$INSTANCE defederating infosec.space cuz 'Feds are there' is like the most dense idea I've heard.

• Sorry to break it to you, but @snowden and the whole #PRISM affair seems to have gone over your head...

We live in the age of #33ThomasStreet & #Room641A, so unless you put your stuff behind a #VPN that endpoints in #Tor, they'll #BULLRUN you for the lulz.

• If you are genuinely frightened about the #NSA aka. #AmericanStasi - (and you should) - then you need to realize that your threat assessment either accepts that and treats all comms in the #Fediverse as public and insecure (Which #Mastodon explicitly warns you about in it's DMs: They are not secure!) or you stop using #Fedi entirely.

Like you guys honestly believe that using #Signal will be more secure than #XMPP+#OMEMO when the confirmation-#SMS sent by @signalapp will earmark you as 'Person of Interest'… and it's very centralized nature among many problems makes it a #HoneyPot run by #UsefulIdiots from my POV!

• Look up #CloudAct and tell me I'm wrong…

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Look, I hate to be the one poppin' bubbles and you with your instance have your right to choose to (de-)federate with whomever you want.

• Which is why I don't callout said instance. Dogpiling wouldn't fix people that densely wrapped in tinfoil.

• You have the right to block me if that's too painful for ya.

But just like looking away doesn't make problems go away, neither will ignoring the truth.

• That may discomfort you, but that is the #InconvenientTruth.

I'm sorry if this #venting seems bitter, but some folks really need to get the fuck outside and #TouchGrass since there are folks on said instance working in that whole MIL/INTEL complex they so despise.

@Uair That's some cold OSINT...

• Ever heard of 33 Thomas Street, #Room641A & "LIthium" ?

As for #Signal, I dispute that even if you want 1:1 voice and video calling...

• There are other options out there that don't collect #PII about users.

OFC we all know that the #BulkSurveillance is not about "#NatSec" or whatever but to have compromizing material on hand when someone becomes a problem.

The #USA had it's #EnablingAct in 2001...

They just named it #PatriotAct...

And have triple'd down since...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqJSXoa5ZtQ&t=552s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISA_of_1978_Amendments_Act_of_2008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

#Room641A #33ThomasStreet #NSA #MassSurveillance #FISA #CloudAct #Titanpointe #SCIF

In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying

[W]hat Mark told us changed everything. Through his work, Mark had learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) had installed a secret, secure room at AT&T’s central office in San Francisco, called Room 641A. Mark was assigned to connect circuits carrying Internet data to optical “splitters” that sat just outside of the secret NSA room but were hardwired into it. Those splitters—as well as similar ones in cities around the U.S.—made a copy of all data going through those circuits and delivered it into the secret room.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying

Klein provided one of the pre-Snowden disclosures of massive communications surveillance in the United States. I'd included him in an earlier toot from May 2021: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/106251396105180975

His story also demonstrates that "surveillance state" and "surveillance capitalism" aren't separate things, but part of the same larger surveillance octopus.

#MarkKlein #Room641a #ATT #MassSurveillance #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism