#Tor Client

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Scripted Bracket — Round 1

Propaganda

Tor Client (Anime Sickos):

Transgender transhumanist

Loves to jack in

Not a woman, not a man, something you could never understand

True form glorious and incomprehensible

Do you ache to be free of the mortal flesh? Are you trapped in a prison of meat and bone? Take Tor's hand and they will guide you into the boundless, divine realm of cyberspace, where you can be anything and anyone you can imagine

Father Liberty Hale (Zero Hours):

Pathetic 1700s reverend fooled into thinking this is the end times by a woman posing as a witch, winds up giving up the location of a priceless artifact and ends the show tied to a cross (because he asked to be). Pathetic, haughty, faithless, and tied up. A perfect character.

[jmfenner91]

I got to create this piece to accompany "The V*mpire" by P H Lee. It's a short story over on reactor mag. Reactor/TOR have been a dream client for my entire career. So honored to have had the opportunity to work with them! Synopsis 🩸: The vampires aren't even the worst part about being a teenage trans girl on tumblr.

[ms-demeanor]

Reading your post about safe anonymous leaking and nodding along and then going "well fuck I hope I can remember this later because if I ever consider it this is a bit incriminating to save in any way, huh"

The more people who use Tor, the less incriminating it is to use Tor.

The more you use things like Tor, the less weird it is for you to use signal and encrypted email services.

The more you use things like Tor and signal and encrypted email, the less weird it is for you to turn off the location on your devices and leave your phone at home when you go out.

It's suspicious as hell if you make a signal account the week before documents get leaked from your workplace. But it's not suspicious to have a signal account.

It's suspicious if you try to delete your google maps history the week after a protest. It's not suspicious if you don't have a google maps history because you don't use google maps.

All of which is to say: I don't think it's incriminating to check in on that post or bookmark it or start doing the things that it recommends because people should be doing the things on that post anyway. We should be using Tor casually. You should have a half dozen or so proton accounts just for convenience's sake. You should have signal, you should have your location turned off on your devices. You should be doing those things because they are good things to do, but doing those things also sets up an environment in which certain behaviors are less likely to be incriminating, or are less likely to be effective correlative evidence.

But also it has probably been a while since we talked about security nihilism around here; the deal is we live in a surviellance state and all of us are burned in some way. You sent an anon ask, but unless you sent it logged out and through an anonymizing tool, someone knows the originating IP address. If you sent it logged in, you may as well bookmark the post because you have already "contacted a security activist" in a way that can be subpoenaed (anon is only anon to the recipient! it is not anonymous to tumblr and courts can demand their records! that is why I said in the post that nobody who wanted to do any kind of leaking should say anything to me off or on anon!)

But also, consider your source: I have a bookmarks folder called "anarchist resources" that I had to remove from the toolbar because clients kept commenting on it during work calls. There is no way I'm beating the allegations.

But! Nihilism! If they want to charge you bad enough they won't need evidence to make it stick! So you might as well bookmark the post and install signal anyway. At least you can see if you can reduce your chances of getting caught!

[chosove]

18+ mdni | tutoring toru :)

tw. mentions of A&P I ☹️ anatomy and physiology … my enemy …

pairing: satoru gojo x f!reader

“lets go over that one more time, ‘kay ‘toru? you have to use the scientific wording to actually be correct. its not ‘spongy stuff’, its trabeculae.”

you didnt realize how exasperated your voice sounded until you saw the man before you deflate, a pout forming on his pretty pink lips. “i dont get what i said wrong this time” satoru exclaimed, head falling to the table in frustration. “you asked the difference between compact and spongy bone, right? spongy bone is like…spongy looking. so i didn’t say tabec… whatever- why does it matter?”

it took a lot of effort to suppress the chuckle fighting its way past your lips- seeing the prideful gojo satoru crumble over basic anatomy was too ironic to not laugh at. “how ‘bout we take a break?” you sighed, patting his head, feeling warmth bloom in your chest when his teary eyes peeked up at you. letting your hand fall slightly, you cupped his cheek, wiping at the wetness forming on his lower lashes. did he always look this good? how were his eyes suddenly so intense, and how on earth do his lips look so soft? so red? so kissable?

without thinking, your thumb traced satoru’s lower lip, pulling it from its place between his teeth and watching in delight as he let you press down on it. it wasn’t until he let out a soft pant, eyelids fluttering shut that you finally pulled your hand back, the guilty look painting your face making it seem like you’d just been caught doing something much, much worse.

