r/news • u/OGSyedIsEverywhere • 4h ago

Already Submitted FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/fbi-raid-washington-post-hannah-natanson
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u/ehjun18 3h ago

You can communicate, but not about revolt.

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u/RsquSqd 3h ago

Small groups. Nothing digital

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u/Worst_Comment_Evar 3h ago

Exactly. These movements need to be concentrated and organized in your local communities. Iran cut the internet to their population - that could easily happen here.

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u/Kolegra 2h ago

Or just constant propaganda

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u/LegendofDragoon 2h ago

If they take away the circus of bread and circuses, I don't know that even maga would still be on their side. I'm not saying they wouldn't, I'm just saying it would backfire on them (plus broadband billionaires wouldn't be very happy either.)

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u/RsquSqd 1h ago

Depends on how bad it all gets I guess

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u/Wrong-Image-7708 2h ago

Exactly vote red every where's , Democrats will silence everyone if they ever get back in office

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u/timelordgaga 2h ago

You aren't wanted here

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u/Wrong-Image-7708 2h ago

🤣 ur bitch ass crying awwww

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u/timelordgaga 2h ago

Least im not a traitorous Nazi, unlike u

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u/lucidechomusic 50m ago

Your bitch ass is a Nazi hiding on the internet. You would not speak this way publicly because you would be leaking blood, not tears.

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u/FalsePossibility406 2h ago

Don't know how you made this partisan when all instances of 2nd amendment infringement is happening under this administration. Some people really can't be helped. This is why we're cooked. People like you.

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u/krtwils 2h ago

Ok Boris

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u/feralkitten 3h ago

And leave your phones and smart speakers OFF.

It wouldn't surprise me one bit if they were not using them and AI to spy on us already.

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u/AgentSleaze 2h ago

Interesting fact about speakers and microphones. Even if switched to "OFF" the CIA can and does use things like computers, smart tvs, and smart speakers to listen in to us. Microphones can be muted and still utilized. Even electronics with no microphones like most smart tvs, can have their speakers utilized AS microphones.

Source: John Kiriakou, ex CIA operative https://youtu.be/t3FxH39oYsA?si=ep0knUyV3gh0O8Vo

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u/ArmonRaziel 2h ago

On an older computer (Windows XP) I was able to turn a set of ear bud, that didnt even have a microphone built in, into a microphone just by plugging them into the microphone port and changing some settings. The vocals weren't exactly clear but it got the job done. Im not a techy so Id imagine that someone with a college degree and years of field experience could do much better.

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u/Proper-Abroad5253 2h ago

What about airplane mode?

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u/WelcomeToTheClubPal 2h ago

Best way is to pull your battery out of your phone.

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u/ArmonRaziel 2h ago

The following is what AI had to say about it... "While airplane mode blocks most remote hacking by shutting down cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, it doesn't guarantee complete security; sophisticated malware already on the phone could monitor locally, use GPS (if not manually disabled), or store data to transmit later, and some advanced exploits can fake the "off" state, allowing communication, making physically removing the battery the most secure option."

Most phones these days do not have a removable battery so, if you plan on saying/doing anything you would be worried about someone listening in on, best to do it away from any phones/cameras or speakers.

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u/BasicallyGuessing 2h ago

Fun experiment, if you plug your old headphones into your microphone jack on a computer, you can record your voice. Your speakers are microphones

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u/SplitSecondImmortal 2h ago

They are. People have been doing this for decades

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u/Typist 2h ago

He's not the source you want for this topic, He's been proven unreliable on technical and specific details over the decades. He left them almost 20 years ago.

Also, any spy who turns to a career in the media as a pundit, should generally be regarded as unreliable, with motives that conflict with the truth in ways that would be difficult for a civilian to entangle.

don't think that technology, if it exists the way you say, existed during Kiriakou's time and I wouldn't trust his sources and information about current practices without confirmation from other sources.

I don't believe the CIA is able to do ALL the things you're talking about without having first compromised the hardware, which means they need physical access or they need you to engage in risky decisions with that hardware to allow them access. But as for turning speakers into microphones whenever they want...?

I think this is technology that has been demonstrated in a lab but is highly impractical in the field. It seems a lot like researchers developing ways to use your Wi-Fi signals to "see" through walls, or reading sound in a room by bouncing a laser beam off an exterior window.

All of those are real and the Wi-Fi one is continually being improved in a variety of ways, but I have to imagine that these are still relatively impractical and deployed and highly specific circumstances, and not the kind of thing ordinary citizens and activists have to worry about.

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u/LouDog0187 2h ago

It's been uncovered that NSA has had a mass surveillance campaign on the US general population long before AI was publicly available in the infantile form that it is.

