called iLO (Integrated Lights Out) in HP's case and its there to provide remote access to servers when there are problems. Other vendors have their own versions of it, but you only find it on server-level hardware, not on consumer-grade PCs.
Another "straw man" argument, Mark?
They are listen to even our conversations at the coffee shop.
this is going pass that
The last layer of the osi model, and most dangerous one, the coffee shop layer. The place you feel safest, where you think you can say anything.
Your work/videos are laudable but the spiral into the abyss seems complete already. I have tried to raise consciousness of my friends and colleagues but I continually strike out. Don't stop your work.
Yeah, those of us who want to convince others that privacy is important need to get better at convincing them. I've found one of the best methods is to just grab their phone and install "brax.me' (Rob's social network and support site) with a username and password that's easy for them to remember and go then when you're logged in as them, start a chat with you. Then go from there...