....and yet it is state sponsored agencies which are tasked with doing so! The question of who is watching the watchers has never more relevant, yet not asked at all in this article, which seems to be of the position - 'we tell the truth, they tell the lies', a position which itself is the apogee of propaganda

>The question of who is watching the watchers has never more relevant

Hi! It's me. I'm an antifascist. I watch the watchers. It's caused me a lot of problems and is one of the reasons I no longer use LinkedIn.

I told Wikipedia to add a dot onion to take the load of exit nodes in my interview for privacy engineer.

The person I spoke to said they leave their cameras on all day while working, but maybe one of the interviewers was under surveillance because of the falder case? Or maybe due to my blunt nature I'm not a cultural fit there?

Anyways, I also expressed in the interview that Wikipedia is highly skewed towards the editors, when many people... just browse.

In closing, some people deserve to be told that it's not the Voice of America or the Central Intelligence Agency telling them to get in the ground with Jeffrey Epstein... but just one guy.

(And like I said to Mike Nelson in the hall at Hackers on Planet Earth: I'm not opposed to the assault weapons ban... and a revolver is a more reliable... but if you say you work with computers it's plausible you'd need to carry a multi-tool.)

PS: Someone may have hacked my phone. Or it crashed. I'm not in a hurry to recover a bunch of MFA flows or whatever. Happy spooky season!!

> I used to try to fight back against these guys. Slowly but surely, they purge Wikipedia articles of anything that portrays the US government in a negative light.

Speaking as an American my complaint is inaccuracy paired with volume. You shouldn't be editing Wikipedia all day, disproportionate attention is a form of state sponsored propaganda, especially paired with the kind of rules lawyering only folks getting the OPM per diem can afford to tip for.

To be clear: since I left civil society to focus on re-learning how to hack[2][3], it has come to light that they had a bunch of literal agents of foreign power operating as a cabal for the PRC[1].

(I'm struggling for a cite so don't have an exact date on that one, I had a period where I was experimenting with browser fingerprinting and archiving and got trolled a lot by folks who are ornery about Borders -- at least once the owner of... a business... instead of serving up an easter egg instead of a phish... COVID has been weird.)

Also, I interviewed as a privacy engineer there ages ago. Maybe I wasn't a cultural fit because the rest of the team kept their webcams on all the time? I said if hired I'd probably focus on getting a dot onion for wikipedia like the times did, since that would take a big load off exit nodes plus provide a privacy benefit if someone can't trust their ISP or whatever.

I hope they'll consider adding a dot onion, but on my end, my phone may have been hacked... or maybe it just crashed and it'll take a long time. There's enough ambiguity about very basic things that I may not recover some data until... [drumroll] after "the election" (sarcastic finger quotes), and I'm very sad because that means I won't be able to read the onion newsletter every day.

(I also sometimes read actual news, but mostly I just read this, the orange site, and the onion, the green site.)

//[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list... /[2] Years ago some woman from the KGB joked that I go on textfiles dot com for ASCII girls... I immediately shot back there's other sites for pornography, I was on there looking for instructions on how to build bombs in case they ever stop having elections. You know how these so called "doctors" are. //[3] I'm not a doctor.