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It's clear that they feel that way also. The engineer Andreas Spiess recently appeared in a briefing on dangerous, anarchy-enabling technologies simply for making a youtube video on an encrypted messaging protocol over lora mesh networking.

They're carefully watching and cataloging any communications technology they can't compromise.

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It's also hard to distinguish between legitimate security threats and scare tactics designed to make us think we're in danger. Remember the Bloomberg Supermicro "bombshell"[0]? I still don't know if that was ever confirmed true or false, but to my knowledge Bloomberg never retracted it.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomberg_...

I still believe it. Wouldn't surprise me if ASPEED were a "SIGINT enabled" vendor as well. It would be foolish not to target the most widespread BMC platform.

The guy with the Swiss accent?

What's your source on this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQI2ZSmxPU

Which briefing was that? Edit: it appears to be this https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/NCRI-White-Pa... ("Network-Enabled Anarchy: How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Instigate Widespread Violence Against Political Opponents and Law Enforcement" via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQI2ZSmxPU; thanks to a sibling comment)

TBF that same tech would probably be great for them or militaries to have.

Well advertising is a form of psychological warfare.

The guy's video was linked to from /r/SocialistRA and a screenshot of the link was included in a paper about "How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Instigate Widespread Violence Against Political Opponents and Law Enforcement." The paper never mentioned Spiess or meshtastic. What are we supposed to infer from that?

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