Episodes

  • 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

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    β†’ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
    β†’ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

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    β†’https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • 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
    β†’ Episode 16: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/PaulRosenberg
    β†’ Episode 54: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/PaulRosenberg2
    β†’ Episode 96: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/CypherpunkApes

    GUEST
    β†’ https://freemansperspective.com/
    β†’ https://freemansperspective.com/product/the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever-e-book/
    β†’ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Paul-Rosenberg/author/B07TYTP6CD


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    β†’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 β€œright 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

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  • 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
    β†’ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
    β†’ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
    β†’ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

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    β†’https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Kevin of Altair Tech: a shop in the US that sells home mining equipment, including devices they themselves have created. Altair Tech might be the solution that home miners have been looking for.

    PREVIOUS BITCOIN MINING EPISODES (START HERE IF NEW)
    β†’ https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/EconoAlchemistBitcoinMiningPrivacy
    β†’ https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/DiverterNoKYC

    GUEST
    β†’ https://altairtech.io/
    β†’ https://x.com/btctwatterpants (Kevin, the speaker)
    β†’ https://altairtech.io/blog/
    β†’ https://x.com/altair_tech
    β†’ https://altairtech.io/product/urlacher/


    WATCHMAN PRIVACY
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    β†’ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
    β†’ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

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    β†’https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    Timeline
    00:00 – Introduction
    1:20 – How Altair Tech solves problems of Bitcoin home mining
    7:40 – The Urlacher
    11:25 – The Bitaxe
    12:45 – Estimates of profits from home miners (check also at 32:22)
    14:50 – Highest end models
    16:00 – Kevin’s lessons from home mining
    20:00 – Choosing a mining pool
    22:30 – Privacy while mining
    23:45 – Common mistakes
    25:00 – Space heater miners
    26:08 – The Bitaxe phenomenon
    27:50 – Future of home mining
    28:30 – Big self-mining operations
    30:00 – Shipping time, etc.
    32:22 – Estimates of profits from home miners
    38:00 – Final thoughts

  • Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Will Freeman about the prevalence of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) and his solution: Deflock, which maps these anti-American tools across the globe.

    GUEST
    β†’ https://deflock.me/
    β†’ https://github.com/frillweeman/deflock
    β†’ https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-project-deflock-is-mapping-license-plate-surveillance-cameras-all-over-the-world/


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    β†’ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

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    β†’https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Erik Voorhees of Venice AI. They discuss how Venice takes a different approach to the Big Tech AI options: namely, it does not have access to your prompts, and it does not censor them. Along the way they discuss how surveillance and censorship manifests in the paternalistic AI industry, the future of open-source AI models, the IP question of AI, and why regulating AI might have unintended side effects.

    GUEST
    β†’ https://x.com/ErikVoorhees
    β†’ https://venice.ai/
    β†’ https://x.com/askvenice
    β†’ https://moneyandstate.com/blog/the-separation-of-mind-and-state (explanation of project)


    WATCHMAN PRIVACY
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    β†’ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
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    β†’https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    Timeline
    00:00 – Introduction
    3:27 – Privacy-invasion of Big Tech AI companies
    6:50 – How does Venice AI give the user privacy?
    9:55 – How long will non-account service last?
    10:25 – What does Venice (the city/concept) have to do with anything?
    11:40 – How do open-source models work in AI?
    16:50 – Phone version of AI (not app store version)
    18:05 – Censorship within AI
    24:42 – Uncensoring AI makes it faster and better
    25:55 – Other uncensored AI companies
    27:10 – Making AI β€œsafe”
    30:30 – IP question of AI
    34:45 – Who owns the creation of AI tools?
    35:10 – Any red lines where AI should be β€œregulated”?
    37:20 – Does Venice have any access to our prompts?
    38:15 – Venice AI vs self-hosted models
    39:40 – Would Venice ever train their own AI model?
    40:25 – Final thoughts

  • Gabriel and Urban discuss their recent free course on contributing to Tor. The course can be found at: https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/running-a-tor-relay-video-course/

    Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker

    Free course on Tor: https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/running-a-tor-relay-video-course/

    PREVIOUS TOR EPISODES MENTIONED
    β†’ https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/TorPartI
    β†’ https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/TorPartII

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    β†’https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • Gabriel and Urban discuss the recent cyberattack against The Internet Archive, details about how the company and its services function, and some thoughts about how we can start backing up the Internet ourselves.

    Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker

    Harddrive image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#/media/File:Incoming_additional_storage_at_Internet_Archive.jpg

    WATCHMAN PRIVACY
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    β†’ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
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    β†’https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • A discussion of cults and how they operate: including Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple, Aum Shinrikyo, Heaven’s Gate, and OneCoin

    Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker

    WATCHMAN PRIVACY
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    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Mike of Parallel Systems about the benefits of owning your own boat, of living in Poland to prepare for economic collapse, and of owning strategic denominations and versions of gold and silver. Mike also explains The Great Taking and his contrarian take on Javier Milei.

