cyph3rPunk
The people in this community hope for a world where an individual's informational footprints—everything from an opinion on abortion to the medical record of an actual abortion—can be traced only if the individual involved chooses to reveal them; a world where coherent messages shoot around the globe by network and microwave, but intruders and feds trying to pluck them out of the vapor find only gibberish; a world where the tools of prying are transformed into the instruments of privacy. There is only one way this vision will materialize, and that is by widespread use of cryptography. Is this technologically possible? Definitely. The obstacles are political—some of the most powerful forces in government are devoted to the control of these tools. In short, there is a war going on between those who would liberate crypto and those who would suppress it. The seemingly innocuous bunch strewn around this community represents the vanguard of the pro-crypto forces. Though the battleground seems remote, the stakes are not: The outcome of this struggle may determine the amount of freedom our society will grant us in the 21st century. To the Cypherpunks, freedom is an issue worth some risk.
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." Helen Keller
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I think it’s a stretch to say he’s pro-Palestinian genocide if this is your evidence. He explicitly calls out the Unit 8200 members who were against the Palestinian skullduggery. Being pro-military-spending-on-cyber doesn’t immediately translate to pro-apartheid. Jack really does love deep-throating the surveillance state boot, especially under the guise of “national security,” so I’m not saying he’s necessarily a great person. He doesn’t really cover how fucked up Unit 8200 is or how concerning the cyber connections between the IDF and private industry are, which are great things to attack this episode for. Making tenuous connections to unrelated issues makes it a lot harder to point out how shitty LARPing is in cyber.
IMO, it actually does since (if you work in this sector you'll know) the US military is so intimately interwoven with the IDF that where one begins and the other ends is increasingly hard to decipher. The US military literally has no closer ally.
PS: at this point, silence on this issue IS tacit approval.
That’s like saying a kid who thinks fighter planes are cool supports Tiger Force. Both are DoJ; one does not follow from the other. Are you also contending he’s pro-DPRK because of the plethora of episodes on Lazarus Group?
Your silence on every genocide you haven’t mentioned so far is tacit approval so you’re in the same camp as Jack. That doesn’t really move us forward and leads to a gish gallop of superfluous bullshit that takes us away from the real problem, that cyber is full of bootlickers. If you work in the sector you’ll know how bad it is.