Episodes
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Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker explain their new course, a cybersecurity tutorial series called HACKproof 2.0
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Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about the serious cybersecurity attack called "SIM swapping" and how to escape it.
SIM SWAPPING GUIDE (FOR PURCHASE)
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/how-to-evade-sim-swap-scams/GUEST
→ https://x.com/realUrbanHackerWATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Tannahill, experienced in-the-trenches Bitcoin and Monero user, about an assortment of topics: Ross Ulbricht, Samourai Wallet, the “hijacking” of Bitcoin, the Bitcoin “podconf” phenomenon, PayNym vs Silent Payments, what Monero maxis get wrong, and the crypto scene in Singapore.
GUEST
→ https://twitter.com/maxtannahill
→ https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/MaxTannahill (Previous episode)SAMOURAI WALLET LEGAL DEFENSE FUND DONATIONS
→ https://www.p2prights.org/donate.htmlASHIGARU WALLET LINKS
→ http://ashigaruprvm4u263aoj6wxnipc4jrhb2avjll4nnk255jkdmj2obqqd.onion/download/
→ https://ashigaru.rs/
→ https://ashigaru.rs/news/WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
1:30 – Ross Ulbricht and what next
5:55 – Update on Samourai Wallet
9:08 – The “hijacking” of Bitcoin
19:10 – Roger Ver under attack
20:00 – Thoughts on Ashigaru Wallet
25:05 – Bitcoin Strategic Reserve
26:55 – How many “Bitcoiners” actually use bitcoin?
27:15 – The worst advocates of Bitcoin
35:30 – Lies About Bitcoin book doomed to fail
28:50 – What would Max like to see Trump do for crypto
44:25 – PayNym vs Silent Payments
51:20 – What do Monero maximalists get wrong?
58:30 – What are the dumbest things you hear about Bitcoin privacy?
1:02:40 – Swaps services and atomic swaps
1:08:20 – Crypto scene in Singapore
1:12:30 – Singapore politics
1:16:00 – The UK dystopian moment
1:22:15 – Final thoughts
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Emmanuel Maggiori, author of several books on artificial intelligence and Silicon Valley. Specifically, Maggiori speaks on the disappointments of these over-hyped industries, the crazy over-funding, and the simultaneous culture of workers who have nothing to do. The discussion also veers toward AI and the reasons why AI in its current form has limited benefits, many unsolvable flaws, and will not match the hype attached to it: not even close.
GUEST
→ https://emaggiori.com/
→ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Emmanuel-Maggiori/author/B08Q468YQ4
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/
CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Timeline
00:00 – Introduction
1:30 – Guest background
3:25 – SiliCONned: the waste of capital in tech investment
18:25 – The failures of VC funding
21:00 – Culture of no work at tech companies
29:00 – Reckoning coming to Big Tech
30:30 – Smart Until It’s Dumb: the inherent limitations of machine learning
38:30 – Data sets make AI much more inefficient than most people realise
41:45 – How to trick AI
45:10 – How can locally hosted LLMs store so much in so little space?
49:35 – Explaining Nvidia's DLSS
55:00 – How marketing exaggerates AI
1:01:00 – Rapid fire questions
1:03:06 – Can digital things act like human brains?
1:08:00 – Final thoughts
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
Paul Rosenberg, who was at the trial of Ross Ulbricht, shares some thoughts from previous episodes of Watchman Privacy.
Ross Ulbricht was pardoned by President Donald Trump on January 22, 2025.
Two clips combined (in order):
Clip 1: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/CypherpunkApes
Clip 2: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/PaulRosenberg2WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about VPN discrimination: how companies delay, deny, defend blocking your access to their service, even as a paid customer, if you use a privacy-preserving technology like virtual private networks.
GUEST
→ https://x.com/realUrbanHackerWATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Joshua Sheats of the podcast Radical Personal Finance. They discuss Joshua’s productivity habits, education, homeschooling, gold ownership, the Corporate Transparency Act, China and Malaysia, and arrestproofing.
GUEST
→ https://www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/
→ https://x.com/JoshuaSheats
→ https://radicalpersonalfinance.libsyn.com/replay-456-protect-your-money-by-arrest-proofing-yourself-and-your-children
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/
CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Timeline
00:00 – Introduction
4:05 – Joshua’s reading habits
8:45 – University education?
14:00 – Gold ownership strategy
23:10 – Corporate Transparency Act
31:34 – Thoughts on China
43:00 – Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia
50:20 – Homeschooling
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Episode 149 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Torchlight Chat – The Corrupting Influence of Sponsors
Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about all the ways in which sponsorships and paid influence fully corrupt a content creator.
GUEST
→ https://x.com/realUrbanHacker
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/
CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
Gabriel Custodiet speaks for a third time with Joe Doran of Trends Journal. Joe lays out his view of the present and future of artificial intelligence and other technocratic agendas as we begin 2025.
GUEST
→ https://trendsjournal.com/
→ https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00J9R7PHQ/allbooks (Joe Doran's books)
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)TIMELINE
0:00 - Beginning
2:10 - Response to Venice AI interview
6:25 - How would AI intellectual property laws work?