god, how satoru wishes that were the case.

jumping back, you brushed your hands off on your shirt before turning to him once again, his wide eyes watching your every move. “h-how about we finish there today, hm? you seem tired so-“

before you could finish, his hand shot up to grab your wrist. “no!” satoru nearly shouted, clearing his throat when he saw you jump. “s-sorry, i mean um…” his voice trailed off as he stared into your eyes, thinking of an excuse for you to stay and do something other than school.

satoru had been crushing on you ever since the first day of biology, the way you smiled when he asked what your professor meant by homeostasis melting his heart- he was closer than ever today and he couldnt lose that momentum.

“maybe we could focus on something else?…” you watched his adams apple bob before he continued, nerves evident in the way his voice began to tremble. “m-might help me memorize stuff better if i have a real figure?”

if it werent for the fact he was your favourite client (who also paid the most), you would’ve said no. you probably shouldve said no, but god he really did look like he was about to pass out just from voicing the request- what would he look like when you showed him all the spots he was most sensitive? did he already know them?

Before you could think too deeply on it, you responded with a nod. “not really comfy down here though…how about we go up to your room?”

A deep blush painted his cheeks as he grabbed your hand and led you up the stairs to his room, sitting shyly on his bed with his hands in his lap after opening the door. You giggled at the sudden change in his mood- he wasnt all that confident when he first asked you up here, but did he even wanna go through with it?

Standing before him, you dragged a finger across his jaw, slightly lifting his head up to look at you. “We can always go back to studying ‘toru, I dont mind.”

He didnt know if it was the way the nickname rolled off your lips or the implication that something that wasnt school was actually gonna happen, but he shook his head rapidly and wrapped his arms around your thighs regardless- relishing in the giggle you let out as you placed your hands on his undercut for stability. “N-no please, i mean…we haven’t done a lot of studying on the actual anatomy part right?”

It should be a crime how irresistible gojo satoru can be even when using biology to flirt. “Guess you’re right ‘toru, how about we start with…” your voice trailed off as you moved to sit atop his lap, the sight of his eyelids fluttering shut when your crotch rested just above his making your stomach flip with excitement. “D’you remember what I said these were called?” your sweet voice questioned, dragging his hands to rest on your breasts.

A deep groan fell from Satoru’s lips, his head falling forward to rest between his hands as they groped your chest. “Y-yeah fuck they’re mammary glands right? ‘S where the milk c-comes from”

You giggled at his neediness, his hips jumping up while talking about milk only making you cockier. Ripping your shirt off, you tilted his head up once more to look into his blown out pupils. “Feeling thirsty ’toru?”.

His blown out pupils watched with excitement as your hands reached behind you to unclip your bra, a sigh of release falling from your lips as the tension of the bands washed away. Without another word, satoru pressed a kiss to your left nipple, watching the way the sensation caused it to become erect. You gasped before pushing his head closer to your chest, craving his mouth to be on you anywhere and everywhere.

“ish th-this okay?” His muffled voice spoke as he suckled on your tits, desperately flicking his tongue against the nipple before gently biting it, slowly rocking his hips up into you each time he did so. Your fierce nods in response only goaded him on, his hand going to your other breast so it wasnt neglected, fingers busying themselves by pinching your nipple.

“Shit toru…ngh doin’ so good, ‘m so wet for you”

Before you could get any more words out, you heard a whine of what sounded like your name against your chest followed with a deep, rumbling groan, Satoru’s hips jumping up in reflex as he came in his pants. “F-fuck ‘m sorry hah jus’ wanted ya for so long n’ youre so pretty f-fuck ‘s still comin-“

What felt like eternity of gojo satoru licking and kissing your breasts as he creamed himself was finally over after nearly 3 minutes, his hands going from harshly grasping your tits to simply resting them atop them. You waited until he rid out his orgasm to make any movements, hands beginning to push him away before you were grabbed by his muscled arms.

“Ya didnt finish…i have to do the reproductive system next ya know…gonna need to know more than just youre mommy milkers”

[amalgamasreal]

On Personal InfoSec

Been awhile since I've had one of these posts but I figure with all that's going on in the world it's time to make another one of these posts and get some stuff out there for people. A lot of the information I'm going to go over you can find here:

So if you'd like to just click the link and ignore the rest of the post that's fine, I strongly recommend checking out the Privacy Guides.

