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ProllyInfamous 11 hours ago

I worked in large union data centers, decades ago.

Cannot even imagine what is going on these days, inside & out.

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ohyoutravel 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you elaborate? This is interesting

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ProllyInfamous 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I worked across several facilities and obviously cannot talk specifics about those. It is public knowledge that one of them housed a large metro area's main ISP "meet-me room."

During Snowden revelations I'd already been apprenticing for years; nothing Edward documented surprised me. I'd literally walk around our 500,000sqft elevated floors knodding my head [none of this exists, officially].

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Nothing is as it seems.

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During DEF CON ~XX~ (approximately same timeframe as story above) it was publicly revealed that intelligence communities had redefined the word "intercept," to mean when a human operator catelogs a certain piece of data/traffic (i.e. not algorithms sorting). #1984 #newspeak #elevenyearsago

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I no longer carry a cell phone. Don't use email. PO Box in profile

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King-Aaron 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I no longer carry a cell phone.

I'm not quite there yet, but after Netanyahu made that comment like "if you have a phone you're carrying a little piece of Israel with you" right after the pager attack stuff.. I keep the phone in the back of my backpack away from my meat bits.

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dgxyz 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah well aware of that stuff here. Two companies I worked at had entirely airgapped infrastructure because they knew the adversarial situation wasn't winnable. Everything was checked for implants at goods in. It's shocking some of the shit that goes on.

I run grey man where I can. Stuff that's private stays private. Paper and physical security is still good.

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kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> PO Box in profile

Pretty sure government agencies will have no trouble finding you from that bit alone, and then tracking your movements is trivial. I mean, you have to show up and check the box periodically..

	▲	jkestner 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They implement a physical Tor each time their check their box - layers of Taskrabbits hiring Taskrabbits. One picks up the Mail and hands it off to the next. The owner is one of the Taskrabbits somewhere in the chain.