Ryder Wilson

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Article 175 of the Penal Code is currently a hot topic in Japan. This law prohibits the dissemination or display of "obscene material" to an unspecified or large number of people. For example, selling uncensored depictions of genitalia, even in manga form, is highly likely to result in arrest and severe penalties. Overseas users may have also seen parts of Japanese content blacked out or blurred. Even Japanese people cannot explain what benefits these censorship practices bring to society. While I do not advocate for conforming cultural practices to those of other countries, this practice, which is inexplicable even to Japanese people, should be changed, and I would like to bring it up for discussion in the Diet.

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1. Not true. Minor exception. This is a long-standing conspiracy dating back to the very inception of malware, in essence the idea governments and anti-malware vendors are cooperating with each other for espionage. The reality is this is simply improbable. Not every anti-malware vendor resides in the United States and not every anti-malware vendor has to cooperate with the United States government. Additionally, some anti-malware services may feel hostile toward the United States government and actively disregard any form of communication. However, there have been some instances where the United States government has partnered with anti-malware vendors and/or security companies to target high-profile targets (sex traffickers, terrorist organizations) and requested assistance. It would not be outside the realm of possibility to intentionally insert an exception in highly targeted operations. This has been semi-documented in the past whereas Google identified a malware campaign in the Middle East and it was discovered to be a United States military operation targeting individuals believed to be part of ISIS. Finally, Magic Lantern is old. It is old as dirt. It was discussed in the early-2000's. Malware has changed a lot since then. The anti-malware industry has changed a lot. This sort of operation (wide spread espionage via malware) just isn't really possible without global cooperation, including China and Russia. 2. Not true. Long standing schizo theory. Google it. Even real privacy schizos know it's not true. The concern arose when security researchers identified a debug switch in INTEL ME. Additionally, if this were true, network traffic monitoring software would identify this. There is also open source solutions, you don't need INTEL ME or anything else. The exception to this is when the United States government intercepts hardware and places malware on it or intentionally modifies it. This is true. 3. Partially true. There is some speculation, but basically the NSA recommended Dual_EC_DRBG to vendors as a standard despite criticism of it and known vulnerabilities in which could allow exploitation. Basically, the NSA was recommending a known bad thing. 4. No idea. I don't do anything with frequencies and radios. 5. This is true. 6. This is true. However, this is not exclusive to the NSA. 7. Partially true. The United States government owns a bunch of Tor nodes and monitors it, the monitoring however is for entry and exit of Tor. However, this cannot easily identify you. If this were the case then there would be much less child pornography and fentanyl sales on Tor. Additionally, they would use this to heavily crackdown on ransomware groups. Most of the time people are caught on Tor from information leaking from Tor (long story, basically cookies) 8. Partially true. It has been documented several times large tech organizations are aware of critical exploits and (based on existing contracts with them) may notify them before anyone else due to the risk to critical infrastructure of the United States. Microsoft has big contracts with the United States. This isn't a surprise. Furthermore, it was been speculated heavily that Microsoft has delayed patches to aid the United States military in offensive cyber operations (APT NightEagle) 9. This is true. However, to the extent they can "take it over" is ambiguous because your cars electronics and GPS are not connected to your steering wheel. 10. IoT is a huge piece of shit and is compromised all the time. Seriously, don't use IoT devices. 11. No idea.

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