UK cold weather: River Thames freezes over for first time in 60 years.

THE RIVER THAMES in London froze over for the first time in 60 years as temperatures plummeted overnight.

By STEVEN BROWN

PUBLISHED: 15:26, Fri, Feb 12, 2021 | UPDATED: 15:26, Fri, Feb 12, 2021

For the first time since 1963, parts of the River Thames were frozen over as witnesses spotted seagulls perching on the icy surface in Teddington. The River Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire was also frozen over leaving boats stuck.

Met Office issues 3 days of weather warnings – blizzards forecast

Britain braced for -8C Arctic blast TONIGHT

It comes as temperatures dropped to below 0C in parts of England.

In Ravensworth, North Yorkshire, temperatures plummeted to -15.3C last night as the UK braced for up to four inches of snow and 50 mph gales today.

In Newcastle, families woke up to the city blanketed by snow with the wintry weather also hitting parts of northeast Scotland as well as coastal regions in northeast England.

The Met Office has issued several warnings for snow showers across Scotland with up to 3 cm forecast to fall across Angus and Aberdeenshire.

River Thames frozen for the first time in 60 years (Image: Tony Kershaw/SWNS)

Seagulls seen on the ice after Thames freezes (Image: Tony Kershaw/SWNS)

The weather warning read: "Further snow showers, most frequent on Friday night across Angus and Aberdeenshire, becoming fewer and lighter on Saturday morning.

"Fresh accumulations of 1 to 3cm are expected, but locally 5 to 10cm over higher ground of northeast Scotland.

"In addition, icy stretches will form as any partially melted snow refreezes, especially at lower levels."

The freezing weather comes as 15 weather stations in Britain recorded their lowest temperature ever for February overnight on Wednesday.

River Thames freezes over for first time in 60 years (Image: Tony Kershaw/SWNS)

Snow covered Newcastle as temperatures dropped (Image: Getty)

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While Scotland recorded its coldest February night since 1955.

Oli Claydon, a spokesperson for the Met Office, said: "Usually you’d expect records to be broken by point such-and-such of a degree but here we are looking at big differences."

Mr Claydon continued: "There’s still a couple of days of cold conditions to get through and a little bit more snow in parts of Scotland but the trend is that the weekend is going to herald a change to milder conditions."

He warned there is still chance of freezing rain on Sunday and a yellow warning for ice has been issued by the Met Office.

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Met Office issues weather warnings across country (Image: Met Office)

Sky News weather presenter Nazaneen Ghaffar said: "Tomorrow the rain, snow and possibly freezing rain will spread eastwards to western parts of Britain.

"It will be very windy across the west too, but temperatures will be higher there than recently.

"Meanwhile, the east will be drier and brighter but colder, apart from some snow showers continuing over northeast Scotland."

While Scotland and northern parts of England experienced snow and colder weather, other parts witnessed wildfires as a result of dried vegetation.

Snow covers Peak District (Image: Getty)

Scotland expected to see more snow fall (Image: Getty)

Devon, Cornwall, and Scotland saw vegetation dry out, according to area commander Bruce Farquharson from the Scotland Fire and Rescue Service.

In Dartmoor, a huge blaze erupted following a spat of fierce winds which engulfed the region.

It is not yet known what sparked the fire.

But a spokesperson for Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service said an investigation is underway.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/1397093/uk-cold-weather-forecast-river-thames-london-picture-freezing-snow-winter-video-met-office

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"Overwhelming Signal" – Major Winter Storm Threats For Millions Of Americans Within Next Five Days

BY TYLER DURDEN

FRIDAY, FEB 12, 2021 – 12:50

Earlier this week, we told readers in a note titled "Prepare For "Onslaught Of Winter Storms" In Coming Days" that "multiple rounds of snow, ice in the Midwest and East as bitterly cold temperatures grip parts of the nation." A new weather model released on Thursday suggests this Saturday through next week potentially dangerous winter storms could materialize.

On Thursday, meteorologists at BAMWX updated their "Impactful Weather Outlook" between Feb. 13 and Feb. 21, indicating: major winter storms are possible" from Denver to Dallas to Chicago to Cleveland to Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states.

"An overwhelming signal seems to be developing for a major winter storm from the Deep South to the Ohio Valley into the NE early next week. Here’s our 3-7 day hazards map and a blend of models 75th percentile data. Worth note deterministic data showing major snow numbers. #Snow," BAMWX’s official Twitter account tweeted.

Along with multiple storms forecasted across Midwest to the Northeast, a polar vortex split has dumped the winter’s most brutally cold weather into the country’s mid-section and the Northeast. This week temperatures were as low as 43 degrees below zero in northern Minnesota.

Diving temperatures helped catapult propane demand to a 17-year high last week.

Source: Bloomberg

Arctic temperatures forced tens of millions of Americans to turn up their thermostats. Cooler temps could be sticking around through at least the mid-part of the month.

Increased demand for propane sent spot prices in Mont Belvieu, Texas, soaring, to around 85.50 cents per gallon, according to Refinitiv data, hitting two-year highs last month.

Besides propane, spot natgas prices have exploded in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, as a sharp rise in heating demand has been seen in recent weeks because of fridge temperatures.

Southern Star spread to Henry Hub natgas hit a record high on Thursday and usually trades around $2. The move is unprecedented.

The coldest point of the Arctic blast could be this weekend. Demand for energy products could certainly increase from here into next week.

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/overwhelming-signal-major-winter-storm-threat-million-americans-within-next-five-days

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Two shots and you’re out

Two Italian nurses, a doctor and a pharmacist, all in their 40s, have died of heart attacks after getting the at least one dose of the Pfizer Covid “vaccine”. A translated version can be read here:

Un altro giovane infermiere, Luigi Buttazzo, strumentista di sala operatoria presso il Policlinico Tor Vergata di Roma è morto nel sonno probabilmente stroncato da un infarto, come scrivono alcuni media, tra cui Repubblica.

L’infermiere, 42 anni, è deceduto alcuni giorni fa dopo la somministrazione della seconda dose del vaccino “Comirnaty” della Pfizer-Biontech, il cosiddetto richiamo. Probabilmente si tratta dell’ennesima “coincidenza”, così come “casuali” appaiono i tanti decessi e le gravi reazioni avverse che si stanno registrando in questi giorni sul personale sanitario vaccinato.

