Escape the Technocracy

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Andrea Amico about the disturbing telematics of recent vehicles, including always-on microphones and invisible cameras that detect your emotions while driving: all of which have the ability to transmit data back to car manufacturers and other third parties.

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Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

TIMELINE 0:00 – Beginning 1:30 – Privacy4Cars app privacy concerns? 6:30 – Vehicle telematics 14:55 – Microphones built into cars 18:00 – Can your car detect your emotions 22:05 – Does Privacy4Cars remove telematics data? 25:30 – Disabling telematics 27:40 – Using phones with cars 30:45 – GrapheneOS 31:40 – BERLA 34:10 – OBD-II Port 37:00 – Car data breaches 39:45 – Any car companies that collect less? 43:00 – Other solutions

#Privacy4Cars #AndreaAmico #WatchmanPrivacy

Gabriel speaks with Seth for Privacy about Monero tactics that go beyond the basics.

REFERENCED → Intro to Monero: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/IntroToMonero → https://monero.observer/ → https://www.monerotalk.live/ → https://github.com/deverickapollo/umbrel-monero → https://featherwallet.org/

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TIMELINE 0:00 – Beginning 1:45 – Seth's background 11:20 – Future of Opt Out podcast 13:30 – Uptick in Monero users 17:15 – Best news in Monero 20:55 – Acquiring no-KYC monero 25:45 – Problems with centralized swap services 31:20 – How important is running your own node in Monero? 39:40 – Monero node on Umbrel 42:10 – Coin control in Monero 52:05 – Using Tor with Monero 56:00 – Traffic fingerprinting 1:02:35 – Spam attacks on Monero 1:10:05 – Shutting down of Monero services 1:17:58 – Final thoughts

#Monero #SethforPrivacy #WatchmanPrivacy

Gabriel and Urban Hacker unpack a recent article by Wired on a crypto theft and torture spree.

REFERENCED → https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-home-invasion-crime-ring/ → https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks/blob/master/README.md

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#EscapeTheTechnocracy #KYC #WatchmanPrivacy

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Gabriel speaks with James Wilson of MyDataRemoval for a second time. They do a live test of how much information James can find on a person, and then discuss the disturbing nature and extent of people search websites, data brokers, and breach databases.

GUESTS LINKS AND PREVIOUS EPISODE → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LTFbBlTZbM (Episode 44) → https://www.mydataremoval.com/

REFERENCED → https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ceo-of-data-privacy-company-onerep-com-founded-dozens-of-people-search-firms/ → https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mozilla-drops-onerep-after-ceo-admits-to-running-people-search-networks/

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TIMELINE 0:00 – Introduction 1:25 – Live test of people search database info 6:20 – How the data is used against you 8:10 – Self-replication of people search websites 12:10 – Additional danger of breach databases 15:30 – A crazy story 18:40 – Should non-Americans be concerned? 19:40 – Is this a "national security" risk? 23:20 – Where do our basic pieces of information exposure come from? 24:00 – PayPal is as bad as you think it is 25:25 – What is HaveIBeenPwned? 27:05 – What is the future of people search websites? 29:50 – Voter data is public? 30:30 – Bogus data as a strategy 32:40 – Basic info of MyDataRemoval.com

#MyDataRemoval #PeopleSearchDatabases #WatchmanPrivacy

Gabriel speaks with Samourai Wallet insiders Max Tannahill and Diverter_NoKYC. They give an update on the Samourai Wallet arrest and its absurdity. They also discuss the post-arrest chilling effect, the compliance mindset that defines the current Bitcoin scene, and what the future of Bitcoin privacy is.

Samourai Wallet Legal Fund Donations → https://www.p2prights.org/donate.html

Max Tannahill → Previous episode with Max: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/MaxTannahill:8 → https://twitter.com/maxtannahill

Diverter_NoKYC → Previous episode with Diverter: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/DiverterNoKYC:9 (Episode 92) → https://twitter.com/Diverter_NoKYC

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Timeline 0:00 – Introduction 4:40 – Samourai Wallet update (June 10, 2024) 7:50 – Absurdity of allegations 13:00 – Observations about "Bitcoin community" reactions to SW arrest 20:40 – Preemptive shutdowns of Bitcoin and Monero services 24:05 – The Compliance Mindset 36:50 – The future of Bitcoin privacy 45:40 – Update on Bitcoin mining 48:15 – Max's current Bitcoin tools 50:40 – Roman Sterligov and Bitcoin Fog 59:30 – Big topics in Bitcoin at the moment

#SamouraiWallet #BitcoinPrivacy #WatchmanPrivacy

Gabriel speaks with Paul Ashley of Anonyome Labs: creators of the VoIP service MySudo. The service is essential for privacy users: it allows you to have up to nine legitimate phone numbers organized in a handy app that is zero-knowledge encrypted.