    GUEST
    β†’ https://parallelmike.com/
    β†’ https://parallelsystems.substack.com/
    β†’ https://rumble.com/ParallelSystems
    β†’ Podcast: Parallel Mike Podcast
    β†’ Coins of the realm episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLUy08kMhCQ

    WATCHMAN PRIVACY
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    β†’ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
    β†’ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

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    β†’https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    Timeline
    00:00 – Introduction
    2:24 – Father is a well-known British gangster
    8:10 – Why is Poland the place to await economic collapse?
    13:20 – How to own a boat
    20:52 – The Great Taking
    26:22 – Reading list: the corrupt monetary system
    30:03 – Recommendations for gold and silver
    40:04 – Is Javier Milei anti-establishment?
    45:10 – Final thoughts

  • Bitcoin Self-Sovereignty Course now available at https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/bitcoin-self-sovereignty/

    WATCHMAN PRIVACY
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    β†’ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
    β†’ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

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    β†’https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Shane/Rayo2 of the Vonu Podcast. They discuss a variety of topics regarding becoming invulnerable to coercion and escaping the servile society. Such strategies include unjobbing, living in a van or a shipping container, escaping to Mexico, and developing a homestead. Gabriel gets Shane’s thoughts on the recent 3D printed gun drama, Samourai Wallet, and self-sufficiency. His show is the Vonu Podcast.

    GUEST
    β†’ https://vonupodcast.com/
    β†’ https://libertyunderattack.com/
    β†’ https://paznia.com/

    WATCHMAN PRIVACY
    β†’ https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
    β†’ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
    β†’ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

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    β†’https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    Timeline
    00:00 – Introduction
    1:37 – What is Vonu?
    5:23 – Unjobbing
    9:30 – Living in a Van
    12:40 – Police interactions
    15:05 – Mexico an anarchist paradise?
    18:30 – Living in a shipping container
    20:05 – Thoughts on 3D printed gun drama
    22:25 – Shane’s views on Samourai Wallet
    25:10 – Developing a homestead and producing one’s own food
    29:35 – Other important aspects of self-sufficiency
    32:00 – What is P.A.Z.NIA?
    36:20 – How to organize anarchists?
    39:15 – Final thoughts

  • Why yes… yes they are.

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  • Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Morgan Lerette, a former mercenary with the private military company Blackwater in Iraq. They discuss the mechanics and geopolitics of PMCs.

    GUEST
    β†’ https://x.com/BlackwaterDude1 (Morgan Lerette on Twitter)
    β†’ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7P83DL6 (Guns, Girls, and Greed: I Was a Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq)

    WATCHMAN PRIVACY
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    β†’ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
    β†’ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

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    β†’https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    Timeline
    00:00 – Introduction
    1:50 – How do people react to your former occupation?
    3:00 – Fallujah
    3:50 – Relation to higher-ups at Blackwater
    5:50 – Blackwater enticements
    8:00 – Blackwater world-class facilities
    11:12 – Diplomatic immunity
    16:25 – Any personal consequences of being a mercenary?
    17:30 – Do PMC employees have to be of the same country of origin as the company?
    20:10 – Lerette’s big picture views of PMCs as their role in the world
    23:50 – Rapid Fire
    25:00 – High suicide rates for mercenaries
    25:55 – Utopian view of PMC proponents
    29:10 – Mistaken reasons to be in Iraq and Afghanistan; culture ignorance
    33:40 – Origins of human violence
    38:00 – Equipment as a mercenary
    42:10 – How to run your own PMC
    44:00 – Getting mind ready for daily conflict
    46:05 – Mercenaries vs traditional military
    50:00 – Reflections from military intelligence
    54:00 – Final thoughts

  • Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker explain PGP and how to use it.

    GUEST
    β†’ https://x.com/realUrbanHacker

    WATCHMAN PRIVACY
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    β†’ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
    β†’ https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

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    β†’https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

    Timeline
    00:00 – Introduction
    1:30 – Origins of encryption
    5:10 – Ways we use PGP without knowing
    8:50 – Why should someone get into PGP?
    11:05 – Using PGP for authentication
    17:50 – How can people start making use of PGP?
    22:10 – Do we really need PGP today?
    27:10 – How to get a PGP key: Kleopatra or Protonmail
    31:52 – Downsides of generating PGP key from Protonmail
    37:45 – How Signal takes takes encryption to the next level
    48:20 – Final thoughts

  • Discussion of the Lebanon and Syria pager explosions of September 2024.

    Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker

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    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • I discuss the privacy legend Michael Bazzell and why he is still the standard.

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    β†’ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
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    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • In this Torchlight Chat Gabriel and Urban discuss the recent released of a Samourai Wallet fork, Ashigaru Wallet: and what steps it takes to vet this kind of software.

    ASHIGARU WALLET LINKS
    β†’ http://ashigaruprvm4u263aoj6wxnipc4jrhb2avjll4nnk255jkdmj2obqqd.onion/download/
    β†’ https://ashigaru.rs/
    β†’ https://ashigaru.rs/news/

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    β†’ https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
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    Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio