Блоги: заметки с тегом 1984

Magnetic mind-control

Robert — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 01:58:53 +0500

Robert:

Manmade magnetic pulses can weaken faith in god and change attitude towards immigration.

Metal detectors, get lost!

Arms exports put Europe at risk

Robert — Sun, 07 May 2023 15:26:12 +0500

Robert:

The European Peace Facility is sending arms to Ukraine — something straight out of 1984.

By doing this, Europe is shooting itself in the foot (or, more accurately, the arm). Italy’s weapon stockpile can help it weather an inbreak for only 72 hours.

Unaccountable grey-suits are putting folk’s lives at risk. This must end.

Manipulated weather forecasts

Robert — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 16:15:19 +0500

Robert:

What if weather forecasts are sometimes manipulated to reduce how many people come to an outdoor gathering?

Volodemort Zelensky’s “Servant of the People” TV show has a scene in which the government suppresses a growing protest by warning citizens about a meteorite heading straight for Kiev.

Smart-tech dystopia

Robert — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:27:25 +0500

Robert:

“Sorry, your smart kettle will be switched off because you are a 24-year old male in Russia, and therefore are a potential army recruit. We can reäctivate your kettle before the end of the conflict if you post #GoUkraine to at least 3 social media platforms where you have more than 100 followers.”

1984: health pass required at McDonald’s

Robert — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:26:34 +0500

Robert:

I know of no better way to declare sheepdom than to show a “health pass” to enter McDonald’s:

August 13, 2021. Sadly, in Sanremo

1984: “be normal”

Robert — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:30:45 +0500

Robert:

Endless discounts? Very normal.

And you too: be normal. Okay? JUST BE NORMaL OK???

Celio clothing store in Sanremo, Italy

1984: technology

Robert — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 21:50:43 +0500

Robert:

Every Intel and AMD chip since 2008 has a backdoor that allows hardware manufacturers (and presumably the NSA) to manage files and network connections remotely, without the device’s owner even knowing. Purism has disabled it, Apple has not.

Indeed, Apple is not as privacy-focussed as it pretends to be. Along with embracing that backdoor, it sends app usage metadata to its servers. Its image scanning is yet another dangerous development: bugs in the algorithm could lead to people being wrongfully detained.

5G may be fast but it can pinpoint our location to the metre.

Tor is an American federal weapons contractor. Judging by Europol acknowledging that it has a way to deanonymise people using the network, using Tor is the same as wearing a black cloak in a room in which everyone else wears white.

The bank ING is integrating personal health records into its website. This could be a way to turn people into slaves by forcing them to surrender their bodies to Big Pharma, just to keep what was always rightfully theirs.

I am writing this series of posts not to convey gloom and defeat, but to highlight how much manipulation, corruption, and secret surveillance there is around us.

We should act, and do so now. Switch to open-source software — its transparency makes vulnerabilities easier to find. For those developing it, self-host instead of relying on GitHub and the like. Boycotting banks, Big Tech, and the many organisations that want to decide what’s “best” for us is painful at first, but has to be done to stop cyber-tyranny.

1984: green passes

Robert — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:26:13 +0500

Robert:

There’s nothing inherently bad about green passes: they are a useful tool for limiting viral spread during an outbreak.

But mandating green passes is ethically acceptable only when the alternative is a stay-at-home order. This means that green passes may become obligatory only during a surge that threatens to overwhelm hospitals, and only for entering certain crowded areas. Of course, private businesses should be able to set any additional rules they like.

Anybody who wants to “save people from themselves” is endorsing enslavement. Restrictions should always be the minimum necessary to protect hospitals from overwhelm.

The European Green Pass was created by the EU government. Embracing it is dangerous, as is relying on the government for anything. A government that can give you everything you want is a government that can take away everything you have. Should green passes be required to access all public places, nasty leaders will be able to isolate dissidents and protesters, limit access to courts, constantly track whereabouts, force people to take a jab every month, and perhaps even automate the process of repression by adding social credit scores.

It’s always harder to regain freedom than to have it taken away.

1984 in the European Union

Robert — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 23:38:25 +0500

Robert:

If we’re not yet living in 1984, then we’re closer than ever.

The European Union wants to “temporarily” mandate spying on personal conversations in order to “protect” children. By doing this, it is effectively banning end-to-end messaging encryption, allowing potential thieves and murderers to read our conversations. If the EU doesn’t backtrack on this, I expect principled communication companies like Posteo to move to freër lands and give this law the finger.

But the EU is not done yet. Under the pretext of “beating financial crime” it wants to ban pseudonymous cryptocurrency wallets. Since the EU already has a database of gun owners, muggers will be able to find out which unarmed individual to hold hostage for money. The EU must backtrack on this if it wants its economy to grow and its citizens to live a peaceful life.

Stopping the introduction of these regulations isn’t enough — they are a sign of a wider problem. The EU is too powerful and needs to be reformed.