Help Test Out A Self-Hosted Live Stream Monday at Noon
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I've decided I am going to test out my live stream Monday next week at 1 PM CST, please join me - we'll have a built in chat so we can hang out and you can ask me anything!

I'm hoping to get a few dozen people to see how it performs before the bigger webinar on Wednesday!

You will be able to tune in at https://takebackourtech.org/live

Critical Android Pixel Bug, Update Your Phones
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This morning a bug report was made public by David Schutz, who found a critical vulnerability affecting all Android Pixel devices back in Jun.

This includes traditional Android devices and degoogled phones (since they are based on the Android Open Source Platform).

This bug allows an attacker with physical access to unlock the phone (the phone must have already been unlocked once, it can't be from a cold boot)

The attacker would need to have physical access, and replace the phone's SIM card with one of their own, and then unlock that SIM card using its PUK code to get past the lock screen.

Although this bug has been patched for all devices receiving updates, there are some devices that will permanently be effected and are 'insecure' to this vulnerability.

This means Pixel 3, 3a, 3aXL will be impacted by this bug. We have confirmed this by testing the exploit ourselves.

We've found that the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4XL appear to be patched by GrapheneOS's latest extended support release.

The Pixel 3a seems to only be patched by CalyxOS and shouldn't face this vulnerability.

If you have a Pixel phone - update your phone immediately!

If your phone is out of the update period, we recommend you try to upgrade to a phone that receives updates immediately. However, if you can't, we recommend you take the following security precautions:

0. If you have a Pixel phone and use a degoogled operating system, update your phone immediately.

1. Set your phone to reboot automatically (Settings > Auto reboot - and set a low time period). When the phone reboots there are no encryption keys in memory and this bug cannot be exploited.

2. This is obvious, but keep your phone on your person at all times.

3. Do not store any sensitive information unsecured on your device, for instance putting passwords in notes.

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We take this issue very seriously and we'll work with the Above Phone customers who have the Pixel 3a to get them upgraded onto newer devices.

Sayer Ji is joining The Greater Reset 4: Co-Creation virtually!

Sayer Ji is a widely recognized researcher, author, lecturer, activist and educator on natural health modalities. "Among his many roles, he is the is the founder of Greenmedinfo.com, the world’s most widely referenced, evidence-based natural health resource of its kind. He founded the platform in 2008 to provide an open access, evidence-based resource supporting natural and integrative modalities. He is also the founder of www.Unite.live, a censorship-free, multi-media content creation platform, and the co-founder of Stand for Health Freedom, a 501c4 dedicated to protecting parental rights, informed consent, and medical freedom.

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The Greater Reset 4: Co-Creation
January 18- 22, 2023
Live in Central Texas and Morelia, Mexico
Streaming free at TheGreaterReset.org

Live Stream Test: MOVED to 7 PM Today
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Hey peeps,

I've had some important personal things to attend to today so I'll be moving the live stream test to 7 PM CST. This is all in preparation for the Above Phone webinar taking place this Thursday Nov 17th at 12 PM!

If you haven't signed up for the webinar, you can sign up here:
https://abovephone.com/above-the-rules/

Riccardo Spagni is joining The Greater Reset 4: Co-Creation virtually!

Riccardo Spagni is a cryptocurrency pioneer, activist, and entrepreneur. He is best known for his work as the lead maintainer of Monero, a privacy focused decentralized cryptocurrency with a market value of over $1.5B. More recently he has launched Tari, an open-source blockchain protocol for digital assets, and Tari Labs – a university to train blockchain developers.

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The Greater Reset 4: Co-Creation
January 18- 22, 2023
Live in Central Texas and Morelia, Mexico
Streaming free at TheGreaterReset.org

This weekend was a blast, our friends John and Rebecca Bush are now happily married. 🤵👰

Thankful to take part in their wedding day and am wishing them a happily ever after! ❣

Apple Hit With a Class Action Lawsuit over iPhone Analytics
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Last Thursday, a class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court based on findings of security researchers.

The problem was spotted by two independent researchers at the software company Mysk, who found that the Apple App Store sends the company exhaustive information about nearly everything a user does in the app, despite a privacy setting, iPhone Analytics, which claims to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether” when switched off. Gizmodo asked the researchers to run additional tests on other iPhone apps, including Apple Music, Apple TV, Books, and Stocks. The researchers found that the problem persists across most of Apple’s suite of built-in iPhone apps.

The lawsuit accuses Apple of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act. “Privacy is one of the main issues that Apple uses to set its products apart from competitors,” the plaintiff, Elliot Libman, said in the suit, which can be read on Bloomberg Law. “But Apple’s privacy guarantees are completely illusory.” The company has plastered billboards across the country with the slogan “Privacy. That’s iPhone.”

