Hacking is NOT a Crime

A local nonprofit organization with a global presence. Privacy and security hacktivism. Hack, ergo sum. #hackingisnotacrime

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BREAKING: @TheJusticeDept announced a policy revision to the United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) which includes exemptions of criminal charges for "good-faith" security researchers.

This is a huge victory for our cause!

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"In the summer of 2013, Edward Snowden shook the world with a trove of disclosed documents from the National Security Agency (NSA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and a host of other global three-letter agencies.

For more than a year, there were weekly (if not daily) revelations of just how extensive these agencies’ digital information-gathering capabilities were, particularly those of the United States.

It felt as though the NSA was able to get any information that went through internet or phone networks that wasn’t encrypted plus some information that was weakly encrypted and some more information that wasn’t encrypted on corporate servers. That feeling is close to the truth.

Not long after the Snowden revelations, I partnered with the Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC), a nonprofit that provides legal support to social movements that “seek to dismantle the political and economic structures at the root of social inequality and environmental destruction.”

The CLDC gives know-your-(legal)-rights trainings to social movement participants, emphasizing how to protect and invoke one’s First and Fourth Amendment rights: the right to free speech and the right to no illegal searches and seizures. These rights are eroded with mass surveillance.

This is quite clear with Fourth Amendment rights, but for First Amendment rights, legal scholars often point to this chilling effect: citizens restrict their speech if they know they are being surveilled.

To complement the CLDC’s legal trainings, I started regularly holding digital security trainings for activists centered on the premise that encryption is the only way to protect your First and Fourth Amendment rights in the modern world of mass surveillance. This book has grown out of these educational efforts."

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#1a #4a #cypherpunk #censorship #surveillance

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Hack the planet! #hacktheplanet #hackingisnotacrime #makehackingdefiantagain

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What is our society coming to?!?

What kind of sociopath would sabotage a @flock mass surveillance camera by disconnecting its one and only battery cable from its one and only solar panel?!?

Is it a humiliating single-point-of-failure design flaw? Absolutely! Some might even call it an easily exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability. But that shouldn't be a reason to perform such nefarious acts.

Because without the solar panel, the battery can't recharge after 24+ hours of surreptitiously surveilling innocent civilians and monetizing the data analytics they collect from 80,000 of these deployed across the United States of America.

Geez, some people just want to see the world burn! 🔥

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Question: how many masked ICE agents does it take to hold down one man before executing him in the street?

Answer: more than it would take an unmasked, well-trained, disciplined, military soldier who only fires when fired upon.

Synopsis: ICE agents are exercising more force on people at home than military soldiers exercise on enemies abroad.

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Know your enemy. Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite. Mass noncompliance is the only way to end this mass surveillance police state. #surveillance #surveillancestate #policestate

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We're submitting this post to raise awareness about a scandal unfolding in the "Land of the Free". It involves approximately 80,000 Al surveillance cameras being surreptitiously used by over 5,000 law enforcement departments across the USA.

Using @shodanhq investigative journalist and privacy researcher @bennjordan with @404mediaco discovered numerous Flock Safety Falcon cameras with Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) capabilities whose video feeds were administratively accessible, sans authentication, on the public Internet.

His PoC @YouTube video illustrates how dubious the company's claim is that they're merely identifying license plates. Easy it was for him to use the camera's pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) capabilities to identify and track individual people, disclose sensitive information displayed on phone screens, and track routes of individual cars over extensive geographic distances and time intervals.

An American citizen took it upon themselves to request video footage from their own city's cameras, a request that was denied. They subsequently challenged their city's refusal in court and the presiding judge ruled the video footage is considered public information because the cameras are taxpayer funded.

As if the surveillance state couldn't get any worse, Amazon recently announced a partnership between @ring and @flock, which has the obvious potential for abuse and mass surveillance from public intersection to your front door, and everything in between.

Al-integrated consumer technologies like @ring coupled with state and municipal governments surreptitiously adopting @flock sets a dangerous precedent for a large scale, first-of-its-kind, Orwellian surveillance system that is quickly becoming a reality.

This is yet another reason why nonprofit organizations like us exist. Because unethical companies like @flock not only disregard privacy and security, they also reject transparency and accountability.

They shift the burden of "responsibility" onto researchers while endorsing irresponsible business practices. Contact your municipal, county, and state representatives and tell them you reject mass surveillance. #fockflock #surveillance

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Reject Digital ID.

Prisons assign numbers to inmates.

You are not an inmate.
You are not a number.
You are not a product.

You are a human.

Reject Digital ID.
Reject the surveillance state.

#antistate #digitalid #digitalidentity #surveillance #surveillancestate

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From cradle to grave, we're bombarded with manipulative advertising and subliminal messaging that preys upon and exacerbates our psychological insecurities.

