"Saying you don't need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't need freedom of speech because you have nothing to say." - Edward Snowden
+Marcus Romul Nah it's insane, what kills me is any random comment these days can cause you to loose your job. IT's not even spoken word that can get you in trouble these days, but literally thoughts.
+Marcus Romul A lot of people visit these sites out of curiosity, nothing wrong with that, many people do not know that their activities are stored and can actually be tracked later, and hence they "research" on these sites for information and risk assessment: Ofc what they want to hear is, Tor / Tails etc. is 100% anonymous and I can look at whatever on the dark web. Reality, however is different, and I believe they deserve this information, so they can make up with themselves, if this is actually worth the risk for them. Knowledge is power, use this to your advantage. Stay safe guys
The reality is, internet traffic leaves a trail. The smaller the footprint, the harder it is to find. Never do anything you would not want someone to find out you did. This was good advice before the internet, now it is very good news.
mackdmara -Common sense should tell you not to put anything in writing whether it's online or snail mail, that being said I have only recently have tried to do any thing on line because my attempts to contact Virginia state agencies to report fraud and abuse in Buchanan County va,the town of Grundy to be specific,during the 1990's the court house and police dept. blocked my internet access with a fraudulent warrant to my internet provider at that time. I did not know my so called family was at least partially responsible for such actions due to their theft of my identity to cover up their own crimes ( my sisters) theft of my Native American ancestors (as the old saying mothers baby-fathers maybe) by immediate family and mothers sister from Spruce Pine Va along with coal and gas rights by family who also had the last name of Mullins from the same area. It is still occurring today Feb.3,2019. Even the device I use (an iPad mini given to me by my sister Sarah Jane Cantrell in 2013 that she mailed me in Illinois where I lived until 2016 partially against my will with Phyllis Horn who is no kin to me but my baby's daddy's mother and am visiting right now in order to see and be with my child since a week before x-mas or I could not access this site). I have been lied to,stole from, physically attacked with broken bones,teeth knocked out,ID perpetually and systematically stolen and returned by Joey Mullins along with my son Malcolm Mullins,both of my brothers ,my nephew and niece along with their drug dealing amegios. If I live I will attempt to get justice when I arrive back down home. My online identity has been comprised by Cindy Shortridge also and 4 days before I caught a bus to come see my daughter in Illinois,Cindy attacked me to prevent my mother from taking me to theDMV to get a real ID on that sat. morning. The following Monday Vansants DMV's systems were down and I could not get the federally required identification made oddly enough? It is time for the TRUTH -hope I survive my family and the corruption that exists in Buchanan County Va.
don't really like or agree with that logic: so, if i want to fight the system, let's say the (lack of) privacy aspect of it - i should give up before even starting - as i don't want the system to find out what i'm going to be doing. right... lets just sit like ducks waiting for our turn to be slaughtered. i don't think so.
Constant surveillance and complete analysis of our private behavior and communication to be sold to the highest bidder denies us the right to be free people.
@@freqnlodown Having lots of money absolutely does not mean you don't have to worry about money. It does mean you don't have to worry about how you are going to pay for rent, clothes and food, but you trade worrying about those to worrying about other things. He even gave an example in his talk. Most of us don't have to wait until midnight to go shopping, right? More money, more problems. But yeah, I agree you have more choices if you are rich.
@@freqnlodown but Keanu isn't exactly a 'rich guy'. I mean he is by income, but not by immediate financial availability because he gives most of his income to charities and doesn't live a very luxurious and lavish lifestyle either
For all those People that have nothing to hide, please share your first name, last name, bank account number, Phone number, credit card numbers, email adress and a copy of your medical records in the comments
Explain how Tor will help protect this information from hackers. Otherwise.., if you ware trying to hide this type of information from the government by using Tor.., then explain why.
My first reaction was... It's that other guy from Bill & Ted! Then I listened to what he has to say. I was impressed, he demystified the Deep Web and made me understand better about the subject of anonymity
Recently, I came across this video and am glad I watched all of it. Alex did a wonderful job clearly explaining the importance of our right to privacy and what we can do to accomplish that. Well done!
What could be more humiliating and degrading than taking your memories, passing thoughts, privacy and broadcast it to all your friends and haters also complete strangers, without your consent?
Alex Winter is a smart, well-informed man. Pretty much the opposite of Bill S. Preston. Thank you, Mr. Winter, for speaking out against the fascists controlling the internet.
Wow this statement is so true yet so not relevant at the same time. We have gone along way from the time where there were no internet and gadgets. Your grandpa is a lucky man.
I may well be older than your grandpa. I access the internet a LOT, multiple times every day. While, on the other hand, I am pretty much a cellphone refusnik. I bought one for a road trip back in 2007, used it for 10-days, then threw it in a drawer until it expired. Never used it again. I'm so old (64) that I can remember that we used to use computers before the internet existed. Nowadays, most people can't imagine that a computer would have any purpose if it weren't online, LOL. And yet, for 15-years (1980-1994) I'd have to say my computers were my primary addiction. And I didn't get online until 1995.
The almost mind-blowing part to me is that fact that it is such an impressive idea to have complete privacy. "Like imagine" lol. How sad that such a thing is so complicated...
- for "complete privacy" it is required that you live completely alone ( -'long-term' and Completely self-sufficient !! ) - Friday obviously no longer 'enjoyed' that , once he 'received' that - his name .....
This whole subject started as curiosity and has developed into an obsession. Thanks Alex for making me question everything and thinking outside the norm.
that's the song of all public media. They start off well, then they grow larger and when profit takes too much control then the users' freedom is cast aside. Same with Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, even damn Tumblr.. Nothing on widespread media is safe
Can you say FREENET? Download and install. No search engines to track you, now servers to store everything about you. You have to learn your selves I have no time to teach it.
Just saw this. Awesome presentation. Thank you so much. I truly believe it is noble and humanitarian. It's through either ignorance or apathy that people can't accept that our governments and media may not have our best interests at heart. Too few are familiar with the concept of individual thought and considering things from their own perspective, other sides to a story. Hopefully many will stumble upon people like Alex and take notice.
it seems to me that he left of where the important conversation, about the need for privacy, was just getting started. everything else was just building a context for this important conversation. i have no idea how to practically increase my privacy in light of all the data logging about my life that's going on with my ISP, the government, etc. so let's start that conversation.
