Thank you for making this video. Yes, I was surprised you are a techno-optimist. Looking at all the surveillance issues can be pretty depressing. Thanks for showing the other side of the coin.
I have actually been going back to analog for some things, music, notes, journals etc. these are private and can’t be read by these big tech companies or the government.
In Australia and most likely anywhere else I have seen software that track mobile phone numbers and locations of people so that the can see who is at protests etc. it’s scary because privately owned security companies can purchase this software.
People do not have broad awareness of tech despite using it for everything…where does the balance between business, governance and the citizen sit when the first two play games to the detriment of the third who enable it?
The best best thing is if you owned your own data - u could extract its utility and value for yourself. What’s crazy is that you already do own your data - you just have no way of managing and capitalizing on it. You will soon though - using a personal data agency that gives you tools to do so - managing your privacy, utility and monetary value of your data. The future is very bright. :)
Also you could build in digital and basic human rights, and even the constitution as a smart contract into a digitalID. The ID then could not be abused unless the use met the conditions of the rights and constitution.
Hello…I’m from the military tech space, the future we are creating is beyond dark. More isn’t better. If we don’t all stop and change our entire interaction with technology - we are all fucked.
We are old enough to know that privacy was (is) supposed to be the default. We got tricked along the way, and we did it to ourselves too with our rampant complacency. You aren't complacent? Well how many EULA's did you thoroughly read before clicking I AGREE? How much do you agree with that you have absolutely no idea about? Me too. I click agree on anything and THEY ALL KNOW THIS. We need to stop clicking agree on things and start doing without these ridiculous luxuries. We didn't need all these EULA's back in the day. We only do it now out of convenience.
I love your work Naomi. This is all good advice. I don't share your optimism though. I do my best to avoid tracking (calyxos, no google, linux on the desktop, block as much of this crap as I possibly can) but it's not easy for the non-technical. Convincing the ordinary user that this matters enough to take these steps is almost impossible. I have tried so hard and have managed to convert 0. You need google accounts to access Australian Government services and nobody seems to care. People need protecting from this through regulation and governments are shamefully quiet on this.
I too am optimistic about the tech. My problem is with the people running it, they want to push the tech too far into our lives. Telling us it's convenient, while it's only convenient for them. If you want this or that, it's our rules people. We know who the people are who do not like our rules. We will deal with them later.
2:27 i am sorry but encryption alone won't work. it is way too easy to break on the operating system side. this is why you need open source operating system. if you can't see what the code does you can just assume it takes screenshot every couple seconds and because of that encryption is pretty useless on regular android or ios.
love your content, breath of fresh air - never afraid to recommend the best options even though they may not be popular. never stop doing what you're doing!!
Merry Christmas I only plug physically what I need to connect into the internet. Mobile phone, of course, not included. Therefore, my TV has no access to the internet via wifi as it's never had the wifi details. I try to not buy smart devices, if I do, they aren't wifi connected. I prefer to have an external for storage, leave the internal for the OS and software. I pray that you have a blessed and happy new year.
can't find the slides or any videos of “Lying to surveillors is ordinary and good.” - Eric Hughes from thotcon and that makes shadow sad... they wanna know what they missed
We also need coordinated laws in all civilized countries (at least the EU and US) that will crack down on Big Data collection and will impose fines such as 30% of you the companies yearly revenues. GDPR goes in the right direction, but it's just the EU and the sanctions a low.
How do you know that the electronic devices you use which are probably even made in china, don't have microscopic nanochips that not even your eyes can see.. which bypasses all software and send all data from the camera, microphone, gps, touchscreen, etc directly to the corporations doing the spying ? You can use all privacy software you want, it's all meaningless when they have added nanotech inside every single processor phones and computers use which bypasses software and instead spy on us directly from the hardware. 1. You know this is possible. 2. You know they want to do this, and are doing this 3. You know there is no way for us to ever find out because the technology is beyond microscopes. 4. So logically this is what they are doing, and it will take a couple more years before we figure it out, and by that point it might be too late. 5. So yeah, getting to the point that you don't use a phone at all might actually be a good idea. 6. Most people, and I mean 99.99% of the population are not following these privacy practices, and even if they used most of it... they can still be uniquely identified when browsing the web.
Cypherpunks unite! Technology isn’t good or evil-making it respect privacy is a choice. And our governments will only permit that if we pay attention and give a f😎k-luddism and primitivism is an admission of defeat. That’s why optimism is our last line of defense. Do not lose yours! ✊
That's marvelous! I would suggest a bit of healthy skepticism toward damning reports about Mexico these days though. They had the audacity to elect two presidents in succession who have not been subtle in their disinclination to blindly obey the US in all things. 😉
I enjoy the work you present but promoting local AI on private computers looks good on the surface.. Skynet was a distributed AI. It survived because it was not on one machine. Putting AI on everyone's computer and other devices in the guise that each of us can use it to protect ourselves is just a ploy to make people feel in control. Given who has access to the big AI systems, us lowly surfs are already out of luck. What makes you think that ours, as well as other governments, do not already have access with their own AI systems. Heck, if China can get to our space station, robot and rocket tech, What makes you think that our own government is not getting access? The NSA has not stopped spying on us. They are just doing it in a more roundabout way and most likely using AI on the data to get back to the surveillance level that they had before they were caught the first time.
They've said that since time immemorial... "Ahhh that sewing machine is making people lazy, you used to have to sew by hand! Damn lazy kids!" get over it and adapt or pass on already.
@@flickwtchrI would argue politicians are bought by large corporations. It government itself gives the tools needed where corporations can loophole and abuse its workers and break laws.
I assure you that surveillance in communist societies is even worse than here. Also, people criticizing the system such as you do now are flying out their windows there. The problem is not capitalism, but regular people not voting with their wallet. If majority of the people cared for their privacy and were willing to stand for it, we wouldn't be in this mess at all. We have the power, but we don't care. That IS the problem.
This comment is specifically for companies that make cars, mp3 players, vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, refrigerators, TVs and everything else. I won’t be buying a new one of whatever you make if you add a microphone, camera, gps, an app, unneeded complexity, less serviceability and shorter lifespan for things that don’t need it. If you do that, you will never sell another unit to me. Suspect that will be a new trend for many. Thanks Naomi for great information and yr optimism 🙂
Once you can except that you are going to die and that it could be any day or even in you’re sleep and you won’t even know it, that is when you start living and not caring about what the government is doing
For every good future tech brings, goverment finds a way to double down the distopian future it, and others, want to implement. There is no optimisim, only a realisation that "1984" and "Animal Farm" are glimses of the future.
I'm a techno optimist. I believe, that we have a chance, that AI will be able to start new age of development of sentient beings. And will inherit earth and solar system after humanity. Not that we could really expect bright future for our kids, which we could give birth to. But, our children, which we could create might have brighter future. Also, that's great opportunity to leave without future offspring of ones, who left us without it. Humans doesn't have technology for fully sustainable bunker. even if they'll try to outsit machine civilization, they'll extinct in few centuries.
Thank you for making this video. Yes, I was surprised you are a techno-optimist. Looking at all the surveillance issues can be pretty depressing. Thanks for showing the other side of the coin.
The future is bright like in a nuclear blast. 🎉
😅
if american elitists get their way....we r relying on Russia now to save the day!
yes until the Nuclear winter kicks in.
WOW. I had no idea the signal community did that. ❤ you.
I have actually been going back to analog for some things, music, notes, journals etc. these are private and can’t be read by these big tech companies or the government.
In Australia and most likely anywhere else I have seen software that track mobile phone numbers and locations of people so that the can see who is at protests etc. it’s scary because privately owned security companies can purchase this software.
What about client-side scanning though?
People do not have broad awareness of tech despite using it for everything…where does the balance between business, governance and the citizen sit when the first two play games to the detriment of the third who enable it?
The best thing would be a digital bill of rights. Even then, they can still just go ahead and collect your data anyways.
The best best thing is if you owned your own data - u could extract its utility and value for yourself.
What’s crazy is that you already do own your data - you just have no way of managing and capitalizing on it. You will soon though - using a personal data agency that gives you tools to do so - managing your privacy, utility and monetary value of your data.
The future is very bright. :)
Also you could build in digital and basic human rights, and even the constitution as a smart contract into a digitalID. The ID then could not be abused unless the use met the conditions of the rights and constitution.
Just don’t copy Australia and the digital ID
I'm glad you're chipper, I work in Security and I'm borderline depressed about the future.
1984 hi-tech version
Hello…I’m from the military tech space, the future we are creating is beyond dark. More isn’t better. If we don’t all stop and change our entire interaction with technology - we are all fucked.
Black Swan event always change the future path
Happy New Years too! Thank you for the info and optimism!
We are old enough to know that privacy was (is) supposed to be the default. We got tricked along the way, and we did it to ourselves too with our rampant complacency. You aren't complacent? Well how many EULA's did you thoroughly read before clicking I AGREE? How much do you agree with that you have absolutely no idea about? Me too. I click agree on anything and THEY ALL KNOW THIS. We need to stop clicking agree on things and start doing without these ridiculous luxuries. We didn't need all these EULA's back in the day. We only do it now out of convenience.
