Can The US RESTRICT Act Ban VPNS?! - SR128

RESTRICT Act in the US, a wild update to an old story, a wifi protocol flaw, and a lot more!

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[surveillancereport]

00:00 Introduction
00:19 Support us!
00:55 Highlight Story (RESTRICT Act)
06:54 Data Breaches
09:35 Companies
13:29 Research
16:10 Politics
25:00 FOSS
25:57 Misfits
29:15 Q&A
39:33 Support us!

[wallyhackenslacker]

Is there anyone who believes that RESTRICT is just about banning TikTok? What a grand and intoxicating innocence that must be!

[redeyesdrogon]

Dropping a like because Nathan had to read all 55 pages of the RESTRICT Act! Not all heroes wear capes 😤

[Steerable]

please do a video on the new mullvad browser vs tor and mullvad browser vs librewolf. Thank you :)

[TinkerTech]

problem i have specifically is, its not just the foreign country they would monitor.
soon as a foreign HUMAN adversary sets foot in the U.S. then U.S. citizens start to be monitored simply by being in proximity to the adversary.

But of course this monitoring already goes on thanks to the patriot act.
This bill would legalize a expansion of that bill, is one way to look at it.
And of course I dont like that idea, personally.

And speaking of tik tok.
did you know that there is a "FREE" video editing software called copy cat or copy cut available in the microsoft store.
Byte dance publishes that program. I read its privacy statement and its just like tik toks.
which they also own.
maybe a episode about parent componies that own multiple corrupt componies???
love you guys, have a good day

[AKPNW]

Comprehensive Data act now! Privacy now!

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- 3:45 Forget VPNs, look at the "Unlawful Conduct" clause: "Unlawful acts include both direct violations… under it and inchoate offenses such as attempt and conspiracy". In other words, not only is violating it a crime, not only attempting to violate it is a crime, but theoretically, even just THINKING about violating is a crime. Sure, they may not prosecute anyone for though-crimes _now_ but you KNOW that eventually they'll try some day. This is just the new Patriot Act, allowing politicians to move the world ever closer to a Kafkwellian dystopia, that's why it never even mentions TikTok even once in the entire bill.

- 12:12 It's bad enough for companies to automatically "opt" people into stuff and force them to be psychic and magically know to have to opt out, but Meta wants you to beg for "permission" to opt out and fill out a form to justify why you should be allowed to? Gee, I wonder if they'll reject most "applications". 😠 Wow, Mark needs to be removed… from the planet (and sent back to his homeworld).

- 13:50 Meh, I never did trust WiFi, that's why I always use an Ethernet cable, even on phones. 😂

- 15:38 WTH is the Windows snipping-tool vulnerable to Acropalypse? 🤨 That's 100% on Microsoft's incompetent programmers. 😒

I don't see how the snipping-tool even _could_ have the problem that's mostly specific to the Google Pixel phones. 🤔

The problem only happens if the SAME file is modified and overwritten at the SAME location. That's not something that happens on Windows, when you edit a file and overwrite it, the file isn't overwritten to the same location on disk, it's written to a new cluster and the old one is marked as "deleted". That's why if you use data-recovery tools, you can find all the previous revisions of files (which makes data-recovery a nightmare to try to find the most recent copy).

This problem would only happen if (1) the program specifically goes out of its way to overwrite files to the same clusters on disk, which very few programs do (I highly doubt the snipping-tool does), and (2) the program is brainless enough to modify the file and not truncate the written file to just the new data (which is just garbage-tier programming). Is this a case of cluster-tips? 🤔

- 16:54 Yup, executive-orders can be rescinded by the same POTUSA or future ones. That's why it's absurd that people think presidents can magically fix all the world's problems when in reality, it's actually the most feckless job in the world; they waste most of their terms cleaning up the previous guy's mess, then they waste the rest of their terms getting blocked by the other party, and anything they actually manage to accomplish will just be undone by the next guy. 🤦 Useless job.

- 17:54 I'm surprised the change-of-address thing is even a thing. Who even uses it? Don't most people just try to update their address with as many people and places as possible and go to their old address once in a while for a bit to see if there's any mail for them and then just give up on anything sent there afterwards? Do people actually pay for forwarding service? 🤨

- 21:25 The NYPD OIG IUP POST. Ah, yes.

- 22:30 You know the Texas senator isn't worried about kids, he just wants to know what everybody jerks to.

- 27:50 Law-enforcement and the media misrepresented something? 😲 The media has been piss-yellow for years, and the less said about corrupt "law-enforcement", the better. 😒

- 34:00 I literally thought the word "layers" just before Henry said it. Basically, you just layer things like Privacy, Apple Pay, etc. you, know, basically just TOR for financial stuff (and other contexts as well). All they know is what they get in and out, their own little link, not the full chain.

- 36:53 Why would they catch the guys? Cops never bother to catch thieves. It's been ruled in multiple courts that cops are not legally obligated to (1) protect or save lives, (2) stop thieves or recover stolen property, (3) investigate or solve crimes, you know, the things that people are literally paying them to do. As Henry said, the cops didn't even bother to respond to a burglary in-progress, let alone trying to catch them post-hoc. 😒

- 37:40 On his YT channel Shifter, Tom has repeatedly espoused OVERT security as a means of prevention as opposed to covert security in the hopes of recovery. He says to have something like a hidden GPS on your bike, but in addition to a big, bright, in-your-face tracker to dissuade bike-thieves from stealing it in the first place because what good is a GPS tracker anyway, are you going to go to that crack-den to get it back or go to that apartment and knock on every door or go to the police and say it's "somewhere in this block"? That's why I set up an Orange-Pi camera that's _plain and clear_ as soon as you enter in case I have to be away overnight. (I struggled with putting a sign that says something like "live-streaming to the cloud backup" or something to make it a really good warning, but feel it's too blatant.)

[rationalbushcraft]

What I find funny is we all recognize that China is an adversary county and yet we continue to let them keep their most favored nation trading status to large corporations can get higher profits no matter how much it adversely affects our national security. Any student of the Civil War knows that one of the biggest issues the South faced was that all the manufacturing was done in the north and that the South had to import simple things like swords and guns from places like Spain because they couldn't produce them. When the North was able to cut off those supplies the South was in trouble.

[rogerorchard]

Two point
in the 1st story at none freidly US county can change overnight, so you could be working with a firm doing some that is OK do the same thing to tomorrow
about the cards in the FAQ, it can give to traceability same with email address if some one use that info you know where they got the number from.

[DOOM]

I don't see the restrict act passing

[eldrago]

Re: Apple Pay, doesn't it share complete information with JP Morgan and a bunch of other companies they use though?

[KeithBoehler]

No one cares, but my old phone is dying, so I am going to move to something that can support privacy androids.

[Riclaval]

Police making FBI waste efforts because of false reporting.... taxmoney hard at work as usual

[SteveMacSticky]

Hahaha, looks like McCarthy was right in his paranoia. USA has become like the Soviet union after all