La morte dell’infermiere del policlinico romano non è un caso isolato. A metà gennaio è deceduta anche una giovane infermiera in servizio all’ospedale “Fabrizio Spaziani” di Frosinone, Elisabeth Durazzo, morta nel sonno anche lei probabilmente per un infarto. Anche lei aveva ricevuto il vaccino.

Un altro caso è quello della farmacista 49enne Miriam Gabriela Godoy, di Porto Corsini, località balneare sulla riviera romagnola. La farmacista si era sottoposta a vaccinazione il 14 gennaio. Il giorno dopo era andata in farmacia a lavorare e si è sentita male. Trasportata con urgenza all’ospedale Bufalini di Cesena, la signora è deceduta qualche giorno dopo, mercoledì 20 gennaio.

Un medico di 45 anni, Mauro Valeriano D’Auria, specialista gastroenterologo in servizio presso l’ospedale ‘Umberto I’ di Nocera Inferiore, è morto nei giorni scorsi pare anche lui stroncato da un arresto cardiaco dopo una partita a tennis. Il dottore si era da poco vaccinato contro il Covid, tanto che sui social ha postato una sua immagine con la scritta: “#Fatto, vaccinazione anticovid 19”

Like the lockdowns, these “vaccines” which are not actually vaccines in the technical sense are almost certainly going to turn out to be worse than the disease for everyone under the age of 70 even in the short term. And it will not be even remotely surprising if the long-term consequences turn out to be catastrophic.

Meanwhile, the more conventional vaccines don’t appear to work as well as acquiring natural immunity.

Vaccine manufacturer Merck has abandoned development of two coronavirus vaccines, saying that after extensive research it was concluded that the shots offered less protection than just contracting the virus itself and developing antibodies. The company announced that the shots V590 and V591 were ‘well tolerated’ by test patients, however they generated an ‘inferior’ immune system response in comparison with natural infection.

And the vaccine news just keeps getting better:

At least 36 people may have developed a rare blood disorder, known as immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), after taking either Pfizer and BioNTech or Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines, according to a report.

At this point, you’d have to be crazy to roll the dice with these vaccines rather than the virus if you’re not an obese 68-year old black man with asthma. If you’re old and in a high-risk group with comorbidities, sure, take your chances with the shots. Otherwise, it makes no sense. The complete inability of people to grasp the probabilities involved would be depressing if one wasn’t already aware how retarded they are on average.

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/02/two-shots-and-youre-out.html

Un autre jeune infirmier, Luigi Buttazzo, un outillage de salle d’opération à la polyclinique Tor Vergata à Rome, est mort dans son sommeil probablement écrasé par une crise cardiaque, comme certains médias, y compris Repubblica, écrire.

L’infirmière, 42 ans, est décédée il y a quelques jours après avoir administré la deuxième dose du vaccin « Comirnaty » de Pfizer-Biontech, le soi-disant rappel. Il s’agit probablement d’une autre « coïncidence », ainsi que « aléatoire » apparaissent les nombreux décès et effets indésirables graves qui sont enregistrés ces jours-ci sur le personnel de santé vacciné.

La mort de l’infirmière de la polyclinique romaine n’est pas un cas isolé. À la mi-janvier, une jeune infirmière de service à l’hôpital Fabrizio Spaziani de Frosinone, Elisabeth Durazzo, est également décédée dans son sommeil probablement d’une crise cardiaque. Elle avait également reçu le vaccin.

Un autre cas est celui de Miriam Gabriela Godoy, pharmacienne de 49 ans, de Porto Corsini, une station balnéaire de la Riviera romagnole. Le pharmacien avait été vacciné le 14 janvier. Le lendemain, elle est allée à la pharmacie pour travailler et s’est sentie malade. Transportée d’urgence à l’hôpital bufalini de Cesena, elle est décédée quelques jours plus tard, mercredi 20 janvier.

Un médecin de 45 ans, Mauro Valeriano D’Auria, un gastroentérologue spécialiste en service à l’hôpital Umberto I de Nocera Inferiore, est décédé ces derniers jours apparemment également écrasé par un arrêt cardiaque après une partie de tennis. Le médecin avait récemment vacciné contre Covid, à tel point que sur les réseaux sociaux, il a posté une image de lui-même avec les mots: « #Fatto, vaccination anticovide 19 »

Another young nurse, Luigi Buttazzo, an operating room tooler at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic in Rome, died in his sleep probably crushed by a heart attack, as some media, including Repubblica, write.

The nurse, 42, died a few days ago after administering the second dose of Pfizer-Biontech’s “Comirnaty” vaccine, the so-called recall. This is probably yet another “coincidence”, as well as “random” appear the many deaths and serious adverse reactions that are being recorded these days on vaccinated health personnel.

The death of the nurse of the Roman polyclinic is not an isolated case. In mid-January a young nurse on duty at the “Fabrizio Spaziani” hospital in Frosinone, Elisabeth Durazzo, also died in her sleep probably from a heart attack. She had also received the vaccine.

Another case is that of 49-year-old pharmacist Miriam Gabriela Godoy, from Porto Corsini, a seaside resort on the Romagna Riviera. The pharmacist had been vaccinated on January 14. The next day she went to the pharmacy to work and felt sick. Urgently transported to bufalini hospital in Cesena, she died a few days later, on Wednesday 20 January.

