EFF Offers an Introduction To Traitorware

theodp writes "The EFF's Eva Galperin offers a brief primer on Traitorware, devices that act behind your back to betray your privacy. 'Your digital camera may embed metadata into photographs with the camera's serial number or your location,' writes Galperin. 'Your printer may be incorporating a secret code on every page it prints which could be used to identify the printer and potentially the person who used it. If Apple puts a particularly creepy patent it has recently applied for into use, you can look forward to a day when your iPhone may record your voice, take a picture of your location, record your heartbeat, and send that information back to the mothership.' She concludes: 'EFF will be there to fight it [Traitorware]. We believe that your software and devices should not be a tool for gathering your personal data without your explicit consent.'"

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Who rules America?

[Anonymous Coward]

THERE IS NO GREATER POWER in the world today than that wielded by the manipulators of public opinion in America. No king or pope of old, no conquering general or high priest ever disposed of a power even remotely approach- ing that of the few dozen men who control America’s mass media of news and entertainment.Their power is not distant and impersonal; it reaches into every home in America, and it works its will during nearly every waking hour. It is the power that shapes and molds the mind of virtually every citizen, young or old, rich or poor, simple or sophisticated.

The mass media form for us our image of the world and then tell us what to think about that image. Essentially ev- erything we know—or think we know—about events out- side our own neighborhood or circle of acquaintances comes to us via our daily newspaper, our weekly news magazine, our radio, or our television.

It is not just the heavy-handed suppression of certain news stories from our newspapers or the blatant propagan- dizing of history-distorting TV “docudramas” that charac- terizes the opinion-manipulating techniques of the media masters. They exercise both subtlety and thoroughness in their management of the news and the entertainment that they present to us.

For example, the way in which the news is covered: which items are emphasized and which are played down; the reporter’s choice of words, tone of voice, and facial ex- pressions; the wording of headlines; the choice of illustra- tions—all of these things subliminally and yet profoundly affect the way in which we interpret what we see or hear.

On top of this, of course, the columnists and editors remove any remaining doubt from our minds as to just what we are to think about it all. Employing carefully developed psychological techniques, they guide our thought and opinion so that we can be in tune with the “in” crowd, the “beautiful people,” the “smart money.” They let us know exactly what our attitudes should be toward various types of people and behavior by placing those people or that behavior in the context of a TV drama or situation comedy and having the other TV characters react in the Politically Correct way.

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Re:Who rules America?

[FudRucker]

If i had mod points i would mod this up eleventy billion + insightful!!!
thanks!

Re:Who rules America?

[Anonymous Coward]

You didn't include the important part of the link. All the stuff about how its the fault of the Jews.

That's just a fact, a fact you are conditioned to automatically reject. But it must be separated from indiscriminate anti-Semitism.

There is a small ruling elite composed of ethnic Jews who run the international banking establishment. The US Federal Reserve is one branch of that establishment and there is one like it in every Western nation. The US Fed is a private corporation and so are its sister organizations in other countries. If you can control a nation's currency and keep that nation in perpetual debt, you can compromise an entire nation without ever using military force. It is economic warfare and economic domination.

The average Jewish person has nothing to do with any of this. The average Congresscritter is a white male. When they vote for unreasonable laws they aren't going to give you any special mercy just because you might happen to also be a white male. So it is with the average Jewish person and this ruling elite. This ruling elite is composed of ethnic Jews but that's the only thing Jewish about them. The reject the religion and traditions that define the identity of the Jewish people. None of that matters to them. It's money and power. They are as secular as it gets. They feel no special loyalty to other Jewish people.

It is like mainstram Muslims and radical Muslims. The radical Muslims don't care about the nonviolent Muslims. They'll happily blow shit up and cause the deaths of other Muslims if it advances their psychotic cause. Just as you can be against radical Islam without hating all Muslims, you can be against these elite bankers who happen to be Jewish without hating all Jews.

It's true that secular Jewish people completely own western media. That's just a fact, research it on your own. It's also true that the percentage of secular Jews who are college professors is incredibly high compared to the percentage of all Jews in the general population. Same deal with the major banks. Control the media, control who educates the next generation, control the money supply. That is how a tiny minority can dominate a huge majority.