I really didn't expect such a wonderful presentation from him. It's hard to separate Alex winter from ted. There's really not much of a difference between Bill, and Keanu Reeves, but this guy's brilliant. I especially like his retort to the common mindset that if you have nothing to hide, why should you care if the government is looking. Ben Franklin would be turning in his grave if he knew what happened to his country,
I don't know. Why don't you ask IBM. They were the one's who got the whole thing started with their IBM Personal Computer in the early 1980's.The computers we use today are based on the clones of their PC line of computers.
Good luck going dark now that the FBI got rule 41 amended. "The proposed amendments to rule 41 will allow the FBI to obtain rubber stamped warrants to hack into computers around the world, based on a broad and vaguely defined list of reasons. For example, warrants could be issued to hack someone simply because they use tor, or a VPN to protect their privacy or conceal their location. In fact, a warrant may be issued to hack somebody simply because they choose not to share location data with applications on their cell phones." They did it, hurray for the surveillance state.
Lindsey Duckett - I guess my point was - it started decades ago and it's not what I would call slow anymore. Collectively we've become too lazy and stupid, allowing ourselves to be convinced it's too complicated for us to deal with it - which of course is by design, those of us who are already awake know. So, I s'pose nothing will change until the economy collapses. Gawd, it's gonna be a shit show!
Shani LeMeow - From what I understand, this Rule 41 applies to anybody connected to the internet so...yeah, it's my stupid fucking government thinking it can/should police the world. If you're Israeli being from Jerusalem, I guess you can't say much either...because your government is one of the instigators.
Hear, hear! Well said! We have given up our privacy too easily and our politicians have been complicit in enabling government, businesses, and others to take it away.
I will be sharing this with friends and family. I will also be closing down my Facebook & Twitter accounts r to ight now!! You video on the dark we even-silk road was very informative & easy to understand. Thank you!!
Ventured deep in the early 90's.. Accidentally stumbled into a protected govt secured site. Unplugged modem immediately. Didn't stop my return. Fascinating place. Much needed space & as deeply pertinent then as NOW.
I learned a lot in this video so thanks for that. It is really important that the general audience knows that the Dark Net is not primarily a place of crime and bad things. In times of Facebook and misused data, more and more people tend to realize that total freedom and anonymity are important goals. Let's take for example privacy coins (Zcash, Monero, DeepOnion) which already provide a solution for this problem - at least for transactions.
With all this disaster, the best option is the privacy of the coins, the tendency of people will be anonymity whose transactions are impossible to track, especially the currency that can be bought at a low price and take advantage of young projects.
People just don't understand things until they personally experience them. No matter who you are or how virtuous you may be.. you are still only human. And we are all blind to that which we have not seen.
Pretty much the same for me, I do use my business bank card for some transactions cuz I own my own construction company but for the most part, 90% of my transactions are cash, and the rest are just debit purchases from money I already made. I never wana love outside my means and find myself in a deep hole w no ladder out.
This guy really gets it. Privacy =! crime. We all have a basic right to cover our online tracks. If we voluntarily resort to submitting all our digital information to communication giants, we’ll all merely be transparent customers / citizens. Some blockchain projects are having privacy the default value proposition (Monero, ZCash, DeepOnion). They will become more and more important moving forward.
Many years After bill and teds movies... Keane reeves: makes many movies, some good some bad, made into memes. Alex Winter: no movies of discernible value. Makes documentaries, learns hacking and talks at TEDx talks. My money is on Alex.
Keanu has given away the majority of his earnings, takes the subway like regular folk and started a charity. He's way more giving than the majority of celebrities. Both Keanu and Alex are socially aware and caring men.
Thank you..I am a pup here...I don't even know where to start..My I.P. was hacked a few years ago...Prior I got for instance Easter 2016 I went to St Thomas Church Hollywood...I told nor wrote anyone I was going there..I usually don't...During I heard a voice say..where is your Mary Magdalene...I walked outside, sat down and got a text asking..where is your Mary Magdalene...I didn't answer the text...I was also sent from Wells Fargo a text to reset the security code of a woman S. Malachai..not too long ago.
@@hen6003 unless the vpn service is compromised, it's still safe. The VPN only encrypts your data in their own encryption and sends it to its intended destination. If the VPN service isn't compromised, there is no reason it would be dangerous. And reliable VPNs aren't usually compromised.
We live in a country and a time where we are told that in order to maintain our freedom, we have to give up our privacy. Yet privacy and freedom pretty much the same thing. 🤔
"Privacy is fundamental to being a human being." Is that true? I think it's more to do with culture and social norms than anything intrinsically 'human'. Humans need food, water, air, and connection to other humans, because those things are real. Beyond that, it's all just concepts, food for the mind/ego, and the more (hyper)active the mind/ego, the more it 'needs' those conceptual things in order to feed its insatiable appetite for thinking. I can easily envision a society where everyone knows everything about everyone, and everyone's cool with it. I can't imagine that in *our* society, but so what. We're not the first, we won't be the last, and in 1000 years none of this will matter. None of it.
I am sorry, but you`re logic is a false equivalency. He said that privacy is fundamental to being a "human being", not an animal. Yes, humans are obviously animals, but we are an extremely evolved animal with a social structure that is far more complex than any ant colony. If a dog walks down the street without clothes, then we think nothing of it because its a dog. If a human does the same, he will be picked up by the police because the law requires us to cover our privates in public. The same logic applies to public urination and defecation. The law requires us to keep certain things discrete and hidden for the good of all man kind. If we truly did live in you`re hypothetical world where everyone knows everything about everyone, then there wouldn't be any point to having any kind of economy or currency all together. Because we would all know each others bank information and we would all have insider stalk trading information, so what`s the point of even playing the game? Sometimes, social norms are just necessary. We cant live in a world where we are all monitored like cattle in barn. That would be the definition of dystopia.
Humans don't *need* connection to other humans to survive, bud. Also you are using the word 'ego' in the wrong way. Ego just means self esteem bro. Cmon, simple stuff here.
