Over the years on Cryptogon, you may have noticed quotes and research from a source I have referred to as TR. Tony is a friend of mine. We met and worked together at a biotech company back in 2001.
I was the IT department for the company.
Tony was a software engineer.
Tony is an interesting guy. He has a PhD in Cognitive Science. His undergrad degree is in Computer Science. His research has been published in leading scientific journals. I think he has something like 15 years of programming experience. He has worked for Silicon Valley PHBs, Fortune 500 swindlers and crackpot upstarts from inside the asylums of academia and elsewhere. All in all, Tony has done a decent job of maintaining appearances over the years...
Friends, Tony's days of maintaining appearances are over.
You see, he's had it. To make a long story very short: Toiling in a cubicle, in the service of evil, isn't living. He can't play that game anymore. His immediate hopes for buying land in Oregon were dashed by the diabolical behavior of his last
PHB. Stuck between a landlord---demanding a rent check---and having to sell himself to the next criminal PHB, Tony was facing some tough choices.
Folks, as of today, October 1, 2005, Tony is living in a mid-1980s era, 23-foot-long RV that he just purchased with a few thousand of the dollars that he managed to save up. His immediate plans range from outlaw parking lot camping to staying at an ecovillage to squatting on BLM land...
Which brings me to the point of this post:
I spoke with Tony a couple of days ago. His five-year-old laptop is in the process of dying. The motherboard has a power problem and a few of the keys aren't working. He tried taking it to a PC repair place, but they told him to junk it. He has dissected the system in a futile attempt to check connections and clean contacts, etc.
When Tony isn't learning how to make paper or sewing up a pair of homemade pants or teaching himself Latin and Ancient Greek, he will have all kinds of weird and interesting wisdom to share with the world. He's going to need a way of getting his message out of the verdant ecotopia of Western Oregon and onto the Internet for the rest of us to see.
I proposed the idea of holding a fund raiser on Cryptogon to see if we could get $500 together for a new computer. Tony thought I was kidding at first. But I thought about those good, old fashioned
barn raising parties. Why not? Many hands, people. Many hands make light work.
If we all pitch in just a little bit, Tony will be able to get a reliable computer system. He's aiming for either an Apple Mac Mini or a Dell Inspiron 1200 (upon which he would immediately install Linux). I want to try and get him $500 toward the purchase of a system.
When Tony decides to fire up a site, I will be able to host his domain on the vast Cryptogon datacenter. (HA!)
$500 is a very ambitious goal, but we have the entire month of October to reach it. So come guys! Let's all lend a hand and get Tony a reliable system so he can share his insights, wisdom and crust with the rest of the world.
I'm going to kick this thing off right and throw $50 into the jar.
Many hands, people. Many hands.
Note: If you happen to be looking for a land custodian in the Eugene, Oregon area, Tony is the guy for you. He's looking for an arrangement where he can exchange some amount of labor for the ability to park his RV without fear of being busted by cops. He has experience with organic agriculture, horses, chickens and has recently been acquiring wood working and carpentry skills. He may (or may not) be willing to do C/C++/java/php/mysql development, Linux networking, high level algorithm design, signal processing, neural networks, etc. if your goals are not overtly evil and your land is extraordinarily beautiful.
posted by Kevin at 6:32 PM
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The IRA has scrapped all of the weapons used to wage its 30-year armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland, international monitors said on Monday.
The move is historic for an organisation that once viewed arms disposal as akin to surrender, but its significance for Northern Ireland politics will take longer to assess, given the deep mistrust of the IRA among the main pro-British parties.
posted by Kevin at 10:03 AM
9/25/2005
Here's What Counterinsurgency Bait Looks Like, Don't Take It
Hello Freespeaker,
First of all, you are either:
A) a federal agent or ;
B) so ignorant of information security concepts that your days as a revolutionary would end before they even got started. Hint: By sending your message in a way that only requires the recipient to answer a question that anyone could answer, you have compromised yourself. Your message was saved at multiple points along the way to my inbox. National security organizations from at least three governments had access to that message. If hushmail.com isn't a honeypot---which, personally, would come as a shock to me---all nodes to and from it are fully compromised.
Second, all insurgency movements are compromised. The message you sent to me is exactly the type of message that the federal government uses to get people to say stupid things that could land them in jail, or worse.
Third, mounting an insurgency against the American Corporate State by conventional methods is impossible. If you want to bring this thing down, become self sufficient and teach others to do the same. Stop buying crap from WalMart! Another alternative is to walk away from it, leave the country. Without your tax money, the American Corporate State will collapse. Still another alternative is to sit back and watch. This thing is very close to collapse as it is.
If you're not a fed, you should remember, .mil and .gov are just waiting to say that Middle Eastern terrorists have joined forces with domestic/American terrorists. The second you go violent, you're with Bin Laden.
Again, if you're not a federal agent, you quite literally have no idea what you're dealing with. The American Corporate State has mastered violence and PSYOPS. You're not going to beat Them at that game. You should do some reading about insurgency/counterinsurgency AND modern communications security; that might prevent you from meeting with a VERY bad end in the future. I hate to sound like I'm lecturing, but what you did was VERY, VERY stupid.
So, Freespeaker, this is my response to you. I had to make it public, though, because I think you're a fed and you forced me to cover my ass.
The message:
From: freespeaker@hushmail.com
Hey there,
You don't know me, but I've been reading your page for a while now. I want to say that you do some great work, and I'd like to pose a question to you. Is it time for revolution in the United States? Do you think it's the right time to make a move, and that that move should be a full-on Neo American Revolution? Or, rather, civil war? I personally believe it is time, and I'm currently looking into a few different options. I've grown too disgusted with the state of things to allow them to continue any longer, and I'm tired of waiting for someone else to make the first move. What I'm primarily interested in is finding out how much support there might be for the movement, although I'm fully prepared to stand alone on this.
Keep up the good work,
Freespeaker
Let that be a warning to the rest of you out there: As things fall apart, .mil and .gov will start trying to figure out who They need to take down first. If someone is talking about "starting the revolution now" or some similar nonsense, you're almost certainly dealing with a counter insurgency operative of some kind. Out them. Make it clear that you want nothing to do with it. Have a nice day.
Related: Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG)Related: Pseudo Operations and Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Other CountriesRelated: Low-intensity Operations: Subversion, Insurgency and PeacekeepingRelated: Militant Electronic Piracy: Non-Violent Insurgency Tactics Against the American Corporate State
posted by Kevin at 10:26 PM
Bill Would Permit Forced DNA Collection From All Those Arrested