Surveillance State: Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You

All the Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You

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Overall, not surprising news by a long shot but you may be shocked at the WAYS in which it can spy on you, specifically, programs like Wi-Key. Like all Technology in the tight hands tools like this could be useful, but in the wrong ones devastating.

As I said in yesterday’s piece, when you read stuff like this you can only think of the line from 1984:

“To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man… greetings.”

Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!

Surveillance State: Baltimore’s Extensive Aerial/Ground Surveillance Program

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Baltimore is definitely not the first American city to be enveloped in a “cocoon” of real-time surveillance, but it is the first to have such an intensive and EXPENSIVE system go online and not be announced publicly due to “private donor” funding. If Federal tax dollars were being spent outright, Govt. Waste Spending watch dog groups would have had a huge spotlight investigation on this program a while back, and with that small detail, as the bard would say, lies the rub.

Using the “Private Donor funding loophole” as our search criteria, I think we may begin to DISCOVER more and more of these types of surveillance programs that are currently already online or planning to go online in large metropolitan cities across the country to include possible “Trouble Spots” in rural areas also (think Redoubt AO’s). Besides Baltimore, Los Angeles and Dayton, Ohio were the only other cities listed in the article but logic would dictate there have to be dozens more cities participating in the program around the country.

OK, since the article devotes all of one sentence to the Elephant in the Room, I will ask: So who are these “Private Donors?” First instincts are since this is a program used by Law Enforcement and Baltimore has been on the cusp of complete martial law, maybe it is your average benign wealthy concerned citizen footing the bill. On the flip side of the coin, you could also consider a virtual “laundry list” of Possible nefarious folks who would be interested in Domestic Mass Surveillance, including the Evil Wizard himself, George Soros, who is already in the habit of funding domestic terror groups like the BLM.

But at the end of the day, my gut is telling me it is good ole’ Uncle Sam hiding behind shell companies set up by Federal alphabet agencies. Sound far-fetched? Not really. The CIA, DIA, NSA and FBI Counter-Terrorism all operate this way all over the world to help cover their tracks and keep things on the DL and away from the prying eyes of investigative journalism.

Moving on to the surveillance technology itself, Angel Fire is basically a militarized “Google Earth with TiVo Capability”. Yet again we see Military Applications that were built for War and Counter-Terrorism being moved into the Private Sector for domestic spying (or as the title suggest, “It’s Not spying if they’re always watching”).

In closing, the article is lengthy, but in-depth and well worth the read. I also highly suggest you read all the links in the article and ultimately decide for yourself how much closer the United States is to reaching Complete “Big Brother Status.”

I think these words from George Orwell’s novel 1984 are appropriate as you ponder that:

“To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man… greetings.”

Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!

Surveillance State: Anti-Drone Defenses for the Privacy Minded Citizen

Anti-Drone Defenses: Some Ideas Are Better Than Others

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This is an interesting and very funny article for the simple fact it raises some very important questions for the Civilian Operator who wants to keep his Private life well, PRIVATE: How do we not only LEGALLY combat DRONES that violate our Privacy around our homes and businesses but also PHYSICALLY Combat Drones that violate our Privacy?

Bottom line: Think like an Insurgent and use Deception and Deceit (and some other very creative methods)

Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!

Surveillance State: Proof “Being the Gray Man” is an Urban Myth

Every move you make. Every click you take. Every game you play. Every place you stay. They’ll be watching you.

 

It’s time to come to terms with the fact that regardless of how “off the grid” or “careful” or “Gray” you THINK you are online, you have been made. An extensive online profile exist of you that people can access. Disconcerting isn’t it? Welcome to the 21st Century.

I highly suggest you guys read the Book Future Crimes by Marc Goodman. It won’t help you sleep any better, but it will inform you of some very scary stuff going on right now.

This is why I emphasize cyber skills in a Civilian Operator’s training regimen. The Fifth Domain of Warfare is accounted for in the Military why not with the civilian?

Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!

 

The Surveillance State: Drones and The End of Society

The human race is on the brink of momentous and dire change. It is a change that potentially smashes our institutions and warps our society beyond recognition. It is also a change to which almost no one is paying attention. I’m talking about the coming obsolescence of the gun-wielding human infantryman as a weapon of war. Or to put it another way: the end of the Age of the Gun.

 You may not even realize you have been, indeed, living in the Age of the Gun because it’s been centuries since that age began. But imagine yourself back in 1400. In that century (and the 10 centuries before it), the battlefield was ruled not by the infantryman, but by the horse archer—a warrior-nobleman who had spent his whole life training in the ways of war. Imagine that guy’s surprise when he was shot off his horse by a poor no-count farmer armed with a long metal tube and just two weeks’ worth of training. Just a regular guy with a gun.

That day was the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of modernity. For centuries after that fateful day, gun-toting infantry ruled the battlefield. Military success depended more and more on being able to motivate large groups of (gun-wielding) humans, instead of on winning the loyalty of the highly trained warrior-noblemen. But sometime in the near future, the autonomous, weaponized drone may replace the human infantryman as the dominant battlefield technology. And as always, that shift in military technology will cause huge social upheaval.

The advantage of people with guns is that they are cheap and easy to train. In the modern day, it’s true that bombers, tanks, and artillery can lay waste to infantry—but those industrial tools of warfare are just so expensive that swarms of infantry can still deter industrialized nations from fighting protracted conflicts. Look at how much it cost the United States to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, versus how much it cost our opponents. The hand-held firearm reached its apotheosis with the cheap, rugged, easy-to-use AK-47; with this ubiquitous weapon, guerrilla armies can still defy the mightiest nations on Earth.

Read the Remainder at Quartz