Privacy? That's bullshit.

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The Assange Story Documentary
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Have you seen this documentary about Julian Assange?

He single-handedly exposed the war crimes behind media narratives and transformed the face of independent media. This documentary gets up close and personal with his background, family members, and close associates. You get a real feel for who he was. Julian may soon be extradited to the US after an extradition order was approved earlier this year.

Watch it here: https://odysee.com/@RTDocumentary:4/The-Assange-story_Site_OK:3

More info: https://www.assangecampaign.org.au/facts/

"Courage is contagious" - Julian Assange

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LIVE STREAM TEST: Help me break our live stream server!
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Alright I'm going live and will be hanging out for 45 minutes or so, sharing some lessons, and reading the news, and hopefully chatting with you awesome peeps ❤️

Come join the stream.

https://stream.takebackourtech.org/

Thanks everyone for joining me tonight. Good news, the streaming server held its own!

And I felt comfy enough on camera to do this regularly. Lets do the thing.

The Terrible History Behind The .io Domain
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Looking for a new domain? Don't use .io - a private company profits (ICB) while the rightful owners of the domain get nothing.

The UK and the US claim ideals of equality, inclusion, and cultural respect but do nothing to redeem their war crimes. They forcibly removed the entire population of the Chagos Islands in the 1950s to make way for a US military base, then reject rulings to return the land made by the UN, and the International Court Of Justice.

~~~ a brief history of the io domain ~~~

1997: the .io domain was delegated by IANA (the internet domain police) to
paul kane: a "proper" british "bloke" who wanted to "make euros" from
"the internet"*.

* paul kane named his company "internet computer bureau" or "ICB"
if IANA is the internet domain police, maybe paul wanted to be the
internet domain FBI?

2014: paul kane claims that "each of the overseas territories has an account and
the funds are deposited there because obviously the territories have
expenses that they incur and it’s offsetting that."

* which seems charitable, until:

2014: the UK government responds with "There is no agreement between the UK
government and ICB regarding the administration of the .io domain"

* despite paul's claims, all .io proceeds likely flowed directly into ICB

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1967: the USA asks the UK to expel the native Chagossians from the chagos
archipelago

* the chagos archipelago is - you guessed it - within
the british indian ocean territory

* the UK obeys and expels the native Chagossians

1971: the USA builds a military base on the chagos archipelago

* since 1971, the chagos archipelago has _only_ been inhabited by
employees of the US military - everyone else is forbidden.

\\\\\ END TIME WARP \\\\\


now things get *strange*:

2020-2021: .io gets _very_ popular among cryptocurrency enthusiasts

2021: the united nations tribunal of law and sea (UNTOLAS) claims that the
UK has no sovereignty over the chagos archipelago

* this claim would EXTINGUISH the british indian ocean territory, _and_ the
iso-3166 two-letter country code, _and_ potentially the .io domain

* the UK disputes and does not recognise the tribunal's decision, even tho
they're not party to the case

2021: the Chagossian Refugees Group submits complaint against paul kane and
ethos capital, seeking repatriation of $7m/year for the .io domain

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The CIA Plan to Murder Julian Assange and the Fight to Free Him

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Source: Wikileaks

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LIVE: Above Phone Above The Rules Webinar
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Join us for our first webinar starting in a few minutes.

https://stream.abovephone.com

200 People Are Playing Above The Rules
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I'm happy to report, even with last minute switch up - our first webinar was a big success.

200 people came out to learn about cutting-edge free software and privacy tech that will help free people from outside surveillance and control. The chat was ablaze with questions and our streaming server handled the load well, we had a blast!

Thanks to everyone who showed up, and to all of our partners who helped us promote! We're now working on the edits and will have a replay available for peeps on our mailing list.

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Remember, we have our November promotion going on. Use code ABOVENOVEMBER111 for $111.00 off of our best phones.

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USA government mafia hijacks two humans for running the ‘Z-Library’ sharing ring

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-indicts-two-russians-for-running-the-z-library-piracy-ring221117/

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-russian-nationals-charged-running-massive-e-book-piracy-website

The U.S. Government has indicted two Russian nationals who stand accused of operating the ebook piracy site Z-Library. Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova were arrested in Argentina earlier this month and the U.S. plans to prosecute the pair for criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering.

#zlib #books

Listen in live with Colin Pape at 12:30 pm EST, 4:30 pm UTC for this weeks update!

Live on YouTube

https://youtu.be/z5P6pgmp3NA

And Odysee

https://odysee.com/@Presearch:4/weeklypresearchlivestream:f

FedCoin: It Starts With A Trial Run

A cashless society would be the nail in the coffin for liberty and freedom, offering centralization, the likes of which Marx could only dream.

