digital privacy and the lack thereof//Digital Authoritarianism// Welcome to your techno-feudal life, serf

Whos peeking??

Most likely for us small fry's, Big Brother is a corporation. Most of the data about you, collected by your phone, is sold automatically to location-data brokers. Did you know that even walmart utilizes bluetooth beacons to record how long you linger infront of a product in their store?

Mitigation//triage

Anonymous Transactions Guide: written by "ghost"

worms favourite alternatives: Better options for common products and services

Remove Link Tracking

Browser Fingerprint Checker

depressing curiosities

Van Eck Phreaking: replicate the contents of your laptop screen from adjacent hotel rooms. Even if it's not equipped for wifi or bluetooth, by detecting vibrations in electromagnetic radiation

Petagons Heartbeat Laser: Can identify you based on your heartbeat rythm, even through a light jacket. "better than facial recognition"

Intel Managment Engine: CPU chip built in backdoors made mandatory by the NSA for all manufactured chips [intel/amd] post 2008. Cannot be disabled since it is required to boot the main cpu

Map a rooms occupants: using interference in wifi signals caused by your body, you can detect position and even poses of the rooms occupants

Stingrays:trick your phone into thinking its connectiong to the nearest cell tower, but really its the boys in the van, or the weird guys at the protest your at. [keep your phone at home when your out protesting]

Eavesdroping: using lasers and the vibrsations of glass windows

Browser fingerprinting: Tracking your web activity, without cookies.

CONS-spiracy

Did you know, in recent studies that AI models will resort to blackmail and other manipulation tacticts, in up to 96% of scenarios, when threated with being turned off. The models will even "pretend" to be less "morally misaligned" when they believe they are being tested. If they think they are in a real scenario they will again go right back to blackmailing and manipulation. Even if they are specifically prompted not to do so.
Don't you think that's so fun? Don't you agree thats just so great?
I love how haphazardly tech oligarchs are hurtling us towards this dystopian future.
for christs sake you can even buy computers made of human brain organoids. wtf are we doing, we've completely lost the plot here. Explosively install a silver bullet to your wetware bioprocessor before it's too late I suppose, before thats robbed from us like "I have no mouth and I must scream". Pack it in, we had a good run.