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text0404

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About text0404

Hacker interested in privacy, surveillance tech, and hacktivism; focused on the intersection of politics, policy, civil liberties, and technology.

"This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals."

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48910722

    > We saw Erin Brokovich and then proceeded to block the building of literally everything These kinds of generalizations are so ridiculous as to be completely useless. You keep sayi…

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    Comment #48910355

    Thanks for telling me how I think. If we're doing that, let me tell you how you think: you don't care about people and want to pursue profit over human life, and will go to any len…

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    Comment #48910015

    > If you were asked, would you have voted to allow the building of your own home, the infrastructure and roads around it, and the businesses whose tax revenue funds your local muni…

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    Comment #48808260

    But Chatrie found that the geofence was unconstitutional because of the wide dragnet which included people not suspected of crimes, not because those people were in private spaces:…

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    Comment #48575829

    A lot of people in academia are mission driven - they don't care about the money, they care about the application of their work to benefit humanity and don't want to exist as a cog…

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    Comment #48535891

    Unfortunately, leftists rely on Americans ability to empathize with the plight of the vassal states in the world which have been pillaged and destroyed in service of the most prosp…

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    Comment #48498065

    Except the defense has shown that the police blocked opening an additional lane even after the protestors specifically requested it for emergency traffic, and in fact blocked more …

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    Comment #48491548

    So he wasn't proven guilty in a court of law, and everything that you're saying is conjecture based on your non-expert opinion? "Guilty until proven innocent," was it?

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    Comment #48481612

    > Guilty until proven innocent This is a description of your stance on Alex Pretti.

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    Comment #47787454

    You're looking for https://theyrule.net/

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    Comment #47751048

    Ngl, this sounds like addiction. You don't have to use the site, man.

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    Comment #47733962

    > Gatestone Institute is an American far-right think tank known for publishing anti-Muslim articles. > The organization has attracted attention for publishing false or inaccurate a…

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    Comment #47709840

    That PR article doesn't answer the questions, and raises more: - Why didn't SPD commission an independent study? - What kinds of crimes were studied? Is this catching jaywalkers or…

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    Comment #47709485

    Doubt that anyone is concerned with a random person catching a portion of your face while they're taking a picture in public. Instead, it's opposition to being tracked over time by…

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    Comment #47695021

    Such great questions. Maybe we should answer them before building a massive, privately-owned, nationwide surveillance apparatus with taxpayer money.

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    Comment #47694831

    So you're saying that a technology: - is trivially defeated by teenagers - is used by police departments as evidence to legally justify violent raids for property damage - whose da…

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    Comment #47694659

    The general sentiment in the thread is that this is too powerful a technology in the hands of unqualified law enforcement. In the same way that I don't trust federal law enforcemen…

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    Comment #47694578

    Biased policing means these systems are used to target minorities, activists, and people with "controversial" beliefs: https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/discriminatory.…

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    Comment #47634018

    EXACTLY, thank you! I run an international human trafficking and drug smuggling operation. I know that what I'm doing is good for society: - It makes me and my partners extremely r…

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    Comment #47579054

    I don't, unless you mean people who try to convince me that someone else is my enemy.

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    Comment #47569331

    I don't have enemies.