Posted on 02/10/2025 7:43:42 AM PST by delta7
The Washington Post reported Friday that the United Kingdom’s deep state has demanded that Apple create a back door for them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud—what would be an unprecedented erosion of online privacy and civil liberties.
This works because once the UK seizes your data, they can hand that to the Feds in the states, and your Constitutional rights are NOT violated because the US government did not illegally seize it without a warrant.
The American Revolution Was Over This Very Issue And Starmer’s Government is Doing What King George III Did I store NOTHING in the cloud – EVER!!!!! Why? Because the government can order them to turn over whatever they want without your knowledge. Since they merely store it, they turn it over without blinking an eye. They have NO CONSTITUTIONAL interest in whatever it might be.
When they then create laws like they have on child pornography that the mere possession is a crime and they do not need to prove that you actually obtained it or from where, if they claim you had it in the cloud, that would be it. You do not even get to pack your bags or bring a toothbrush.
Under no circumstances ever store ANYTHING in the cloud, for you have no constitutional rights, and they can claim whatever they desire. They can put stud=ff in your account and send you to prison, saying it is yours and no judge will listen to you – EVER! The Washington Post reported that the British government’s undisclosed order was issued last month. It requires Apple to give officials blanket capability to view fully encrypted material. This means that Apple MUST assist British authorities on command. The Post noted that the access sought by the UK “has no known precedent in major democracies.”
The LEFT only cares about themselves, and if you dare to resist, you must be guilty. The Starmer government is destroying civilization, crumbling the very basic foundation of liberty. They want something – how dare you say no!!!!!!!!!!!!! The LEFT is ruthless, and this is how they destroy everything. Biden, when he was president, targeted guns with the end goal of disarming America entirely. He has stated: “No amendment to the Constitution is absolute.” The fundamental objective is to compel everyone to register every gun so they can enter your house without a warrant to seize your weapons.
The Fourth Amendment declares,…..
>“The cloud” is someone else’s server.
Just like this post. By using FR we engage in a trust relationship with its ownership that they will maintain individual profile and message content in a secure fashion and that they will release content to government only in accordance with their TOS.
I’m not going to be exhaustive nor am I a lawyer, but at least one cloud provider *says* in writing that they will not do what this writer alleges (turn over data without warrants, etc.; ref https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GYSDRGWQ2C2CRYEF)
There’s no technical reason one should fear a cloud per se; in fact they spend a lot of resources making sure subscribers’ data doesn’t get breached and are better at this than us and (most of) our home networks.
So then it comes back to trust. Do we trust FR if it were presented with a UK demand? Pretty readily; it’s not a multi-national company, its servers are in the US. Its leadership’s opinions largely align with ours on this topic.
Microsoft or Amazon or Google? Not very, despite the language. They do stand to be at financial risk if they defy the UK; and their leadership is definitely globalist. (The servers, however, are your choice and you can/should pick US servers).
In order to be exhaustively safe on this front you should not only skip direct cloud use but also all PC or mobile applications that store any files of yours of any sort in order to prevent falsely planted evidence. (Even so in the worst case I would expect the accused to demand that the audit trail on any such file be brought into evidence; the time/date, user identity, and IP from which supposed incriminating file X was uploaded would be exculpatory, and the lack of such information the same. It’s not like ye olde bag of drugs in the car; files come with a chain of custody).
Definitely, though, you owe yourself to know when you’re accidentally putting things in the world; what those are; and isolate their use. Too many applications, mobile apps, and IOT things will ‘share’ if you let them, which puts your data all over the place and further builds an easily read profile of your life for too many folks in and out of government to exploit.
Well, duh.
This is like any company “outsourcing” a core business dept. Absolute stupidity.
Can you store stuff off your PC/phone in a safe manner? Uhh, mebbe. You have to have an ironclad contract about only you can access. And, ditto on their not analysing the data for anything.
The, yah gotta weigh their ability to stay alive for how long you need the data. This is a dead-end tech.
Avoid.
Yes, and by the same standards Trump has had fou5r bankruptcies and been impeached twice. Yet, he has won three Presidential elections and turned a few hundred million dollars into billions. Likewise, Martin Armstrong, after your juvenile assessment, has advised almost all US President and world leaders about the effects of risky central bank policies and what represents sound economics. You on the other hand have done nothing.
Boy are they going to be disappointed when they get to mine.
“has advised almost all US President and world leaders about the effects of risky central bank policies and what represents sound economics.”
LOL!
Armstrong has a court order barring him from giving financial advice or associating with financial advisors.
