I spent time having video calls with LEOs, intelligence agents and military folks over the course of the past 6-9 months. I saw how broken and disjointed and tribal power has become within the world of American authority.

I now know things about how the US government and military work that I feel the public should know.

I could write a book or make a YouTube video. But both of those are to inflexible and risky. I want to spill the beans in a much more permanent and effective way. I would like to help the public understand what is really going on behind the scenes, as best as I have seen.

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    3 days ago

    There’s zero functional difference between an SD card and a USB stick as far as malware. Don’t plug in any unfamiliar data storage device.

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      2 days ago

      Not true. A USB device can emulate a keyboard and execute almost anything with no user action, just plugging it in. A bare SD card can’t do that.

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        2 days ago

        Most SD card readers are just USB adapters. Even inside of most computers, they are just attached to an internal USB header.

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          Yes. Thats a trusted device that you already have. The data on the card cant change the behavior of your card reader. However a new unfamiliar UBS device could contain malicious hardware.