Re: doxing - I was briefly ashamed when Eric suggested that wearing a t-shirt
with Maxwell's equations on it might be a sign of insecurity. My tattoos are
all logico-mathematical. And like wearing a pink shirt to high school in '80s
Texas, I'm secure enough to wear them without any persistent shame. 8^D I can't
even count the number of times I was challenged to a fight just because of the
color of my shirt. Luckily, I knew how to fight.
But similar to the poor sods recently deported to El Salvador, I often think it's a Good
Thing for people to, say, fly Confederate flags or get nazi tattoos. The trick is knowing
which information is a trigger for doxing and which isn't. A neighbor here in Oly asked
me what my 3 Arrows flag means. I said "It's an AntiFa flag." She seemed to
have an aneurysm and went off about how AntiFa is a terrorist organization. I tried to
explain the history of the Iron Front and whatnot. But she was having none of it.
First they came for the Real Madrid fans; and I did not speak out ...
On 3/28/25 10:14 AM, steve smith wrote:
On 3/27/25 10:14 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
There used to be this thing called the White Pages. Somehow life went on.
But how is a smart-ass to show off by ripping a printed phonebook in half with
bare hands?
https://www.artofmanliness.com/living/games-tricks/how-to-tear-a-phone-book-in-half/
If your comment is relevant to "doxing":
As a PI in the late 70s I reluctantly (ashamedly?) paid for a reverse index
copy of the White Pages every year which allowed anyone to trivially look up a
name/address by phone number and/or trivially find the name/phone-number at a
given address. I don't remember the (significant) cost but it did reflect the
effort required (access to the original data in digital form and then access to
a mainframe to do the sorting/formatting) followed by traditional
typeset/print. The copy-cost was order $100s which was non-trivial to someone
whose hourly rate was a whopping $10/hr.
The highest ROI was often finding addresses with no phone-number affiliated... this could mean several things, but as likely as not might mean someone hiding from "the law" as was so easy in those days. In following builders whose long-game was to build a lot of credit and then skip town, it was not uncommon for them to hand off some of their ill-gotten non-movable assets to another builder in the same "syndicate" which might even include their home... sometimes a rental, sometimes sold at a discount, etc. So when a known debt-skip individual left town, if the person taking over their home (rent or own) had a modest chance of being yet another of the same ilk to show up on the creditor's skip-trace searches any time now. Being ready for this was like cash in the bank for me. Most of these folks had a number of aliases, so the person they were looking for would never show up on any registries or indices... but the haystack could be reduced significantly by looking at
these negative spaces.
I was very shy about TV-PI stunts like looking up a neighbor's name/number and
calling them or showing up at their door pretending to be or know things I
didn't/wasn't, though I do think I did toy with it a little on acutely
difficult cases.
I ached for digital access to some of this data. I had a partner in a small business who ran a time-share business for small businesses using a CP/M machine with each client holding their own (tiny by today's standards) hard-disk. We would move the computer from business to business in half-day blocks and (gently) hook up their private drive (obviating risks of vibration/shock when moving hard drives around). I vaguely remember that we toyed with NorthStar but they never delivered a hard-drive solution in our timeframe (I left Uni in 1980). The state of the art included creating a custom BIOS... He was a Computer Engineering grad student and had enough cash to front the gear. My role was mostly being tech savvy enough to deliver the machine and set it up with their own hard-drive and get them booted into the applications (Peachtree, Visicalc, WordStar, custom Basic apps for mail lists, labels, etc). I had a lot of business contacts (mostly lawyers, related) as
well. We had a daisywheel printer we also delivered with the computer and even modded a used IBM Selectric but by the time I left, we had not gotten it reliable enough to replace the daisy-wheel.
All of this is pretty much trivial in today's technology including consumer-OCR.
BTW, I wasn't complaining about the .onion address, just entertained to
discover there was such a thing and curious about what the implications of it
might be. And offering a little context to any other Philistines (beyond
myself) who were unaware of any of this.
The world definitely "moves on" (quote from Stephen King's Gunslinger character
in Dark Tower franchise).
A few years ago I was under the illusion that i could "keep up" but it is evident to me
now that I can at best clutch at the trailing, tattering edges of the world as it "moves
on".
My "bar friends" (GPT, etc) help a little but as gets pointed out regularly
hear, I am probably often being badly mislead as they seem only to be capable of
stochastic parroting of (sophisticated) rumours about things.
Oh, the benefits of a finite lifespan! (you Xer's and younger may not enjoy
that benefit?)
*From:*Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *steve smith
*Sent:* Thursday, March 27, 2025 8:59 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] DOGEQuest
Not clear on the construction of your link? Is it a bit.ly like hash run by
the onion?