Browsers:

There's a number to go with but for this post going forward I'm going to recommend Firefox. I know that the Privacy Guides lists Brave and Safari as possible options but Brave is Chrome based now and Safari has ties to Apple. Mullvad is also an option but that's for your more experienced users so I'll leave that up to them to work out.

Browser Extensions:

uBlock Origin: content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, and fingerprinting scripts. Notable for being the only ad blocker that still works on Youtube.

Privacy Badger: Content blocker that specifically blocks trackers and fingerprinting scripts. This one will catch things that uBlock doesn't catch but does not work for ads.

Facebook Container: "but I don't have facebook" you might say. Doesn't matter, Meta/Facebook still has trackers out there in EVERYTHING and this containerizes them off away from everything else.

Bitwarden: Password vaulting software, don't trust the password saving features of your browsers, this has multiple layers of security to prevent your passwords from being stolen.

ClearURLs: Allows you to copy and paste URL's without any trackers attached to them.

VPN:

Note: VPN software doesn't make you anonymous, no matter what your favorite youtuber tells you, but it does make it harder for your data to be tracked and it makes it less open for whatever network you're presently connected to.

Mozilla VPN: If you get the annual subscription it's ~$60/year and it comes with an extension that you can install into Firefox.

Proton VPN: Has easily the most amount of countries serviced, can take cash payments, and does offer port forwarding.

Email Provider:

Note: By now you've probably realized that Gmail, Outlook, and basically all of the major "free" e-mail service providers are scraping your e-mail data to use for ad data. There are more secure services that can get you away from that but if you'd like the same storage levels you have on Gmail/Outlook.com you'll need to pay.

Proton Mail: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and fairly easy to setup and use. Offers a free option up to 1gb

Tuta: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, been around a very long time, and offers a free option up to 1gb.

Email Client:

Thunderbird if you're on Windows or Linux

Apple Mail if you're on macOS

Cloud Storage:

Proton Drive: Encrypted cloud storage from the same people as Proton Mail.

Tresorit: Encrypted cloud storage owned by the national postal service of Switzerland. Received MULTIPLE awards for their security stats.

Peergos: decentralized and open-source, allows for you to set up your own cloud storage, but will require a certain level of expertise.

Microsoft Office Replacements:

LibreOffice: free and open-source, updates regularly, and has the majority of the same functions as base level Microsoft Office.

OnlyOffice: cloud-based, free, and open source.

Chat Clients:

Note: As you've heard SMS and even WhatsApp and some other popular chat clients are basically open season right now. These are a couple of options to replace those.

Signal: Provides IM and calling securely and encrypted, has multiple layers of data hardening to prevent intrusion and exfil of data.

Molly (Android OS only): Alternative client to Signal. Routes communications through the TOR Network.

Briar: Encrypted IM client that connects to other clients through the TOR Network, can also chat via wifi or bluetooth.

Now for the last bit, I know that the majority of people are on Windows or macOS, but if you can get on Linux I would strongly recommend it. pop_OS, Ubuntu, and Mint are super easy distros to use and install. They all have very easy to follow instructions on how to install them on your PC and if you'd like to just test them out all you need is a thumb drive to boot off of to run in demo mode.

If you game through Steam their Proton emulator in compatibility mode works wonders, I'm presently playing a major studio game that released in 2024 with no Linux support on it and once I got my drivers installed it's looked great. There are some learning curves to get around, but the benefit of the Linux community is that there's always people out there willing to help.

I hope some of this information helps you and look out for yourself, it's starting to look scarier than normal out there.

[warningsine]

what is the best way to get safer/more anonymous online

Ok, security and anonymity are not the same thing, but when you combine them you can enhance your online privacy.

My question is: how tech literate are you and what is your aim? As in do you live in a country where your government would benefit from monitoring private (political) conversations or do you just want to degoogle? Because the latter is much easier for the average user.

Some general advice:

Leave Windows and Mac operating systems and switch to Linux distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu (both very user friendly). Switch from Microsoft Office or Pages/Numbers/Keynote (Mac) to LibreOffice.

You want to go more hardcore with a very privacy-focused operating system? There are Whonix and Tails (portable operating system).

Try to replace all your closed source apps with open source ones.

