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The Hindenberg-Hitler Contingency
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Posted by TempusFugit
Mar 6, 2016 at 08:59 AM
This night I am tempted to throw some red meat into the Lion’s Den.
It is the reason why I only will use applications containing my ideas or plans which will never traverse the Internet. And further why I never use Facebook or any other Social network, save for a tightly controlled LinkedIn entry. Twitter, under a pseudonym, using a randon VPN.
I call this reason “The Hindenberg-Hitler Contingency” and it is supported by the risks to which we are all subjected to by the F i v e E y e s (remove spaces). Who are they? Even in this forum I will avoid writing their component membership.
Please Google the two words yourselves.
As that fellow who is now receiving Asylum in Moscow has made it abundantly clear. All is collected. And all is saved for all future analysis, including the creation of personality composites.
And the basis of the Contingency is simple. All that it takes for one apparently sane regime change to put your life at risk.
Such a change happened in Berlin, 1933.
Can CRIMPERs imagine what the Gestapo would do with today’s technology?
I can.
Locally saved data only, please. And for backups, encryption and ... http://www.tresorit.com
Undue paranoia you say? In these matters and ... especially if we look at the quality of candidates for high office on the Planet these days - I think not.
-TF
Posted by Jan S.
Mar 7, 2016 at 10:17 AM
Good for you.
Posted by Lucas
Mar 7, 2016 at 05:27 PM
Taking that perspective to its logical inclusion (and taking into account all the further technological innovations that may be around the corner), you would probably be better off maintaining a “normal” online presence to keep up appearances, lest you be singled out for suspiciously luddite behaviour. But of course you wouldn’t put any valuable information online (although you could include some enlightening material for the edification of soulless snoopers). Valuable information would be restricted to carefully guarded thoughts and handwritten notebooks using a personal cipher. (Although perhaps, eventually, it will be necessary to think in cipher…)
(Not being flippant—- just wryly considering the possibilities. I agree that there is cause for concern.)
Posted by Simon Bolivar
Mar 9, 2016 at 09:14 PM
Thanks for the wisdom 22111
TempusFugit wrote:
>This night I am tempted to throw some red meat into the Lion’s Den.
Posted by TempusFugit
Mar 20, 2016 at 02:23 AM
Maintaining a facade is an interesting notion. But my objective is to freely avail myself of the Web. Traditional browsing leaves tasty breadcrumbs for certain ... birds (of prey).
Valuable information must always be encrypted.
But, if one’s query-stream suggests thinking that runs afoul of the “Thought Police” at any given 3-letter agency ... it seems that research activities necessitate…. T ... O ... R.
-TF
Lucas wrote:
Taking that perspective to its logical inclusion (and taking into
>account all the further technological innovations that may be around the
>corner), you would probably be better off maintaining a “normal” online
>presence to keep up appearances, lest you be singled out for
>suspiciously luddite behaviour. But of course you wouldn’t put any
>valuable information online (although you could include some
>enlightening material for the edification of soulless snoopers).
>Valuable information would be restricted to carefully guarded thoughts
>and handwritten notebooks using a personal cipher. (Although perhaps,
>eventually, it will be necessary to think in cipher…)
>
>(Not being flippant—- just wryly considering the possibilities. I
>agree that there is cause for concern.)