It would be interesting to see the resulting numbers - how many people are already afraid to call that number? Are YOU afraid of calling that number?
That is a nice real life demonstration of where that ill-minded techno-dictatorship will lead us.
Unfortunately there is no way back, as the USA ANGST to fight these nazis is too strong, especially in Silicon Valley, where too many chicken-hearted apple shiners (nice word!) are hiding instead of standing up. It is shocking to see how established that culture of ANGST is already established in the USA.
So be prepared for a long war and many death friends - this is always the only long-lasting result when you let paranoid and aggressive Neandertalers lead your society. Look at Germany after WW II to see the future of USA if you do not stand up now against that bigbrotherism.
Yes, it is up to you to change it. Follow the few brave we have seen and change your government to obey the people, not the other way around. Do it now and the world will be very thankful and start to love USA again! Amen :)
Propaganda is a hell of a thing.
That's a good one. Saying Nazis were socialists. The word you're looking for starts with an f.
http://hop3.de/litfass_en.html
"A project for public space, with posters put up in Karlsruhe and Cologne in autumn and winter 2015/16"
The German text on the posters, before the number, means "we are not afraid."
The whole exhibition is not just that project, it's much bigger:
http://zkm.de/en/event/2015/10/globale-global-control-and-ce...
http://hop3.de/litfass_en.html
Also in the German media (the phone number is in the text):
http://www.badische-zeitung.de/ausstellungen/kann-man-sich-n...
> Do you really want to live a life where you shy away from completely normal, legal things, like calling a mobile phone?
I think it's a personal experience and good political discussion more than anything.
She complied. Then she picked up her phone to text me what was going on but refrained herself at the last second. An officer was behind her back and she thought : « I don't want to be seen as suspect by using the phone while police officers are going on with their operation. ». She looked at the phone's clock instead.
I am pretty sure the officers were there to find some refugees. November 11th is WW1 Armistice day where we live which is a bit symbolic.
Please, do not forget that encrypted e-mail should not be predictable: https://futureboy.us/pgp.html#GoodPractices
What art is this producing? Will there be a final product I can look at, watch, or listen to?
> Commissioned by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe on the occasion of the exhibition Global Control and Censorship, October 4, 2015 – May 1, 2016. The Cologne part of the project consists of 200 advertising columns
If you click the link "Advertising Columns" you can see those. I guess I am still confused as to what calling the number does (that we can actually see) and how it relates to the art.
> It's turned on and connected to the network. No-one (human) will pick up if you decide to make the call.
This targeting of not only you but also everyone you've been in contact with is of course one of the reasons the system is so malicious.
As for signing up, then again, maybe it doesn't make that much difference in practice. With the Lists being as long as they are, two degrees of separation would have been a lot of people, but it seems that three would make for virtually everyone. Would I even be able to add my friends to the surveillance systems, or is every single one of us already there...
I guess I just feel he has an impossible task to make up for that. I think he's a good cautionary tale for young nerds who have an overwhelming amount of intelligence and cleverness but a paucity of wisdom, natural or developed over time.
That simply isn't true.
It's amazing how quickly this kind of advice has become a accepted reality in the west. Try to to stay small in the eyes of the government. I hope everyone understands to feel little ashamed if they do this.
This is also related to the encryption by default debate, were we must acknowledge the very large amount of metadata leaked if we only encrypt our communicatioms/data when we deem them sensitive.
I'm not advising anyone one way or another about whether or not to connect themselves at second degree to Bill Binney.
Those who would choose to associate themselves with anyone in the Cast Iron category however, would do well to realize that it's a decision that affects many, many more innocent people than themselves.
The current state of affairs in these matters is of course a repugnant one and ought to be ended as soon as possible. If someone believes they can contribute to that end most effectively by inviting an even more extensive automated spy dossier on their every action, those of their friends and of their friends' friends, maybe that is what they should be doing.
Personally I think I object at least as effectively by pulling every person I reasonably can over to securely encrypted communications and educating nontechnical people about what is being done to them.
I bet any signle one of these actions make you more suspicious/interesting than 90% of the rest of the world and probably you did more than one thing in that list. And we all know they basically try to record everything. How are the chances they at least capture the most interesting 10%?
To (loosely) quote the artist: "We, as hackers, artists, political people, ended up on some list anyhow."
IMO calling nazis right wing is just a very effectibe play to frame liberals and conservatives as closer to Nazis.
Gone are the friendly (in retrospect) days of "if you don't like us you should leave."
From other nations with sketchy governments, you can claim asylum status where you land. For US citizens, you will be assumed to be crazy if you request status. You may as well be as no US citizen is able to prove their own prosecution. If the FOIA keeps any teeth it is still ~30 years after death that a FOI request will show anyone was politically targeted by the executive branch like Martin Luther King.
Enjoy your GDP, but try to stop spending it all in one place.
I don't think how the US treats citizens living abroad is great, but it's not like you can't get away from it if you really want to.
Further, that process requires a legal proceeding with the US to investigate you for potential liabilities that is now paid for by you.
The idea of citizenship is not representative of anyone's rights in the US, which is made all the clearer by the new renunciation terms. The US could switch to the british term subject since every US person is at a minimum a subject of investigation. :)
It's a single anecdote and while quite possible that time has affected his memory the fact that he considers our situation even remotely comparable to that under the Stasi - whose history we, as victors, have written up as deplorable and criminal - can at the very least be cause for some concern and curiosity both about our perceived state of freedom and the effect of propaganda.
Photo: https://i.imgur.com/zBaVFMH.jpg ("99 missed calls")