11:30 - Problems with the progress of AI
14:50 - What's really happening behind the scenes of AI development
18:50 - Favourite representations of AI in fiction
21:40 - Trends of 2025
26:30 - Smart cities
31:00 - Progress vs fulfillment
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with the Monero proponent AlaskaAnon about how to live on monero to enhance freedom and get around the fascist banking system. They also discuss Alaska and some philosophical ideas pertaining to free living.
GUEST
→ https://x.com/repeal19thUSA
→ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHd71cejcKU (another interview with Alaska)
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Timeline
00:00 – Introduction
1:20 – Origin of AlaskaAnon
5:15 – How do you measure a cryptocurrency’s success?
9:50 – How important is combating inflation?
16:30 – AlaskaAnon’s Monero stack
23:25 – How to be unbanked
34:23 – How to not maximally comply
46:50 – Why Alaska?
53:50 – Advanced monero topicsMusic by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker review the Monero Nodo: a new pre-built Monero node project with custom hardware and software.
GUEST
→ https://x.com/realUrbanHackerLINKS
→ https://moneronodo.com/
→ https://twitter.com/MoneroNodo
→ https://twitter.com/douglastuman
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/2024/12/15/monero-nodo-teardown/
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Diego Salazar (rehrar) of Stack Wallet and Stack Duo (pared down Monero/Bitcoin version of Stack Wallet). Diego gives an introduction to the wallet and why it’s one of the very few Monero and Bitcoin wallets that you should be considering.
GUEST
→ https://stackwallet.com/ (Stack Wallet is multi-coin; Stack Duo is Monero/Bitcoin)
→ https://twitter.com/stack_wallet
→ https://t.me/stackwallet (Telegram)WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Timeline
00:00 – Introduction
1:50 – Origins of Stack Wallet and Stack Duo
8:00 – Does running two wallets pose any problems?
14:50 – How does Stack fund itself?
20:12 – How do you run all your multi-coin nodes?
27:40 – Stack’s features and future
30:55 – PayNyms vs Silent Payments
36:00 – Is Diego afraid as a developer of self-custody wallets?
40:52 – What does Stack know about its users
42:35 – Final thoughtsMusic by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker speak about the old concept of so-called trusted computing, and whether or not this original betrayal of technological freedom has cost us dearly to this day.
GUEST
→ https://x.com/realUrbanHacker
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
Gabriel Custodiet speaks about the role of psychopaths in the structuring of our world.
FIRST EPISODE (Episode 4)
→ https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/Psychopaths
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/
CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/the-ai-anti-technocracy-course/
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YouTube has censored Watchman Privacy. Time to take action.
https://watchmanprivacy.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/WatchmanPrivacy
https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy
https://www.bitchute.com/privacy/
https://rumble.com/c/WatchmanPrivacy
https://escapethetechnocracy.com/digitalmarket/ -
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Michael Yon, global traveler, former highly skilled war correspondent, and first-hand reporter on mass migration (invasion) of myriad groups of people into the West. They explore the conspiracy of countries such as China to invade the US via unrestricted warfare: flooding the country with drugs, setting up their own banking and police institutions in the US, and leading the charge of cultural degradation.
GUEST
→ https://michaelyon.com/
→ https://x.com/Michael_Yon
→ https://substack.com/@michaelyon
→ https://rumble.com/c/c-6595237/videos
→ https://odysee.com/@dougcasey:5/doug-casey's-take-ep.-339-michael-yon
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Timeline
00:00 – Introduction
2:40 – What role does the IOM play in migration/invasion of the West
8:00 – Unrestricted Warfare
20:45 – How China influences South and Central America
29:40 – How will all of this play out?
41:50 – Child trafficking
47:50 – Satanism
49:15 – Final thoughtsMusic by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Gabriel and Urban discuss the weird world of second-hand username marketplaces, the corrupt underbelly of these markets, Telegram scamming, jailbreaking tractors, and some other bizarre things one can find in the dark (and not-so-dark) parts of the Internet.
Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with original cryptographer Paul Rosenberg about the origins of morality, the epic adventures of the cryptographers of Laissez-Faire City, which cryptographic tools governments will attack next, the anti-capitalist sentiments in cryptography, the problems of hierarchy, liberation theology, the problems of intellectual property, and the ethics of gene editing.
PREVIOUS EPISODES
→ Episode 16: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/PaulRosenberg
→ Episode 54: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/PaulRosenberg2
→ Episode 96: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/CypherpunkApesGUEST
→ https://freemansperspective.com/
→ https://freemansperspective.com/product/the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever-e-book/
→ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Paul-Rosenberg/author/B07TYTP6CD
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Timeline
00:00 – Introduction
1:50 – Where do morals come from?
4:55 – Prague Hacker’s Conference
12:44 – Stories from Laissez-Faire City
20:30 – What cryptographic tool will the governments go after next
24:40 – When Paul met the guy who invented DNS
26:15 – Anti-capitalist sentiments in cryptography
31:21 – The knowledge problem of centralized systems
36:20 – The laziness of “right to” culture
39:00 – The problem of hierarchic for anarchic Christians
43:50 – Liberation Theology
47:25 – The problem of intellectual property
52:00 – Ethics of CRISPR and gene editing
56:40 – Final thoughts
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
Gabriel and Urban discuss the 2024 Monerotopia event: new technologies in Monero, changes we recommend, Starlink and Moneronodo, other privacy crypto, and how the event functioned in an antifragile way.
Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
→ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
→ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
→ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
→8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
→https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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