A 45-year-old doctor, Mauro Valeriano D’Auria, a gastroenterologist specialist on duty at the ‘Umberto I’ hospital in Nocera Inferiore, has died in recent days apparently also crushed by a cardiac arrest after a game of tennis. The doctor had recently vaccinated against Covid, so much so that on social media he posted an image of himself with the words: “#Fatto, anticovid vaccination 19”

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The Moral Hypocrisy of Celebrities – The Case of Seth Rogen

Live Out Your Convictions – Don’t Be Fraudulent

Back in 2009, I authored an article on this platform titled The Narcissism and Grandiosity of Celebrities. Continuing this tradition, this past week on my social media platforms, I critiqued the virtue signaling that members of the privileged classes engage in. Here is what I wrote:

“Let me explain yet again the source for all of the platitudinous virtue signaling. The truly privileged elites know that deep down they are frauds. They suffer from existential guilt. Hence, one of the ways by which they assuage the guilt albatross around their necks is to demonstrate to the world that they are truly compassionate, truly loving, truly caring, truly profound. Hence, they love all "undocumented" immigrants. They love Mother Earth. They love the ozone layer. They love BLM. They love socialism. They love inner cities. They hate the gentrification of neighborhoods. They love mentors of color. They cherish diversity. They love LGBTQ movies. They adore queer architecture. They are better than you. More caring, more cultured, more empathetic. This permits them to sleep better at night. See, I’m not a fraud. I may be a gargantuan parasitic hedge fund bullshitter, but I really care. I may be an overpaid BS actor, but I fight for solar panels. Those fly over rubes deserve their lot in life. They are racists who bed their siblings. We are science supporters who fight against Mother Earth rapists whilst flying in our private jets. It is a classic ego defensive strategy that permits the ruling class to exist within their fractured selves. Save this thread. Memorize it. I’m offering you a deep psychological explanation of our times.”

Seth Rogen who had been tagged on Twitter regarding the latter, retorted as follows:

“I actually watched your video and it’s so stupid. Why was I a left wing socialist when I was broke and unemployed according to your brilliant theory?”

To which I replied:

“Thanks for watching. Many young people are socialists when they are driven by immature impulses of utopia. They then grow up. You are a grown man with tons of money. Your current stances are rooted in vacuous empty signaling rooted in a desire to belong in Hollywood. It takes zero courage to hold your stances within the entertainment ecosystem. You espouse bullshit rhetoric that wins you points at the cool kids’ parties, but you are otherwise as ignorant as my out-of-order toaster. I’d be happy to chat with you on my show as you have a very large platform and as such you have the opportunity to actually make a difference. Stop succumbing to the herd mindset. Learn how to think critically. Learn the meaning and implications of socialism vs. capitalism. You are among the MOST privileged people in the history of humanity. And yet you walk around as though you are a Che Guevara revolutionary. You are the product of capitalism. If you are such a socialist, send me some of your money. I’m trying to build an interdisciplinary research institute. Live out your convictions. If you are a socialist, you have no business being the beneficiary of the most capitalist industry in the most capitalist country in the history of humanity. Don’t be a hypocritical fraud. Cheers amigo.”

https://www.thebuffalotribune.com/post/the-moral-hypocrisy-of-celebrities-the-case-of-seth-rogen

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Never trust "the science"

Don’t ever forget that trusting "the science" is less reliable than trusting a coin toss. Just wait a little while and there is about a three-in-five chance that what was dismissed as "dangerous conspiracy theory" that "costs lives" will become "peer-reviewed studies published in a prestigious science journal" and "mainstream consensus".

Remember when science said HCQ was useless against Covid-19? Now science says it’s an effective early medical treatment that helped 67 percent of the people to whom it was prescribed. And yes, taking zinc will help stave it off.

Combination Antiviral Therapy

Rapid and amplified viral replication is the hallmark of most acute viral infections. By reducing the rate, quantity, or duration of viral replication, the degree of direct viral injury to the respiratory epithelium, vasculature, and organs may be lessened.16 Additionally, secondary processes that depend on viral stimulation, including the activation of inflammatory cells, cytokines, and coagulation, could potentially be lessened if viral replication is attenuated. Because no form of readily available medication has been designed specifically to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication, 2 or more of the nonspecific agents listed here can be entertained. None of the approaches listed have specific regulatory approved advertising labels for their manufacturers; thus, all would be appropriately considered acceptable “off-label” use.17

Zinc Lozenges and Zinc Sulfate

Zinc is a known inhibitor of coronavirus replication. Clinical trials of zinc lozenges in the common cold have demonstrated modest reductions in the duration and or severity of symptoms.18 By extension, this readily available nontoxic therapy could be deployed at the first signs of COVID-19.19 Zinc lozenges can be administered 5 times a day for up to 5 days and extended if needed if symptoms persist. The amount of elemental zinc lozenges is <25% of that in a single 220-mg zinc sulfate daily tablet. This dose of zinc sulfate has been effectively used in combination with antimalarials in early treatment of high-risk outpatients with COVID-19.20

Antimalarials

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is an antimalarial/anti-inflammatory drug that impairs endosomal transfer of virions within human cells. HCQ is also a zinc ionophore that conveys zinc intracellularly to block the SARS-CoV-2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, which is the core enzyme of the virus replication.21 The currently completed retrospective studies and randomized trials have generally shown these findings: 1) when started late in the hospital course and for short durations of time, antimalarials appear to be ineffective, 2) when started earlier in the hospital course, for progressively longer durations and in outpatients, antimalarials may reduce the progression of disease, prevent hospitalization, and are associated with reduced mortality.22, 23, 24, 25 In a retrospective inpatient study of 2541 patients hospitalized with COVID-19, therapy associated with an adjusted reduction in mortality was HCQ alone (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.34, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.25-0.46, P <0.001) and HCQ with azithromycin (HR = 0.29, 95% CI 0.22-0.40, P <0.001).23 HCQ was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1955, has been used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide since then, is sold over the counter in many countries, and has a well-characterized safety profile that should not raise undue alarm.25,26 Although asymptomatic QT prolongation is a well-recognized and infrequent (<1%) complication of HCQ, it is possible that in the setting of acute illness symptomatic arrhythmias could develop. Data safety and monitoring boards have not declared safety concerns in any clinical trial published to date. Rare patients with a personal or family history of prolonged QT syndrome and those on additional QT prolonging, contraindicated drugs (e.g., dofetilide, sotalol) should be treated with caution and a plan to monitor the QTc in the ambulatory setting. A typical HCQ regimen is 200 mg bid for 5 days and extended to 30 days for continued symptoms. A minimal sufficient dose of HCQ should be used, because in excessive doses the drug can interfere with early immune response to the virus.

