Gulags existed for a reason
“Hey fellow leftist, did you know Vangardism is very bad and you should never ever do it? Leftism should embrace capitalism to prevent the evils of, <checks notes>, Leninism.”I refuse to believe the CIA hasn’t infiltrated leftist circles on Reddit like TheRedLeft, Socialism, ShitLiberalsSays, etc…
I’ve always felt watched whenever I commented or posted there
I refuse to believe the CIA hasn’t infiltrated leftist circles on Reddit
they don’t need to infiltrate them there…the back door was built-in
You probably are being watched there, here I would suspect they have a bot scraping it but not active people because they aren’t getting good enough yields off of it
Not anymore, not since I deleted my reddit account three months ago using Shreddit.
You should use it if you want peace of mind
It’s a nice thought and all, but Reddit, like any big tech, uses snapshots and full weekly / monthly backups (at minimum). They don’t need to restore those backups to production machines to use them. Cloud shit often duplicates to machines that aren’t publicly accessible. There’s no taking back the copies and aggregated data that were already sold to the US Pentagon, either.
We probably left the era of it being possible to delete your footprints around 2010.
Well… fuck. Thanks for ruining my nightYep. I feel ya.
The real nighmare rabbithole begins when you “try” to put up a public server on the internet outside the reach of the Fourth Reich and discover who owns virtually everything. I set up servers that have to be accessed from inside and outside Russia.
If you’re interested, try to find these things that exist outside US control, are not subject to US sanctions, and are not IP banned by the westoids:
- Domain registrars
- TLDs
- DNS Nameservers
- Hosting providers (and who owns the datacenter they sublease)
The Great Firewall was one of the most brilliant and prescient political moves in history. I really can’t praise China enough for their foresight on that. Juche internet is pretty locked down and resistant, too. But good luck getting the krackerverse to accept an email from them.
Wait till you find out how detailed and organized the plan for the Bosnian genocide was. It was the 90s and before they even started they had lists not just of Muslims but of all the people who talked to Muslims. They knew how many washing machines and refrigerators there were and how many trucks they needed to haul them out of each village as they looted them.
Source?
There may be some truth to this for things that entities especially want backed up, but let’s not over-inflate the logistics of it.
Some counterpoints:
- Backups still have to be stored on physical disks, which costs something to do. These physical disks can also decay over time, even if more slowly than some forms of technology. They can sustain damage, etc.
- Late stage capitalism loves looking for ways to cut costs. It’s not exactly in the business of sustainability. This is going to affect data storage in various ways too. Look at how unhinged Photobucket went, for example, with its persistent reminds that you have photos and they could be deleted if you don’t log back in. Reddit has a motive to keep stuff around because of people using web searches to look for insights posted on there, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’d want to keep / try to restore everything. Just enough that it minimizes damage.
- Sifting through billions of terabytes of data trying to make use of it is always going to be less practical than doing “social hacking” (tricks, bribery, blackmail, infiltration, etc. - exploiting of social connections). This isn’t to say digital surveillance and data retention is a non-issue, but that the bulk of the danger is going to be stuff that happens now in a way that’s easy to link to you, not something you said 10 years ago that could hypothetically still be on a server somewhere and hypothetically could be linked to you somehow even though it was said with some form of anonymity. It’s never too late to have more awareness about it and start doing differently if need be. Security in general is never 100%. It’s more a matter of making the cost/benefit painful enough to dissuade someone/entity from trying.
Sorry, but none of those “counterpoints” are really valid or meaningful. I really don’t have time to explain modern storage systems and mass surveillance programs work. It’s an enormous subject to go into detail on and compressing decades of professional experience and inside knowledge just is not practical.
My advice to you and anyone else that doesn’t have time to live and breathe this stuff is this: Just assume it’s 1000x more egregious than you think it is and act accordingly.
Nothing personal, but I don’t see how this is a helpful perspective on it. Maybe from your perspective this is your way of cautioning against complacency. But from my perspective, it reads like “be paranoid and let your imagination run wild with what modern systems are capable of” (which could go way beyond how computer systems even work, especially for those who are less familiar with computers).
If you can find the time at some point and make a resource on the details, that could be very helpful though.
“LEFT WING” SUBREDDIT DETECTED!
OPINION REJECTED!
/uj Is there any non-libbed up subreddit on that god-forsaken website?
r/TankieTheDeprogram fighting the lone fight.
south_worry
looks like a confederate trying to sound marxist…probably that’s where the “slave state” reference comes…