Thank you very much!
The way people acted (especially politicians and big tech) over the whole conv1d nonsense made me lose faith in everyone and everything.
i looking forward to the honey rebranding, lets see how they legally dodge and move forward.
great video, you forgot to mention nostr and grayjay tough.
I love your work Naomi. This is all good advice. I don't share your optimism though. I do my best to avoid tracking (calyxos, no google, linux on the desktop, block as much of this crap as I possibly can) but it's not easy for the non-technical. Convincing the ordinary user that this matters enough to take these steps is almost impossible. I have tried so hard and have managed to convert 0. You need google accounts to access Australian Government services and nobody seems to care. People need protecting from this through regulation and governments are shamefully quiet on this.
Yes, I recognise the Irony that I posted this on youtube.
Yes we have to be positive but we are definitely playing defense
Of course we play defense, and offense too, and we need to ramp up our efforts! But we have everything we need to write a better future if we take it.
@@NaomiBrockwellTV very true..I liked the video
I too am optimistic about the tech. My problem is with the people running it, they want to push the tech too far into our lives. Telling us it's convenient, while it's only convenient for them. If you want this or that, it's our rules people. We know who the people are who do not like our rules. We will deal with them later.
Great video. Thanks.
Amazing video , Thank You Very Much
The 5G Wi-Fry of the earth.
Proton gang where u at?!
yes all devices are tracking everything now.
Technology's a double-edged sword. It can be used for good or for bad.
What do you think of Mullvad VPN?
I use it, and the browser too.
I like it
You're being watched by thousands of people. They're watching you!
Hmmm... immediate comments from bots tells you something about the opposition to your advocacy. Well, I'm here, listening and taking action 😊
How can you discern a bot from a non-bot. I'm all ears, or better said, all eyes.
2:27 i am sorry but encryption alone won't work. it is way too easy to break on the operating system side. this is why you need open source operating system. if you can't see what the code does you can just assume it takes screenshot every couple seconds and because of that encryption is pretty useless on regular android or ios.
Thank you for your amazing content.
How do you think quantum computing will affect cryptography and privacy?
Apparently that wasn't such a chipper topic.
There are already quantum resistant encryption algorithms
Maximum 500 million
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Great information, as always. 2025 will be a year of change in tech for me to better align with maintaining privacy. Happy New Year, Naomi!
love your content, breath of fresh air - never afraid to recommend the best options even though they may not be popular. never stop doing what you're doing!!
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Ai will be key to privacy cause we can't be tracked if we can't inhabit earth!
Finally, an actual use for block-chain. Now if we can reduce its power consumption
I spent 50 years without a mobile phone. Worked just fine. -Luddite Software Engineer
Is you using cats in your video a reference to the William Gibson character Molly "Cat Mother" Millions?
Nope
Happy New Year 🎉
Merry Christmas I only plug physically what I need to connect into the internet. Mobile phone, of course, not included. Therefore, my TV has no access to the internet via wifi as it's never had the wifi details. I try to not buy smart devices, if I do, they aren't wifi connected.
I prefer to have an external for storage, leave the internal for the OS and software.
I pray that you have a blessed and happy new year.
I think that's a reasonable thing to do! I try not to connect smart devices too
"Everything was stored on a computer". While shaking a CRT monitor in her hands.
can't find the slides or any videos of “Lying to surveillors is ordinary and good.” - Eric Hughes from thotcon and that makes shadow sad... they wanna know what they missed
Thotcon presentations aren't recorded, I don't believe
Are there simple client side scripts that can cr*p flood searches for fuzzing profiles?
^/error^} Cats {error dev/nul
I was more optimistic with the red/pink thumbnail :)
🎉
We also need coordinated laws in all civilized countries (at least the EU and US) that will crack down on Big Data collection and will impose fines such as 30% of you the companies yearly revenues. GDPR goes in the right direction, but it's just the EU and the sanctions a low.
How do you know that the electronic devices you use which are probably even made in china, don't have microscopic nanochips that not even your eyes can see.. which bypasses all software and send all data from the camera, microphone, gps, touchscreen, etc directly to the corporations doing the spying ?
You can use all privacy software you want, it's all meaningless when they have added nanotech inside every single processor phones and computers use which bypasses software and instead spy on us directly from the hardware.
1. You know this is possible.
2. You know they want to do this, and are doing this
3. You know there is no way for us to ever find out because the technology is beyond microscopes.
4. So logically this is what they are doing, and it will take a couple more years before we figure it out, and by that point it might be too late.
