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GhostPhones & The Expansion of The Digital Second Realm
GhostPhones & The Expansion of The Digital Second Realm
GhostPhones & The Expansion of The Digital Second Realm
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The Surveillance State & their creepy corporate cohorts have been here for decades,
mining all of your private information and feeding it into their AI algorithms. Of course,
the stated, cuddly reason is to feed you “personalized advertisements,” but the real goal
is to figure out how to control you. What triggers you? What makes you happy?
How can that be manipulated? How can we propagandize Jane into taking the poison
dart? Etc.
While the violent nature of the State should not be disregarded, we have more so
entered the realm of soft control, where individuals essentially govern themselves –
why send out the bludg to force Jane, when we can just send subconscious cues and
programming to her “smart”phone to get her to do what we wish?
Further, when organizing resistance efforts to the State or its cast of coercers, or
even figuring out solutions to route around them, security culture best practices would
advise that doing so with a SpyPhone in your pocket is probably not a wise idea.
But I do understand – I personally had plans to move towards something described
in Brian Sovryn’s Dark Android Project a number of years back, but I didn’t have the
time or money to dump into the project...that, and to be frank, I was still so entangled in
the First Realm that I didn’t see it as a major priority – I knew it was monitored and
acted as such, pursuing privacy on different devices and platforms.
But now, there really aren’t any excuses. Free and open source, privacy-enhancing
technologies have been developed upon for years, bringing about a new era of user-
friendliness in crypto-anarchy; this increasingly tyrannical world we find ourselves in is
bringing about new solutions fast, as well as a new sense of urgency with talk and actual
implementations of digital poison dart cards/certificates.
The time to dump these digital demons of Babylon, and to move towards our own
privacy- and security-centric digital Second Realm infrastructure is now.
TVP #139: GhostPhones & The Expansion of The Digital Second Realm
Or, of course, check out the recent episode of The Vonu Podcast featuring Jamin
Biconik. We covered all this and much more, such as:
The digital Second Realm is here, and under constant development by freedom
hackers like Jamin Biconik. Thanks to them all for their service. And thank you for being
and here, helping to build this free, parallel society.