Now, when it comes to browsers, leave Chrome behind. Switch to Firefox (or Firefox Focus if you're on mobile). Want to go a step further? Use LibreWolf (a modified version of Firefox that increases protection against tracking), Brave (good for beginners but it has its controversies), DuckDuckGo or Bromite. You like ecofriendly alternatives? Check Ecosia out.

Are you, like, a journalist or political activist? Then you probably know Tor and other anonymous networks like i2p, freenet, Lokinet, Retroshare, IPFS and GNUnet.

For whistleblowers there are tools like SecureDrop (requires Tor), GlobaLeaks (alternative to SecureDrop), Haven (Android) and OnionShare.

Search engines?

There are Startpage (obtains Google's results but with more privacy), MetaGer (open source), DuckDuckGo (partially open source), Searx (open source). You can see the comparisons here.

Check libRedirect out. It redirects requests from popular socmed websites to privacy friendly frontends.

Alternatives to YouTube that value your privacy? Odysee, PeerTube and DTube.

Decentralized apps and social media? Mastodon (Twitter alternative), Friendica (Facebook alternative), diaspora* (Google+ RIP), PixelFed (Insta alternative), Aether (Reddit alternative).

Messaging?

I know we all use shit like Viber, Messenger, Telegram, Whatsup, Discord etc. but there are:

Signal (feels like Whatsup but it's secure and has end-to-end encryption)

Session (doesn't even require a phone or e-mail address to sign up)

Status (no phone or e-mail address again)

Threema (for mobile)

Delta Chat (you can chat with people if you know their e-mail without them having to use the app)

Team chatting?

Open source options:

Element (an alternative to Discord)

Rocket.chat (good for companies)

Revolt.chat (good for gamers and a good alternative to Discord)

Video/voice messaging?

Brave Talk (the one who creates the talk needs to use the browser but the others can join from any browser)

Jami

Linphone

Jitsi (no account required, video conferencing)

Then for Tor there are various options like Briar (good for activists), Speek! and Cwtch (user friendly).

Georestrictions? You don't want your Internet Provider to see what exactly what you're doing online?

As long as it's legal in your country, then you need to hide your IP with a VPN (authoritarian regimes tend to make them illegal for a reason), preferably one that has a no log policy, RAM servers, does not operate in one of the 14 eyes, supports OpenVPN (protocol), accepts cash payment and uses a strong encryption.

NordVPN (based in Panama)

ProtonVPN (Switzerland)

Cyberghost

Mullvad (Sweden)

Surfshark (Netherlands)

Private e-mails?

ProtonMail

StartMail

Tutamail

Mailbox (ecofriendly option)

Want to hide your real e-mail address to avoid spam etc.? SimpleLogin (open source)

E-mail clients?

Thunderbird

Canary Mail (for Android and iOS)

K-9 Mail (Android)

Too many complex passwords that you can't remember?

NordPass

BitWarden

LessPass

KeePassXC

Two Factor Authenticators?

2FAS

ente Authenticator

Aegis Authenticator

andOTP

Tofu (for iOS)

Want to encrypt your files? VeraCrypt (for your disk), GNU Privacy Guard (for your e-mail), Hat.sh (encryption in your browser), Picocrypt (Desktop encryption).

Want to encrypt your Dropbox, Google Drive etc.? Cryptomator.

Encrypted cloud storage?

NordLocker

MEGA

Proton Drive

Nextcloud

Filen

Encrypted photography storage?

ente

Cryptee

Piwigo

Want to remove metadata from your images and videos? ExifCleaner. For Android? ExifEraser. For iOS? Metapho.

Cloak your images to counter facial recognition? Fawkes.

Encrypted file sharing? Send.

Do you menstruate? Do you want an app that tracks your menstrual cycle but doesn't collect your data? drip.

What about your sexual health? Euki.

Want a fitness tracker without a closed source app and the need to transmit your personal data to the company's servers? Gadgetbridge.

