A little taste of 1984

So I read a book today called Little Brother. You should read it, it's only about 200 pages you can finish it in a few hours, I promise it's a good read. I'll even wait while you do it....


Alright for those of you who don't have the time I'll give a brief synopsis. *SPOILERS WARNING: This post contains detailed information about the book Little Brother*

The terrorists bomb the Bay Bridge, Department of Homeland security steps in and locks people up, this story follows a young hacker who gets swept up by DHS and debased. They let him free with an admonition to never tell anyone. And he watches as his city is turned into an Orwellian nightmare before his eyes. He fights back, the underdog, against the DHS... It's really much better to read the story.

It got to me, made me a little wide-eyed, worrying about how this might come to happen.
I got over it, I'm not ready to fight the government, I suppose if things get a little too 1984 for me I'll run away. It's just not a fight I want to enter, I don't want to fight against people I know and care about because they think it's right for a government to revoke our rights to peace and happiness. I'll just leave em to their own devices.

But that doesn't mean I can't help passively. So I've decided to go dark. For me that means that this is my last traceable post... I thought it only fitting it be about this.

So what kind of inconveniences am I going to run into?

I've decided using the Tor onion routers for firefox and gaim. That will make things slower, but generally more anonymous.
I've decided to make a conscious effort to use https in order to run over the secure socket layer when it's available (like in gmail).
I've decided to try to remember to log out of gmail before surfing. Did you know that they can trace every google search you make while you're logged in.
I'm gonna try to go without cookies
I'm going to start encrypting my communications to certain people.

Why am I doing this? Do I have something to hide?

Nope. I don't have a single thing to hide. And probably never will. I'm totally boring. But reading "Little Brother" it made me think, "What if there are people out there who need to hide, but there isn't enough encrypted traffic to hide in." So I can help them hide by going dark myself. And who knows maybe I will have to use it.

So do I support the terrorists who bomb us?

Not really. I don't think bombing people is a very neat way to express yourself. But I must admit I am very partial to privacy... So if it's a choice between not knowing when terrorists are going to bomb me, and being able to live my life privately. I'm gonna have to side with privacy. Terrorist bombers will find holes in the system... just like spammers... just like media campaigns... just like any unwanted offense. I don't want the system to be tighter because the only person it's squeezing is me.

Why won't you actively fight for your privacy rights?

I'm busy. I want to build robots. And like I said before, fighting for people who don't want to be fought for is futile. If the people want cages... give them cages. Just count me out.

I'll try to post something about living in the darknet later. Oh if any of you want to join me here's my Public Key:

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Send me your public key and I'll consider you a friend. If you're really a secret DHS agent pretending to be my friend... well done... you've infiltrated a group of revolutionaries... I happen to be a pioneer in the art of sitting on my butt, doing nothing.