Azithromycin

Azithromycin is a commonly used macrolide antibiotic that has antiviral properties mainly attributed to reduced endosomal transfer of virions as well as established anti-inflammatory effects.27 It has been commonly used in COVID-19 studies initially based on French reports demonstrating markedly reduced durations of viral shedding, fewer hospitalizations, and reduced mortality combination with HCQ as compared to those untreated.28,29 In the large inpatient study (n = 2451) discussed previously, those who received azithromycin alone had an adjusted HR for mortality of 1.05, 95% CI 0.68-1.62, and P = 0.83.23 The combination of HCQ and azithromycin has been used as standard of care in other contexts as a standard of care in more than 300,000 older adults with multiple comorbidities.30 This agent is well-tolerated and like HCQ can prolong the QTc in <1% of patients. The same safety precautions for HCQ listed previously could be extended to azithromycin with or without HCQ. Azithromycin provides additional coverage of bacterial upper respiratory pathogens that could potentially play a role in concurrent or secondary infection. Thus, this agent can serve as a safety net for patients with COVID-19 against clinical failure of the bacterial component of community-acquired pneumonia.31,32 The same safety precautions for HCQ could be extended to azithromycin with or without HCQ. Because both HCQ and azithromycin have small but potentially additive risks of QTc prolongation, patients with known or suspected arrhythmias or taking contraindicated medications or should have more thorough workup (e.g., review of baseline electrocardiogram, imaging studies, etc.) before receiving these 2 together. One of many dosing schemes is 250 mg po bid for 5 days and may extend to 30 days for persistent symptoms or evidence of bacterial superinfection.

Trust engineers. They actually know what they’re doing. Don’t ever trust science or scientists.

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2021/02/never-trust-science.html

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2021

Based Deutschland

A German company stands firmly against the poison shots:

The management of a German construction company sent out a message to employees as follows:

“If an employee of our company is vaccinated, then his dismissal will be announced immediately! Whoever introduces unreliable vaccines, condemned by many experts around the world, jeopardizes the stability of our work processes at the enterprise! We are responsible for all employees, as well as reliable sales, timely wages and so on! We refuse to experiment with the effectiveness of our company in favor of the pharmaceutical industry! Our employees will be instructed and warned about it!

We are one team!

We have a task, the task of our company is to sustainably support the family, including our employees, and lead them through the economic crisis! Anyone who does not understand this should look for work elsewhere!

Thanks for attention!

As with the GameStop uprising, economic pressure is finally beginning to work against the Fake Elite. People are finally beginning to see that all that “free speech” and “open borders” and “free trade” and “equal opportunity” and “financial capitalism” nonsense was nothing but a Promethean attack on the foundations of the Christian West

HTTP://VOXDAY.BLOGSPOT.COM/2021/01/BASED-DEUTSCHLAND.HTML

Big Tech’s Freedom of Speech Purge Pushes People to Censorship-Resistant Blockchain Social Media

During the last few days, the world has watched the Big Tech and social media crackdown after the incident that took place at Capitol Hill a few days ago. During the last 48 hours, U.S. President Donald Trump, a great number of right-wing supporters, and many other individuals speaking out against the U.S. government has been censored. The extreme Big Tech censorship has driven a great number of social media participants to search for censorship-resistant alternatives.

Big Tech’s Purge

In 2020 and into 2021, mainstream media alongside the help of Twitter, Google, Apple, YouTube, Amazon, and Facebook has managed to whitewash the corruption and scandalous acts caused by the U.S. bureaucracy. Following the large protest in Washington and the protestors who managed to enter the Capitol building; videos, pictures, and viral social media posts littered the internet capturing the day’s events. Then after it was all said and done, in a matter of mere hours, Big Tech and the social media giants started to purge many posts expressing dissent.

On January 7, Facebook announced the deletion of President Trump’s page and also said that it would be deleting all the commentary that shows “praise and support of the storming of the U.S. Capitol.” Facebook said they would also be deleting posts that call for peaceful protests, alongside pictures and videos of the Capitol breach.

Facebook has further implemented a new feature asking the user if they are sure they want to post. The company has started to purge any dissent toward the American bureaucracy and plan to “update labels on posts” and add more fact-checkers. Facebook said the firm will leverage “AI to demote content that likely violates our policies.”

85,000 followers purged in a day and a half.

I guess the Twitter folks missed all the liberal blather about “unity.”

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 9, 2021

Additionally, Twitter decided to follow Facebook’s censorship path as well, and also banned the @realdonaldtrump account with 87 million followers. Twitter called the President’s account a “risk” that could further incite violence and called the Capitol building breach “horrific.” The company highlighted two tweets written by Trump and said that they glorified violence. Following the deletion of Trump’s account, Twitter also slashed the followers of a great number of voices who have shown any signs of a dissenting viewpoint.

Further, left-wing supporters have applauded the censorship and a great majority of the bureaucrats have joined the purge as well. Some of them have even called on Apple and Google for the deletion of censorship-resistant social media apps like *Parler. Many progressives have fully supported the censorship of dissenting views, and are calling for even more censoring.

*Since this post was published, the freedom-of-speech-centric social media application Parler was removed from the Apple Store and Google Play. Alongside this, Amazon decided to shut down Parler’s servers down and the firm’s CEO John Matze said the application would be down for a week while they rebuild.

Decentralized Networks and Blockchain-Based Social Media Alternatives

The intense censorship storm has invoked a great number of people to leave Twitter and Facebook and search for alternatives. Of course, there are decentralized alternatives that don’t use blockchain tech like Diaspora, Mastodon, Parler, Flote, Sola, and Manyverse, but there are many social media apps that do use blockchain tech.

A blockchain-based social media application operates just like the popular social media giants we all use today, but they also allow people to post content in a censorship-resistant and immutable fashion.

One particular decentralized application called memo.cash skips all the censorship nonsense, as it allows users to post content to the BCH chain. In November 2020, memo.cash launched its iOS application for the App Store.

Right now there are a few blockchain-based alternative social media sites that allow people to speak and share content in an immutable fashion. Some of these applications have been operating for a few years now, and some of them are just starting to kickstart the social network. These platforms are also built on various blockchains like Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, IOTA, EOS, and more.

Lbry is a sharing platform that uses blockchain technology to enable users to publish material and get paid for doing so. Peepeth is similar to Twitter but user content is etched to the Ethereum blockchain.