E Bach I'm Sotry but You're Mistaken! Going to deficate or urinate Is An Inherent Human Need!! It Can be attempted to try n camouflage these Human Functions- But It Is an INHERENT HUMAN NEED to do these things!! I.E. God Given Rights/ Needs. 1 Love
Fist I'd like to say, it's great to see on of my favorite actors, from one of my favorite movies, talking about one of my favorite topics. However. I absolutely hate the idea that a VPN is a security solution as its pedaled to the public today. That it somehow solves the problem of ISP's spying on your every google search. VPN's abound in today's society but all they do is shift the problem instead of solve it. Let me try and summarize. A VPN or Virtual Private Network, is a technology that encapsulates/encrypts data between two end points. It needs to be explained that the internet is made up of billions of end points, and your information bounces off as many of them as is needed between you and the physical machine you are communicating to(Safeways website, or your banks, etc.). A VPN protects you from a lot of things because in most of these 'hops' between endpoints you are encrypted. However once you reach your absolute endpoint for the VPN, your data is transmitted in the same way it would have been normally without a VPN. The only difference is that from whatever site or resource you are trying to reach your starting point will be that of the absolute endpoint of your VPN and not your computer. Which the company that you use to gain access to your VPN has full control, and access to, the same way your ISP does over your internet connection. It is improved security in transit, but not in execution...currently. Between these end points your data is encrypted, it is safe, or a safe as it can be from man in the middle attacks and packet sniffers and the like. The problem with this idea is that all it does is shift the responsibility for the safety of your data from the ISP to the VPN provider. The only person who now has any connection between that data and you, is now the company you pay for the use of a VPN. A VPN can not be a solution of anonymity or security until there exists a way to utilize VPN in the same way we currently utilize the internet, that is to say an infrastructure change. Even then, the data has to be read at some point, and that point will be where your digital footprint is. In conclusion. Only with a fully encrypted internet with a VPN connection between each and every absolute endpoint would a VPN be a reasonable solution to security/anonymity, instead of a shifting of responsibility from the ISP to the VPN provider. ....now ask me what I think about 'the cloud'....
James O hi James I don't know if you'll text me back or not but I'm kind of new at the internet you're my fifties and I would really like to know how to get on the dark web if you can help I would love that
VPN is as you say pretty bad as peddled. Use your brain and trust no one be sure your VPN is really private. The tech is good only the human criminals is bad. Use Freenet.
Archie Godfrey - Hmm. Veddy veddy intadethting. Had similar issue awhile back. But my brain is so fogged, I can't remember the video topic. I even forgot it happened until I read your comment. You will have to test it out at different times to see if it was coincidental, accidental, or monumental. If you bother, let us know the results please.
Of course the Dark Net or web is not what most people think, and of course privacy cryptos like Monero or DeepOnion who protect your anonymity online is not what most people think. We all know the Snowden story; your privacy is your freedom. Take it seriously.
rence well oh thanks for telling me that it was a stupid comment. I guess I should go stick forks in my eyes because apparently I made a "stupid ass comment"
Whoa, Bill on the cereal box kinda looks like Gio Gio from JJBA Part Five: Vento Aureo! Excellent! All we are is dust in the wind..... the golden wind. Seriously, this is one of the best Ted talks. Alex nailed it. Excellent. I just realized Alex also looks a lot like Casey Niestat.
I used to be concerned about malware taking my data. Now MS Edge tells my Google Chromecast every time I open a browser; even a different browser. Then. I find out that I asked it to do it in the terms and conditions I never read because they are intentionally vague and written to be unreadable.
Great video, well said and explained! Not only criminals need to protect their privacy! Currently, the main problem I've faced trying is the financial transactions, since every bank and payment service will ask you to pass a KYC, I thought cryptocurrency will solve this problem, but the public design of blockchain made everything opposite :) Now I'm looking anonymous cryptocurrencies, I like Monero the most and DeepOnion, which provides a Tor integration out of the box. Hope we'll see things changing soon...
good point for you buddy, i do believe that cryptocurrency can offer a better privacy and anonymity in financial aspects of everyone, just like Stealth Addresses that i used when some one sending me to just additional anonymity feature to keep me anonymous. good thing that DeepOnion have that feature. for me privacy and anonymity is my freedom,not just to live with self rule👍
Digital criminals are easily caught and tracked... but I thought he said you can be anonymous there... and he said it's difficult to get into the dark net... yet he said you just get the Tor browser...
What he is saying is law enforcement has all the technology to find the criminals that they want. They are on a priority bases. primarily going after people who create markets and sell large amounts of particular contraband. If you are a computer genius, you can be a mastermind criminal on there amd stay say, but your average Joe blow will get caught. Deep web markets are a tiny fraction of what is on the deep web. Basically, it all depends on who you are messing with, how big of a trail you leave, and how bad what you are doing. They couldn't give a fuck about some dude buying some weed online. They are looking for people leaking info that is wanted secret, people who create systems that allow unregulated money transactions to large degrees, terrorists, etc. It's on a priority basis. They go after dealers and people who create markets much more than people who buy off them. It's simple. Imagine the resources and time wasted it would be to bust anyone amd everyone who is buying a small amount of drugs, when they could use those resources to catch the people allowing the markets to proliferate and people who are hacking into banks, stealing money and identities, leaking top secret info, etc. For fucks sale, our government are drug dealers, the just don't like competition. Think of it like this; your a farmer with a field of tomatoes. You are hoping for no to little bug infestation. The drug buyers are like a field with a few caterpillars. They are only going to go after the obvious ones that they can see. Many slip under the radar either because of time and effort vs priorities. People who create markets are like a field with caterpillars coming in rampantly. Thus more resources will be used to eradicate the problem. In the farmer example, he now sprays the field with some organic pesticides and uses prevention techniques. More resources. Now people who leak top secret information, interfere with the regulation of money to a very large degree are like a field infested with bugs eating up tomatoes. In effort the farmer would nuke it with artificial pesticides and hopes it does the trick. Now people who are serious threats to entire monetary systems are like a field absolutely devastes by bugs, no tomatoes left. So in the analogy, the farmer would completely remove everything and spray tons of insanelt pesticides. See what I'm saying? The bigger you are a threat, the bigger you are a target. Small threats often are not worth wasting resources. So don't think they are after everyone who buys a gram of weed online. Only if you make yourself obvious. Now if you are buying multiple kilos of coke, then yes you they will actively try to track the transaction down. It all depends on who you mess with, and how bad.
