Icing after every run, but doing well so far!

14 years ago I ran my longest distance, 15 miles. Today, I just finished my first 18 mile run.

Off, we go.

Is that the same as people actually knowing but still no caring?

Happy Bitcoin Independence Day 🔥🫡

On this day in 2017, the USAF community movement (user activated soft fork) successfully executed the flag day to activate the Segwit upgrade after years of the Blocksize Wars and failure to reach any real agreement on a fork. Instead, an unwavering community of users running full nodes decided they would activate SegWit regardless, and miners can either accept Segwit transactions or not. Essentially the user community called the bluff of the SegWit2X business+mining group who continuously pushed as if they had control over what software would be running the Bitcoin network. Instead, the conviction & viral growth of the USAF movement was substantial enough to scare the majority of the hash power and businesses to abandon S2X to prevent forking themselves from the network of users.

Shortly after the USAF execution on the network, Bitmain, Ver & Co forked their own coin, Bitcoin Cash (Bcash) to remove segwit and produce 8MB blocks. Even though the debate continues in some corners of social media, this day marked the official end of the Blocksize Wars.

⚡️🚨 FYI - Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years.

This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption.

The name of this Israeli app was Onavo.

It promised to “secure your data” and reduce mobile data usage.

When Facebook bought it in 2013, Zuck said the app would help them connect more people to the internet.

Facebook even promised to keep Onavo running as a standalone brand.

But Onavo operated as a VPN that routed all your phone's internet traffic through Facebook's servers before sending it anywhere else.

Facebook could see:

• Every app you opened

• How long you used it

• Which websites you visited

• And at what time you used each app

What did this mean for Facebook?

It meant that Zuck could see exactly which one of Facebook's competitor was growing popular among people.

Look how Facebook was tracking these apps (revealed in the court later)

By 2016, this data revealed Snapchat was exploding in popularity.

But there was one problem: Snapchat's traffic was encrypted, so Facebook couldn't see how people were using it.

In an email, Zuck says:

It seems important to figure out a way to get reliable analytics about them

Facebook's started "Project Ghostbusters" - named after Snapchat's ghost logo.

They would use "man-in-the-middle" attacks to break Snapchat's encryption.

Within a month, Facebook's engineers built "kits" that could intercept Snapchat's data before it got encrypted.

Facebook created custom client & server side code based on Onavo’s VPN proxy app.

This code included a client-side “kit” that installed a root certificate on Snapchat users’ mobile devices.

Then Facebook’s servers created fake digital certificates to impersonate Snapchat analytics servers to redirect & decrypt secure traffic from those apps to Facebook.

Seeing Snapchat's success, Zuckerberg offered to buy it for $3 billion.

But when Snap's CEO refused the offer, Facebook launched Snap's most famous feature on Instagram - Stories.

But this wasn't just about Snapchat.

Facebook used Onavo to systematically monitor Houseparty, YouTube, Amazon, and dozens of other apps.

Any rising competitor was identified, analyzed, and neutralized.

Apple forced Onavo off the App Store for violating privacy rules.

So Facebook rebranded it as "Facebook Research" and started paying teens $20/month to install it on their phones.

When Apple found out, they revoked Facebook's certificates, breaking ALL of Facebook's iOS apps.

Onavo shows how Big Tech weaponizes our trust.

33 million people installed privacy protection that was actually the most sophisticated corporate surveillance tool ever built.

I'm posting all the screenshots as comments.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - The declassified Durham Annex confirms Hillary Clinton personally approved the plan to frame Trump with Russian hacking US election claims — to “distract from her missing emails” and “demonize Trump.”

“Later, the FBI will put more oil on the fire.”

⚡️🗣️ After the health pass, here comes the digital pass...

To me, they’re two sides of the same coin. Showing your credentials to get into a restaurant or a movie theater isn’t much different from doing the same to access certain online services.

I didn’t give in to the vaccine or the health pass, and I won’t give in to the digital pass either. And let’s not forget about the digital euro… Sounds like a bright future, doesn’t it? 🤡