[nogenderbee]

♡˗ˏ✎*ೃ˚ 𝕊𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕗 ₊˚ˑ༄

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ @miya-akane request: Ok perhaps one more req since i need nore gaming fanfic in this app

Gaming with s/o that kins Akito and Ena like I used to req before perhaps? I want to req him along when i first req but i knew you didn't wrote him yet so I go ahead and took my chance again

(Perhaps with kaveh if you don't mind)

-🌹

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ YES WE DO!! Omg I love this idea sm ^^ And thank you tor waiting <3

Also you asked for Kaveh too, right? I'm not going crazy... RIGHT?! Well even if you didn't... I did him 0w0 Hope you like it! ^^

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ fluff

✧ Ga ming didn't mind your personality at all, if anything he found it quite charming

✧ you're feisty but also very loyal...

✧ it's almost intriguing how you can change between moods so quickly... in one second you're lovey dovey and then you're suddenly pointing out his mistake like madman

✧ but he finds it adorable, same goes for you being tsundere! He loves how your anger just washes away when he kisses your cheek and gets replaced with blush and shy expression while you try to play your cards correctly

✧ whenever you fall into anger because of whatever reason, he's gonna stop you from doing anything that caused it if possible and take you to bakery or some restaurant in hopes to calm you down

"Hey, hey! Let's drop it and go get some dim sum! I'm REALLY craving for some right now... you can't finish what you're doing later! Besides, a little break can't hurt, can it?"

✧ he also adores how loyal you are to what you love! He loves dancing too and totally understands why you'd get so competitive

✧ then again... he does his best to help you stay away from the troubles when you get emotional over it

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@bleachtheidiot @vodka-glrl @miya-akane - come get your dim sum lover!

✧ Kaveh finds you both adorable and hard to deal with...

✧ don't get him wrong, he loves you very dearly but when after long day at work you get mad at him for tiniest mistake... he's starting to consider if Alhaitham really is this bed... after 3 seconds he realizes he is in fact worse than you

✧ but something that you both share is complaining about your passion!

✧ of course you're determined to achieve your goal and fing it enjoyable somehow, do does he! But when you're running to a deadline set by client or yourself... you can't really not get upset

✧ pulling all nighters together? Pulling all nighters together. It's like your night date by now, when you're both keeping each other company to not go crazy

"Uh... I swear I'm so tired... I'll go get myself another coffee. Do you want some too? I'll make it exactly as you like it, so don't worry."

✧ you're either cheering him on when he gets angry and maybe even fight for him, or try to calm him down

✧ he always tries to calm you down BUT if someone clearly deserves to be yelled at... he just looks the other way and pretends he's so captivated by something he can't hear what's happening

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@bleachtheidiot - come get your architect beuty~

[proudchildlesscatlady]

Do have any headcannons about William lark tor

William:

1. Was raised by a single parent as his other parent died because of the abatement. **Not sure if Will is the Scion of Gawain through his mother or father **

2. His favorite music genre is jazz, blues, and classical music.

3. He doesn't watch TV and movies as much but would often listen to the radio. He has his own portable radio. If he does watch TV it would be documentaries.

4. His love of tea developed after he was awakened by Gawain but before, he could care less for it. Tea helps Will alleviate the stress and pain of being the healer.

5. He likes to eat scones and cucumber sandwiches with his tea.

6. His family is the "poorest" out of all the Legendborn members. His family still had wealth but not as much as the families of the Legendborn members.

7. One of his parents is a doctor and William would often read his parent's notes, medical books, and listen to them talk about their jobs.

8. Green used to be William's least favorite color. After being awaken, he learn to appreciate it.

Lark:

1. Born and raised in Scotland but him and parents moved to the United States so he can attended the Merlin Academy.

2. He can do a very convincing American accent.

3. His favorite TV shows are The Bing Bang Theory and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

4. He likes listening to Minnie Riperton and Stevie Wonder. Lark's favorite music genre is soul, blues, and R&B.

5. His favorite desserts are lemon cakes and orange creamsicles. Anything that is citrus 👀😉

6. During his time at the Merlin Academy, his father was very strict towards Lark as he wanted his son to win the Kingsmage title. Lark endure harsh trainings from his father to ensure he beats Sel which did not end up happening.

7. He does not get along with all of his Mageguard coworkers but is cordial with them. He dislikes Zhao and Ramirez the most as those two would often bully Lark.

8. Even though he didn't show it, Lark was hurt (for a bit) that Bree didn't want to him to be her Kingsmage. He was so excited to meet Bree and trained hard to ensure he is the best for her. In the end, he harbors no harsh or ill feelings towards Bree.

