Comments by "bruzote" (@bruzote) on "Edward Snowden: How Your Cell Phone Spies on You" video.

He will be ignored. President Eisenhower helped save the U.S.A. and the world from Nazism. He warned the US about the military-industrial complex. Did it change anything? No, because too many people count on their institutions to change things, not themselves. They think saying, "Yeah, that's a problem - go figure" in idle conversation is enough. Some other folks will organize and fight the problem and that is enough. It is not. So, how many people younger than 30 know about Eisenhower's shocking warning? It is shocking because he was the PRESIDENT of this country and formerly and literally the world's single most powerful general IN HISTORY. And he is ignored by most people. So, do you think Snowden will have made a difference. Almost certainly not. Not that all of those willing should not fight to the death against "the machine" (not easy to define, btw). However, humanity has a clear fate that AI will take over. First, it will be human authority and technology, and most people will be quite happy. Eventually, though, AI will rule everyone. How can you even stop the process if people won't stop it now, when there is the greatest chance of success (and even that is grim)? Yeah, in the long run, any surviving humans will never know who Snowden was. Of course, the AI will - it will learn from his example to shut down those who speak to power.
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@alphakennyone8 - I have yet to find a comment where the word "think" and "deepfake" belong together. Fortunately, wiser people (such as guests on shows) talk more prudently about these topics, rather than sowing blanket doubt or highly cynical accusations without evidence or sensibility involved.
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@VPXM2012 - Drive to Utah and take a look at the vast expanse of the government's data storage facilities (not to mention that which lies elsewhere).
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I like Potatoes - Just because you're wrong does not mean you have to associate someone with another dick who is also wrong.
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@tonychapman5753 - Snowden HAD to run to Russian. Do you think an ally was going to protect him from the US. Also, AFAIK, Snowden did NOT release everything. Assange has done that, but when I was last up-to-date on the topic, Snowden only shared with a few journalists what they had and they only released stuff relevant to the government overreach. Still, there may have things he should have best kept under wraps, however AFAIK overall he did little damage because what he revealed was well-known to foreign powers. Manning, on the other hand, was an out-and-out a**hole, doing everything possible to recklessly give away highly sensitive information regardless of the consequences. How people like that are allowed to live still puzzles me. Assange published it all, which - btw - empowered a LOT of bad people to genuinely AND DIRECTLY steal money from people and also ransom their data back to them (after hacking and encrypting computers).
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@Ošæs - Snowden has been remarkably honest about Russian, all considering his host country is run by a dictator who would not mind hearing nice things. Snowden is not agitating against Putin's government, but he has been clear he does not approve of them. He has also been clear that his situation precludes him from saying more. It's not like he has the power he used to have when working in the US. There is NOTHING Snowden can do to expose Putin's bad behavior. Nothing, in fact, he can do to uncover new things about US behavior. All Snowden can do now is talk about is publicly available knowledge.
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@Ošæs - Seriously? If he went to Denmark he would have been captured BEFORE HE ARRIVED. Even if he arrived, he would have ended up being taken back to the US.
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@gordon54321 - Snowden's actions came with a benefit and cost. The benefit was potentially tremendous, but the drones do nothing to capitalize on it. The costs are how others will now copy what the US did, not in how they can stop it. China and NK, for example, have great counter-intelligence already. They didn't need Snowden's advice.
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@bluecord85 - Seriously, list ten items that SNOWDEN exposed to the public. Remember, too, that Snowden is not Manning, or any of the other people releasing other things to WikiLeaks. I am asking about Snowden since you accuse him.
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- First of all, Snowden released what the GOVERNMENT is doing. The government has no business getting my information on my whereabouts by any means, from the phone company or not. Also, given how the phone companies use the PUBLICLY-OWNED airwaves for mobile devices, they CAN and SHOULD be regulated so they don't release my communication data to anybody including the government.
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@drifter402 - Good luck getting your personal information out of the facial recognition built by Facebook/DHS using all the photos submitted by all of those people whose choices you can't control or even track effectively. For example, FB let's you opt out of being ID'd in a pic, but last I checked it was a by-photo process. Further, that means THEY ALREADY USE EVERYONE'S FACE, OTHERWISE THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO FLAG YOU FOR PERMISSION IN THE FIRST PLACE!
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@norwegianblue2017 - Fox News is not your friend. Rupert Murdoch's brain-washing empire was never intended to inform you. It was intended to confuse you and solidify the immense power of him, his family, and super-rich people like him.
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@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587 - You claim Snowden put people "at risk". Maybe, but BY FAR the biggest risk concerning the long-term survival of an informed democracy is that so much hidden power ends up in the hands of the government that those in power can use it against the "voters" and the people (you, presumably) won't even know about it or be able to stop it (if they ever find out about it).
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@Samseed - Assange is a NARCISSiSTIC A*HOLE worse than Trump, Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer, Schiff, and Barr put together. He would do unimaginable damage if he had the same authority as any one of those people I mentioned.
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@Brandon P - Trump VERY clearly violated Congressional spending laws SPECIFICALLY designed to ensure their Constitutional prerogatives were not subverted by the President. Then his apologists made excuses that his subversion had no effect and was also completely reversed, both claims being wrong AND irrelevant to the fact Trump VERY CLEARLY violated Federal law and was not held accountable. In fact, he can thank the House Dems for that because they were more interested in a public opinion fight about Trump than trying him on a VERY CLEAR Constitutional violation of genuinely big significance. (When a President is REPEATEDLY warned he is violating the law and he does so anyway, going against the intent of the people's body of representation, and even specifically going against a law designed to prevent him from doing explicitly that, then the President is a clear and present danger to the Constitutional separation of powers.)
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Fortunately, Verizon surely won't gather my data, and certainly not sell it, nor slow down my service based on who I connect to. Not at all! And I am sure Verizon has never allowed blanket government surveillance. (Not including all the times they HAVE done that, or when they were part of the AT&T monopoly and that monopoly did so).
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@jackquinn4363 - Try shopping in the median food store. Try just finding a good job with only the median education of a Russian citizen. Yeah, great choice.
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@blacktoothfox677 - Maybe those low-wealth drones with faith in the system are stupid, but not those running it. Their key blindness is not realizing AI, by definition, will advance beyond their control.
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Now, one cannot even turn off the internal surveillance of the current phone models. THE BATTERY CANNOT BE REMOVED (and the off switch is only for the power-draining apps you like, not the cleverly minimalist apps that monitor signals that can call for undetected activation of spying technology on your phone).
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@Ronan - Of course, the people should remember it only knows what it hears because it can evaluate ALL OF THE SOUND it can detect.
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@minamo - Even your email attachments are scanned, including ZIP files. For example, I was able to easily locate a picture of my sister-in-law in Verizon's Yahoo mail because they literally had a tiling system SHOWING me all of the email picture attachments. So, even if you don't share with Facebook, your pictures with Gmail and Yahoo are scanned anyway, even if they don't have a system where the metadata is shared with you.
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