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  • Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance

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  • That it's an opportunity for a graft-oriented surveillance state to contract out to the lowest morals bidder, who will only provide a poorly made system that will store data and be generally terrible for privacy so they can subsidize costs by selling data to advertising companies.

    But whether or not that happens depends on your politicians. So there's your panic potential.

  • Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance

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  • The short version is a government needs an audited open source Zero Knowledge Proof system. Nothing new, nothing complicated.

  • Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance

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  • Identity hasn't been a matter of personal relationships for 75 years. The government has been giving your a number and told you that you're only the name on a list for generations.

    I've said it before, I'll say it again, the digital ID isn't the problem, it's how the government allows third parties to use it that's the problem.

    Estonia has been using digital IDs for almost a decade, but where is your indignation at "don't let us become Estonia!"? There is none, because y'all are ignorant and this whole class of panic is incorrectly attributed to the wrong things to be worried about.

  • Saw this ad - what do we know about Cape?

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  • It's a good call to post, but waaay too soon IMO too bother with it. It might simply be flash in the pan marketing for VC funding and not work. It might be a total scam. It might be legit and poorly run. It might be the real deal. It's hard to say without more data.

  • Saw this ad - what do we know about Cape?

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  • Well, opsec can only go so far. At some point you need data packets traveling over real wires, and it's a question of who do you trust with unencrypted data like SMS? Using a data only VPN is "clunky" for wealthy manbabies, who demand less friction in everything they do.

    Simply having your data going to their service is immaterial since it's likely the phone number also indicates it's a Cape carrier phone, and the IMEI of the phone doesn't ping for any other carrier.

    It's a strong "ugh...maybe, we'll see" from me, but I wouldn't bother with it for another 6 months and see if it ends up one of those super elitist things wealthy people talk about only to each other.

  • Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America

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  • What do you expect from the thinnest skinned of snowflakes?

    Now that they have a monopoly on violence, every slight is the worst offense in the world.

    It's the behavior of dickbag children and drunk women on Housewives TV shows. And they might send me to a gulag for saying it.

  • Saw this ad - what do we know about Cape?

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  • https://cyberscoop.com/cape-phone-privacy-calea-tracking/

    Good article which points to a few promising aspects. They seem to have their own phones (as of Nov 24) as part of this. Second, that their market is "high risk" individuals. So people with money, it sounds like. If the pricing reflects a market for governments, celebs, and crypto bros trying to not get SIM swap attacked, then it's not likely a honeypot for Feds. Maybe.

    I hate the idea of only being allowed to use their phones, but that might just be their "easy mode" for idiot celebrities or government contracts. If they can give me a physical SIM, I'm interested.

    I would not be an early adopter. Hang and see who isn't a plant that joins.

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  • This may very well open you up for a number of legal issues, especially as she's a minor. You may need something formal between you and her parents to help protect you, as you would be the one accepting liability.

    Specifics will depend on your local laws. Find a group where you can ask this with people more knowledgeable, maybe a reddit AskLegal sub.

  • Republicans shut down the government. They run the government. They are blaming everyone else.

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  • The Schedule F EO is about replacing federal workers with loyalist dumbasses all the way down to the lower levels, and hasn't been fully leveraged yet. Every agency gets political appointees in the upper management areas, but it usually doesn't go beyond a couple dozen or few dozen people running an Agency of hundreds of staff. That's how it has worked for about a century, and the Civil Service Act only professionalized the middle management and lower specialist levels of federal employees.

    Mr. Wiggly represents people who are unaffected and don't care, which polls show is the majority of Americans.

  • Republicans shut down the government. They run the government. They are blaming everyone else.

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  • Trump is some emotional Schrödinger's cat, where he is simultaneously the strongest most verile muscle man ever birthed on this planet, and the victim of every sniveling wimp bureaucrat ever.

    Meaning that Democratic rebuttals that don't short circuit that binary situation, like Gavin Newsome's recent twitter brilliance, are the way it works. Only a Strongman shuts down a Strongman.

    Whining about healthcare is for elitists with jobs.

  • Republicans shut down the government. They run the government. They are blaming everyone else.

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  • Maybe recheck what you know about federal employees. At most it's 35% veterans, and they're not some monolithic group.

  • Republicans shut down the government. They run the government. They are blaming everyone else.

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  • And he'll find a way to somehow blame Democrats, as he's been told to do by the GOP, because by then he'll have moved on to 30 other things and won't even remember there was a shut down, let alone why.

    Do you seriously think that any average American who can't remember where most US states are on a map will remember calm rational DNC talking points read in full from a piece of paper on CSPAN from months prior? This is literally why the Dems have record low favorability polling despite being up against literal fascism.

  • Republicans shut down the government. They run the government. They are blaming everyone else.

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  • Which doesn't hit the same with Billy Bob in Arkansas that don't care for what he's been told is socialism, but who earns $7.50 an hour pushing carts at the Piggly Wiggly.

  • Google Starts Tracking Your Phone As Chrome And Gemini Change

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  • If you need to ask what ADB is, just put your ego aside and get a walkthrough.

  • Halloween is canceled this year

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  • TIL I'm special needs

  • What is your internet White-Whale?

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  • Around 2010 I saw a YT video of a CGI mouse dancing in a circle to a Latin version of "Jump Around" that is a full on stoner lazy marble-mouth version where it's just "da-da-bA-da-da-da-da-ba, da-da-da...ja arun, ja aron..."

    I loved it. I miss it, I need it. I can't find it.

  • Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel

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  • Oh, I'm absolutely not criticizing your comment at all. Far from it. It's fully bonkers that you made a joke that was a good joke, and I can't take as joke because it hits too close to reality for me.

    Life is tragic, not us.

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    In New York, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov announced the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons and Oreshnik missiles in the republic.

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  • Halloween is canceled this year

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  • Most wholesome diabetes origin story.