@joerogan mentioned my research on online manipulation again today. Thanks, Joe! See the 1-min. clip here: https://t.co/3zx88NIjSH Clip title: "How #Tech Companies Control #Elections Through Search"
Join me for a special AMA this Friday 4/17 at 7:00P with @michelini of @SkyInclude1 where we will be covering the upcoming launch of the .agent TLD and domains, available on Headless Domains, that will power the new Agentic AI economy 👉 https://t.co/NM0agbdlWv
#agent#hns #identity #domains
Tweet #54: Who Is Rodney Joffe? The South African Who Held the Keys to America's Internet
He has been involved in the IT world since 1973 when he trained as a systems analyst and programmer in the Pensions Actuarial group of the Old Mutual Life Insurance Company in Cape Town, South Africa.
He built an American technology empire from scratch - founding Genuity, one of the largest hosting ISPs in the world, then founding UltraDNS, the first cloud-based company to develop and market domain name services that translate numerical internet addresses into memorable names.
News Nation USA UltraDNS was sold to Neustar in 2006 for nearly $62 million.
What made Joffe uniquely dangerous as a political actor: DNS. Domain Name System.
Rodney Joffe regularly briefs the White House, Executive Departments and Agencies, and Congressional offices on the subject of cybersecurity.
Google He held one of the most privileged positions in American internet infrastructure - controlling DNS data means seeing who talks to whom, when, and from where. At internet scale.
Durham confirmed it. Special Counsel Durham alleged that Joffe and his associates had exploited access his company had through a pending cybersecurity contract with the Executive Office of the President to acquire nonpublic government domain name system and other data traffic "for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump."
Joffe tasked a group of computer contractors connected to the Georgia Institute of Technology with finding "anything" in internet data that would link Trump to Russia and make Democratic "VIPs happy."
That is a direct quote from an August 2016 email Joffe sent to the researchers.
That Georgia Tech team is the same Antonakakis team documented throughout our prior tweets - CPT 100, DARPA, Pythia, election network reconnaissance.
And after Trump won?
Joffe emailed someone and said, "I was tentatively offered the top cybersecurity job by the Democrats when it looked like they'd win. I definitely would not take the job under Trump." Source: News Nation
He didn't get the job. But he kept his access.
His advisory roles throughout both Trump terms and into Biden:
2016 - NSTAC member (Neustar: Joffe, Hook, Inman, Spencer, Claffey)
2017 - NSTAC continues under Trump
2018 - NSTAC continues
2019 - NSTAC subcommittee member, ICT Ecosystem report
2020 - NIAC/DHS interviewee, NSTAC member
Jan. 21, 2021 - NIAC report delivered to President Biden, Day 1
His boss at Neustar was Lisa Hook - a major Democratic Party donor who publicly endorsed Clinton.
Records show her contributions to Democrats, including Joe Biden and Obama, total more than $249,000. In 2011, Obama appointed Hook to his National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Source: RealClearInvestigations
A South African entrepreneur with privileged access to America's DNS infrastructure, directing Georgia Tech researchers to mine internet data against a sitting president, while simultaneously advising that president's government on national cybersecurity policy.
For five straight years.
Wait till the next couple of tweets, with documents and information sourced with permission from @pepesgrandma Yep, she's bad! 😂
➡️ Ban computers from our elections. Joffe on right:
14/ Self-sovereign identity now has a real structural use case in the AI economy.
When AI content and personas flood digital spaces, verification becomes the most valuable thing in the world.
Control your private key, control your identity.
@balajis has been saying this for years and the paper essentially proved it with economic modeling.
Annualized, UK speech prosecutions are running at about 17x those of the Soviet Union under Brezhnev. Of course, the USSR had 4x the population, so more like 68x the prosecutions/person*year.
I did 9 hours of streams on Arizona State University's incredible ties to the CIA, from its President being the head of the CIA's venture capital arm to its centers & institutes getting millions in grants for intelligence work. As it turns out, it's the #1 U in the Epstein Files
The "Cambridge Club" of spies operating out of Cambridge University is run by former head of British intelligence (MI6) Richard Dearlove and MI5 officer Chris Andrew. It includes Chris Steele, who worked for Dearlove, and other members of British intelligence @TulsiGabbard@elonmusk
The US associates of the "Cambridge Club" included Gina Haspel, former CIA London Station Chief, Mike Morell, CIA operative Stefan Halper and Alan Kohler, FBI LEGAT in London who later became FBI Assistant Director and organized the Mar-a-Lago Raid.
Mark Malloch-Brown, President of Soros's Open Society and close family friend of the Soroses is also connected to the Cambridge Club.
Malloch Brown is the Chairman of SGO Corporation, the parent company of Smartmatic, voting-technology company based in England.
🚨 Former Google boss CRASHES OUT when confronted over censorship in Davos
This is what happened when @ezralevant and I reminded Eric Schmidt of his role in engineering online censorship.
Safe to say, he did not enjoy accountability.
👉 https://t.co/KppWKh5hnw
"This is potentially digital totalitarianism."
Journalist Michael Shellenberger warns that digital ID systems pushed by the WEF and UN will evolve from voluntary schemes into mandatory tools of control mirroring China's social credit system.
3/The proposed token taxonomy, currently being worked on by the Crypto Task Force, is as follows:
📌Network tokens/digital commodities = NOT securities
📌Digital collectibles (NFTs, game assets, art) = NOT securities
📌Digital tools (tickets, memberships, credentials) = NOT securities
📌Tokenized securities (tokenized stocks/bonds) = ARE securities