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FBI File On Jeff Bezos' Grandfather, A DARPA Co-Founder, Has Been Destroyed
What's not widely known is that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, helped form the Pentagon's supersecret Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA—renamed DARPA) in 1958. Years later, DARPA developed the internet and spurred breakthroughs in high-speed networking, voice recognition, and internet search. One year before Gise died in 1995, Bezos founded Amazon in the garage of his Bellevue, Washington home.
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To send material to Cryptome "anonymously":
- Consider that the odds are very high that Cryptome or any other disclosure initiative (anonymizer, leak site, paste, doc-drop, torrent) is a deception operation, witting or unwitting, and avoid their use.
- Protect yourself and never trust any method proposed by a receiver of your material. Never believe assurances of privacy and security for it is customary to deceive about them, witting or unwitting, and inevitable failures are never fully admitted.
- Presume there are no secure means to anonymously transmit online due to the basic design of the Internet to minutely track transmitted data despite illusory promises of anonymizing, cloaking and hiding services.
- Presume undisclosed sysadmin surveillance throughout the online transmittal path.
- Presume there are no fully secure means to encrypt digital material due to the unbridgeable gap between programming limitations of digital data and the engineering indequacies of analog devices to handle it.
- Presume every program, device and system has a traceable embedded unique ID or electromagnetic performance signature.
- If a host is used, run a series of test submssions of provocative but benign material to see what happens. Place "dye markers" in the material to trace its movement. Expect tampering, ruse, subterfuge, false assurance.
- "Not traceable to you," repeated below, is the hardest part only you can do.
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Stop, Before You Close This Tab (or Any Others) … Think of your browser like an ongoing autobiography. Why would you ever delete it?
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Believing that the small elite group controlling the global tech infrastructure—undersea fiber cables, satellites, electricity, etc.—would permit any entity/system to thrive on their network that threatens their monopoly is a widely held yet profoundly misguided fairy tale.
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Proposal for a Monument to the Internet Protocol - Sandow Birk (2016)
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"Silicon Icarus" is closing shop. Raul Diego's reporting on the darker corners of the cybernetic enclosure has been interesting. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!
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Global Smartphone Sales Share by Operating System.
Prediction: The rise of HarmonyOS will be dramatic and fast. By 2030, Harmony will be the leading mobile OS across the non western world, leaping ahead of Android in key technology areas.