A few of the apps also leverage both blockchain technology and the Inter-Planetary File System (ipfs.io) in a combination. Blockchain apps that people can sign up for and test today include platforms like Voice, Memo.cash, Peepeth, Member.cash, Socialx, Sapien, Lbry, Dtube, All.me, Minds, Society2, Peakd, Hive, and Indorse.

The blockchain-based social network Minds moved to the Ethereum network in 2018. Minds calls the application a cross-platform distributed social networking service.

For instance, the app Peepeth is a decentralized “microblogging” platform that emulates Twitter in some ways. The platform is built using the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS. Another application called Memo.cash is a decentralized social network powered by the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. Essentially, all Memo posts are visible to anyone using the BCH blockchain, with each Memo account being associated with a BCH wallet address. Member.cash is another decentralized public platform for discussion and reputation built using the BCH chain. The Member.cash model is similar to Reddit, but leverages the BCH network for censorship resistance and decentralization.

The application called Minds leverages the Ethereum (ETH) network and claims to be accessible to all, and says it is censorship-resistant as well. People looking for YouTube alternatives can try Dtube or Lbry. For instance, Lbry’s creators say the app is a decentralized content sharing and publishing platform that is wholly owned by its users. There are many types of social media applications that leverage blockchain, decentralization techniques like IPFS, and have created places where anyone can speak their minds.

As usual, the biggest downfall of all these applications is the lack of users, as most people have not gravitated toward decentralized social media. However, during the last few years as nation-states have ramped up censorship, and heightened the crackdown against anti-government rhetoric, these platforms have seen significant growth.

The best thing people can do right now is to start migrating toward social media applications that offer decentralization and blockchain censorship-resistance, because the dystopian world that looks an awful lot like Fahrenheit 451 or 1984 is surely upon us.

https://news.bitcoin.com/big-techs-freedom-of-speech-purge-pushes-people-to-censorship-resistant-blockchain-social-media/

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Here Are The ‘Alt Tech’ Platforms Trump Supporters Are Flocking To After Parler Executed By Amazon

BY TYLER DURDEN

THURSDAY, JAN 14, 2021 – 17:20

Over the past week, President Trump has been kicked off of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and was blocked from e-commerce platform Shopify – all because of a pair of relatively benign tweets on January 8th, two days after the Capitol ‘riot’ in which a small group of Trump supporters and a BLM activist were allowed into the Capitol Building through an opened door.

Trump’s ‘offending’ tweets:

Trump’s last two tweets which resulted in his permanent ban from the platform, via mirrored account at gab.com

Twitter, likely realizing the ‘last straw’ used to justify banning a sitting US president was extremely weak sauce (a move which has shocked the world), said the tweets "must be read in the context of broader events in the country."

Furious Trump supporters immediately began to abandon Twitter for so-called ‘alt-tech’ conservative-friendly alternatives, Parler and Gab.

Over the weekend, however, Amazon and Google banned Parler from their app stores, while Amazon Web Services dealt the death-blow by kicking them off their AWS cloud hosting service, rending the site ‘homeless’ and inaccessible until they find another host. Thanks to a flood of ‘cancel culture’ activists targeting all things Trump, Parler continues to be ‘dead’ for all intents and purposes.

Gab CEO Andrew Torba, meanwhile, backed up Trump’s entire Twitter account despite the fact that Trump hasn’t yet joined the network (thanks to Jared Kushner, apparently). Torba has been aggressively lobbying for the president to join. The network says it saw a 750% boost in traffic, adding 600,000 new users in a 24-hour period on Monday alone.

"The traffic just keeps growing. Hang tight, even more servers on the way today," Torba wrote on Saturday.

Where else are Trump supporters flocking?

With Parler currently unpersoned by big tech, and Gab’s servers running a little slow thanks to the influx of Twitter and Parler refugees, several other social media apps and platforms are seeing record traffic.

Telegram: Before Parler was taken to the woodshed by Amazon, influential users began calling on users to move to messaging app Telegram, where Donald Trump Jr. actively posts in a public channel. The service offers end-to-end encryption outside of Big Tech’s grasp, according to the Wall Street Journal.

One Telegram channel had over 16,000 "Parler refugees" as of Jan. 11, while the service announced on Tuesday that it had attracted 25 million new users globally in the preceding 72 hours, bringing its total active user base to 500 million.

The platform supports up to 200,000 members in a group, which is why it’s a favorite go-to for protesters in Hong Kong, Iran, and Belarus.

Signal:Widely regarded as the most ‘private’ app, Signal’s encryption is open source. It also offers encrypted calling and video chat. Between last Thursday and Sunday, the app saw around 7.5 million installations from the App Store and Google Play, around 43x more than it received the previous week, according to CNN.

The flood of new users has caused some glitches, however, with the company tweeting on Thursday that verification codes for new sign-ups may be delayed "because so many new people are trying to join Signal right now (we can barely register our excitement)."

"We are currently having a record level of downloads for the Signal app around the world," the company said in a Friday Reddit post.

Last week, Signal received some high-profile endorsements after Elon Musk, currently the richest man on the planet, tweeted "Use Signal." Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey retweeted it – later posting an image of Signal at the top of the App Store chart after it displaced Parler as the #1 download.

Edward Snowden also retweeted Musk, adding "That’s @signalapp, for those who don’t speak Elon."

Other platforms receiving attention of late include; video sharing sites Rumble and BitChute, livestreaming service DLive, along with CloutHub, MeWe and Minds.com.

What’s out? WhatsApp…

After the Facebook-owned ‘secure’ messaging app announced a new privacy policy which states that the company may share user data with other Facebook companies "to help operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services and their offerings," users began abandoning the app.

In Hong Kong, users have been leaving WhatsApp left and right, according to nikkei.com.

It is an indication that people in the city have joined social media users around the globe in a shift to other messaging platforms because of concerns over privacy, after WhatsApp dismayed many users by rewriting its terms of use on Jan. 6.

The new terms will essentially allow Facebook, WhatsApp’s owner, to gain access to certain personal information, such as contact lists, location, financial information, and usage data.

