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Telegram is Russian owned and run out of a monarchy. Telegram is not anyone's friend. "delete" is also not a black and white concept. There are many degrees of deletion.
Telegram used to be very hands-off with messages, no matter how criminal, unless they were hurting Telegram itself (spam). Then its owner got arrested for having actual knowledge of criminal activity and still not stopping it. Now it cares about reports, bans criminals and reports them to the police. There are rumours it uses keyword scans to find things that are not reported. Remember it has your phone number which…
Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia
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Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia
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OK, the govt doesn't have a sound cannon. Now they politely tolerate protest? Or they fire warning shots and arrest everyone?
They'll use whatever methods they'd have resorted to beforehand, obviously. If that's beating then it's beating, if it's water cannons it's water cannons, if it's rubber bullets it's rubber bullets, if it's nothing it's nothing. Probably a mix of these. What is the point of this conversation again? Oh right, according to you they were going to get steamrolled by tanks and shot if that fails. No, I don't think that's…
Getting into attack mode over nothing distracts from your goal.
Calmy presenting your position repeatedly, with some variation so its not obvious, is - or should be - your goal.
Practice more
Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia
#513Earlier quoted context omitted.
They'll use whatever methods they'd have resorted to beforehand, obviously. If that's beating then it's beating, if it's water cannons it's water cannons, if it's rubber bullets it's rubber bullets, if it's nothing it's nothing. Probably a mix of these. What is the point of this conversation again? Oh right, according to you they were going to get steamrolled by tanks and shot if that fails. No, I don't think that's…
Your goal is to promote awareness of the immoral use of force. Don't get distracted from your propaganda aim. Getting into attack mode over nothing distracts from your goal. Calmy presenting your position repeatedly, with some variation so its not obvious, is - or should be - your goal. Practice more
Is mind reading part of your "presenting facts and making arguments" repertoire, or how do you know what my goals and aims are? Do you really think garbage like this is not why you're so often downvoted, rather than not having popular takes or presenting unpopular facts? Surely one cannot be so out of touch, nor stupid? And we both wrote at length how stupid we regard each other.
Speaking of stupid, do you not think of your own words as propaganda or something? Surely you're familiar with what the term means, right? [0] [1]
> Getting into attack mode over nothing distracts from your goal.
Is this an acknowledgement that you said nothing of substance so far?
> is - or should be - your goal.
But two paragraphs prior you say my goal is to "promote awareness of the immoral use of force"? Is the mind reading machine broken? Or is this one of those where you divine an opinion (such that "calmly presenting my position and repeating it over and over" and "promoting awareness of the immoral use of force" are equivalent) and present it as universal truth all over again, like you did with the false dichotomy scenario of "sound cannon vs. tanks/guns"?
[0] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda - just for you, the Simplified English version; should be helpful.
Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia
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Telegram used to be very hands-off with messages, no matter how criminal, unless they were hurting Telegram itself (spam). Then its owner got arrested for having actual knowledge of criminal activity and still not stopping it. Now it cares about reports, bans criminals and reports them to the police. There are rumours it uses keyword scans to find things that are not reported. Remember it has your phone number which…
There is a way to sign up without phone number, albeit rather convoluted. Certainly doable for a determined criminal :)
The original MS Blaster writer was found because Microsoft uploaded a memory dump when the author was creating their proof of concept. Room 641a is the connection based data reception we know about. Snowden's PRISM showed a high level of corporate government intelligence collusion. Pegasus is generally considered an intelligence "I win" button.
Compromising someone's security is not a matter of ability, it is purely a matter of resources and will, and as the ruling regime changes from protecting rights, to protecting itself, the "will" for invasive mass surveillance will become much much stronger and your ability to remain anonymous will wane into nothingness. Corporations will increasingly have little choice but to compromise their users.
In your list of security features you listed a what's what of "social media" based security offerings/"solutions" in which the security providers "profit" from you believing they provide security.
Tor was compromised. Matrix is Europe wanting their own messaging platform. Bitcoin is literally profitable for providers, I don't think it's generally considered private, and mostly it's a hedge against inflation based theft. Your browser directly betrays large amounts of information and finger printing is largely considered doable regardless of your configuration, which makes VPN's questionable security, not to mention there are whole lock down configurations required and many browsers upload browsing history to the cloud by default. Torrent is very not private.
If you haven't heard the phrase "bits of entropy" and can explain what that means and why that's an important concept, then you are speaking far beyond your level of knowledge.
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I’m moderately suspicious of the details some people/articles say. Long story short, there’s 1-4khz audio weapons (LRAD), and microwave/heat based ADS. It appears that both of these were used, a Reddit army vet commented about how that’s apparently the “protocol” as the ADS is strong enough to pick off the last stragglers. I’m ever so slightly suspicious of the “low frequency sound weapon” aspect because that typical…
Earshot NGO analyzed recorded sounds and found 4 of these videos "consistent with Vortex Ring Gun or Vortex Cannon": https://x.com/earshot_ngo/status/1901661518153781534 Note that many videos didn't record the sound if the phone was further away from that center line. This is the recording which perhaps captured sound the best: https://x.com/stonexman/status/1901034916961309148
There’s still the questions of “how is it so small” (apparently) but at least some aspects are answered now.
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Timothy Snyder put his history of Ukraine class on YouTube. The lesson on the Maidan was done by a guest speaker. The presentation is mostly dry and the person isn't the best speaker, but the content was quality and very worth watching, especially if you have any beliefs in "color revolutions" or American imperialism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg_CLI3xY58&list=PLh9mgdi4rN... It was now a revolt against произвол…
>it became an insistence on being treated as a person and not as a thing, as a subject not as an object At the risk of inflammation: sounds like Black Lives Matter.
Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia
#517We had them used on lockdown protesters in Australia in 2022. Welcome to the Totalitarian State Club, Serbia.
In Australia they were used for broadcasting audible messages and did not cause harm: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-18/coronacheck-sonic-wea... We're not living in some oppressed totalitarian state here in Australia. It's a bit of a nanny state, and the media's pretty Murdoch-dominated, but it's about the same as any other Western democracy.
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There is a way to sign up without phone number, albeit rather convoluted. Certainly doable for a determined criminal :)
I'm far from a security expert, but I also have direct security expertise, and from the way you talk, I am highly confident that there are a lot of things you don't know you don't know and I think you've failed to imagine the wealth of information available to institutional powers. The original MS Blaster writer was found because Microsoft uploaded a memory dump when the author was creating their proof of concept. Ro…
Re: Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia
#519Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm far from a security expert, but I also have direct security expertise, and from the way you talk, I am highly confident that there are a lot of things you don't know you don't know and I think you've failed to imagine the wealth of information available to institutional powers. The original MS Blaster writer was found because Microsoft uploaded a memory dump when the author was creating their proof of concept. Ro…
You've read too many cheap spy novels.
Here's an entropy primer: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-the...