On 12/9/23, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: >> On 09.12.23 at 10:13, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> > As anyone could see you could even run a network of detached >> > computers without networking interfaces in a "touch of God" kind of >> > way ...
Thank you. I should have more clearly stated that those computing devices would go each about their particular business situationally in an air-gapped mode to then each go about their "collective intelligence" on a separate computer, a "server" of sorts. > What I don't understand is what these computers would be *doing*. Why > does he need them at all? If he needs them, why does he need them to > be detached from each other and from the rest of the world? These days, everything from microwave ovens to pacemakers are computing devices, but why should they be wifi-enabled? People don't seem to even realize that since the 1990's they have been driving computers on wheels. Then you hear that Vladimir Putin assassinated Michael Hastings for saying the same Joe Biden said only two decades before; you hear targeted individuals talking about of smoke rings (something that can't happen in nature by itself) to then hear about COVID-19 and how it was all started in China by some dissident "freedom-loving" bats, ... I even heard once as part of those marginal comments you hear which make you go like, say what?, that courtesy of U.S. tax payers the CIA was giving money to Ukrainian people but in order to get it they had to use their cell phones ;-) Think monitoring devices in hospitals, schools, power plants, ... I once heard that some "intelligence department" knew the grounding truth about some matter which happened in some remote place in Russia, because they had been monitoring the cell phones of not only "we the people", but even the police and, of course, when you hear such thing, since neither Physics nor "God" have "blue-eyed sons" (contrary to what some Israelis/Jewish people may think) or as they say "what is good for the goose is good for the gander", that also means that "the Chinese", "Russians", ... are able to do the same thing (of course, in their case they do it "because they hate freedom"). Now, imagine that at least the police would use a "ToG network" (to call it something) without any networking capabilities on a hard- and software level (just the necessary functionality, for example, passively getting GPS coordinates for which you don't need the whole networking stack) for their computing devices with a One-Time pad lease for the session they will be using it (and they would be physically powered for the amount of time they need to be used) which they must relinquish after each day of work to their base and which data would be encrypted (reusing the initial OTP) in ways that only the server which leased the OTP would be able to decrypt. Think of how they hacked the enigma machine and how Nazis suspected such a thing to have happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Maertens What could those "freedom hating" Chinese, "what the heck is freedom" Russians, all those "intelligence departments", ... do about any of it? > The only things I can imagine are ... > Whatever he's doing, I'm confident he won't tell us, or at least not in > a way I'll be able to understand. I explained the basic idea to a friend over the phone and clarified to him a number of doubts he had about it. He got it. He also realized that it wasn't much of a hassle, really. And he told me that I come up with such ideas because I have been forced to look at reality from a different point of view. In a Hegelian, karmic way it is a good thing that people looking at reality from different vantage points can talk to one another, even though, as they say, "misunderstanding is as mutual as love should be". No XY problem whatsoever, and I am not trying to hide anything from anyone (whatever "hiding", "privacy", ... could possibly mean these days). As Mike Rogers (of Pink Floyd fame) said when he was being accused of being a racist, anti-zionist or a zionist, (or whatever he was accused of), ...: "if I am, at the very least, I should be conscious of it". Keeping an external drive you never connect to the Internet could be understood as a sneakernet aspect of it. lbrtchx