Since then, WhatsApp’s rivals have seen a record-breaking amount of downloads. –nikkei

One thing is for sure; with Trump kicked off Twitter, Parler currently dead, and ensuing refugees flocking to a bevy of alternative social media platforms that are siloed from each other, the conservative social media ecosystem has never been more fractured. Mission accomplished; we can only assume.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/here-are-alt-tech-platforms-trump-supporters-are-flocking-after-parler-executed-amazon

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How Everyday Americans Can Resist Big Tech

Americans should divest themselves from all products, services, and applications that give Big Tech power over our daily lives.

By Mitchell Gunter

January 13, 2021

You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to realize that Big Tech companies have been slowly tightening the digital noose around conservative and libertarian speech for years. Online radio host Alex Jones’ permanent suspension from Twitter on September 8, 2018 heralded to some on the Left a “new era of big tech responsibility,” as the Guardian phrased it. Others saw the move for what it really was—authoritarian censorship that ultimately has culminated in the suspension of the sitting president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, from Facebook and Twitter last week.

Far from remaining content merely to exclude opposing political forces from their own platforms, Big Tech is also rapidly moving to annihilate any competitors that would dare host conservative voices. Google and Apple have each banned the social media app Parler from their application stores, effectively barring 99 percent of smartphone users from easily utilizing the application on their devices.

Amazon Web Services, a global cloud-computing juggernaut that provides hosting services for Parler, went even further, announcing the termination of Parler’s hosting services on January 9, meaning the app, which is now offline as a result of this, will remain so without a new host.

If Big Tech can ban President Trump and stifle competition without a second thought, how can everyday Americans fight back? More importantly, why should the common citizen care?

We live in a world of digital totalitarians who impose online restrictions to quell dissent, punish adversaries, and ultimately consolidate power. In the United Kingdom, citizens are arrested for Facebook posts deemed offensive. In Russia, journalists who oppose the government are killed. In Iran, journalists who encourage protests are executed.

Under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chinese citizens must contend with the “Great Firewall,” the most sophisticated censorship system in the world, which blocks thousands of websites such as Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Netflix over fears related to human rights, western democracy, and freedom of expression. Chinese citizens who access these websites do so under penalty of detention, interrogation, or even death.

Ironically, while Twitter has no issues silencing President Trump, the leaders of brutal regimes utilize the platform freely, such as Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran and state-affiliated Chinese media. Khamenei is free to tweet, “#Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible, and it will happen,” and Twitter only recently cracked down on China’s boasting about its genocide against the Uyghur Muslims, stating that reeducation camps made Uyghur women “confident and independent,” rather than merely “baby-making machines.”

Of course, Big Tech has shown a willingness to directly collaborate with these nefarious actors in the past. In August 2018, Google reportedly planned a censored version of its search engine in China, dubbed “Project Dragonfly,” which would block searches related to free speech and human rights. The failed search engine would have linked searches to users’ phone numbers, allowing Chinese authorities to persecute political dissidents with ease.

In light of Big Tech’s actions over the past week, I suspect that efforts such as Project Dragonfly are no longer the outlier but are the blueprint for the internet’s future in the United States. Therefore, it is imperative that every American do his or her part to break Big Tech’s hold on our society at large.

Fighting back means embracing a small level of inconvenience in your life. Economist Milton Friedman once said, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” The principle holds true in our fight against Big Tech. Chances are that if a digital product, such as Google’s Gmail service, is free, then you are the product. Services like these sell your information or individual profiles of demographics and interests. More importantly, these services empower companies that are intent on regulating your speech, making them flush with capital and able to exert even more control over our national discourse.

Simply put, Americans should divest themselves from all products, services, and applications that give Big Tech power over our daily lives.

This does not mean we must become digital Luddites. In fact, many alternative applications and devices don’t require selling your soul, or your data, for the price of navigating today’s online world.

Delete all mainstream social media platforms from all of your devices, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram in favor of alternative social media such as Parler and Gab, which are accessible via browser. Ditch Gmail in favor of more secure options such as ProtonMail, which is based in Switzerland with some of the best privacy laws in the world.

Forget censorious Reddit and head over to the vibrant, free-speech community, TheDonald.win, which blossomed from the pro-Trump subreddit r/The_Donald that was banned in June. Expel Google Chrome, which tech experts call “spy software,” from your devices in favor of privacy browsers such as DuckDuckGo or Brave.

Make a pledge to stay off YouTube as much as possible—instead of looking up that tutorial, ask your neighbor how to change a tire. In lieu of Google Maps or Waze, which are both owned by Google, use OpenStreetMap or, better yet, buy a physical, dedicated GPS device. Trash your physical devices like Amazon Alexa, Google Nest, and Ring Doorbell. Don’t let Alexa, which never stops listening to you, stay in your home one day longer. Replace Google Drive with low-cost cloud services like Linode or purchase a physical cloud server and hard drives of your own.

Cancel your Amazon Prime shipping and video services tonight and make a New Year’s resolution to buy local as much as possible. Download and backup your Google data, then delete it entirely. If you want the would-be authoritarians of Big Tech to pay, you must not contribute to feeding the behemoth.

Change is difficult and our digital lives are no exception to the rule. Don’t worry, if you make the leap of faith, the freedom you now enjoy will offset any burden imposed by online upheaval. Once you’ve emancipated yourself from the yoke of Big Tech, help your fellow Americans to do the same.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/13/how-everyday-americans-can-resist-big-tech/

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Opsec for Noobs

January 11, 2021Now that the digital Red Scare has begun, protecting your identity is crucial to ensure your life does not get destroyed. At the rate, the regime is moving, poor Opsec could lead to much worse things. This is the first of a series of posts about ways to protect yourself.

In this post I’ll go through some basic ways to protect yourself and to not be low hanging fruit. This will range from security basics like using a VPN and using encrypted chats to more advanced tactics like making sure your iPhone won’t turn into a listening device and getting your racist memes off of Apple’s servers.

Since this is intended for very noobie noobs, let me note the definition of OPSEC. Wikipedia defines it pretty well:

Operations security (OPSEC) is a process that identifies critical information to determine if friendly actions can be observed by enemy intelligence, determines if information obtained by adversaries could be interpreted to be useful to them, and then executes selected measures that eliminate or reduce adversary exploitation of friendly critical information.

