They quite clearly have a free pass, and are treating it like one. Just, we should be mindful that they are also sensitive about being called out on their nonsense, and would rather we pretend they have ethics. So we'll just call their free pass something, and pretend we can trust them.
So, you can always win. You always have the upper hand. All you have to do is suspect a bug, and it's over for them if you really think about it. The only option a would-be bugger has is trying to hide your signal in other loud noise. But even then, a dedicated person is going to be able to weed you out.
It's a null logic thing. Finding something talkative, that talks with conditions that it can not avoid, is ridiculously easy to find. The kind of technology necessary to avoid detection simply does not exist with our science. It would have to be able to draw energy without being detected, use energy without being detected, transmit data with sufficient strength to penetrate walls, meaning it's going to be on very defined frequencies out of sheer necessity. Even if ALIENS with superior technology were bugging you, they'd not be able to get around the fact that only certain very defined frequencies would need to be used to transmit, and they'd have NO WAY AT ALL to stop you from looking for those transmissions.
When you really think about the situation, logically, it's crazy easy to detect bugs if you suspect them. It's all exploiting the necessary design features they need in order to function at all.
Most of them employ motion detection. So... you set up a simple emissions detection circuit in... anything. Then leave, and come back, and check the logs. Boom, you'll know if you are bugged immediately. You'll detect the emission from the bug.
My favorite cheap bug detector: a spark gap emitter along with a channel hopping fm receiver circuit. You can build something yourself crazy cheap with a TDA7000, or just get a cheap multi frequency scanner. You'll hear an echo after your sparkgap. Even if it's (common now) encrypted radio from the bug to the endpoint, you'll see/hear the "hop". More importantly, you can set any modern chip to stop on signal in the noise. Typically modern hidden transmitters have channel hopping, and you can find it hopping channels if you are looking for that pop. It's not going to hop channels so fast that you can't hear a few before it does. The fun thing is, once you've found the 3 or 4 channels it hops between, you can identify the type of bug. It's like a fingerprint.
is the technology to discover hidden microphones and cameras is stupidly simple. Simple to the point that you'll never be able to design a camera or microphone that can't be detected. Easily. It's a few second to 10 second affair with some very common and cheap (comparatively) scientific/industrial devices/instruments. Things most builder/maker type folks probably already have.
So if I become a political candidate legally, I can make an advertisement claiming I'm a Sunperson from the Sun, that's what identify as, and that I'm running for some other office that doesn't exist, and I can wear ridiculous clothing and do a youtube video with street musicians, and they can't delete it? And if I start a gofundme to fund it getting played on facebook and just dump millions of millennial dollars into it, that's all legal?
Re: I'm permabanned from 4chan. How is it that they can do it?
I've worked for folks that ban ranges. What I used to do when we had a very aggressive hater is just call up the NOC for the network provider. And I'm talking, this was standard practice in 1999. I'd call up the NOC and say "Hey, we got this guy of yours. He keeps making creepy posts. He's on this IP address. Can you just make sure he keeps it?" if they wont' do that. "Well, then can you tell me his address pool? We'll block the entire thing. I'd rather not block your entire assigned netblock". Typically they play ball and nail his IP for you. They tie it to your endpoint device instead of your MAC address. So you always get provisioned with the same IP. Grandfather's Invisible Catchall Shield didn't magically disappear because the Internet came along. NOC's all made friends with each other. We knew exactly who you were when you thought you were Fantomas on USENET, or super sneaky on EfNET.
See, nobody expected him to just declassify and release it. And when anybody sane reads it, they don't see a crime. Worse, when one of the nutters tries to explain what the crime was, and you ask them if they've actually read the transcript, they invariable say no.
I'd suggest actually reading the thing. I'm tempted to post it word for word here.
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I refuse to get an epic games subscription for Borderlands 3
But I'm shopping for a PS4 now because of a new Hideo Kojima game. It wasn't even up for debate.
On the post: Deadspin Is Being Burnt To The Ground By Its New Management As Staff Quits Or Revolts
"Stick to sports, it's your job. Do sports."
Then he literally did the exact opposite on purpose. Of course he was getting fired. He dared them to do it.
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So,
The whisterblower program is being abused by bad actors flooding them with fake complaints.
Got it. That would make sense in the current climate.
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Going through this list of IG...
A pattern emerges...
This sure looks like another meaningless DNC political stunt.
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So to be clear,
They quite clearly have a free pass, and are treating it like one. Just, we should be mindful that they are also sensitive about being called out on their nonsense, and would rather we pretend they have ethics. So we'll just call their free pass something, and pretend we can trust them.
Got it.
On the post: Society Of Professional Journalists Makes Itself Look Foolish In Strange Attempt To Trademark 'Fake News'
Well, at least it's the creators doing it.
They certainly are the experts.
On the post: Bringing Free Speech Back: Trump Promises To Sue CNN Over Its Biased Coverage Based On Dumbest Legal Theory Ever
If he killed off Gawker, he can't be that bad.
That place was a cesspool of lies and clickbait garbage. Good riddance, and to all sites like it.
