The Hated One

Episode 275 - When privacy is not available

In some situations, you might be asked to break your privacy setup and you will not have the option to back out. Do you have a contingency for that?

Episode 274 - Interview with Harry Halpin - CEO of NYM

Intro: The following is my interview with Harry Halpin, a research scientist from MIT, an anarchist, an activist and the CEO and co-founder of NYM Technologies. Nym is a new privacy tool that is trying to break global mass surveillance by rerouting your traffic through independent nodes and mixing it with noise to render traffic analysis unfeasi...

Episode 273 - Degoogling your phone step by step

This is an accompanying episode to my Degoogling video. It's best to watch this after you've watched the video first. I go through the complex setup of avoiding the Google Play Store while still getting your apps in a secure way. In this episode, I'll show how you can leverage Accrescent, Obtanium and Aurora to acquire apps.

No! THIS is a DeGoogled phone!

Intro

You want to have a deGoogled phone? Well, this is a deGoogled phone. There is not a single Google app installed. I even get my apps from questionable, potentially dangerous sources. Is this what you should want? Maybe. Let’s find out. Yes, you are watching this on YouTube. We don’t talk about that.

Many have tried it. Few...

I am back in business!

Hello everyone! I apologize for bit of a radio-silence on all the comments and messages I've been getting this past few weeks. I've been on bit of a weird schedule recently as a result of multiple things happening at once. But it's clearing out now and I have some really interesting stuff prepared for you. I hope you will love it. I will read th...

Episode 272 - Anti-surveillance propaganda in pop culture is our most powerful tool

Advocating for privacy may take a different spin - one that is absent from technical jargon and nerdy talk. And it may be the most effective kind advocacy available to us.

Episode 271 - Apple is fighting back UK authoritarian state

Whether they win the appeal or not, more will have to be done to repel authoritarian streaks.

Apple launches legal challenge to UK ‘back door’ order: https://www.ft.com/content/3d8fe709-f17a-44a6-97ae-f1bbe6d0dccd

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Episode 270 - Why self-hosting is not enough and why it matters

Self-hosting is important and if you can do it, do it. But we have much bigger problems now when privacy is becoming criminalized.

Episode 269 - Apple is not compliant. Things will get worse.

Apple withdrawing Advanced Data Protection from the UK market will likely not be enough to comply with the request to build a global backdoor into iCloud. This will get ugly.

The United Kingdom Is a Dystopian Shithole

The United Kingdom is crumbling socially, economically as well as politically. British citizens are slowly waking up to the fact that their country’s economy doesn’t mean much without London and they are rightfully angry at the incompetence of their political leadership that lead them to this point. [0, 1]

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Episode 268 - The United Kingdom is a dystopian shithole

Intro

The United Kingdom is debilitating. By every metric, the country is losing its economic prestige, its people are becoming poorer and infrastructure dilapidated.

And while the British people are rightfully angry at their political leadership responsible for the state of their country, few are aware of another, much deeper prob...

Episode 267 - The United Kingdom's surveillance state is absolute now

Talking about the authoritarian surveillance that's becoming of the UK.

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-...

Episode 266 - AI is atrophying your brain

Microsoft study: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf

Coverage: 2025-02-20 13:01:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 265 - The cult of Sam Altman

Lies, politics and a tech bro cult.

Episode 263 - DeepSeek is a privacy and security nightmare

Sources

DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers - Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/02/deepseek-ios-app-sends-data-unencrypted-to-bytedance-c...

Episode 262 - Open Source is bad, actually - say Open Source users

Apparently, when a Chinese company makes open source software, that's bad somehow. Don't mention that the NSA also made open source software.

We need to stop Sam Altman

The duality of a tech bro – a benign Utopian with a dream to change the world. And a cut-throat CEO of a big tech startup looking to monopolize a new market all for himself. That is the story of any Silicon Valley idol in the past 40 years. And that is now the story of Sam Altman. The CEO of OpenAI, a former non-profit turned for-profit, that ...

Episode 261 - Sam Altman needs to be stopped

This is a work in progress for my upcoming YouTube video. If you don't want to wait for the video to come out, you can listen to this episode days before it's on my channel.

Intro

The duality of a tech bro – a benign Utopian with a dream to change the world. And a cut-throat CEO of a big tech startup looking to monopolize a new m...

Episode 260 - Here is your socialist AI, comrade!

China seeks to build a socialist AI. Is DeepSeek one?

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/10975044-f194-4513-857b-e17491d2a9e9

-> archived: https://archive.is/gzMoU...

Episode 259 - DeepSeek domination will come with strings attached.

There is more to DeepSeek than just AI and technology...

DeepSeek has a secret agenda

DeepSeek AI is an AI with an agenda.

Here’s a set of AI benchmarks. They measure performance of large language models and weigh them against them each other. Here’s how a high-end model called OpenAI-o1 performs on the various scales. And here’s DeepSeek-R1, a novel model developed by a Chinese startup. In three out of six benchmarks...

EVERYONE IS LYING - Why you shouldn't believe the TikTok Ban

Intro

Everything you have ever heard about the TikTok ban is lie. Thanks to my superior intellect and ability to read, I am going to show you the truth. I am going to show how all involved parties are intentionally misleading you to advance their own agenda at your expense. And I also know what the ultimate solution to all the problems s...

The truth and lies about Ross Ulbricht

All my thoughts and debrief on what's happened to Ross Ulbricht

From my notes:

Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7e0jve875o

US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and...

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Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht

Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold.

"The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponisation of government against me," Trump said in a post on his Truth Socia...

Episode 258 - People are leaving ProtonMail for the most stupid reason imaginable

Yeah... Proton exodus is a thing apparently.

"Sources":

Proton CEO goes full MAGA: https://lemmy.ca/post/37218429

Jonah Aragon's Mastadon post about Andy Yen: https...

Episode 256 - The TikTok ban is a lie on top of a lie through a lie

Every single party involved in this is lying.

Episode 255 - I don't trust Mark Zuckerberg

Promising to transform Facebook into a "privacy focused social network", hailing open source AI, and now heralding free speech online... Zuckerberg is forming a myth of a cyber messiah in his own image.

Episode 254 - Is Apple's AI search tool actually private?

Apple makes some bold claims about using AI to search images on your phones privately. Do their claims hold up?

Sources

Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/apple_en...

US Gov says 'Don't use a VPN'. Should you trust it?

Intro

When the US intelligence tells you anything, there's a 50-50 chance the opposite might be correct. The US government is seeking moral redemption. After decades of telling us that we should trust it with backdoors into our communications, it finally backfired spectacularly. Just as the privacy advocates have always been saying – tha...

Episode 253 - Telegram shares more user data after CEO's arrest

Sources

Crowdsourcing Telegram ‘transparency reports’ to map the network’s claimed compliance with governments around the world: https://me...