Recent content by Emperor Tippy

You are free to hate the Jews, Christians, Muslims, Whites, Blacks, French, Russians, Canadians, etc. What you aren't free to do is act like the DC councilman who said the Jews control the weather. Or that Jews should be killed simply because they are Jews. You want to go into the current (or...

If silencers got off the NFA then selling handguns with integrated silencers wouldn't be business suicide. You can make a daily carry suppressed pistol without too much issue, you just can't do it without integrating the silencer with the barrel. And if you do that they every sale of said pistol...

So the Treasury just transfers say $100 billion to the CIA for "2025 Budget" and then all of that money gets spent via the CIA's internal processes? And somehow you think this will result in less corruption? Especially when the same thing would then happen with every department of the government...

Classification isn't how you hide money. Money needs to have legitimate, traceable, explainable, sources to be all that useful the world over. The history of the money is one of the most important facets of building a legend and running a successful intelligence operation. For all of the...

No, you don't. The US is a Republic, not a Democracy. You are supposed to elect people that you trust to look after and represent your interests. Why in the world should you have the right to see who the US is paying to spy on the PRC? Or the right to see which companies the US government is...

Which was really fucking stupid of them. Don't play fuck around and find out with the US government. Especially as a non-US entity. It very rarely goes well for you. The PRC is playing games and rapidly running out of runway for those games.

Canada isn't going to become part of the US. For all of Canada's (many, many) issues it is still a stable first world nation of forty million people. There is a far better chance of the US getting Greenland than Canada (or any portion of it) becoming part of the US. Even then, the most likely...

On paper, yes. In reality, no. The NSA doesn't make cases and NSA acquired information doesn't end up in any court of law. The extent to which the NSA gives a solitary damn about following the law is exactly as far as Congressional tolerance stretches vis a vi their budget. Note also that any...

You can buy a decent starter home (sufficient for a couple and a kid) for under 200k in a lot of the US. With 20% down and a fifteen year mortgage you are looking at monthly payments (including taxes and insurance) of less than $2000 per month. Most people in the US just have zero financial...

If you are making $300k a year and feel poor then you need to gain some financial literacy. 300k per year is $25,000 per month. Renting a three bedroom, two bath, 1500 square foot luxury apartment in NYC will cost around 5,000 per month. Spending $250 per day per person on food (fairly absurdly...

Fundamentally, this kind of action fails to have a meaningful impact because those taking this action are overwhelmingly lone actors who can't present a sustained threat. For terrorism to have any chance of working (and the use of illegal violence to achieve political ends is the very...

Osama was an outlaw in the truest description of the word. His own actions put him outside of the protection of the law. He chose to place himself outside of the community and society at large. He could not be arrested, he could not be served, he could not be sued, he explicitly repudiated...

That isn't what happened with Lavabit. The court ordered them to turn over their encryption keys and because of how the service was set up, having that key allowed one to read every message on the service. As a consequence of that court order, everyone doing secure communications switched to...

Signal is your best chance. It can be a drop in replacement for messaging apps and calls. 2FA will still go to SMS but at least it is something. Signal is far from perfect but on ease of use vs. security it beats everything else hands down.

No, all US made communications software doesn't have backdoors. And no, prison isn't the consequence of refusing to put in backdoors.