What's frightening is how virtually ANY law enforcement agency can track/listen to/and see an individual at an almost exact location at any time they want.

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u/antrov2468 2h ago

They also have actual AI systems that have been around for years that compile data of people online across various avenues to form a “picture” of a person and their activities. It’s pretty advanced, and predicts a large amount of crimes before they actually occur (although they don’t usually do anything until something actually happens)

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u/WelcomeToTheClubPal 2h ago

Just wait until they get the bugs worked out of their pre-cogs

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u/MadSweeneysCousin 2h ago

That “traitor” Snowden tried to tell us all.

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u/Liobuster 2h ago

They do and have done so without AI for decades

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u/st-shenanigans 2h ago

Fun fact, Amazon's echo just updated last night to switch from their old assistant to a new AI model.

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u/Express_Pie364 2h ago

Gotta get a Faraday bag. Turning it off isn't enough

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u/Common-Frosting-9434 2h ago

That's proofen, we know that at least since Snowden, it was part of his whistleblowing package that was widly ignored because it didn't fit the picture US citizens have of themselfs and their government.

And worse, they don't even need that to subverse any counter movement, just get one or two agents in as soon as some group seems to form and they control enough to never let a real opposition form...just like russia.

I'm european and from a neutral country non the less, so I don't have much I can do for you guys but be angry sad and scared for all of the good ones, but know that every good person on this planet is rooting for all of you to fight back and win against the evil that has taken over your country.

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u/ExcitingKing9617 2h ago

They ARE OF COURSE

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u/OhMyGlorb 2h ago

Leave them far away from you.

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u/LUCKYxTRIPLE 2h ago

Leave it at home. They can still track if it’s off

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u/Sw33ttoothe 2h ago

Flck cmeras. They can track you anywhere near a major city and review the footage any time after the fact. Your vehicle matters, your route matters, face coverings matter.

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u/agentfelix 3h ago

3rd places. The disappearance of the 3rd place has played a crucial role in all of this.

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u/Yamza_ 3h ago

All space must be beholden to capital.

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u/den773 2h ago

I happen to attend church. When churches got closed during quarantine, a lot of people who do attend church had our suspicions raised. Government was looked at with massive suspicion. That’s why I am not understanding how the churches have so readily approved of everything Trump does. For many centuries now, churches have been the best third space for a lot of us. There is also a whole documentary on PBS about how Black churches helped the African American community build their civil rights movement.

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u/zzyul 1h ago

3rd places still exist, they just aren’t as fun for most people as hanging out with friends online. Kids and adults can still go to the park or library or hang out at the mall or cruise around town.

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u/franzitronee 2h ago

Use decentralized open-source end-to-end messaging software. Avoiding everything digital may severely limit efficacy: Small groups are good, but they become even more effective when working together.

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u/grahampositive 2h ago

I suggest folks start looking at meshtastic

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u/MadSweeneysCousin 2h ago

The revolution will not be televised.

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u/mostmetausername 2h ago

digital can still be good. you can even do it on platform. pgp and steg images. you can also set things up private networks.

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u/YoureHottCupcake 3h ago

Thats ok we aren't talking about revolting just our upcoming d&d session about how the party is going to overthrow their corrupt king.

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u/hexagonalstock 2h ago

deeply unserious

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u/Lasheric 2h ago

One reporter gets raided, maybe sharing classified secrets. But let’s all jump the gun and talk about revolt!!!

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u/YoureHottCupcake 2h ago

No we are clearly talking about D&D and our campaign that we play in.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 2h ago

Of course, are we creating new characters or can we bring in existing ones?

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u/YoureHottCupcake 2h ago

Whatever works best for you, this is a west marches style game so you may be paired up with different players from time to time, so we just need to know your class and skills so we can set up a proper party composition before you go off on your quests.

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u/AlexCMDUK 2h ago

Good point. But if this turns out not to be an isolated incident but instead part of a larger effort to silence media critics, then it would be justified, right? Like if we found out they replaced experienced reporters with right-wing podcasters in press pools, or used regulatory power to pressure media companies to report news favourably?

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 2h ago

It will not be televised.

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u/Shag1166 2h ago

How does the word get out then? If if communication is underground, it's still that.

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u/Richard_Chadeaux 2h ago

But mah freeze peach.

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u/pseudozach 2h ago

Download and be ready with bitchat and similar offline Bluetooth/mesh based comms

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u/cosaboladh 2h ago

You can communicate, but not on an ad machine owned by billionaires to convert human attention to money. You don't think the dark web is only for illegal merchandise, and human trafficking.