2025-03-27: Opsec in AI and Meshtastic
- Operational Security is a critical part of any communications network
- Discussion of Fermi Paradox and the implications for organizing of taking different views about the solution to the paradox
- Great Filter
- Prime Directive
- Dark Forest
- Young Universe
- Discussion of rising lawlessness and corruption and the implications of totalitarianism stealing due process, etc.
- Opsec becomes very important in a post-truth, parallel construction world
- Different scopes of opsec: bounded timeframes
- How to make it harder for corrupt oligarchs and totalitarian empires to violate our privacy rights
- Key rotation
- Private channels
- Read and follow: Activist checklist
- Don’t bring any devices to actions
- Airplane mode does not stop your phone from constantly broadcasting your identity
- Faraday bags do not help, do not work
- People with bluetooth medical implants should not attend actions
- There was some effort to build a list of alternative medical devices that do not do this
- People at increased risk of being disappeared by totalitarians should not attend actions
- There are lots of ways people at increased risk of being disappeared can still contribute to actions without attending
- Make cookies
- Fundraise
- Raise awareness
- Default encryption in meshtastic is really bad
- Quantum computers and the implications for privacy and security
- Reduction algorithms in the hands of corrupt oligarchs and totalitarian empires means most encryption is not real
- Discussions of model evals, crisis of replication, agents, llama 4 fake evals, etc
- The positive implications of the destruction of the administrative bureaucracy
- The army of hundreds of thousands of administrative bureaucrats which has been fired was formerly the power behind the throne that actually carried out the policies of the executive. That power is gone now, meaning the would-be totalitarians and oligarchs have very little ability to actually do anything.
- They are trying to get attention by creating drama and commiting egregiously illegal violations of the rights of people in minority communities, but they have virtually no power to do any of what they want on any kind of widespread scale.
- “Justice can not sleep forever.”
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