Thrasher209 So overall...is the dark net really annoynoumous, or is it just so big that you can slip under the radar if you dont draw attention? This is an unrealistic scenario, but lets say the law enforcment had limitless resources and time...could they track down everyone basically on the dark net?
kidprep Pretty much it's so big that people slip under the radar easily. You can go through more steps to secure your privacy from law enforcement, but if you don't make it extremely easy to tie down to you and don't go crazy. They are more concerned with big time drug and arms dealers than they are with small time drug buyers or anything like that. Just going on the darknet isn't cause for an investigation. That was a completely realistic scenario. Law enforcement only has a limited amount of resources they are willing to expend. If you don't do something major, something that directly interferes with them, or just plain make it obvious, you'll most likely slip under the radar easily. But even then, there are extra precautions you can take to make it much much harder to track you down. Also just getting an anonymous browser isn't going to expose you to any murder websites or black markets. You have to know how to find them. Some are easy, some are hard.
kidprep Pretty much it's so big that people slip under the radar easily. You can go through more steps to secure your privacy from law enforcement, but if you don't make it extremely easy to tie down to you and don't go crazy. They are more concerned with big time drug and arms dealers than they are with small time drug buyers or anything like that. Just going on the darknet isn't cause for an investigation. That was a completely realistic scenario. Law enforcement only has a limited amount of resources they are willing to expend. If you don't do something major, something that directly interferes with them, or just plain make it obvious, you'll most likely slip under the radar easily. But even then, there are extra precautions you can take to make it much much harder to track you down. Also just getting an anonymous browser isn't going to expose you to any murder websites or black markets. You have to know how to find them. Some are easy, some are hard.
kidprep Sorry, I misread that last part. The answer is no, they couldn't track everyone. Some people have it set up to where it is completely impossible to track them down. There aren't enough close to enough resources in the world, let alone law enforcement to crack down on everyone. Even if they had unlimited resources, people would find a way around it.
"Saying you don't need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't need freedom of speech because you have nothing to say." - Edward Snowden
+Marcus Romul Nah it's insane, what kills me is any random comment these days can cause you to loose your job. IT's not even spoken word that can get you in trouble these days, but literally thoughts.
+Marcus Romul A lot of people visit these sites out of curiosity, nothing wrong with
that, many people do not know that their activities are stored and can
actually be tracked later, and hence they "research" on these sites for
information and risk assessment: Ofc what they want to hear is, Tor /
Tails etc. is 100% anonymous and I can look at whatever on the dark web.
Reality, however is different, and I believe they deserve this
information, so they can make up with themselves, if this is actually
worth the risk for them.
Knowledge is power, use this to your advantage. Stay safe guys
+Fu cK You just go and paste the same response to every comment on any "Dark Web" related video.
That's correct.
+Marcus Rommul True
So let me get this straight, this is Bill...on a Ted talk...Excellent!
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'Borrowing' this!! Lol. Thanks!
Yep. From Bill and Ted to Bill on TED.
Now that is progress.
This was a phenomenal TED talk, Mr. Winter. Thank you for all of the efforts that you put into it, and into all of your work.
The reality is, internet traffic leaves a trail. The smaller the footprint, the harder it is to find. Never do anything you would not want someone to find out you did. This was good advice before the internet, now it is very good news.
mackdmara -Common sense should tell you not to put anything in writing whether it's online or snail mail, that being said I have only recently have tried to do any thing on line because my attempts to contact Virginia state agencies to report fraud and abuse in Buchanan County va,the town of Grundy to be specific,during the 1990's the court house and police dept. blocked my internet access with a fraudulent warrant to my internet provider at that time. I did not know my so called family was at least partially responsible for such actions due to their theft of my identity to cover up their own crimes ( my sisters) theft of my Native American ancestors (as the old saying mothers baby-fathers maybe) by immediate family and mothers sister from Spruce Pine Va along with coal and gas rights by family who also had the last name of Mullins from the same area. It is still occurring today Feb.3,2019. Even the device I use (an iPad mini given to me by my sister Sarah Jane Cantrell in 2013 that she mailed me in Illinois where I lived until 2016 partially against my will with Phyllis Horn who is no kin to me but my baby's daddy's mother and am visiting right now in order to see and be with my child since a week before x-mas or I could not access this site). I have been lied to,stole from, physically attacked with broken bones,teeth knocked out,ID perpetually and systematically stolen and returned by Joey Mullins along with my son Malcolm Mullins,both of my brothers ,my nephew and niece along with their drug dealing amegios. If I live I will attempt to get justice when I arrive back down home. My online identity has been comprised by Cindy Shortridge also and 4 days before I caught a bus to come see my daughter in Illinois,Cindy attacked me to prevent my mother from taking me to theDMV to get a real ID on that sat. morning. The following Monday Vansants DMV's systems were down and I could not get the federally required identification made oddly enough? It is time for the TRUTH -hope I survive my family and the corruption that exists in Buchanan County Va.
don't really like or agree with that logic: so, if i want to fight the system, let's say the (lack of) privacy aspect of it - i should give up before even starting - as i don't want the system to find out what i'm going to be doing. right... lets just sit like ducks waiting for our turn to be slaughtered.
i don't think so.
@@lindamaemullins3086 pass the boof
Constant surveillance and complete analysis of our private behavior and communication to be sold to the highest bidder denies us the right to be free people.
were corporate slaves. isn't capitalism great?
Andrew Rattle We definitely are.
Yvette Ugalde burn thru the resources like they are unlimited too.
That is true enough. You may be surprised how many folks out there would agree with you.
Yvette Ugalde
And GOOGLE has The Largest and Fastest Data Base in The World!!
BEWARE!!
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It's interesting how Alex Winters and Keanu Reeves both became activists.
They are such wonderful people, both of them.
M Smith they went to furure and see it all
It's easy to become whatever you want to be if you have enough money not to worry about money.
@@freqnlodown Having lots of money absolutely does not mean you don't have to worry about money.
It does mean you don't have to worry about how you are going to pay for rent, clothes and food, but you trade worrying about those to worrying about other things. He even gave an example in his talk. Most of us don't have to wait until midnight to go shopping, right?
More money, more problems.
But yeah, I agree you have more choices if you are rich.
And keanu's an actual badass. Check out his gun range videos.
@@freqnlodown but Keanu isn't exactly a 'rich guy'. I mean he is by income, but not by immediate financial availability because he gives most of his income to charities and doesn't live a very luxurious and lavish lifestyle either
For all those People that have nothing to hide, please share your first name, last name, bank account number, Phone number, credit card numbers, email adress and a copy of your medical records in the comments
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No.