Seeking external validation, victims attach their very identity to material goods, brand names, and status symbols in hopes that what they consume will fill the empty void created.

Rather than swallowing a red pill and waking up from this nightmarish consumption cycle, billions of people opt to stay in their comfort zone, placated by the social affirmations they're surrounded by.

This is an unsustainable downward spiral. As victims of this psychological warfare, many begin feeling anxious, depressed, isolated, and lonely. And justifiably so.

Focused on the symptoms rather than the disease, the pharmaceutical-industrial complex swoops in to offer the victims a convenient remedy. A medication prescription subscription.

You read that right.

You're a consumer. You're a subscriber. You're a source of revenue. Rather than continuing this self-inflicted victimization cycle, swallow a red pill and break it.

Turn off the propaganda box and cancel your subscription.

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When the next military-industrial complex psyop begins before the previous one ends, and the political party who advocated peace while campaigning now advocates war, and the party who advocated war while campaigning now advocates peace.

It's all part of the distract, divide, and conquer playbook.

Coercively removing a foreign regime under the guise and false pretext of national security. Promoting "freedom and liberty" abroad to those who don't resist while eroding "freedom and liberty" at home to those who do resist.

You can't make it make sense, because it doesn't make sense.

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Intellectual property laws were originally created to foster innovation and the creation of original works through exclusive patent, copyright, and trademark rights.

Corporate media conglomerates, with the help of corrupt government institutions, abuse this system through legal intimidation and propaganda tactics devised to restrict access to resources and discredit intellectual property rights violators.

This relationship is nothing less than a protection racketeering scheme being enforced through anti-competitive protectionist legislation, authored by politicians receiving back door bribes and campaign kickbacks.

Real world examples of this abusive enforcement include Monsanto's GMO patents, which they claimed a nearby farmer infringed upon by allowing his non-GMO crops to pollinate with Monsanto's.

Because of the exorbitant legal fees required to defend himself against Monsanto, the farmer had no option but to succumb to Monsanto's pressure.

Intellectual property laws, like trademark rights, serve a purpose in protecting the public from imposters and counterfeiters.

But intellectual property laws enforcing copyright and patent rights require significant reform. Until that day, torrent away.

#MakeHackingDefiantAgain

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It really is that simple. We're repeatedly presented with a false dilemma. The lesser of two evils is still evil. Choose the greater of two goods. Stay defiant.

#MakeHackingDefiantAgain

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Hackers are intentionally mischaracterized through propaganda fueled stereotypes and ulterior motive narratives. These tactics influence public opinion and legislation that create a pretext for censorship, surveillance, and prosecution.

A power imbalance is emerging and the establishment feels threatened. Information wants to be free but institutions benefiting from the status quo's entrenched corruption seek to control its dissemination.

Stay strong. Stay united. Stay defiant.

#HackingIsNotACrime #MakeHackingDefiantAgain #PublicEnemy #PublicEnemyNumberOne

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Another day, another false dilemma. Freedom of speech, privacy rights, and freedom of choice can all coexist. Sacrificing one for another is a zero sum game. #Snowden #1A #4A

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We may live in a binary world online, but we do not live in a binary sociopolitical system. And your way of life, your family, and your friends are under attack.

The corrupt global elites bombard us with logical fallacy propaganda, information warfare tactics, and psychological operations.

Elections and voting have become a farce delusion of control and influence that keeps us pacified and complacent. We are repeatedly presented with a false dilemma, where we are led to believe we only have two choices.

Left or right. Blue or red. Radical or extremist.

Their goal is simple: divide and conquer.

By limiting our choices, the global oligarchy has instituted a global oligopoly, where power is retained in the hands of the few through coercion and oppression, all facilitated through privatized industrial complex stakeholders.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, and the lesser of two evils is still evil, which do you choose? More importantly, why do you "choose"?

There is always, at minimum, a third option worthy of consideration. Whether it's through supporting a third party candidate, anti-authoritarian digital vigilantism, or rejection of the status quo as a whole… there will always be more than two "choices".

Stay strong. Stay united. Stay defiant.

#MakeHackingDefiantAgain

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This is Lars.

His municipal government denied him access to the library because of his family's low social credit score. Consequently, he began to struggle academically, socially, and mentally.

Leaving him no other option, he was forced to evade this surveillance. After compromising the library's IoT cameras and disabling AI facial recognition, he published the library's entire e-book catalogue using IPFS P2P distributed infrastructure.

A social credit system is a government surveillance framework implemented to evaluate the trustworthiness of businesses and individuals based on their involuntary compliance with oppressive laws.

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It really is that simple. We're repeatedly presented with a false dilemma. The lesser of two evils is still evil. Choose the greater of two goods. Stay defiant.