A few things worth noting before I begin:

· I don’t work in cryptography or have a background in privacy. I’ve just been preparing for a digital Red Scare for 2+ years and am someone who is extremely protective of their privacy. I also use Apple products, so Android users will have to apply these principles to their devices.

· There is a Golden Rule that must be maintained: The Big Tech companies should not be trusted, and you should stay as far away from them as possible. Yes, Apple may have turned down NSA requests, but they also just banned Parler from the App Store. Yes, WhatsApp runs on Signal’s tech, but you also are not allowed to use the app without allowing them to share your location data with Facebook. Take everything they claim about protecting your privacy with extreme skepticism. They are being used by our enemies to disseminate their propaganda and don’t care about your privacy.

· The tactics I recommend range from common sense to extreme. Some require diligence and some require sacrifice of digital luxuries (i.e., No more ‘Sign in with Google’ everywhere). Some require your time and organization. Apply what makes the most sense to you and makes you rest easier at night.

· This post is divided between basic data security (using a safe browser, not letting your phone spy on you) and OPSEC (identity protection & not giving tech platforms any leverage against you). Some topics will overlap. I recommend incorporating the principles from both.

· I operate under one assumption which sounded extreme a week ago but now seems very realistic: Big Tech companies will eventually start doxing their customers. If you operate under their roof, then they know everything about you. They can very easily destroy you. Whether or not they act on this isn’t the point. The point is to create a forcefield around yourself to protect you from shitlibs who want you dead.

· This post is intended for shitpoasters who don’t want their lives destroyed by shitlibs. If you’re looking to do things on Tor that are illegal, etc. I can’t help you there. If the NSA or any of the Five Eyes want to see what you’re doing, they can and they will. These tactics are suggestions to protect yourself from being low hanging fruit for shitlibs looking to doxx and not giving your data to Big Tech platforms who can’t be trusted. The wind is blowing very fast in one direction.

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Let’s get down to it.

OPSEC

Facebook

I’ll make this short and sweet. Delete Facebook. Now. If you insist on keeping it, carefully comb through your profile and comments and look for anything that might be deemed as offensive by the most ruthless of shitlibs and delete them. Platforms that require you to share your identity, like Facebook, have the highest amount of risk. Apply this principle to Instagram as well.

Twitter

Twitter requires you to share a phone number and email address with them. Under no circumstances should you give them your real phone number or an email address that can easily be traced to your identity (think yourrealname). You also shouldn’t give them an email address that you use for services that are tied to your identity, like Amazon or your doctor’s office. If you already gave them a real phone number or a standard email address, it’s very likely already stored in their change logs. An extreme and precautionary move would be to delete that account and create a new one.

Here are different ways to protect yourself on Twitter:

· Your Phone Number

o One option is to get a Google Voice number. Google Voice does require you to link it to a real number and yes, we are violating the Golden Rule, but it is a less risky option than handing over your real number as it’s one extra step they would need to take in order to find out who you are.

o Another more secure option is to get a burner phone and pay with cash. You can go to Target or CVS and get a Tracfone for less than $40. It comes with preinstalled apps like Facebook and others that you can’t delete, but the point is that the phone number cannot be linked to you. To be extremely careful, keep your real phone at home while you buy the phone to eliminate risk of location tracking.

· Email

o Don’t use Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, or any of the big tech platform’s email services. More on that later. For now, create a ProtonMail account. It’s a fully encrypted email platform and their primary focus is user privacy.

o Create a ProtonMail email address that you will use on platforms that you don’t want traced back to you. Never use this email for services linked to your real identity. Ideally, you can create a different ProtonMail email for each sensitive platform, but that can be hard to keep up with.

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· Sharing Information

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o Post nothing about yourself that can be easily linked to you or where you are located. If you want to tell everyone you’re Norwegian, fine, there’s millions of Norwegians for them to sift through. If you post that you’re Norwegian and you’re in Chicago right now, that narrows it down a bit more but still pretty difficult. If you post that you went to a specific restaurant in Chicago on a specific day with your girlfriend, now that’s something they can work with. You get the point.

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o Never overlap content. Don’t post the same thing in your Twitter account and your Facebook account. That’s how Orwell & Good got doxed. Also don’t say the same things word-for-word on Twitter that you say with your normie friends who don’t know about your account.

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o This is obvious, and should have been said first, but don’t be a Facefag. If you Facefag and your life is ruined, you have no one to blame but yourself. To state the obvious again, never post a picture of yourself and never reveal your real name. And don’t post ½ selfies either….covering up half your face with an emoji over it. I’ve been seeing this a lot lately and it’s very gay. You’re gambling with your life. Don’t fuck around. If you want to post physique and completely cover your face, that’s a different story. Just make sure to cover up tattoos if you have them, but even revealing where you have tattoos is doxable info.

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o Tell absolutely no one in your real life about your anon account. Doing so should have extremely strict requirements such as: you are 100% positive they are completely redpilled, they are not susceptible to leftist propaganda, they are a solid person and not the type to have a “moral revelation.” I also highly recommend you make sure they are woke to the WQ, the JQ and are willing to type the gamer word online, at a minimum.

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One last note about Twitter. If you’re feeling nervous about how bad some of your old tweets may have been, you can use tweetdelete.net and nuke them. You can also nuke all of your likes (remember, people have lost their jobs over liking the wrong tweet). I recently did both after the most recent purge. You can also set tweetdelete.net to auto-delete tweets older than a week, a month, etc.

Moving on…

I have many racist memes on my phone. What do?

Adhering to the first principle, keeping your personal photos and / or racist memes on Apple and Google servers is a bad idea. A racist meme is just as risky as a racist text. If you have memes that can slightly be interpreted as racist (who would do such a thing?) and have them on Apple’s servers than yes, then you are dancing with the devil. Download your photos off their cloud and onto an external hard drive. Yes, Google Photos categorizes your photos oh so well. Don’t you just love scrolling back to that trip in Amsterdam when you banged your Airbnb hostess? Maybe you do, but who cares. People look back at old photos maybe twice a year anyway. It’s not worth your livelihood.