Damnit you got me.
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Explain how Tor will help protect this information from hackers.
Otherwise.., if you ware trying to hide this type of information from the government by using Tor.., then explain why.
My first reaction was... It's that other guy from Bill & Ted! Then I listened to what he has to say. I was impressed, he demystified the Deep Web and made me understand better about the subject of anonymity
Recently, I came across this video and am glad I watched all of it. Alex did a wonderful job clearly explaining the importance of our right to privacy and what we can do to accomplish that. Well done!
What could be more humiliating and degrading than taking your memories, passing thoughts, privacy and broadcast it to all your friends and haters also complete strangers, without your consent?
Always been a fan of Bill&Ted. but I have a new found respect for Alex Winter. Keep speaking the truth.
Alex Winter is a smart, well-informed man. Pretty much the opposite of Bill S. Preston. Thank you, Mr. Winter, for speaking out against the fascists controlling the internet.
My grandpa is very private. He doesn't use internet.
well good for him!!
is he a hacker
Wow this statement is so true yet so not relevant at the same time. We have gone along way from the time where there were no internet and gadgets. Your grandpa is a lucky man.
I may well be older than your grandpa. I access the internet a LOT, multiple times every day. While, on the other hand, I am pretty much a cellphone refusnik. I bought one for a road trip back in 2007, used it for 10-days, then threw it in a drawer until it expired. Never used it again.
I'm so old (64) that I can remember that we used to use computers before the internet existed. Nowadays, most people can't imagine that a computer would have any purpose if it weren't online, LOL. And yet, for 15-years (1980-1994) I'd have to say my computers were my primary addiction. And I didn't get online until 1995.
Maybe he is just not telling his secrets because you blab about him to anyone willing\able to read !!. lol
The almost mind-blowing part to me is that fact that it is such an impressive idea to have complete privacy. "Like imagine" lol. How sad that such a thing is so complicated...
- for "complete privacy" it is required that you live completely alone ( -'long-term' and Completely self-sufficient !! ) - Friday obviously no longer 'enjoyed' that , once he 'received' that - his name .....
The best first step is to stop using Facebook.
NEVER USE " UNSOCIAL MEDIA!"
*Fakebook
or know the tools they use and dictate what info they rely upon. they rely on ph to place ppl at places no proof who held the ph
Aaaaand Whatsapp aaaaand instagram!
All that I can say is....AMEN! AND
This whole subject started as curiosity and has developed into an obsession. Thanks Alex for making me question everything and thinking outside the norm.
Privacy - the right to be left alone - is a basic human right.
Yeah and Gun Free zones aka FREE KILL ZONES work too. BS
Which procreation violates.
@Jefferdaughter No it’s not. Rights are laws and laws are a convenient agreement between society. If you want to be alone, climb a tree.
exactly!! people think the desire for, privacy is exclusively about hiding something shameful or sinister, but it's actually a keystone to autonomy.
Google and RUclips censorship has got so bad we need an alternative urgently.
add reddit to that list
that's the song of all public media. They start off well, then they grow larger and when profit takes too much control then the users' freedom is cast aside. Same with Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, even damn Tumblr.. Nothing on widespread media is safe
Can you say FREENET? Download and install. No search engines to track you, now servers to store everything about you. You have to learn your selves I have no time to teach it.
Bootleg versions of RUclips or reddit need to emerge, Nd even then trying to convince the masses to switch would be a challenge.
Google alternatives: duckduckgo, swisscows, qwant
RUclips alternatives: lbry, bitchute
Facebook/whatsapp alternative: mastodon/signal
Dude! That was an absolutely bodacious talk! Excellent!
+Reinoud Vaandrager It was just missing an air guitar solo at the end.
+CortezHoratio wild stalyns demo tape is in the deepweb
Whoosh!
Totally non-non-non-heinous!
That's redundant
Just saw this. Awesome presentation. Thank you so much. I truly believe it is noble and humanitarian.
It's through either ignorance or apathy that people can't accept that our governments and media may not have our best interests at heart.
Too few are familiar with the concept of individual thought and considering things from their own perspective, other sides to a story.
Hopefully many will stumble upon people like Alex and take notice.
6 years later, this is more than ever actual! Thank you very much for putting it so clear. Visionary person is the minimum I would say.
this is the best of ted talks. absolutely.
Andrew Rattle
There's Several Good T E D Talks!
But it wasn't ted talks...it was Bill talks.
When he said, "I woke up one morning with my face on a cereal box," I thought, it must've been a wild party the night before.
The people preventing privacy didn't bring about our existence. Yet they decide the parameters of lives they didnt cause.
This dude gets it.
He wrote the book on 'getting it's !
He didn't conclude his speech by telling everyone to be excellent to each other!
it seems to me that he left of where the important conversation, about the need for privacy, was just getting started. everything else was just building a context for this important conversation. i have no idea how to practically increase my privacy in light of all the data logging about my life that's going on with my ISP, the government, etc. so let's start that conversation.
If Elizabeth Warren's presidency is going to be about "breaking up monopolies", she should really go into breaking up comcast; a literal monster.
Highly intellectual & great speaker. I am impressed
Alex Winter is a great actor. I saw him first in The Lost Boys
SUPER HOT!
Outstanding talk on our growing privacy concerns as citizens.
It's a Bill and Ted talk
+Dan Stratton you cracked me up withis one !!! :D ROLF
Hahaha
Funny...
LOL
@@russellcheng2378 wow this is awesome i love it????????? PARTYSHOP WEBSITE ?????????? they have best mobile phones
I really didn't expect such a wonderful presentation from him. It's hard to separate Alex winter from ted. There's really not much of a difference between Bill, and Keanu Reeves, but this guy's brilliant. I especially like his retort to the common mindset that if you have nothing to hide, why should you care if the government is looking. Ben Franklin would be turning in his grave if he knew what happened to his country,
This dudes *SOOO* RIGHT!!! I still don't get why companies call computers ''PC's?'' When in all actuality there's nothing 'personal' about them:/
I don't know. Why don't you ask IBM. They were the one's who got the whole thing started with their IBM Personal Computer in the early 1980's.The computers we use today are based on the clones of their PC line of computers.
Just C or C's now ? :D
They were ‘personal’ compared to the room sized monstrosities that came before...
