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https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/journalist-at-npr-suspended-leading-to-shocking-discovery-there-was-a-journalist-at-npr

BeneTiberCato says

transitioned from army to the NSA

@BeneTiberCato We would love to hear about what it's like to work at the NSA.

Patrick says

BeneTiberCato says

transitioned from army to the NSA

BeneTiberCato We would love to hear about what it's like to work at the NSA.

Tell us about Vault 7, and why even though that was clearly illegal, nothing was done to stop it?

Set anybody up for prison? Feel badly that we have a Stazi now? Well, there are 17 intelligence agencies, they are all the same.

AmericanKulak says

New NPR CEO is a big league Leftist NPC

Who hired her?

Patrick says

NPR hasn't been a real new organization since about 1995. Do you want it to survive?

It honestly used to be informative and useful, but it's long been supplanted by the Internet. The reason NPR and PBS existed was to provide the public with good information that was correct, and they abandoned that when I was 25 or at least began to and we have the Internet, just spend a LITTLE BIT OF EFFORT and you can find correct factual information. Just the tinniest amount of effort.

A clear, obvious, propagandist whore is now taking over - good. Kill it. I'm tired of people who I considered similar to me being around utterly convinced that the bullshit they hear off from "public newscasting" believing it's credible and real, and they are smart to listen to it. It was used to turn people that once had intellectual curiosity into NPC meat bags. It's just a drug, and they should be confined to cold turkey, it won't kill them.

NPR promoted the Russian Collusion bullshit, and the January 6th insurrection, and the Iraq War, and the Qaddafi is about to cause a humanitarian crisis, and Assad is gassing his own people - they are bullshit now, have been for a long fucking time. Let it die. I hope she's a complete fucking nutcase, it's a test of society. More and more I get to see who really is a fucking idiot and who isn't. Serious reporters quit when a propagandist takes over their organization, I've seen that a few times even if it's silent. Glenn Greenwald quit, so did Aaron Maté. There is a point where you are being tarnished by the liars you work for. Maybe even Tucker Carlson is one of them, but I know his history - his dad was Cocaine Importation Agency it is rumored. I think he's more likely controlled opposition.

Great piece. More details:

Katherine Maher was involved with "Signal" - total Spook

But the insider history of Signal raises questions about the app’s origins and its relationship with government—in particular, with the American intelligence apparatus. Such a relationship would be troubling, given how much we have learned, in recent years, about extensive efforts to control and censor information undertaken by technology companies, sometimes in tandem with American government officials.
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The other potential problem is the Signal Foundation’s current chairman of the board, Katherine Maher, who started her career as a U.S.-backed agent of regime change. During the Arab Spring period, for instance, Maher ran digital-communications initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa for the National Democratic Institute, a largely government-funded organization that works in concert with American foreign policy campaigns. Maher cultivated relationships with online dissidents and used American technologies to advance the interests of U.S.-supported Color Revolutions abroad.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher-problem

AmericanKulak says

But the insider history of Signal raises questions about the app’s origins and its relationship with government—in particular, with the American intelligence apparatus. Such a relationship would be troubling, given how much we have learned, in recent years, about extensive efforts to control and censor information undertaken by technology companies, sometimes in tandem with American government officials.

I work on a communications app right now.

If there's a server involved, it's insecure - PERIOD - this invites man in the middle attack, NO WAY to verify that keys are from their true real source. It's it's Point to Point (P2P) it's not End to End encryption (E2E).

NO EXCEPTIONS.

One problem with peer-to-peer is that the peer you want to communicate with may not be online at the moment. Servers are always on.

But maybe everyone should have his own personal server. That's one way to solve that problem.

Patrick says

One problem with peer-to-peer is that the peer you want to communicate with may not be online at the moment. Servers are always on.

But maybe everyone should have his own personal server. That's one way to solve that problem.

You can run a raspberry pi on 5 watts. If you want a "sweet setup", 128 GB SD Card is $11, Flirc Case is $15, good power supply is say $15, Pi 4, 4GB, is about $40. $81.

Voila, server. You can cache data on your PERSONAL server.

What is this too under-powered? It's a better, more powerful, VASTLY MORE EFFICIENT than a top of the line gaming machine was in 2000. I could put 30 people on it at the same time doing VOIP. I can serve out video to 1/2 dozen users at 1080p, before it even starts to stumble.

We don't need a 3rd party of ANYTHING now.

richwicks says

Patrick says

One problem with peer-to-peer is that the peer you want to communicate with may not be online at the moment. Servers are always on.

But maybe everyone should have his own personal server. That's one way to solve that problem.

You can run a raspberry pi on 5 watts. If you want a "sweet setup", 128 GB SD Card is $11, Flirc Case is $15, good power supply is say $15, Pi 4, 4GB, is about $40. $81.

Voila, server. You can cache data on your PERSONAL server.

What is this too under-powered? It's a better, more powerful, VASTLY MORE EFFICIENT than a top of the line gaming machine was in 2000. I could put 30 people on it at the same time doing VOIP. I can serve out video to 1/2 dozen users at 1080p, before it even starts to stumble.

We don't need a 3rd party of ANYTHING now.

I’ve been wanting to setup a NAS on my home network that will be accessible from outside through the internet. I didn’t know that a Pi was actually capable of this, now I’m intrigued!!!