Applied Cyberwar: Hardware Exploits
Oct 19 2023 Gabriel
Recently a rumor that the tragic Hamas attack was enabled by a potential lack of backdoors accessible by western / 5 Eyes intelligence. Despite this, I wouldn’t recommend rushing to order a Huwawei phone for privacy reasons. If my threat model called for investigating hardware attacks, simply changing providers would be insufficient to keep them at bay. Understanding hardware exploits requires a bit of understanding about how systems run, so let’s take advantage of this teachable moment.
Servicification
Oct 12 2022 Gabriel
Today, so many online services confuse the concept of ownership. Ownership is not merely access to a product. Ownership is about rights, for both tangible and intangible property. What options do you have to use, enjoy, or transfer that property? What limits (if any) exist on those options. These rights are entirely dependent on either the rule of law, or on force. If Claus Schwab aims to deprive me of my property and my liberty, he needs to remember I have a gun.
Digital ID: The basics
Sep 02 2022 Gabriel
101: What is Digital ID? The rise of technocratic control has justifiably motivated people into taking action and resist the foundational tools of the technocracy. Many of these tools are well positioned to leverage any form of digital ID against you. What forms can Digital ID take? A biometric implant? A smartphone app? Your face? A microchip in your passport? Any and all of these can be used in such a system.
Tools of the Technocracy: #7 Smart Cities
Aug 18 2022 Gabriel
Tools of the Technocracy: #7 Smart Cities What is a smart city? Just like the ‘smart’ in smart devices is really just code for surveillance. A ‘smart’ city is really just a surveillance & control city. In essence, the smart city is the ultimate application of all the tools of the technocracy against it’s captives. Even the tone of their marketing gives off how much disdain they have for human beings.
IoT: The "Eye-on-Thee"
Jul 12 2022 Gabriel
The Internet of things (IoT) is not so much an agenda, but a consequence of cheap, ubiquitous technology. Much of the engineering, investment, and application has gone directly into making devices better at gathering information. This information is then fed to machine learning algorithms to further “optimize” society. This constant data-collection is not benign. There is an agenda to constantly push the boundaries of centralization and control. Most of the opportunities provided by the internet of things are asymmetrically advantageous to the technocracy.
Tools of the Technocracy: #5 Networks
Apr 27 2022 Gabriel
Tools of the Technocracy: #5 Networks Networks are the infrastructure used to bridge the physical world and online systems. They can enable people from all over the world to communicate with each other, which sadly has the downside of technocrats having the capability of monitoring and controlling people’s communications. Networks have precious resources that enable their utility: Latency How quickly can a signal reach it’s destination Range How far can a signal go
Tools of the Technocracy: #3 Robots, IoT, Automation, Oh my!
Mar 07 2022 Gabriel
Tools of the Technocracy: #3 Robots, IoT, Automation, Oh my! With big data as the brains, robots act as the eyes, ears, and fists of the technocracy. Ubiquitous 5G (and above) connectivity gives autonomous systems a massive advantage over human beings. Understand that there is more to these systems than meets the eye. There is an entire orchestra of coordinated systems and services that harmonize into incredibly powerful tools. These tools are only beginning to be weaponized against the public.