On 2019-09-26 01:16 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
On 23/09/2019 22:20, Christopher Waid wrote:
I would like to welcome everyone here regardless of ones position to
call into any of three shows that I co-host to continue the RMS
discussion.
Did anybody already respond? I might be able to help you out.
No, at least not that I know of. Free Talk Live airs 7 days a week from
7-10PM ET. Given it's a 3 hour show every night of the week no co-hosts
have that much time to dedicate to it. One co-host is on 5-6 nights a
week, but the show is his baby (founded it). It is an open phones show
so regardless of who is co-hosting you can call in and get on the air to
talk about the RMS story. It doesn't matter if that is what is being
discussed. The only thing is calling in earlier (closer to 7PM) is
better than calling in later. The later hours tend to see more people
calling in and sometimes there isn't enough time left in the show to
actually bring everybody on who is on hold.
The Call To Freedom is another show you could call into, but this past
Wednesdays show got canceled. A repeat of a prior weeks show got aired
in its place. I only do this show once a week, but I think its only
airing once a week these days. It went from 5-6 days a week to twice a
week and now its down to once a week. You can call in pretty much
whenever from 2-5PM ET on Wednesday. This show is going to be killed off
within a few months, but it does have people tuning in and a bit of a
following.
The main show that I've been working to get off the ground for about a
year now is a freedom slanted tech show called Freedom Decrypted. It's
still a work in progress, but we've definitely begun to pick up
listeners. I mostly know this because people comment to me regularly
about the show and the advertising on the show itself has been
effective. This is a weekly show that airs on Saturday from 5-8PM ET.
It's mostly marketed as a video podcast of sorts. You can listen in at
https://freedomdecrypted.com/ and the video stream is live. Then there
is a RSS feed and the final video gets uploaded for people to watch
later as well. Most people are probably not going to be listening to
this show live as although it airs on a number of pirate (there might be
a legit station in there too) radio stations the feed isn't live. The
radio feed comes from our RSS feed and that isn't produced until after
the show is aired online. There is a possibility that this will change-
which would be good from a call in perspective. If people aren't
listening live you aren't likely going to get people calling in very
often if at all. Even with FTL which is a nationally syndicated talk
show with over 200 stations (there are about 800 talk stations in the US
that you can realistically get onto, potentially) we really don't have
as many people calling in as you might think. There are people calling
in, but the idea that is purported by media is that the only hope of
getting on the radio on any major talk show is if you have a machine
that auto-calls non-stop is non-sense. If you can't get on a talk show
it's probably because they're faking it. I think FTL has like 3-8 lines
(phone + other options) which effectively means there are pretty much
never more than a handful of callers ahead of you. Often it's zero.
Particularly for people calling in earlier in the show.
This is just how extreme it can get: The mob has posted defamatory
flyers about one of my co-hosts that were even more disturbing and
I can think of a more extreme example. There was a guy at my uni in
Australia who opened a post office box
The guy in question is #1 on America's Most Wanted Journalists.
US authorities allegedly had the PO box closed. The post office
closed.
Then demolished.
po box 4080 melbourne university
My own box was about one meter away
They are still chasing him today.
True or not that sounds more like a fake conspiracy theory. While my
experience with government and those of whom I know may not reflect the
totality of what government does or can do there are definitely certain
tactics that tend to get used more or less. Demolishing post offices in
a western styled democracy friendly to the United States is just too far
from anything that I've ever heard the US government doing. If your not
Osama bin Laden or a close associate or at least someone of that nature
it seems unlikely that such a bizarre set of actions would be taken by
the US government against you.
I can tell you of some weird things I've hard governments doing though
with select individuals in certain regions. In one case a person
important to the governments interests was needed in a dangerous part of
the world. They flew out and there entire trip involved some pretty
serious security steps. They basically closed bridges and tagged the
individual they wanted to protect with a hidden tracking device. This
was a government very closely aligned with the United States and has a
lot of experience with dangerous "terrorists". I wouldn't necessarily
expect the same level of protection to be placed on them while traveling
in other countries. However I wouldn't be surprised if this individuals
computers were bugged, etc.
Other weird things I've encountered were systems designed with funding
from a particular socialist government which utilized almost entirely
free software. The initial unique design work was done by a university.
The design included a backdoor in a physical component. The weird part
was the physical component was reliant on a driver of sorts and if you
built the software without this driver the backdoor didn't work any
more. What I still don't understand is why the driver was needed at all.
This was very bizarre because the entire system was designed around free
software components with one or two exceptions (keyboard controller
firmwares/LCD controller firmwares/hard disk firmwares/etc). The people
doing the manufacturing knew of the backdoor. It was only a one-on-one
conversation with the factory that resulted in the discovery of this
backdoor. Because we kept asking for source code they thought we were
trying to remove the backdoor and already knew about it. We didn't. They
thus accidentally leaked this info after we spoke in person with them.
They refused to work with us after that because they were concerned of
repercussions by government. This sort of thing doesn't surprise me that
much. It's not just the socialists doing it. The US government has
worked with Intel and AMD to do similar sorts of things- but with a more
modern and better design. The US solutions don't rely on a driver to
work and thus its harder to disable if its possible at all. The
backdoors get put into the firmwares and then signed by intel/AMD. You
can't disable it. I don't have any first hand knowledge of the US
companies implementing these sorts of backdoors, but some of the
backdoors have been found and you can find write ups about how they work
online. This is just one reason the "open source" proponents are wrong
about not everything needing to be free. Particularly low-level
firmwares. It's the ideal place to hide a backdoor. When a backdoor is
found it's just written off as a security issue which in some respects
is entirely believable. In reality that isn't whats going on.
Regards,
Daniel
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