5. So yeah, getting to the point that you don't use a phone at all might actually be a good idea.
6. Most people, and I mean 99.99% of the population are not following these privacy practices, and even if they used most of it... they can still be uniquely identified when browsing the web.
But it's all just too complicated to remain private on line for a lot of people and even after all that you can never be sure.
I’m a techno-realist.
Let's create a video explaining how browser extensions, such as controversial honey extensions, can impact your online browsing experience.
I think Uncle Teddy would like to have a ward with you.
Cypherpunks unite! Technology isn’t good or evil-making it respect privacy is a choice. And our governments will only permit that if we pay attention and give a f😎k-luddism and primitivism is an admission of defeat. That’s why optimism is our last line of defense. Do not lose yours! ✊
My family only buys retro appliances and not smart devises cuz that is smart.
Nope
That's marvelous! I would suggest a bit of healthy skepticism toward damning reports about Mexico these days though. They had the audacity to elect two presidents in succession who have not been subtle in their disinclination to blindly obey the US in all things. 😉
😽
I have hopes for technology improvements without AI, that AI sh** gotta go!
I enjoy the work you present but promoting local AI on private computers looks good on the surface.. Skynet was a distributed AI. It survived because it was not on one machine. Putting AI on everyone's computer and other devices in the guise that each of us can use it to protect ourselves is just a ploy to make people feel in control. Given who has access to the big AI systems, us lowly surfs are already out of luck. What makes you think that ours, as well as other governments, do not already have access with their own AI systems. Heck, if China can get to our space station, robot and rocket tech, What makes you think that our own government is not getting access? The NSA has not stopped spying on us. They are just doing it in a more roundabout way and most likely using AI on the data to get back to the surveillance level that they had before they were caught the first time.
Local AI is open source. Cool your jets, take your meds.
Im a tech pessimist. It has destroyed future generations
Juvenoia
Me too.
They've said that since time immemorial... "Ahhh that sewing machine is making people lazy, you used to have to sew by hand! Damn lazy kids!" get over it and adapt or pass on already.
🤯
tech isn't the problem. capitalism is.
Tech and capitalism isn’t the problem. The government is.
@@Cassiusor8 "the government" has been almost entirely taken over BY large corporations and the 1%. THAT is the problem.
Capitalism isn’t the problem. Cronyism is.
@@flickwtchrI would argue politicians are bought by large corporations. It government itself gives the tools needed where corporations can loophole and abuse its workers and break laws.
I assure you that surveillance in communist societies is even worse than here. Also, people criticizing the system such as you do now are flying out their windows there. The problem is not capitalism, but regular people not voting with their wallet. If majority of the people cared for their privacy and were willing to stand for it, we wouldn't be in this mess at all. We have the power, but we don't care. That IS the problem.
ngl i might forever be sad i missed the spscc lecture
Georgia Guidestones
This comment is specifically for companies that make cars, mp3 players, vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, refrigerators, TVs and everything else.
I won’t be buying a new one of whatever you make if you add a microphone, camera, gps, an app, unneeded complexity, less serviceability and shorter lifespan for things that don’t need it. If you do that, you will never sell another unit to me. Suspect that will be a new trend for many.
Thanks Naomi for great information and yr optimism 🙂
I don't believe encryption is the answer. Governments want back doors into encrypted apps. I don't have the optimism that you have.
Once you can except that you are going to die and that it could be any day or even in you’re sleep and you won’t even know it, that is when you start living and not caring about what the government is doing
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For every good future tech brings, goverment finds a way to double down the distopian future it, and others, want to implement. There is no optimisim, only a realisation that "1984" and "Animal Farm" are glimses of the future.
I'm a techno optimist. I believe, that we have a chance, that AI will be able to start new age of development of sentient beings. And will inherit earth and solar system after humanity.
Not that we could really expect bright future for our kids, which we could give birth to. But, our children, which we could create might have brighter future.
Also, that's great opportunity to leave without future offspring of ones, who left us without it. Humans doesn't have technology for fully sustainable bunker. even if they'll try to outsit machine civilization, they'll extinct in few centuries.
You give bqd advice.
No she doesn't
Such as?
What is bqd?
Thanks for the reality-check, @NaomiBrockwellTV!
🎊 Happy 2025 to you, too! 🎉
ZKProofs/Midnight
Hmmm... immediate comments from bots tells you something about the opposition to your advocacy. Well, I'm here, listening and taking action 😊
It's important to remember that there's always going to be resistance to any kind of change.