Tor 🙄😒🤬

1. She has one younger brother who she does not get along with because the siblings are nothing alike.

2. She once made her dad lose a big business opportunity because she said something bigoted to one of her dad's clients. She was grounded for two months.

3. Despite being a racist, she secretly finds super model Anok Yai attractive.

4. Would use Sar when Tor gets called out for her racist/ biogeted behavior. She would say, "I'm not racist my girlfriend is Mexican" even though Sar is half Venezuelan and not Mexican.

5. She does not have any [real] friends because she is so unlikeable and unbearable. Sar is the only person that actually wants to be around Tor instead of just tolerating her.

6. She is a Trump supporter and has voted for him (should not be a surprise 😑). She thinks Kamala Harris does not deserve to be President. She also thinks Harris is a "DEI hire" or got her position as vice president because of Affirmative Action.

7. She tried to get back together with Selwyn but he said "Fuck off."

Sorry not sorry but I hate Tor and I can't come up with any headcanons that is remotely kind or positive.

[lazy-february]

   I was finally able to start of accepting orders of artworks! Yes, there is a lot of text, but it is necessary for comfortable cooperation with customers. I hope for your understanding :3

Basic of Commission ToS:

Payment is accepted within 24 hours.

To transfer money please use Hipolink: https://hipolink.me/lazy_february.

Do not send the payment until the time is agreed.

The deadline is three weeks (it may be longer for landscapes).

The customer can upload the image to his social network, indicating my authorship in the post.

Artwork cannot be used commercially, or claimed as your own.

MY WORK CANNOT BE USED FOR AI GENERATORS OR NFTs.

PAYMENT INFORMATION

Payment is accepted after the approval of the TOR. Non-payment within 24 hours will result in the commission being cancelled;

It is the customer's responsibility to tell me when the payment has been sent;

The first three edits after completing the work are free, then +10% of the order amount.

Refund Policy:

If the commission is cancelled (by me or the client) before work has started, then the client will receive a full refund;

If the client cancels the commission during progress, the amount refunded will be on a case-by-case basis and up to the artist’s discretion;

No refunds will be given for completed or nearly completed commissions;

The artist reserves the right to cancel a commission at any time, for any reason, and without explanation;

If the artist refuses to fulfill the order, it is his responsibility to refund the funds.

COMMUNICATION

Discussion of commissions can be conducted via DM in Tumblr or Discord (MidnnightSoul).

Visual Reference Guidelines:

Clients should provide at least one clear and concise visual reference;

Work based solely on descriptions may be discussed but will be subject to an extra fee;

With only a written description of the appearance I cannot promise you design will be done with 100% accuracy.

WILL/WON'T DRAW:

Please consider my artistic style when placing an order; I will not try to match the artistic style of another artist or company.

Allowed content:

Humans;

Landscapes;

Original Species (with visual reference);

Monsters.

I don't know how to draw furries, but if you really want to, we can discuss it.

Allowed Content (if the client is over 18 years old):

Gore

Disallowed Content:

NSFW;

Extreme Fetishes;

Any sort of hateful content, such as racism, transphobia, homophobia, and characters with Nazi/Soviet/etc. imagery or paraphernalia.

If you have read all the terms and conditions and are ready to place an order, please write: "You are the best captain on the planet. I'm not even squidding." as a proof.

[marxistfurry]

How to Torrent Anonymously

Using the standard BitTorrent protocol is insecure if you're torrenting copyrighted material, because you must connect directly to your peers to download the file. This means that a copyright holder could seed a movie that they own, collect the IP addresses that connect to them, then sue them all for copyright infringement. If we want to torrent copyrighted material without any chance of getting caught, we'll need to send the traffic through a mixnet.

Your first thought might be to route the traffic through tor, but this is actually a bad idea. See this post for why (TL;DR, torrenting over tor slows down the network because it wasn't built for that type of traffic, and certain BitTorrent clients will leak your IP address even if you configure them to go through tor). Tor is out, but i2p will work. I2P is a mixnet like tor, but it has a few key differences, which I won't go over here. Suffice to say, i2p can handle the traffic from torrenting (because it was built in a different way than tor), and it has its own torrent client built-it that preserves your anonymity, called i2psnark. This is what you should use for anonymous torrenting.

Step 1. Install i2p. Be sure to read the post-install work on that page, because i2p may not work without a little bit of tweaking. Troubleshooting i2p is not in the scope of this article, so from this step onwards we will assume i2p is working, and that you can reach i2p deep web sites.

