Unfortunately, it’s not gonna be just the immigrants that ice is gonna use this for. They are eventually going to use it to go after any of the “undesirables“ that they no longer want in society. Unfortunately, that includes those of us who are against this administration. I do not see an end in sight to those they will use this against. If this administration continues and we do not reclaim this country over half of the people in this country are doomed.
Threatening to ban TikTok was Trump's way to pressure ByteDance to hand over the US user data to Oracle (Larry Ellison is one of Trump's biggest donors).
Would it be possible to poison the well? As in, if people create fake profiles with fake photos of people with fake tattoos, even multiple people wearing the same outfit in the same video, would that slow it down? It might waste a day or two of an agents time, or even a van load of ICE thugs waiting all day for someone who doesn't exist. One or two people doing this would have no effect, but tens of thousands...
You don't have to overwhelm them, just corrupt the data to make the probabilities further away from 100%. Checking would require human intervention, slowing down the automation.
Compare it with training an AI- what would happen if someone who knew when the training was happening just happened to change a few digits of select Scientific Laws on Wikipedia for a few hours, like changing the eighth digit of Pi. Few would notice the change on Wikipedia, but everyone would see that the AI data made no sense.
I don't think you understand how predictive models work or how vast the datasets already are.
When they have millions of records that can be cross-checked automatically across multiple databases from various agencies and other sources, a few thousands of falsified data would be like a drop in the ocean. The system itself could easily disregard it if it doesn't match anything they already have.
Do you think those falsified leads would go so far down the pipeline that they would send vans with agents to random addresses?
They seem to be doing that already, turning up to houses looking for people who moved out weeks ago, trying to get access to the Dodgers Stadium etc. You're right about the scale and that it's a drop in the ocean but not about the probability- a data set that they can't rely on 100% is something that isn't always going to hold up in a court of law.
My IT son convinced me to move my VPN location to another country and it works. Do an internet search and you’ll get search results from that country and in their language. A couple of other things to consider, use a search engine like Duck Duck Duck Go that won’t track you, and if you use Safari activate Private Mode. And lastly, check your cookies, you’ll be blown away who is tracking you. Delete those sites or click Deny so they don’t pop up again. Government sites are persistent assholes.
I’m sure they’re mining Substack too.
Unfortunately, it’s not gonna be just the immigrants that ice is gonna use this for. They are eventually going to use it to go after any of the “undesirables“ that they no longer want in society. Unfortunately, that includes those of us who are against this administration. I do not see an end in sight to those they will use this against. If this administration continues and we do not reclaim this country over half of the people in this country are doomed.
He's out of it and Miller must be pleased.
Threatening to ban TikTok was Trump's way to pressure ByteDance to hand over the US user data to Oracle (Larry Ellison is one of Trump's biggest donors).
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/17/tiktok-oracle-us-traffic-china-access/
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/25/trump-administration-reportedly-negotiating-an-oracle-takeover-of-tiktok/
From there, it was simple enough to give access to Peter Thiel's Palantir as well.
So we know what to do then. Delete your accounts and destroy tiktok
Thanks for your analysis. Makes perfect sense.
Palantir is part of a criminal enterprise to enrich itself and enslave us. They need to be arrested, indicted and prosecuted
It's Peter Thiel.
Only a massive RICO investigation would get results, but even that is highly improbable now that Trump has complete control of the DoJ.
I knew the TikTok "ban" was all about buying time to insert a federal "backdoor" to do just this thing.
So everyone should get off TicToc?????
Would it be possible to poison the well? As in, if people create fake profiles with fake photos of people with fake tattoos, even multiple people wearing the same outfit in the same video, would that slow it down? It might waste a day or two of an agents time, or even a van load of ICE thugs waiting all day for someone who doesn't exist. One or two people doing this would have no effect, but tens of thousands...
That would never work. Humans can't overwhelm automated systems.
You don't have to overwhelm them, just corrupt the data to make the probabilities further away from 100%. Checking would require human intervention, slowing down the automation.
Compare it with training an AI- what would happen if someone who knew when the training was happening just happened to change a few digits of select Scientific Laws on Wikipedia for a few hours, like changing the eighth digit of Pi. Few would notice the change on Wikipedia, but everyone would see that the AI data made no sense.
I don't think you understand how predictive models work or how vast the datasets already are.
When they have millions of records that can be cross-checked automatically across multiple databases from various agencies and other sources, a few thousands of falsified data would be like a drop in the ocean. The system itself could easily disregard it if it doesn't match anything they already have.
Do you think those falsified leads would go so far down the pipeline that they would send vans with agents to random addresses?
They seem to be doing that already, turning up to houses looking for people who moved out weeks ago, trying to get access to the Dodgers Stadium etc. You're right about the scale and that it's a drop in the ocean but not about the probability- a data set that they can't rely on 100% is something that isn't always going to hold up in a court of law.
Musk can't quite present the $$$ they want for it.
My IT son convinced me to move my VPN location to another country and it works. Do an internet search and you’ll get search results from that country and in their language. A couple of other things to consider, use a search engine like Duck Duck Duck Go that won’t track you, and if you use Safari activate Private Mode. And lastly, check your cookies, you’ll be blown away who is tracking you. Delete those sites or click Deny so they don’t pop up again. Government sites are persistent assholes.
I saw somewhere that part of some legislation (perhaps the big bogus bill) is opening up the door to stop VPN privacy.
They’ll try. My VPN service is outside the US.
What took you do long?
Ditto facebook, instagram, x, google search, ALL OF IT!!!
There has been no privacy for 20 years. How do youthink the tech billionaures BEXAMEruch in the first place?
Anybody actually think any of the data breaches were accidents??
It does make a lot more sense now. I think most of us inherently knew that social media was evil. But we had no idea to what degree.
Thank you for your writing. I appreciate your time and effort.
Thanks for not putting that behind a paywall.
I think…Can’t unring that bell.
This makes a great deal of sense, and their plans surely won’t be limited to Tic-tok. Keep pushing and don’t stop. Please!