The only thing I can do is research and write about it. With an even stronger degree of certainty than originally expressed, and with all of the subsequent data points falling into alignment with the initial suspicions, the background of Jack’s Magic Coffee shop remains unchanged. {Go Deep}
Six weeks ago, the Twitter security ‘whistleblower’ came forward to congress. The whistleblower is a former technology expert who came from within the research farm of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, is a well-known cybersecurity expert who left government work, entered the public world, and eventually became the head of Twitter security, reporting directly to the CEO. {Go Deep}
According to a recent SEC filing [LINK HERE], Elon Musk is now back to supporting the purchase of Twitter as the first step in creating the “everything app.”
{{{sarcastic voice}}} Gee, what could this be about? I mean what could go wrong?…. We already know the infrastructure of Twitter’s operational database is tied into portals with the Dept of Homeland security {citation}, and now Musk wants to use that central infrastructure to create an all-inclusive “everything app”?
The bigger risk to the surveillance state is discovery that Twitter and the U.S. intelligence community are in a public-private partnership. The Dept of Homeland Security has access by design, not flaw. How the stakeholder media are reporting on the issue shows the nature of the risk, (emphasis mine):
[…] The scathing disclosure, which totals around 200 pages, including supporting exhibits — was sent last month to a number of US government agencies and congressional committees, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. The existence and details of the disclosure have not previously been reported. CNN obtained a copy of the disclosure from a senior Democratic aide on Capitol Hill. The SEC, DOJ and FTC declined to comment; the Senate Intelligence Committee, which received a copy of the report, is taking the disclosure seriously and is setting a meeting to discuss the allegations, according to Rachel Cohen, a committee spokesperson. (link)
How would it damage the U.S. government if previous claims about the Chinese government having access to all user data on TikTok, are shown to be exactly identical to the U.S. government having access to all user data on Twitter?
Let that question settle in for a few moments, because that is exactly what I have been alleging since, well, 2011, when the U.S. State Dept first collaborated with Twitter in a joint public-private partnership to use the platform as a communication tool exploiting the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, Libya and beyond.
The issue of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop is an issue of financial viability. The business model of Twitter just doesn’t exist as a free social media discussion platform while running the ultra-expensive data processing system needed for millions of simultaneous users. A global chat that requires exponential database responses as an outcome of simultaneous users is just ridiculously expensive. {Go Deep} However, if the computing system and massive database were being subsidized by the U.S. government, then the viability of the ‘free coffee‘ business model makes sense.
“Cloud computing is one of the core components of the strategy to help the IC discover, access and share critical information in an era of seemingly infinite data.” … “A test scenario described by GAO in its June 2013 bid protest opinion suggests the CIA sought to compare how the solutions presented by IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) could crunch massive data sets, commonly referred to as big data.” … “Solutions had to provide a “hosting environment for applications which process vast amounts of information in parallel on large clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware” using a platform called MapReduce. Through MapReduce, clusters were provisioned for computation and segmentation. Test runs assumed clusters were large enough to process 100 terabytes of raw input data. AWS’ solution received superior marks from CIA procurement officials”… (MORE)
♦ Legal Stuff – The issue of American citizen privacy and U.S. constitutional limits against the government listening in on communication is functionally obsolescent. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) prohibits communication intercepts on U.S. citizens without a valid search warrant. However, if a U.S. citizen is engaged in a conversation with a foreign person, all privacy restrictions are essentially gone. [Insert example of Michael Flynn taking to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak here]
Your phone calls can be intercepted by the government from the foreign side of the call. The govt can freely monitor the calls that involve foreign actors. The only rule is that your privacy must be maintained. If the foreign actor is in communication with a U.S. citizen, the U.S. citizen must be “minimized” or not identified in any intercept.
However, what happens when the phone call is on a community line that is connected, and visible, to the entire world? That’s the benefit of social media monitoring from a surveillance perspective. It is from that opaque and unresolved archaic legal perspective that surveillance authority of social media platforms, by the U.S. intelligence community, exists. Now you see why the SSCI is taking an interest in the Twitter whistleblower, classic risk mitigation.
Hopefully, you can also see why the 200-page whistleblower document was leaked, by a Democrat staffer, to the Washington Post and CNN.
CNN defends the equity interests of the U.S. State Dept., and WaPo defend the Intelligence Community (CIA, DHS, etc).
Within the narrative as constructed you will note, “Zatko further alleges that Twitter’s leadership has misled its own board and government regulators about its security vulnerabilities, including some that could allegedly open the door to foreign spying or manipulation, hacking and disinformation campaigns.”
If the relationship between Twitter and the U.S. intelligence community is a public-private partnership, why would Twitter want to shut down the portals given to the Dept of Homeland Security?
Answer, they wouldn’t… Ergo the response from Twitter to the whistleblower complaint is (emphasis mine), “What we’ve seen so far is a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context.”
Put another way, the “lacks important context” is the nature of the security risk, which is structural to the relationship between the intelligence community and the platform. See how that works?
The integration between Twitter and the United States Intelligence Community has been hiding in plain sight:
July 26, 2021, (Reuters) – A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it. (more)
A shared hashing protocol is a form of data system integration. The databases of the identified social media platforms are integrated with the U.S. intelligence system.
…. And now Musk wants to integrate an “everything app”?
Follow the bouncing ball and you enter the world of the comprehensive surveillance state. But if you don’t do anything wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear right? Insert example of non-vaccinated repercussions, Canadian truckers and Dutch farmers here. Then add a digital identity, digital currency, energy resource apportionment and social equity. Where do you end up?
