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Technocracy of War, Part 8

Once the pattern was established and compared against the Tor perimeter traffic, it really wasn’t that hard. Mantis and his assistant detected a lot of similar traffic and found there were a half-dozen systems traipsing all over Washington DC and … Continue reading

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Technocracy of War, Part 7

The message Thad got was essentially an offer of more active involvement and some measure of support if he could help Peter get in touch with someone in the military who handled Tor servers. It was common knowledge the US … Continue reading

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Technocracy of War, Part 6

The one thing Thad liked most was how they had managed to port almost every GUI application over to a TUI. Thus, while losing some of the buttons and toolbars, the backend was the same for web browser, office suite, … Continue reading

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Technocracy of War, Part 5

For most of that week, Thad poked and prodded Bread OS. There was in the documentation a notice more popular applications would be ported eventually, but the basic set of workstation programs was almost complete. The desktop display was not … Continue reading

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Technocracy of War, Part 4

She waited patiently, her paws crossed as she lay in the small patch of sun available in the fenced yard. Once each week, he walked past on the newly paved street which had replaced the gravel. In her mind, the … Continue reading

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Technocracy of War, Part 3

They had moved Pete that very hour to temporary solitary confinement. While it meant missing breakfast, this was one of the saner things, keeping informants away from the general population. In two days, Peter found himself being marched down that … Continue reading

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Apparent Trend of Coups

In these modern times, the real take over comes in a series of coups d’état, versus one complete change. I’m watching. It’s one thing to talk about some shadowy Illuminati as shorthand for some apparent group with an agenda to … Continue reading

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Revealed As Black Ops (Updated)

Updated at bottom… The amorphous hacker collective “Anonymous” can now be regarded as controlled opposition. When it was just a matter of information and cracking servers, that was simply part of the Internet. I’ve always said, if you digitize information, … Continue reading

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The Real Enemy

I’m not going to help you much with fixing what’s wrong with the world. We are at war. Only a fool would deny it. Bad things are going to happen and your life will be afflicted with unwanted changes, and … Continue reading

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The Shape of Oppression

Around here, I’ve seen very little harassment from the government. As noted previously on this blog, I was under some kind of bumbling surveillance at one point around the turn of the millennium. It included tapping my phone, some ham-fisted … Continue reading

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