Step 2. Get a magnet link from a tracker. The biggest tracker for i2p torrents is Postman's Tracker, so I would start searching for what you want there. Important: you cannot download normal clearnet torrents using i2psnark. You can only download torrents that were set up on i2p from the start. This means there won't be as many torrents to choose from on i2p trackers, because not as many people use them. However, don't let that turn you away, because the way to fix this problem is to get more people to use them. Anyways, once you've found the torrent you want to download from Postman's Tracker (or whichever tracker you're using), copy the magnet link.

Step 3. Start downloading it in i2psnark. Go to your i2p router console's home page, then scroll down until you see the link to "Torrents" under "Applications and Configuration". Click it, and it will take you to i2psnark. Paste the magnet link in the box that says Add Torrent... From URL, and click the Add Torrent button right next to it. If everything went right, it should appear in the list of torrents. Give it a few minutes to connect to peers, and it should start downloading.

Step 4. Tweak i2psnark's settings. By default, if you have to restart i2p (or your whole computer), i2psnark will not restart downloading or seeding its torrents unless you tell it to. This probably isn't what you want, so click the Configuration button in i2psnark, and check "Auto start torrents". Now they will start on their own. Also, change the Up Bandwidth Limit to something reasonable. It recommends setting it to half of what you set i2p's total bandwidth to be (you did that when you read the Post-Install Work page like I told you to, right?).

Step 5. Enjoy your torrent, and seed it. Congratulations! You just downloaded a torrent anonymously. Now, be sure to seed it. Since everything is being routed anonymously here, you don't have to worry about getting busted for seeding copyrighted material, so go ahead and seed it, so that the torrent can remain available for everyone, and so it will download a little bit faster for the next person. I'd recommend seeding at least until you've uploaded twice as much as you downloaded. Note that this may take a long time to happen, so plan to keep these files on your hard drive for at least 1 month. If you're running low on space, then choose which torrents you download carefully, so that you don't have to delete them before you've given back twice what you downloaded.

Step 6. Give back to the community. Let's say that you own a movie on DVD that isn't on Postman's Tracker. Well, be a good neighbor and share it! First, rip it from DVD using ripping software, like HandBrake. You may need to install this as well, to break whatever weak-sauce copy protection your DVD might have. I recommend using HandBrake's High Profile settings if it's a movie, and the normal settings if it's a TV show with a bunch of episodes.

Once you've ripped the movie, you may want to put it in a zip archive, to lower the amount of data that has to be downloaded. Put the zip file somewhere where it won't be in the way, because if you move it after you start seeding, the torrent won't work for everyone else. Then, go to i2psnark, and type the exact path to the zip file in the "Data to seed" box under Create Torrent. For this example, we'll upload it to Postman's Tracker, so click the radio button for Postman's, and click "Create torrent". This will create a .torrent file, which you will then have to upload to Postman's Tracker.

Here's where it gets tricky. On Linux, by default, i2psnark will create your .torrent file in /var/lib/i2p/i2p-config/i2psnark/. The problem is, only root can access that folder. So, we need to copy the .torrent file somewhere else before we can upload it. So, open up a terminal, and type in sudo cp /var/lib/i2p/i2p-config/i2psnark/<name of torrent>.torrent /home/<your username>/. This will copy the .torrent file to your home directory.

There's still one more problem. The .torrent file's permissions still only allow it to be read by root. So, cd to your home directory, then run sudo chown <your username> <name of torrent>.torrent. Now you can read it normally.

At this point, you are ready to post the torrent on Postman's Tracker. Create an account there, then click Upload on the header. It will take you to a page with instructions for how to upload, and some rules. You should be able to figure everything else out from here. Now, watch as those peers start lining up!

https://raddle.me/wiki/AnonymousTorrenting

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Scripted Undefeated Bracket — Round 2

Propaganda

Tor Client (Anime Sickos: Sicko Shock 2):

Do you ache to be free of the mortal flesh? Are you trapped in a prison of meat and bone? Take Tor's hand and they will guide you into the boundless, divine realm of cyberspace, where you can be anything and anyone you can imagine

Mabel Martin (Mabel):

#mabel!!!!! #the girl ouroboros herself #feral fae child latina godling. what else do i need to say

Additional propaganda below the cut:

Tor Client (Anime Sickos: Sickos Shock 2):

Transgender transhumanist

Loves to jack in

Not a woman, not a man, something you could never understand

True form glorious and incomprehensible

Vote for Tor

Mabel Martin (Mabel):

I haven't listened to Mabel yet but I liked how far she got last year.