Guest Links → https://mysudo.com/ → https://twitter.com/MySudoApp

Referenced → Michael Bazzell's phone privacy guide: https://inteltechniques.com/book7a.html

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Timeline 0:00 – Introduction 1:00 – Phone privacy realism 2:50 – Available countries for MySudo 5:55 – Is VoIP the future of telephony? 9:16 – Is KYC coming for VoIP? 11:20 – Porting phone numbers to MySudo 12:10 – What info required to sign up for service? 13:30 – How to pay privately for MySudo (special instructions for GrapheneOS) 17:05 – What would MySudo give over with a search warrant? 18:10 – Where is data from MySudo stored? 22:10 – MySudo for PC 25:25 – Would KYC mandate affect current users? 26:25 – MySudo greatly reduces SIM swap risk 27:14 – You MUST back up your MySudo account 32:00 – Technical errors while using MySudo (VPN use) 36:45 – What can customer service see about us? 38:40 – Fewer robocalls with MySudo 39:13 – Email also baked into MySudo: sudomail 42:50 – Virtual credit cards 49:00 – MySudo browser 50:24 – Final thoughts

#MySudo #GrapheneOS #WatchmanPrivacy

Gabriel speaks with Evgeny, the founder of Simplex Chat. Simplex is a recent and still-developing private messaging app with a slant toward privacy over convenience. Evgeny gives his critical thoughts on other private messengers, explains how privacy software can fund itself, exposes the myth of disappearing messages, and gets into some of the finer details of how Simplex Chat has made different choices from its competitors. In particular Simplex gets rid of accounts altogether, allowing you to create as many "profiles" as you want that are localized to your device. The result is, as Evgeny says, Simplex knows nothing about its users.

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Timeline 0:00 - Introduction 1:23 – Do funding sources influence projects like Simplex? 9:45 – Evgeny's thoughts on other private messaging apps 17:00 – Simplex Chat gets rid of the very idea of an account 20:00 – What does Simplex know about its users? 24:25 – Can we replicate Simplex profiles on other devices? 29:38 – Disappearing messages are security theater 34:00 – Why didn't Simplex take the code base of Signal and build from it? 40:00 – Problems with UI and path forward 49:25 – Beginner tutorial for Simplex 52:50 – How can you fund a private messaging app? 56:35 – Final Thoughts

#SimplexChat #PrivateMessaging #WatchmanPrivacy

Tips for securing the popular FOSS website builder and service: WordPress. With Urban Hacker.

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#WordPressSecurity #CyberSecurity #WatchmanPrivacy

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Urban Hacker about the infamous XZ backdoor incident by which a key piece of software in the Linux kernel was nearly hijacked. The attacker spent four years slowly ingratiating himself into the small community, which had been selected precisely because it consisted of a single burned-out developer. Follow us as we unravel this bizarre and disturbing story of premeditated digital attack and what it means for free and open-source software and our own cybersecurity.

Mentioned →https://urbanhacker.net/a-closer-look-at-the-social-engineering-behind-the-xz-backdoor-part-one/ →https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

Guest Links → https://urbanhacker.net/ → https://twitter.com/realUrbanHacker → https://t.me/Realurbanhacker (Telegram) → https://tallycoin.app/@realurbanhacker/the-orange-pill-simulator-zzjq3lmF (Urban Hacker's Bitcoin game)

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Timeline 0:00 – Introduction 2:25 – What is XZ Utils? 4:17 – How does GitHub work? 15:15 – Summary of XZ Utils backdoor incident 18:00 – Social engineering 21:00 – Technical implementation of the backdoor attack 28:00 – Potential consequences of this attempted attack 30:10 – How was it found? 33:00 – Does this expose a major weakness of FOSS? 38:25 – Similar supply chain cyber attacks 43:00 – Final thoughts