If you have a computer at home and use it for your personal needs, as opposed to the one at work, then it's a Personal Computer or PC
"Personal" has more then one meaning and thats how they trick us all words have more then one meanings...stay blessed my people
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin
And to finish mr. Franklin's quote ( and will ultimately lose both !)
That's the best TEDx talk I've seen so far. I'm glad we've got a few smart people in this world.
Good luck going dark now that the FBI got rule 41 amended. "The proposed amendments to rule 41 will allow the FBI to obtain rubber stamped warrants to hack into computers around the world, based on a broad and vaguely defined list of reasons. For example, warrants could be issued to hack someone simply because they use tor, or a VPN to protect their privacy or conceal their location. In fact, a warrant may be issued to hack somebody simply because they choose not to share location data with applications on their cell phones." They did it, hurray for the surveillance state.
OMG, that sucks! When are we gonna put our collective foot down...?
Whatever Imtold when everyone wakes up and actually realizes what's slowly starting to happen
Lindsey Duckett - I guess my point was - it started decades ago and it's not what I would call slow anymore. Collectively we've become too lazy and stupid, allowing ourselves to be convinced it's too complicated for us to deal with it - which of course is by design, those of us who are already awake know.
So, I s'pose nothing will change until the economy collapses. Gawd, it's gonna be a shit show!
And outside the US?
Shani LeMeow - From what I understand, this Rule 41 applies to anybody connected to the internet so...yeah, it's my stupid fucking government thinking it can/should police the world.
If you're Israeli being from Jerusalem, I guess you can't say much either...because your government is one of the instigators.
Outstanding mind! A true leader! Thumbs up! Amazing presentation!
Hard to believe that this guy has been _connected_ to "the internet" since the early to mid 1980s. Radical dude. Excellent!🎸🤘🏽😎
Hear, hear! Well said!
We have given up our privacy too easily and our politicians have been complicit in enabling government, businesses, and others to take it away.
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@@wesleyhempoli5548 No, actually, it's "Hear, hear". It means "Hear what this person is saying." Look it up on Grammarly.
I needed to hear this! there's so much false information about the dark net. finally..some honesty! thanks so much for sharing!
Quack Factor ,
As much I thought it was a very good speech all I kept thinking was once this finishes I must find out when the new Bill and Ted movie is coming out
I wasnt a particular fan of the bill and ted movies but after this talk I am a huge fan of him.
I will be sharing this with friends and family. I will also be closing down my Facebook & Twitter accounts r to ight now!! You video on the dark we even-silk road was very informative & easy to understand. Thank you!!
Phenomenal Ted talk 🙌 learned so much value from this. And I feel far more educated about the web.
I agree with you. Privacy is very important and people in power want to diminish our privacy in the name of safety. The answer is NO !!
still being excellent I see ... thank you
Thank you for coming to my Bill & Ted Talk.
8:42 One does not "flaunt" the law. The word is "flout," as in "openly disregard."
Ventured deep in the early 90's.. Accidentally stumbled into a protected govt secured site. Unplugged modem immediately. Didn't stop my return. Fascinating place. Much needed space & as deeply pertinent then as NOW.
17 minutes and he didn't say Bogus once
feel cheated
But aren't you just a little bit smarter for listening?
skawashers that would reduce a serious lecture to a comedy sketch
Watch your 6 Bro
😂
captainboggles because one word definitely turns something into a comedy sketch
ok buddy
I learned a lot in this video so thanks for that. It is really important that the general audience knows that the Dark Net is not primarily a place of crime and bad things. In times of Facebook and misused data, more and more people tend to realize that total freedom and anonymity are important goals. Let's take for example privacy coins (Zcash, Monero, DeepOnion) which already provide a solution for this problem - at least for transactions.
With all this disaster, the best option is the privacy of the coins, the tendency of people will be anonymity whose transactions are impossible to track, especially the currency that can be bought at a low price and take advantage of young projects.
"Huh, he looks like Bill from Bill and Ted" 0:37 "Oh damn!"
People just don't understand things until they personally experience them.
No matter who you are or how virtuous you may be.. you are still only human. And we are all blind to that which we have not seen.
bill and tedx back together again excellent diddlydiddlywhoooo ...that was the guitar noise at the end;-)
Laughed way hard at this
*Bill gave an excellent TEDTalk.*
this is why i have no credit card or any card for that matter and only use cash. i feel i am one of only a few people that still use only cash
you could also pay cash to get a non-reloadable pepaid visa that doesnt require any personal information to use
Pretty much the same for me, I do use my business bank card for some transactions cuz I own my own construction company but for the most part, 90% of my transactions are cash, and the rest are just debit purchases from money I already made. I never wana love outside my means and find myself in a deep hole w no ladder out.
This guy really gets it. Privacy =! crime. We all have a basic right to cover our online tracks. If we voluntarily resort to submitting all our digital information to communication giants, we’ll all merely be transparent customers / citizens.
Some blockchain projects are having privacy the default value proposition (Monero, ZCash, DeepOnion). They will become more and more important moving forward.
Many years After bill and teds movies...
Keane reeves: makes many movies, some good some bad, made into memes.
Alex Winter: no movies of discernible value. Makes documentaries, learns hacking and talks at TEDx talks.
My money is on Alex.
Keanu has given away the majority of his earnings, takes the subway like regular folk and started a charity. He's way more giving than the majority of celebrities. Both Keanu and Alex are socially aware and caring men.
What makes you think he learned hacking?
Privacy is the most beautiful experience in my life in the 70s & the 80s
this ted talk was sponsored by nord vpn
using a vpn with tor is actually more dangerous btw
@@hen6003 How so?
@@AnonymousNut the traffic is removed of all traces of u by tor then a vpn thats connected to u adds traces of u
Thank you..I am a pup here...I don't even know where to start..My I.P. was hacked a few years ago...Prior I got for instance Easter 2016 I went to St Thomas Church Hollywood...I told nor wrote anyone I was going there..I usually don't...During I heard a voice say..where is your Mary Magdalene...I walked outside, sat down and got a text asking..where is your Mary Magdalene...I didn't answer the text...I was also sent from Wells Fargo a text to reset the security code of a woman S. Malachai..not too long ago.
@@hen6003 unless the vpn service is compromised, it's still safe. The VPN only encrypts your data in their own encryption and sends it to its intended destination. If the VPN service isn't compromised, there is no reason it would be dangerous. And reliable VPNs aren't usually compromised.