All I can do is research and write about it.
Even the influential members of the ‘Rebel Alliance‘ used to think I was crazy…. Not any longer.
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𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞:
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐄𝐥𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐤,
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐮𝐲 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐁𝐈. 𝐂𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧.
Are you telling me that even going to Mars with Musk won’t get me away from the Deep State?
For those of us falling behind on our tech savvy:
If I turn off my location and don’t use apps that have my location embedded , and I use VPN…is my location revealed by interacting with, say, CTH?
Does your answer change if I’m connecting to the internet with my smartphone’s hotspot?
God bless you Sundance and Ad Rem, Stella, Wee Weed, Menagerie, and families and others helping make this site special.
Not very tech savvy myself but, they can certainly pinpoint a cell phone with or without location turned on. Not even sure if removing the battery makes it undiscoverable anymore but, it might. Location service is simply a convenience for us and the apps and gives us a false sense of security. Any cell phone can be traced to the tower transmitting to and from it just like any computer accessing the internet goes through a provider like a phone company of old with access to your exact access point and method. I suppose like in some movie an extremely tech savvy individual could circumvent or fool the program somehow but, the average person like you or I is pretty much going to have to get used to it.
I don’t think a satellite phone is trackable.
I’m not convinced that turning off location services in the phone interface actually disables those services. It’s a software switch which can be remotely turned on without your knowledge, and that’s assuming the switch actually does what it says in the first place.
Basically, if you have a smartphone on your person, then you are being tracked.
If you have loaded Facebook app, they are tracking you. Even if you take it off the device, they are still tracking you.
I warned about this when everyone was wetting their pants here over Musk buying Twitter and bringing back Free Speech. Not a peep from this crowd. Well now you see what I was warning against. I know a bit about Musk. This is normal for him. Just wait. Mr. Hyper hype gets better. Talk about con artist. But I’m not going to wax rhapsodic about him even though he made his fortune off the $6 Billion US taxpayer’s back then opened plants in China. So watch and learn. He will fleese whomever he can then . Guarantee it. But..but..he’s a genius….
Yes that was incredible
Use American taxpayer money and open factories in China, using China slaves
It’s a win win
I said the same thing up here months ago. Got slammed by just about everyone who was wetting their pants about Elon buying Twitter. I predicted Elon would make a mess of it. You and I are right about Musk. He is a fraud.
Agreed. People are very naive. Here’s a comment I picked up on another site. Beware Musk. He ain’t who you think he is, although he is an oligarch like the rest of the oligarchs.
“Elon is buying himself creating ai+human brain mind control+enslavement interface technology and other undisclosed wicked things whilst littering the sky with the supporting weaponized satellite web infrastructure and you are still worried over Zuck tactics?”
If you don’t do anything wrong, you have nothing to fear. Very true. Where things begin to get tricky is when things like using the wrong pronouns to address someone is considered wrong. Voting for the wrong candidate for public office has made many of us white supremacists without even knowing we were one. The rewriting of history, which is always an ongoing enterprise and priority of the left, is being put on steroids. No novelist can perfectly predict the future but, George Orwell comes close among others. It’s been a long and steady march and many of those voting and cheering it on still cannot see what it is they are voting for or cheering for. They foolishly attribute all totalitarian character traits and impulses to republicans. And every day, guys like Mike Pompeo and others are trying to get us into a nuclear war with Russia.
Correct.
1984:
Don’t change the word, change the meaning of the word.
Technology is making total surveillance so easy for wannabe totalitarians that it looks almost inevitable.
Yes, that is true, but there is a flip side to that coin: technology also makes total surveillance very easy for the patriots. We got them all! MAGA! 🙂
Can the US survive with the public values of a Constitutional Republic?
How is anything fixable while Congress, Senators and State politicians are legally able to be bribed by CoC lobbyists?
Nowhere else I can find in the 1st world is that legal. It happens but its not legal.
There is one easy fix. If you litigate and lose you automatically pay all the legal costs of your victim. That would dry up half the nonsense in US Courts. Hated by lawyers of course.
Don’t like the “Everything App?”
DON’T USE IT !!!!!!!!!!
No Twitter for me and no Tesla or anything else Musk has anything to do with.
Just read your report Sundance. WOW!!!! What is that loud SUCKING SOUND?…. ” Embrace the SUCK!”
I wish you are wrong about this, but your NOT.
“One Ring (app) to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Sundance, did you happen to see this one on ZH? Lots of Musk’s own words about tearing it down and making it open source. I read Musk’s words and had a hard time seeing him as anything other than a John Galt type making a big move.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/now-twitter-belongs-elon-here-what-he-will-do-platform-his-own-words
We must not forget. Cold Anger my friend.
Excerpt:
In writing about the tweets for the BBC, Zoe Kleinman, a technology editor, took a stab at decoding what “X” might be.
“He could well be eyeing something along the lines of the hugely successful Chinese app WeChat. That’s a kind of ‘super app’ which incorporates a lot of different services including messaging, social media, payments and food orders – there is as yet no such thing in the west,” Kleinman wrote.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/elon-musk-reveals-twitter-acquisition-just-start-mysterious-x-plan/
Musk’s “everything app” will probably be about as appealing to me as the stinky “everything bagels” sold by the bakery frequented by the beautiful people across town.
Musk is a cut-out for the CIA. His role is to appear ‘sexy’ to the younger generation and hook them into the matrix. He’s not even a real-life character, just another bit actor in a Hollywood B movie.