"On March 7th, 2017, Wikileaks released a giant file of 8,761 documents from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) codenamed Vault 7. Wikileaks called the leak the “first full part of the series “Year Zero”. The documents were stolen from a network that supposedly was “isolated” within the CIA itself.

The files include details on CIA’s software capabilities, such as the ability to compromise cars, smart TVs, web browsers and the operating systems of most smartphones, as well as other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. A CIA internal audit identified 91 malware tools out of more than 500 tools in use in 2016 being compromised by the release.

The leaks outlined how the CIA could pretty much hack into any device with a suite of tools designed to read and copy data from electronic devices. The documents detailed how, for example, authorities found a way to bypass encryption in a host of secure messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram."

https://greatgameindia.com/cia-whatsapp-hack/

Unfortuantely, those claims about TOR are mostly sensational statements that have been 'debunked' many times over the years. Yes, TOR came from DoD (Naval Research) but what is available today is OpenSource. So the code has been scruitinized. Also, Edward Snowden's leaks showed that the NSA had to go to great lengths (for example) of running lots and lots of exit nodes as a way to weaken TOR's security model. They wouldn't have done that if they had a backdoor available.
In essence, its good enough and better than nothing - and should always be used in conjunction with other privacy protecting measures (good defense in depth practices).
And, if the spooks really want to know what you're sharing (and I mean really as in you've been individually identified for further investigation) then they have the tools and methods to do that. But those don't scale up well to a mass survellance level. So keep a low profile and don't stand out in the crowd :))
In their own words its "Still the King of high secure, low latency Internet Anonymity" see
https://www.scribd.com/document/173382716/doc3#download&from_embed

Glenn Greenwald: The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming

The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting “terrorism” that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that began nearly twenty years ago. This trend shows no sign of receding as we move farther from the January 6 Capitol riot. The opposite is true: it is intensifying.

We have witnessed an orgy of censorship from Silicon Valley monopolies with calls for far more aggressive speech policing, a visibly militarized Washington, D.C. featuring a non-ironically named “Green Zone,” vows from the incoming president and his key allies for a new anti-domestic terrorism bill, and frequent accusations of “sedition,” treason,” and “terrorism” against members of Congress and citizens. This is all driven by a radical expansion of the meaning of “incitement to violence.” It is accompanied by viral-on-social-media pleas that one work with the FBI to turn in one’s fellow citizens (See Something, Say Something!) and demands for a new system of domestic surveillance.

Underlying all of this are immediate insinuations that anyone questioning any of this must, by virtue of these doubts, harbor sympathy for the Terrorists and their neo-Nazi, white supremacist ideology. Liberals have spent so many years now in a tight alliance with neocons and the CIA that they are making the 2002 version of John Ashcroft look like the President of the (old-school) ACLU. @G3News SOURCE

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  Even though non-disabled people express themselves with great support of our efforts, they do not come close enough to recognize what's really happening and how easily they could relieve a tremendous amount of suffering (including their own).
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  This knowledge is missing because severely disabled and intersectionalized people have fallen out of almost all communities, lost, excluded.
  This horrifying gap in communications is the obstacle between severely disabled people trying to safely communicate with one another and constantly being taken advantage of by the predatory elements non-disabled people say they are aware of and concerned about… while the same predatory elements are ensured access to disabled people *because of the *absence* of non-disabled people.*
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[Podcasting 2.0] Episode 21: Hooray for Hollywood #podcasting20
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NEW: Derrick Broze breaks down a number of recent stories showing the growth of the surveillance state and the Technocracy.

https://theconsciousresistance.com/understanding-the-surveillance-state-and-technocracy-threat/

LIVE NOW: The Answer to the Technocratic State and the Domestic Extremism Propaganda https://dlive.tv/ConsciousResistance

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Episode 18: Ancestral Wisdom in Jewish Mysticism w/ Jill Hammer

1/23/21

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/118588504
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Tune in to episode 18 of the Jewish Ancestral Healing podcast as Taya Mâ is in conversation with Jill Hammer. Jill shares the brilliance of ancestral wisdom in the earliest Jewish mystical text, the Sefer Yetzirah, speaks to the magic of midrash, creatively telling the stories of ancient ancestors, and invites us into the power of ancestral dreaming.

"A recent Homeland Security S & T press release boasted that the Feds now have the ability to ID airline passengers wearing masks 77%-96% of the time.

As I wrote about last month, not even airline passengers wearing masks can stop the CBP from using facial recognition to ID airline passengers.


"It is official, unless airline passengers are willing to wear motorcycle helmets or Daft Punk style masks, the Feds can use facial and Iris recognition to identify nearly everyone. According to the NIST report it does not matter if a mask covers most of a persons face or the type[s] of masks people wear."

https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-cbp-used-covid-to-install-facial.html

there is something about whiteness that is something about "artificial intelligence" and also the violent left brain after right brain cultural goddess icons were destroyed discussed by leonard shlain ....... colonialism has forced reliiance on left hemisphere / task oriented / specificity / linearity ....... colonialism and AI....

NEW Interview with Whitney Webb: Stopping the Surveillance State with Derrick Broze (Currently only on Rokfin, but will be posted on Whit's website soon)

Journalist and activist Derrick Broze joins the show to discuss the growth of the national security surveillance state under Trump, how those efforts are already picking up speed under Biden and how we can opt out of the technocratic state.

https://rokfin.com/post/29252

"Instagram is toughening its stance on hate speech in direct messages. The company announced today that it’ll start disabling the accounts of people who repeatedly send hateful messages. First-time offenders won’t be able to send messages for an undefined period of time, but if they send hateful messages again, their account will be disabled.

“We’ll also disable new accounts created to get around our messaging restrictions, and will continue to disable accounts we find that are created purely to send abusive messages,” an Instagram blog post states."

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/10/22276491/instagram-direct-message-hate-speech-account-disabled-policy

Money and the Machine – Robert Bonomo

2/13/21 by FreemanTV

https://freemantv.com/money-and-the-machine-robert-bonomo

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/119118837
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Are we taking a deep dive into the manipulation of money and consciousness by the powers that control our daily lives? It’s time to end the manipulation and begin the self-actualization. Face the truth and begin the change. In the last decade we have seen an exponential change in the manipulation of basic human instincts […]

Love is Everywhere

2/15/21 by Free Buddhist Audio

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Rumi on Finding the Barriers Dharmashalin offers his reflections in the first in a three talk series exploring the Rumi quote: 'Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.' Excerpted from the talk entitled Love Past the Barriers 1: Rumi and Our Stories About What Love Should Look Like given at Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 2021. *** Subscribe to our Free Buddhist Audio podcast - a full Dharma talk every week!

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