We live in a country and a time where we are told that in order to maintain our freedom, we have to give up our privacy. Yet privacy and freedom pretty much the same thing. 🤔
I'm just now seeing this and it was EXECELLENT
Thanks for a fantastic, well prepared, challenging, and dare I say...excellent talk; most bodacious!
Bill's Excellent TED Adventure
What a Fabulous Talk...Thank you Alex...!!!
"Privacy is fundamental to being a human being." Is that true? I think it's more to do with culture and social norms than anything intrinsically 'human'.
Humans need food, water, air, and connection to other humans, because those things are real. Beyond that, it's all just concepts, food for the mind/ego, and the more (hyper)active the mind/ego, the more it 'needs' those conceptual things in order to feed its insatiable appetite for thinking.
I can easily envision a society where everyone knows everything about everyone, and everyone's cool with it. I can't imagine that in *our* society, but so what. We're not the first, we won't be the last, and in 1000 years none of this will matter. None of it.
Fu Sion
That's why we are called humans, not animals. We need privacy. eg: we cover our body
I am sorry, but you`re logic is a false equivalency. He said that privacy is fundamental to being a "human being", not an animal. Yes, humans are obviously animals, but we are an extremely evolved animal with a social structure that is far more complex than any ant colony. If a dog walks down the street without clothes, then we think nothing of it because its a dog. If a human does the same, he will be picked up by the police because the law requires us to cover our privates in public. The same logic applies to public urination and defecation. The law requires us to keep certain things discrete and hidden for the good of all man kind. If we truly did live in you`re hypothetical world where everyone knows everything about everyone, then there wouldn't be any point to having any kind of economy or currency all together. Because we would all know each others bank information and we would all have insider stalk trading information, so what`s the point of even playing the game? Sometimes, social norms are just necessary. We cant live in a world where we are all monitored like cattle in barn. That would be the definition of dystopia.
Humans don't *need* connection to other humans to survive, bud. Also you are using the word 'ego' in the wrong way. Ego just means self esteem bro. Cmon, simple stuff here.
E Bach
I'm Sotry but
You're Mistaken!
Going to deficate or urinate Is An Inherent Human Need!!
It Can be attempted to try n camouflage these Human Functions- But It Is an INHERENT HUMAN NEED to do these things!!
I.E.
God Given Rights/ Needs.
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What are you using to scan your devices?
Fist I'd like to say, it's great to see on of my favorite actors, from one of my favorite movies, talking about one of my favorite topics. However.
I absolutely hate the idea that a VPN is a security solution as its pedaled to the public today. That it somehow solves the problem of ISP's spying on your every google search. VPN's abound in today's society but all they do is shift the problem instead of solve it. Let me try and summarize.
A VPN or Virtual Private Network, is a technology that encapsulates/encrypts data between two end points. It needs to be explained that the internet is made up of billions of end points, and your information bounces off as many of them as is needed between you and the physical machine you are communicating to(Safeways website, or your banks, etc.). A VPN protects you from a lot of things because in most of these 'hops' between endpoints you are encrypted. However once you reach your absolute endpoint for the VPN, your data is transmitted in the same way it would have been normally without a VPN. The only difference is that from whatever site or resource you are trying to reach your starting point will be that of the absolute endpoint of your VPN and not your computer. Which the company that you use to gain access to your VPN has full control, and access to, the same way your ISP does over your internet connection. It is improved security in transit, but not in execution...currently.
Between these end points your data is encrypted, it is safe, or a safe as it can be from man in the middle attacks and packet sniffers and the like. The problem with this idea is that all it does is shift the responsibility for the safety of your data from the ISP to the VPN provider. The only person who now has any connection between that data and you, is now the company you pay for the use of a VPN.
A VPN can not be a solution of anonymity or security until there exists a way to utilize VPN in the same way we currently utilize the internet, that is to say an infrastructure change. Even then, the data has to be read at some point, and that point will be where your digital footprint is.
In conclusion. Only with a fully encrypted internet with a VPN connection between each and every absolute endpoint would a VPN be a reasonable solution to security/anonymity, instead of a shifting of responsibility from the ISP to the VPN provider.
....now ask me what I think about 'the cloud'....
James O hi James I don't know if you'll text me back or not but I'm kind of new at the internet you're my fifties and I would really like to know how to get on the dark web if you can help I would love that
How do you feel about the cloud? Lol
i also want to know how u feel about the cloud lol
VPN is as you say pretty bad as peddled. Use your brain and trust no one be sure your VPN is really private. The tech is good only the human criminals is bad.
Use Freenet.
Excellent talk.
i'm happy that someone is clarifying for the simple minded people.
Best TED Talk ever!!!
I think that we need to go back to beepers and pay phones.
Bill learnt a lot from travelling through time..........Excellent!!!!!
Now that I know some things about the dark net, I agree with your speech. Thank you.
Phenomenon - been watching Ted for 12 hrs non stop. Only this video produced connectivity interruption every time.
Archie Godfrey - Hmm. Veddy veddy intadethting.
Had similar issue awhile back. But my brain is so fogged, I can't remember the video topic.
I even forgot it happened until I read your comment.
You will have to test it out at different times to see if it was coincidental, accidental, or monumental.
If you bother, let us know the results please.
Very good talk
Anybody knows what new site popped up in place of silkroad? asking for a friend....
Of course the Dark Net or web is not what most people think, and of course privacy cryptos like Monero or DeepOnion who protect your anonymity online is not what most people think. We all know the Snowden story; your privacy is your freedom. Take it seriously.
7 years ago, what a shame this message wasn't heard and understood more
I've often wondered where this guy went after those excellent adventures had ended. Cool !!
He had a bogus journey.
+Daniel Hummel II you know that wasn't right, you know it! Yet you said it anyways. Talking about a damn bogus journey. Now I'm dead on the floor.
rence well wtf. chill out 7 year old
Captain Cluiss that was a stupid ass comment. I don't even remember saying it.
rence well oh thanks for telling me that it was a stupid comment. I guess I should go stick forks in my eyes because apparently I made a "stupid ass comment"
Thank you. Very informative and learning a better way to think.
It's not that I have something to hide.
I have nothing I want you to see.
(Amanda Seyfried to Clive Owen, Anon.)
AGAIN..