No world leader is going to associate with a convicted liar and scammer.
“after your juvenile assessment”
I made no assessment. I just posted some facts.
Facts that you do not refute.
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United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
August 17, 2006 HEATHER TASKER, LAUREN MCDONOUGH
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
(212) 637-2600
FORMER CURRENCY TRADER PLEADS GUILTY
IN CONNECTION WITH $3 BILLION PONZI SCHEME
MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, announced that MARTIN A. ARMSTRONG,
a former currency trader and former head of Princeton Economics
International, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to
a charge of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, commodities
fraud and wire fraud, stemming from his $3 billion “Ponzi” scheme
involving securities known as “Princeton Notes.”
ARMSTRONG pleaded guilty today before United States
District Judge John F. Keenan to Count One of the Indictment,
which charges him with conspiracy to commit securities fraud,
commodities fraud and wire fraud. At his plea proceeding,
ARMSTRONG admitted that he defrauded investors by fraudulently
misrepresenting his trading performance track record to investors,
and by wrongfully commingling investor funds, contrary to the
representations to investors.
According to the Superseding Indictment filed against
ARMSTRONG in 2004, during the entire course of the scheme, from
1992 through 1999, approximately 139 victims — primarily
corporate investors — were fraudulently induced to purchase more
than $3 billion in so-called “Princeton Notes.” As is typical in
“Ponzi” schemes, earlier investors were repaid, the Indictment
charged, through funds contributed by later investors and, by the
time the scheme collapsed, investors had suffered losses in excess
of $700 million. The fraudulent conduct alleged in the Indictment
included: (1) making numerous fraudulent representations
concerning the value of assets in accounts that Armstrong
controlled; (2) fraudulent misrepresentations of Armstrong’s
trading performance; and (3) wrongful commingling of investor
funds.
In January 2002, Republic Securities, a broker-dealer
whose accounts Armstrong used to carry out his scheme, entered a
plea of guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud charges in
You made no assessment.
LOL
You also made zero intelligent comment on my original comment. Obviously you are a Trump hater since you view bankruptcy as a sign of failure. Your point. Not mine.
Ten years ago it was obvious that this was going to rank right up with "Don't Trust G**gle -- EVER!" but some people just can't be told and feel obligated to touch that re-hot burner to see for themselves.
You mean I can’t store my funny lol cat memes on the internet?
This article is rife with sensationalism.
Looks like Brexit had some unintended consequences. Try this in the EU and see what happens. Not so great Britain is lurching towards the 1968 film Fahrenheit 451.
I fully expect that the US will let the UK know that this would not be acceptable. If not…it’s over,
“Yep, two NAS boxes, redundant redundancy. Been doing that for a decade, RAID 1, never had a data integrity or loss issue.”
I have one also but it isn’t the only backup. Great idea except in a tornado or fire.
“You also made zero intelligent comment on my original comment. Obviously you are a Trump hater since you view bankruptcy as a sign of failure. “
I only posted facts. Facts you do not dispute.
Because you do not like those facts you personally attack my with a Salinsky lying tactic.
Of course, I expected nothing but better from a convicted liar.
“This article is rife with sensationalism.”
Armstrong, the convicted lying scammer, uses sensationalism to net suckers willing to send him money for his trash advice.
Two of his shills are on this thread hoping to drum up business with their lies.
I use a simple and copious USB stick between computers, and make interim back-up files on each, changing the label/name by adding date/time. The USB is the workhorse, and when a file is completed, then it is stored off.
And, yes, another comment mentioned redundancy. I back-regularly.
Get a home NAS device. That will allow you to store your docs on a drive that is accessible by your whole network, if you so choose, and it’s still private to you.
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Unix boxes here. I can shell into any box from any other box. Same with file transfers.
I have external drives also. They get run every two or three weeks, overnight.
“Cloud” means somebody else has your data and you have NO control over what they do with it. Bad JuJu.
“I use a simple and copious USB stick between computers, and make interim back-up files on each,”
I kind of do that now. My USB literally has the label “sneaker net”.
I back up my main PC regularly. It’s a good idea, except my older external drive died so I lost those backups. The cloud keeps calling me, and I keep ignoring it.
As to servers and "cloud" stuff, they too suffer the occasional crash. Read the EULAs close enough, and they accept precious little responsibility of your to-you precious files. Our precious files and their duplicates are right here, at my desk. My cloud....
All best.
>> Great idea except in a tornado or fire.
True, that. Or a theft of all the boxes. ;-)
“Get a home NAS device.”
I think that means Network Attached Storage? (Am researching online.)
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