The existence of a government backdoor or spyware becomes a real possibility, and given the State’s track record, a real likelihood. Then, of course, the ability to track, freeze, and even set expiry dates on money, will be marketed as “features” to protect the public.

As for the 5.9 million Americans considered “unbanked,” i.e., those who have no checking or savings accounts, (the poor, weak, and vulnerable) they can expect life to get more difficult. This is the price we pay for free market intervention.

Earlier in the week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York made the announcement.

Some of the largest financial institutions are involved in this 12-week program:

BNY Mellon, Citi, HSBC, Mastercard, PNC Bank, TD Bank, Truist, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo.

Plus:

The technology is being provided by SETL with Digital Asset, powered by Amazon Web Services. Swift, the global financial messaging service provider, is also participating in the initiative to support interoperability across the international financial ecosystem.

Would you like to know who else is was working with the Feds? Courtesy of Coindesk:

"Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was, until last week, a major political donor – he gave $5.2 million to U.S. President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and spent another $40 million supporting mainly Democratic candidates ahead of the November midterm elections – and an influential figure in Washington.

Bankman-Fried regularly met with regulators and lawmakers, weighing in on how the crypto industry should be regulated. He was a vocal supporter of one bill, in particular: the bipartisan Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act (DCCPA), a still-in-progress bill…"

We know for certain CBDCs are coming, as well as more regulation. And given the trajectory of both, a cashless society is too. What is less certain is whether or not Sam Bankman-Fried, for his culpability in what may amount to one of the largest thefts of all time, will ever see jail time.

Source: Zerohedge

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NextCloud Collectives: Collaborative Knowledge Base for Communities & Activists
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Sharing knowledge across a team can be challenging, typically within our organizations we have used one-off documents. Using a knowledgebase app like NextCloud collectives can be super useful as each document links directly to other documents in the knowledgebase. It allows for different groups to manage their own documents, perfect for organizational methodologies like sociocracy.

Do you think your Freedom Cell or community group would benefit from a shared knowledgebase?

https://nextcloud.com/blog/all-about-collectives-its-founders-mission-and-use-cases-create-a-collective-today/

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The FBI recently revealed that two Russian nationals, Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova, have been charged with criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering for operating Z-Library, an online archive of thousands of pirated books.

Following the seizing of Z-Library numerous alternatives appeared, including ZLibrary.To and Anna's Archive.

“Anna”, who was one of the driving forces behind the Pirate Library, decided to release her own site, simply called “Anna’s Archive“.

Anna’s Archive is a meta-search engine that can find content from third-party ‘pirate’ sources. This includes direct downloads through Library Genesis forks and Z-Library.

Follow Derrick Broze's Daily News for more updates

Dimming The Sun With Solar Geoengineering
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The New Yorker released a piece today bringing Solar Engineering back into the public conversation.
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The idea behind solar geoengineering is essentially to mimic what happens when volcanoes push particles into the atmosphere; a large eruption, such as that of Mt. Pinatubo, in the Philippines, in 1992, can measurably cool the world for a year or two.

This scheme, not surprisingly, has few public advocates, and even among those who want to see it studied the inference has been that it would not actually be implemented for decades.

Others, around the world, however, are working to speed up that timeline. There are at least three initiatives under way that are studying the potential implementation of solar-radiation management, or S.R.M., as it is sometimes called: a commission under the auspices of the Paris Peace Forum, composed of fifteen current and former global leaders and some environmental and governance experts, that is exploring “policy options” to combat climate change and how these policies might be monitored; a Carnegie Council initiative of how the United Nations might govern geoengineering; and Degrees Initiative, an academic effort based in the United Kingdom and funded by a collection of foundations, that in turn funds research on the effects of such a scheme across the developing world. The result of these initiatives, if not the goal, may be to normalize the idea of geoengineering.

It would take only a tiny fraction of that effort to inject aerosol particles into the stratosphere. (Sulphur dioxide is the most commonly discussed candidate, but aluminum, calcium carbonate, and, most poetically, diamond dust, have also been proposed.) A recent article in the Harvard Environmental Law Review estimates that the “direct costs of deployment—collecting the precursor materials for aerosols, putting them into the sky, monitoring, and so on—would be . . . as low as several billion dollars a year.”

Any country with a serious air force could probably release sulphur from planes in the upper atmosphere. You might not even need a country: it would cost Elon Musk, currently the world’s richest man, far less to fund such a mission than it did to buy Twitter—and he’s already got the rockets.

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