Everyone needs to watch this
One of the worst invaders is Uber. All the places you go to & come from. Along with all the permissions they demand before you can use their service.
Whoa, Bill on the cereal box kinda looks like Gio Gio from JJBA Part Five: Vento Aureo! Excellent! All we are is dust in the wind..... the golden wind. Seriously, this is one of the best Ted talks. Alex nailed it. Excellent. I just realized Alex also looks a lot like Casey Niestat.
do not make the darknet public, theres a reason it is the other 96% of the internet
I used to be concerned about malware taking my data. Now MS Edge tells my Google Chromecast every time I open a browser; even a different browser. Then. I find out that I asked it to do it in the terms and conditions I never read because they are intentionally vague and written to be unreadable.
Great video, well said and explained! Not only criminals need to protect their privacy!
Currently, the main problem I've faced trying is the financial transactions, since every bank and payment service will ask you to pass a KYC, I thought cryptocurrency will solve this problem, but the public design of blockchain made everything opposite :) Now I'm looking anonymous cryptocurrencies, I like Monero the most and DeepOnion, which provides a Tor integration out of the box.
Hope we'll see things changing soon...
I've had thoughts like that and I'm sure many privacy coins are promising...among those Tor based, I prefer DeepOnion because it's a serious proect.
good point for you buddy, i do believe that cryptocurrency can offer a better privacy and anonymity in financial aspects of everyone, just like Stealth Addresses that i used when some one sending me to just additional anonymity feature to keep me anonymous. good thing that DeepOnion have that feature.
for me privacy and anonymity is my freedom,not just to live with self rule👍
Thank you for sharing your insight you are brilliant!
"Here, use my phone, close your eyes, and press 6 keys at random." Hmm.
Wow that was inspiring and the first step iv seen in pushing back against these tech monsters.
True Privacy is not a privilege. Awesome video yo
Very informative talks. I totally love all of the dudes.
Digital criminals are easily caught and tracked... but I thought he said you can be anonymous there... and he said it's difficult to get into the dark net... yet he said you just get the Tor browser...
What he is saying is law enforcement has all the technology to find the criminals that they want. They are on a priority bases. primarily going after people who create markets and sell large amounts of particular contraband. If you are a computer genius, you can be a mastermind criminal on there amd stay say, but your average Joe blow will get caught. Deep web markets are a tiny fraction of what is on the deep web. Basically, it all depends on who you are messing with, how big of a trail you leave, and how bad what you are doing. They couldn't give a fuck about some dude buying some weed online. They are looking for people leaking info that is wanted secret, people who create systems that allow unregulated money transactions to large degrees, terrorists, etc. It's on a priority basis. They go after dealers and people who create markets much more than people who buy off them. It's simple. Imagine the resources and time wasted it would be to bust anyone amd everyone who is buying a small amount of drugs, when they could use those resources to catch the people allowing the markets to proliferate and people who are hacking into banks, stealing money and identities, leaking top secret info, etc. For fucks sale, our government are drug dealers, the just don't like competition. Think of it like this; your a farmer with a field of tomatoes. You are hoping for no to little bug infestation. The drug buyers are like a field with a few caterpillars. They are only going to go after the obvious ones that they can see. Many slip under the radar either because of time and effort vs priorities. People who create markets are like a field with caterpillars coming in rampantly. Thus more resources will be used to eradicate the problem. In the farmer example, he now sprays the field with some organic pesticides and uses prevention techniques. More resources. Now people who leak top secret information, interfere with the regulation of money to a very large degree are like a field infested with bugs eating up tomatoes. In effort the farmer would nuke it with artificial pesticides and hopes it does the trick. Now people who are serious threats to entire monetary systems are like a field absolutely devastes by bugs, no tomatoes left. So in the analogy, the farmer would completely remove everything and spray tons of insanelt pesticides. See what I'm saying? The bigger you are a threat, the bigger you are a target. Small threats often are not worth wasting resources. So don't think they are after everyone who buys a gram of weed online. Only if you make yourself obvious. Now if you are buying multiple kilos of coke, then yes you they will actively try to track the transaction down. It all depends on who you mess with, and how bad.
Thrasher209 So overall...is the dark net really annoynoumous, or is it just so big that you can slip under the radar if you dont draw attention? This is an unrealistic scenario, but lets say the law enforcment had limitless resources and time...could they track down everyone basically on the dark net?
kidprep Pretty much it's so big that people slip under the radar easily. You can go through more steps to secure your privacy from law enforcement, but if you don't make it extremely easy to tie down to you and don't go crazy. They are more concerned with big time drug and arms dealers than they are with small time drug buyers or anything like that. Just going on the darknet isn't cause for an investigation. That was a completely realistic scenario. Law enforcement only has a limited amount of resources they are willing to expend. If you don't do something major, something that directly interferes with them, or just plain make it obvious, you'll most likely slip under the radar easily. But even then, there are extra precautions you can take to make it much much harder to track you down. Also just getting an anonymous browser isn't going to expose you to any murder websites or black markets. You have to know how to find them. Some are easy, some are hard.
kidprep Pretty much it's so big that people slip under the radar easily. You can go through more steps to secure your privacy from law enforcement, but if you don't make it extremely easy to tie down to you and don't go crazy. They are more concerned with big time drug and arms dealers than they are with small time drug buyers or anything like that. Just going on the darknet isn't cause for an investigation. That was a completely realistic scenario. Law enforcement only has a limited amount of resources they are willing to expend. If you don't do something major, something that directly interferes with them, or just plain make it obvious, you'll most likely slip under the radar easily. But even then, there are extra precautions you can take to make it much much harder to track you down. Also just getting an anonymous browser isn't going to expose you to any murder websites or black markets. You have to know how to find them. Some are easy, some are hard.
kidprep Sorry, I misread that last part. The answer is no, they couldn't track everyone. Some people have it set up to where it is completely impossible to track them down. There aren't enough close to enough resources in the world, let alone law enforcement to crack down on everyone. Even if they had unlimited resources, people would find a way around it.
Why did they blank out a couple of seconds after he mentioned Google etc??
The only place in the universe where I love the comments, Ted Talks :)
Remember back in the 90's when they always told us to not put ANY personal information on the internet?
He said that we need to go dark, and he also said that everything is already going dark by default 😂
Is MacBook is being sold on darknet let me know
This is best one I've seen so far