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RE: The Myth: They can see everything you do!!! Especially if it is digital. [FALSE]
What you are saying is essentially what I believe, except that it is pretty impossible to know that your data isn't crossing through big nodes. In fact, big nodes are big nodes because little data, at least data that goes very far, doesn't go through them.
Isn't that a correct view of the situation?
It would seem that mesh networks and IPFS, which both default to local connections where possible, would least potentiate the NSA data harvest. I have but a cursory grasp of these technologies, but that is my present understanding of them.
It is possible, but it'd require traceroute or something like that before doing other things. Though you wouldn't know where they are tapping in.
My point is that a ton of the things you do do not cross such places. A lot of people think they know everything. They don't. TV shows and movies are fake as far as hacking and tracing phone calls.
You tend to need to come to their attention and THEN they start trying to find ways to monitor you. They can't take a step back and look at what happened in the past in most cases. They have to be actively aware of you for some reason.
IPFS could help NSA a lot as far as data harvest.
So sending a text a couple hundred miles might not have to go through such a node, while an international call, or email, would be much more likely to.
Thanks!
Well sending a Text passes over a Cellular network. They may have worked out deals with mobile carriers to actually record all of that stuff. Yet, VOIP calls only need to go onto one of those carriers IF the person being called has their number on that network, or if you are calling from that network.
So it is possible for miscellaneous smaller VOIP providers or even people that spin up their own to avoid most of that type of thing, but that doesn't really cover Text (SMS).
SMS it wouldn't surprise me if most if not all SMS were captured. That takes up way less bandwidth than the voice part.
Ok. So texts are prolly the least likely communications to be secure then, while VOIP is far more likely, at least for short hops, to be secure.
Thanks!
which is why if you are going to be engaging in Information War or anti-corruption efforts, you should take the steps to create an separate "persona", and to maintain that personas' privacy as much as possible
Too late for me on that front. :)
LOL, in the same boat.
In my more paranoid states, I think my biz SEO failed because I snarked off to some Google employee on a forum so many years ago; this covers more than just the gubmint!
but it's also why I made the focus of the first post in the infowar series about the ways to set up that persona