to refresh the "new posts" page on this forum, it just did the cloudflare check on me. this forum occasionally does it and websites overwhelmingly use cloudflare for DDoS protection and such these days.
as I'm sitting there waiting for the spinning wheel, a thought enters my head. Cloudflare has a bunch of CIA connections (they funded it), and the FBI keeps using it to host sus websites for overseas ops (which means, they collaborate. governments keep lists for "approved" and has clearance companies kind of thing -- ofc it requires a "partnership", if you know what I mean). So they're effectively collecting and logging everyone who goes to which website with cloudflare's DDoS protection for whatever reason. which doesn't even make sense really. 80% of the internet goes through D.C. (the internet cables are specifically built through there for them to snoop on this), where the 3 letter agencies are anyway. DARPA invented the internet
specifically to spy on their enemies, way back when. Not even kidding. don't even get me started on amazon and how most of the web is cloud hosted by amazon web services and how deep bezos' is mired in all that (not to mention unqualified as a human being. he's an idiot).
but no, in reality, what happens is someone working for the government has this as a hobby. they'll join the site in their own free time. if something revealed here might improve their status at work, they'll tattle. always how it goes. "evil works faster than good" I heard someone say recently. selfish interest works way better than corporate team building exercises. a lovely rendition of this is the story behind this thing (3 hour movie basically):
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... I was surprised to find a forum I was given as a kid, to still be running, and doing some, "perhaps sus" stuff. As a kid when I joined I didn't understand that part of the site. It's not advertised anywhere. 20 years later, it's still there, and active. That surprised me. I can't remember if it was a section you didn't see until you signed up, or you had to sign up and win someone's trust first for them to invite you. It was some political movement, basically, of "conspiracy theorists"... I was watching a conspiracy film, an old one but now as an adult, that someone was showing, and at the end of it the forum link showed up. I was like whooaaa, blast from the past?!
The forum was used for something else (for video games) and that's why I got on it as a kid. But this political movement was instead using it as a home-base also. I'm surprised it survived at all. Best kept secret I guess, cuz these guys get banned all the time (they're not doing anything illegal, violent, or any sort of hate either, it's just that censored). So it kind of keeps itself hidden I guess.
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ok i'm gonna go back on my first part:
the government's issue, by the way, and the whole edward snowden NSA thing, is collecting all this data is worthless until you get the AIs capable of going through it (it's just waaayyy too much). That's why they're building the AI (and have been planning to, for ~100 years). It's "person of interest" kind of thing. pre-crime. Always watching.
But I just remembered a somewhat creepy detail. Random AI's strangely will tell me quotes I paste from this website came from this website -- when I'm actually asking about the book or author a comment is talking about. I can't even get said random AIs to properly quote reddit for me (on which they're supposedly very trained on). So that's a little weird. Probably nothing (I joke. though also who cares. by this rate the only hope you have of privacy is something like ad nauseam -- which evidently is not discoverable anymore
-- speaking of if you pay one of those "hide your identity or bad news stories for you cuz ur a political figure" firms, they'll just spam the internet with useless links so nobody can find the relevant info on you).
by the way can my phone stop creepily suggesting ads for things I've texted to people, said in voice chats, or to in person people (or those people said to me!). I couldn't root it cuz the rooting guy mysteriously disappeared a few years ago. what I get. reddit thinks that ain't happening, too. whatcha gonna do? not use a phone? you can't even park anywhere now without a phone app for the parking company first (oh god, and don't look into the new laws mandating car spying). to say nothing of how USA imports "security" procedures from a certain country that is using AI drones after following people's phone GPS (or how the cell towers can turn on anyone's phone even if you turn it off (reddit downvoted me for that -- someone reported me missing as a kid so I got to find out the cops can do this)... and mysteriously phones stopped allowing you to remove the battery to prevent such a measure back in 2000s when we went from nokia/blackberry and into smartphones)
we're all just fucked all the time. there's no point. I'm actually surprised there isn't a magical surveillance net. guess there isn't cuz nobody's talked about it.
but like i said, the thing with current era technology is they do not have the search engine for all this data. If they notice you, they can use anything they can make sense of on you (or just plant stuff, really, if they're rotten enough for such). But they can't find people to target, because they can't go through everyone's data. which is the problem they're trying to solve.
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... I came from a country with a fallen government where people didn't trust the banks, was a child immigrant to a western country. grew up poor so my hobby was underground pirated software cuz it didn't cost money. I also specced out into botting, did some RAM editing (cheating), played around with some darknet viruses a little (teen angst years), then I chose computer science as a degree and all my tinkering was quite useful for debugging software I would build for companies (by the way business is pretty "illegal" and rotten too but I digress). I became a normie for a while but last few years I realized that was a mistake and I became a full-on conspiracy theorist -- until I went so far off the reservation my science-raised ass is legit looking into magic being a thing. I did not enjoy normie world so much. it literally doesn't make sense. it's far calmer to be a conspiracy theorist, because then the world gets far more predictable, and you get far less confused and anxious from being sidewinded all the time. same with the occult for that matter -- way better than what the psychologists ever talk about, and I spent many years reading their books because I was confused about the dynamics in business.
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the guy earlier saying they need multiple pieces of data to identify you is wrong (he's right on paper, it's what the computer science degree teaches). your ISP knows your IP (most ISPs do not give you a dynamically changing IP, and even if they did they'll log who had which when). it's trivial. depending where you live your ISP
may legally fight giving out your identity though (in america, probably not). this is for the clearnet policing stuff though that mostly follows the law. the CIA knows the occult, is that like... not known here? all their emblems are demons? ... not to mention, uh, have you met strong magicians/"talented" people? they tend to have stories... so I'm guessing there is no such issues here.
also if you used an email on this website you've used anywhere else, everywhere you used that email is all linked together. i hung out with darkweb hackers adjacent people and a basic class of tool they have is tools that coalesce all data leaks to link all your email addresses together on all known online services. sometimes these will include your phone number, address, etc. whatever. all your usernames, if you thought you were being coy. I saw them look up any random user, generally 10-20 linked profiles per any random person they looked up like insta, facebook, etc. this was not a demo.
this website might be self-hosted though. I don't know if DNSes are snooped (to go to this website your computer asked a DNS how to find it). I know china seemed to be attacking them regularly back when I used to pay more attention to that stuff but I don't know what that was about.
I think you probably should case who would be interested in the forums then figure out what they might know or have access to. Otherwise, yeah, here you go. Lotta avenues. Fun. wait til you hear how paranoid the crypto people get about the generation of their keys cuz AMD and intel CPUs have this nonsense:
by this point even banks can't keep anyone "safe". it's quite honestly so bad. and AI coding is making things worse (it makes dumb mistakes) but now I'm bitching