With a tiny bit of research I now understand that .onion TLD addressses are
only accessible through the TOR browser... Is .onion a twilight-web (vs
darkweb)?
original article?
https://www.404media.co/dogequest-site-claims-to-dox-tesla-owners-across-the-u-s/
I recommend the following to reluctant/ashamed Tesla Owners:
https://stealmytesla.com/
<begin Tangent>
Doxing in general is chilling even when inadvertent or "mild". In 2020 I was (mildly) shocked to discover that voter-registration data at the
address level is publicly available. Of the 4 houses on our lane, every one had one "independent" and the second registration was split between
Donkeys and Elephants. Unfortunately "independent" in the other (besides myself) cases almost assuredly maps onto rabid-liberatarian
crypto-conservative 2nd amendment. Those registered Red/Blue were the women. And I think any one on the lane looking this info up would come to the same
conclusions. Our bumper stickers are small but definitely not MAGA. I hate even having to be registered. There seems to be some ambiguity between
"independent" and "unaffiliated"... I think "independent" sometimes means "Indepenent Party", other times it means
"unaffilliated"? messy, ambiguous?
My daughters both finally went EV about 1.5 years ago. YungerDotter opted into TSLA
for myriad reasons unrelated to being a Muskophile. She works in a fairly young/startup
techBro company in Denver where their ModelY doesn't stand out in the parking lot at all
and they live in a semi-MAGA neighborhood of Denver (Parker) where the neighbors are more
likely to give them a thumbs up for their "choice". Her partner is a project
manager for a Raytheon division doing satellite tasking. The Model Y is also not out of
place in that parking lot and at least half of his peers are probably rabid proMusk if
not proMAGA or DOGE. So they aren't acutely worried about much vandalism/etc at either
end of their commute(s) but it has made them acutely aware of a lot of things they had
been able to not think too much about previously. They are both counter-aligned with
DOGE/MAGA/MUSK in virtually every way and this is just one more reminder of the impedance
mismatch in their work/
home choices. They both plead Golden Handcuffs. Dotter is considering
leaving the (clearly questionable) realm of data-center development to join the
Japanese iSpace lunar-robotics company (branch in Denver). She's struggling
with what that spiritual trade-space looks like. Or she could go back to
pushing liquor, mortgages, or managing trust-fund-babies' money for them?
elderDotter went with the bargain Bolt used from Hertz. She fits right in
in Portland, on both ends of her commute and everywhere in between. I suspect
the depreciation of her sister's TSLA exceeds the entire purchase price (with
incentives) of the Bolt. If NIH funding (esp for virology and third-world
viruses at that) tanks (RKjr) she will be very glad not to have taken on a new
silly debt the size of a TSLA.
FWIW, they *both* manage a roughly 60 mile RT commute 4-5 days a week with
Level 1 charging at home only... (couple of bucks per RT) they need a weekend
day to catch up for the slow daily deficit of charge. Keeping the battery
even more mid-range than the defaults is also a good strategy for battery life.
I do wish on each of them a DIY PV/inverter setup strictly for their EV
charging for a (near) carbon-neutral commute... but I'm not living close
enough to effect this for them directly.
<double-tangent>
My own EV adventure includes my near end-of-life Volt PHEV. I bought
it at 166k (in 2017) with a failing traction battery and put in (non-trivial) a
95k used battery which after about 60k miles is now struggling (I'm able to
manage it with various techniques which I would not wish on anyone else) but no
longer can get the EV-only trips I used to... I pretty much have to burn .1-.3
gallons of petrol with every RT to LA, Espanola, Pojoaque. As the weather
warms, this may get better. I picked up Ford's bargain version with low miles
a few weeks ago and it will displace the otherwise happy Prius I bought for
Mary a couple of years ago. It also (by design limits) wants to burn a tiny
bit of gas for most RTs from home... most notably the 2500' climb to Los
Alamos. The Ford battery is just over 1/2 the capacity of the Volt (when new)
but at half the mileage, it performs nearly as well. Both vehicles are
showing a roughly 70mpg equivalent over their lifetimes,
but my idiosyncratic use is constantly raising that average...
I'm looking for a homeless person (to gift it to) with regular access
to a 110 outlet as the HVAC, entertainment system, and bucket seats are still
good enough to live in, and the EV range would allow for a few miles of daily
excursion or occasional relocation.
Unfortunately my Hypershell exo isn't able to fully make up for my recovery
limitations or I'd be "jogging" to Pojoaque for groceries with a backpack? 2 hr
round trip with only about 5lbs of tech overburden (maybe 8 if you include good sturdy
shoes and helmet if I start running too fast). With my HMD and a brain interface helmet
I could maybe be reading/responding to FriAM while the Exo FSD feature navigates me
to/from the market... maybe even knows the route inside the store so all I have to do is
reach out and pluck my groceries on command. If I had a humanoid robot, I wouldn't have
to go at all and if I shifted to HUEL or SOYLENT could skip that visit at all.. Just a
50lb bag of nutrients delivered monthly?
What is the line where I become it's meat-puppet or am deprecated
entirely? From what I see of the homeless and DOGE/MAGA aspirations, the
homeless folks are in line for deprecation before me but after immigrants.
</endTangent>
</endTangent>
On 3/27/25 8:01 AM, glen wrote:
I finally found the site I learned about from 404 Media:
http://dogeqstqzn2yjns2d6ccns7aa52tglno63ay2uv2orfvd7e23khcsxid.onion/
I admit it's a bit chilling.
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