mount_snowden

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

The distinction between hallucination and reality doesn't really exist for humans either. To discover a divergence between sensor data and perception, a human needs to somehow find out the truth another way. The only way to find anything out is via these sensors (using your ears to listen to someone telling you that your eyes are deceiving you etc.).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

No one loves democracy more than America! America would never overthrow a democratically elected government to protect the business interests of American corporations!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Gee, I really noticed. It's been impossible to pirate anything this year!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

They could just make that illegal too. ISPs in the UK are legally compelled to store all of their customers' internet activity for at least a year. I also found it interesting that there's been a minor scandal over the Home Office asking Apple to backdoor their end-to-end encryption, but no such scandal over the encryption which Apple provides by default on iCloud - I think it's almost certain that Apple gave up the keys to the UK (or someone in five eyes) quietly, and that the only reason they withdrew the end-to-end version from the UK is that the Home Office's request for a backdoor was leaked to the Washington Post.

All in all, the only person you can trust to encrypt your data is you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

What makes you think the new Syrian state will want to give the Kurds any autonomy?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This strikes me as really strange, but Ocalan surely knows more than I do about what is necessary for a free Kurdistan. I do doubt that the people living in Rojava will simply surrender their land to Turkey/Syria, given what that would mean for the freedoms they have fought so hard for.

 

I'm thinking of paying for Mullvad, but I don't want to waste my money if I won't be able to use it. My ISP blocks Tor (at least that is the conclusion I have come to - I can only connect via a bridge). Is there anything I can do to make sure I will be able to use Mullvad before I end up paying for it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Telegraph loves this. " MAY OCCUR!!" = It has not been proven mathematically impossible.

While there's no clear evidence of plans to attack NATO, Russia is creating the conditions for it.

Have they read the news within the last 3 years?