Again, I know it sounds crazy to think that Apple will dox their customers. But Twitter just banned Donald Trump. I repeat trusting the Big Tech companies is not wise.

After you put your photos onto a hard drive, put them on a very safe cloud server that prioritizes privacy. If you can build your own server, PrivacyTools.IO has some suggestions. If not, Proton has a cloud product in beta now and some email users have been given access.

Messaging Apps

To abide by the first principle, stop using iMessage and WhatsApp. Download Signal, Telegram or Keybase and start asking your friends to try them. All of them are focused on privacy and have features that cause your messages to self-destruct after a period of time that you decide. Signal is my preferred app of choice. Urbit is another more extreme option, but it requires a bit of technical knowledge.

Of course, you’re not going to convince all of your friends and family to jump onto these encrypted apps they never heard of. That being said, now is the best time to push for it, as Elon Musk has recently promoted Signal and it’s the #1 downloaded free app on the App Store as of today.

If and when you do have to use iMessage or WhatsApp, be very mindful of what you talk about there. If people bring up politics, don’t engage, just say “hey sorry, you gotta watch what you say these days, happy to talk on other apps that are more protective over privacy if you don’t mind”. Ideally you won’t type that and will say it in person, but it may not be an option and not replying can be awkward. This is ideal because in an extreme scenario, you can now be accused of having “something to hide.” Remember, our enemies don’t have to make sense.

Handling Multiple Platforms

Ideally, you will have a different username across all of your anonymous profiles. If they’re coming after User X, and User X is called “SaintFloyd” on Twitter, Gab and Parlor, now they can find all of their content in just a few clicks. If you have a big following it makes sense, why you would want to keep your brand and not start from scratch. This is a best practice.

BASIC DATA SECURITY

Remove Trackers From Your Phone

Chances are your iPhone is tracking every step you take, collecting your behavior and creating a profile about you and selling it. On top of that, you probably have multiple apps that are allowed to turn your camera or microphone on and record you. Let’s undo this immediately.

· Go to Settings –> Privacy –> Location Services –> make sure all apps are set to Never or Ask. I tend to not trust “While Using” because it’s unclear if the app can keep tracking you while you aren’t using the app but it’s still open in the background.

· Settings –> Privacy –> Tracking –> Toggle off “Allow Apps to Request to Track.”

· Settings –> Privacy –> Microphone –> remove access from all apps.

· Settings –> Privacy –> Camera –> remove access from all apps.

· Settings –> Privacy –> Motion & Fitness –> remove “Fitness & Tracking.” This feature literally tracks every step you take and when your body moves, as long as your phone is on you.

· Settings –> Privacy –> Analytics & Improvements –> remove “Share iPhone Analytics”, “Improve Siri & Dictation”, and “Share iCloud Analytics”.

· Settings –> Privacy –> Apple Advertising –> Untoggle “Personalized Ads.” If you want to get creeped out, click “View Ad Targeting Information”, and check out the profile they made about you.

· Settings –> “Siri & Search” and untoggle “Listen for “Hey Siri” and Press Slide Button for Siri. This gives Apple the ability to turn your phone into a microphone. More importantly, using Siri is extremely gay.

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Protect Your Passwords

Download a secure and well-known password manager LastPass or One Password. You can install it as a browser extension, and it will automatically store all of your logins and passwords there. It can also import your saved passwords from your browser. Good password managers will tell you when you are using duplicate passwords on multiple sites, rank your privacy strength, and create very long complex passwords very easily.

Use A Safe Browser

If you are using Chrome: Wipe your history from it (cookies, logins, browser history), sign out, delete it from all of your devices and never download it again. The Golden Rule has been enforced. Moving on.

Firefox is historically known as very trustworthy, but they just released a blog post saying deplatforming people isn’t enough. Tremendous red flag. I stopped using them because of this.

Download Brave. Brave is designed around protecting privacy, has a pre-installed ad blocker, wipes your history after you close the app, and makes it easy to connect to Tor.

Use a VPN.

Using a VPN scrambles your IP address, plain and simple. Knowing your IP address makes it extremely easy to know where you are and then some. I prefer Proton VPN as I tend to trust Proton with all privacy related matters. They have a “Secure Core” option which guarantees you won’t connect to the internet without a VPN. So, if there is a connection issue with your VPN, you’ll lose Wi-Fi until it reconnects.

Encrypted Email Only

Applying the Golden Rule, get off of Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc. and move to ProtonMail. Again, it isn’t as simple as having one ProtonMail address. Tutanota is another safe and encrypted platform as well. I recommend having one that you’re going to use for everyday things that are inevitably connected to your identity — your bank, Amazon, etc. You are now well aware your identity is connected to that email and it should therefore NOT be used on ANY platform where you are worried about what you’re posting. As mentioned in the Twitter portion of this post, create another ProtonMail address specifically for those platforms and ideally create one per platform. ProtonMail requires a backup email, so I recommend creating a Tutanota email first and using that as the backup. It doesn’t make sense to create a secure email and then using yourrealname as the backup.

Google yourself. What can your enemies learn?

It’s crucial to remove what is searchable about you publicly. Google your real name. See what comes up and go through it meticulously. You’re going to find yourself on those shitty scraping websites that also have your age and address. ALL of them have an option for you to request to remove yourself. Do it for every single one. Look up old usernames you’ve used on forums. Go back into them and delete your posts. Make your real name on Twitter private or just delete it. Use Google Images too. If you find your picture on sites, email the company, and demand they take it down. Ideally, you want to get to a place where you can search for yourself and then again with basic info (hometown, residence) about you and nothing appears.

That’s it for this post. On my next post I will go through more tactics like:

· Taking encrypted notes

· How to use burner credit cards

· What to do when you inevitably use Google apps like Maps & Translator

· Throwing Alexa & Google Home in the garbage (and then burning it)

· How to handle the most sensitive conversations in person

· Using 2FA (2 Factor Authentication) everywhere

· Getting your favorite books & podcasts onto an external hard drive before they become illegal.

I hope this was helpful. If you have questions, message me on Keybase @medgold or on Telegram @TuddyCicero

https://write.as/medgold/opsec-for-noobs