We talked about this before and since then, I have wiped out my Google share drives, secured my Outlook email client by moving some usernames out of certain email addresses, and I finally finished setting up my private email server. I use my own VPN whenever I take a laptop out of the house, and I also have that VPN set up on my phone. The VPN connects to a VPN server on my network.
I still have some work to do yet but I'm nearly there. I also resurrected (updated) a couple of Linux desktops OS's I had squirreled away on virtual hard drives. I don't use them much but I will be logging in more regularly to keep with the updates. They are handy for testing certain IT functions. Especially systems I don't want the government to know about.
I will never go completely off the world wide network but I can now hide certain aspects a lot better. Besides, I also managed to configure a workaround to bypass Verizon's public IP policy blocks regarding stuff they don't like, such as a private email server. It took me a few days and some assistance from some Ukrainians, but it's up and running.
The things we now have to do to protect ourselves that I would never have worried about even 8 months ago.
I offered once before and I didn't have any takers. I have also offered my PC repair skills to my senior citizen neighbors but I've only had one lady take me up on that in the 5 years I've lived here. She got mad at me a while back when I had trouble pairing her phone up to one of those new smart watches so I haven't heard anything from her since. No loss to me.
I use to be a technical instructor a couple of different times in the past. Once, in the military for nearly four years, then at a local Texas community college teaching HVAC until Covid shut down the classes in 2020.
Yes, you can frustrate the data hogs for a while, but they will discover go-arounds. Then they will unleash the power of AI and quantum computing - and there is nothing the individual can do against that. Sooner or later they will monitor ever second of your existence, birth to death.
Ah, but once quantum computing breaks the non-quantum encryption algorithms, global financial & economic systems effectively break — and there’s no way that cat gets kept in the bag as long as it’s to even *one* state actor’s benefit to wield it.
It's one scenario. But the most likely is that humans will use AI+QC to hoard information on other humans in order to control them. That is more important than money.
“They want to run models predicting everything from whether you’ll shoot a CEO to how much you’ll pay for a banana.
They want to sell that.
It’s quite terrifying.”
They also want to sell *to* that: it’s great to sell the authoritarian government info about the next Luigi, but even better to sell Luigi vN that they need fancy new tools XYZ to extend & escalate the cat & mouse game further.
And also “surge” pricing for bananas 🤬🤬🤬
That’s the real holy grail for grocery stores and smart checkout carts: you pay 28¢ a banana because you have them on your shopping list, Susie pays 53¢ per because she’s got a potassium deficiency, and Joe pays only 19¢ as he’s being wooed to buy them on an impulse.
We talked about this before and since then, I have wiped out my Google share drives, secured my Outlook email client by moving some usernames out of certain email addresses, and I finally finished setting up my private email server. I use my own VPN whenever I take a laptop out of the house, and I also have that VPN set up on my phone. The VPN connects to a VPN server on my network.
I still have some work to do yet but I'm nearly there. I also resurrected (updated) a couple of Linux desktops OS's I had squirreled away on virtual hard drives. I don't use them much but I will be logging in more regularly to keep with the updates. They are handy for testing certain IT functions. Especially systems I don't want the government to know about.
I will never go completely off the world wide network but I can now hide certain aspects a lot better. Besides, I also managed to configure a workaround to bypass Verizon's public IP policy blocks regarding stuff they don't like, such as a private email server. It took me a few days and some assistance from some Ukrainians, but it's up and running.
The things we now have to do to protect ourselves that I would never have worried about even 8 months ago.
Sounds to me like you should be offering a course in online private security, or doing some consulting. Mad skills. :)
I offered once before and I didn't have any takers. I have also offered my PC repair skills to my senior citizen neighbors but I've only had one lady take me up on that in the 5 years I've lived here. She got mad at me a while back when I had trouble pairing her phone up to one of those new smart watches so I haven't heard anything from her since. No loss to me.
I use to be a technical instructor a couple of different times in the past. Once, in the military for nearly four years, then at a local Texas community college teaching HVAC until Covid shut down the classes in 2020.
If you need anything, just hit me up at my new secure email address at todonal@Terrysfixitservice.com.
Where it all leads... https://cribb.substack.com/p/the-end-of-freedom-798
Yes, you can frustrate the data hogs for a while, but they will discover go-arounds. Then they will unleash the power of AI and quantum computing - and there is nothing the individual can do against that. Sooner or later they will monitor ever second of your existence, birth to death.
Ah, but once quantum computing breaks the non-quantum encryption algorithms, global financial & economic systems effectively break — and there’s no way that cat gets kept in the bag as long as it’s to even *one* state actor’s benefit to wield it.
It's one scenario. But the most likely is that humans will use AI+QC to hoard information on other humans in order to control them. That is more important than money.
Doesn’t scale … there’s a reason money exists.
Money is the means by which things of value become fungible at scale:
No money = very little of meaningful value, besides controlling labour by force 🤷♂️
“They want to run models predicting everything from whether you’ll shoot a CEO to how much you’ll pay for a banana.
They want to sell that.
It’s quite terrifying.”
They also want to sell *to* that: it’s great to sell the authoritarian government info about the next Luigi, but even better to sell Luigi vN that they need fancy new tools XYZ to extend & escalate the cat & mouse game further.
And also “surge” pricing for bananas 🤬🤬🤬
That’s the real holy grail for grocery stores and smart checkout carts: you pay 28¢ a banana because you have them on your shopping list, Susie pays 53¢ per because she’s got a potassium deficiency, and Joe pays only 19¢ as he’s being wooed to buy them on an impulse.