On the post: Report On Global Social Media Censorship Shows Russia, India, And Turkey Are Still Leading The Censor Pack
I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER
This completely justifies the censorship Google is doing.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: All I'm going to say about this,
So, you can always win. You always have the upper hand. All you have to do is suspect a bug, and it's over for them if you really think about it. The only option a would-be bugger has is trying to hide your signal in other loud noise. But even then, a dedicated person is going to be able to weed you out.
On the post: New Bill Would Force Hardware Makers To Disclose Hidden Mics, Cameras
Re: Re: All I'm going to say about this,
It's a null logic thing. Finding something talkative, that talks with conditions that it can not avoid, is ridiculously easy to find. The kind of technology necessary to avoid detection simply does not exist with our science. It would have to be able to draw energy without being detected, use energy without being detected, transmit data with sufficient strength to penetrate walls, meaning it's going to be on very defined frequencies out of sheer necessity. Even if ALIENS with superior technology were bugging you, they'd not be able to get around the fact that only certain very defined frequencies would need to be used to transmit, and they'd have NO WAY AT ALL to stop you from looking for those transmissions.
When you really think about the situation, logically, it's crazy easy to detect bugs if you suspect them. It's all exploiting the necessary design features they need in order to function at all.
On the post: New Bill Would Force Hardware Makers To Disclose Hidden Mics, Cameras
Re: Re: All I'm going to say about this,
Most of them employ motion detection. So... you set up a simple emissions detection circuit in... anything. Then leave, and come back, and check the logs. Boom, you'll know if you are bugged immediately. You'll detect the emission from the bug.
On the post: New Bill Would Force Hardware Makers To Disclose Hidden Mics, Cameras
Re: All I'm going to say about this,
My favorite cheap bug detector: a spark gap emitter along with a channel hopping fm receiver circuit. You can build something yourself crazy cheap with a TDA7000, or just get a cheap multi frequency scanner. You'll hear an echo after your sparkgap. Even if it's (common now) encrypted radio from the bug to the endpoint, you'll see/hear the "hop". More importantly, you can set any modern chip to stop on signal in the noise. Typically modern hidden transmitters have channel hopping, and you can find it hopping channels if you are looking for that pop. It's not going to hop channels so fast that you can't hear a few before it does. The fun thing is, once you've found the 3 or 4 channels it hops between, you can identify the type of bug. It's like a fingerprint.
On the post: New Bill Would Force Hardware Makers To Disclose Hidden Mics, Cameras
All I'm going to say about this,
is the technology to discover hidden microphones and cameras is stupidly simple. Simple to the point that you'll never be able to design a camera or microphone that can't be detected. Easily. It's a few second to 10 second affair with some very common and cheap (comparatively) scientific/industrial devices/instruments. Things most builder/maker type folks probably already have.
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PicardFacepalm.jpg
And they wonder why that clownworld meme just won't go away.
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Re: Re:
please kids try this at home. I'm trying to help.
On the post: Elizabeth Warren's Feud With Facebook Over 'False' Ads Just Highlights The Impossibility Of Content Moderation At Scale
Re:
So if I become a political candidate legally, I can make an advertisement claiming I'm a Sunperson from the Sun, that's what identify as, and that I'm running for some other office that doesn't exist, and I can wear ridiculous clothing and do a youtube video with street musicians, and they can't delete it? And if I start a gofundme to fund it getting played on facebook and just dump millions of millennial dollars into it, that's all legal?
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Re: Re: I'm permabanned from 4chan. How is it that they can do i
The market provides.
On the post: Elizabeth Warren's Feud With Facebook Over 'False' Ads Just Highlights The Impossibility Of Content Moderation At Scale
Re: I'm permabanned from 4chan. How is it that they can do it?
I've worked for folks that ban ranges. What I used to do when we had a very aggressive hater is just call up the NOC for the network provider. And I'm talking, this was standard practice in 1999. I'd call up the NOC and say "Hey, we got this guy of yours. He keeps making creepy posts. He's on this IP address. Can you just make sure he keeps it?" if they wont' do that. "Well, then can you tell me his address pool? We'll block the entire thing. I'd rather not block your entire assigned netblock". Typically they play ball and nail his IP for you. They tie it to your endpoint device instead of your MAC address. So you always get provisioned with the same IP. Grandfather's Invisible Catchall Shield didn't magically disappear because the Internet came along. NOC's all made friends with each other. We knew exactly who you were when you thought you were Fantomas on USENET, or super sneaky on EfNET.
On the post: DOJ And DNI's Attempt To Bury Whistleblower Report Yet Another Indication Of The Official Channels' Uselessness
The Real Problem Of Course Is That Transcript
See, nobody expected him to just declassify and release it. And when anybody sane reads it, they don't see a crime. Worse, when one of the nutters tries to explain what the crime was, and you ask them if they've actually read the transcript, they invariable say no.
I'd suggest actually reading the thing. I'm tempted to post it word for word here.
On the post: How A Right To Be Forgotten Stifles A Free Press And Free Expression
Finally, bad censorship
I was beginning to think that the tech media loves all censorship.
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