#MABEL <3

#VOTE MABEL MARTIN BEFORE I BLOW UP THIS ENTIRE BUILDING

#Mabel Martin Is Sexy 2025

#she’s sexy and intense and I love her to bits

#MABEL!!!

#Mabel Martin of course you would win#she's just an unsettling faelike lesbian

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

[anarchic-miscellany]

Terrible Screenplay Ideas: "Clean Getaway"

Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster need a vacation: so where better than New York?! For Shawn, it's a chance to re-enact Beastie Boys videos, and for Gus, more importantly, it's a chance to visit the esteemed Soap Museum in Brooklyn! Jules is on board, but insistent that she be Ad-Rock. Both Shawn and Gus are okay with this (even though Shawn wanted to be Ad-Rock)...

There, they meet fellow tourist Adrian Monk and his lovely assistant Natalie: here to help her daughter Julie on her thesis and extra credit at school, having twisted Mr Monk's arm in order to have him come along and help them here. He actually rather likes it: but has a few problems with the displays not being parallel.

Gus and Trudy trade knowledge of their soaps, and he gets on swimmingly with Monk (who despises the loud and slovenly Spencer), whilst Natalie and Jules also get along swimmingly, and Julie finds Jules cool.

Things take a turn South, however, when the curator turns up horribly murdered! He is another victim of the Brooklyn Butcher, sliced and torn to ribbons, a horrifying case! So, resigned to having to work on a murder investigation, Shawn and Gus and Jules get to work, but also have to work with Monk.

Only not so fast! On the scene are Detectives Jake Peralta and Charles Boyle, delighted to be working a serial killer case and surrounded by lavender respectively. Jake and Shawn bond over their love of all things weird, and he has to take them all to the station for questioning.

MEANWHILE

Amy Santiago is looking into getting a new place for her, Jake and the baby here in New York, but has not been having much luck. She meets a pair of absolute sweethearts at an organic sandwich shop by the names of Joel and Sheila Hammond: "real-tors" who are here to meet a client (Joel is carrying a peace lilly, at Sheila's behest. He is terribly allergic but must make a good impression) and they very quickly chat and get along, she's a sweetheart after all!

Amy comes to the station to do her job and tell Jake, on her day off, about the great times she had. But what is this?! A development in the case of the killer slashing apart innocent people and sometimes devouring the remains?!

Captain Holt has his hands tied: the latest victims were from Chicago, and thus this is a joint investigation. Randy Disher and Captain Leland Stottlemeyer are coming over to liase with their departments. Monk should just go home, but he needs to solve this. Shawn is here to have a good time and solve the case (and beat that smartass Jake Peralta, who's not even Ad-Rock, he's not even "Skee-Lo"! To which Gus responds only HE can be Skee-Lo, and Shawn tells him he's way too cool to be Skee-Lo, and Gus fist-bumps, he is correct there! Not that Skee-Lo isn't cool) and Gus just wants to get to the theatre on time, because he has tickets to "Hamilton" and he can't miss it even though the show is 3 days away. Natalie and Julie are interested if he has them going spare. Detective Carlton Lassiter, upon finding out that Spencer is going to bungle a serial killer investigation, takes his banked 400 days of leave to go to help. ESEPECIALLY when he discovers that the greatest cop he ever worked with (Captain Leland Stottlemeyer) is there on the job, and he gets furious when Shawn and Gus refer to him as a "weird looking House on the Prairie Bloodhound". Unfortunately for Lassie, he gets saddled with Lieutenant Disher, who is eager and keen, but oh so daft... Joel and Sheila, meanwhile, fall into a panic: they are trying to keep some human flesh for Sheila, but the cooler broke (fucking NEW YORK!) and they need some flesh fast. PLUS cops just turned up at the house of their client, who was slashed to pieces, and Sheila left their card there! ("Well excuse me for promoting our business!" "Nobody hates you for that honey, it's empowering and effective, I'm just a little stressed that the cops may figure it's a clue." "Do you think I murdered him, Joel?" "Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm... No?" "Good answer honey!") Plus Ms Santiago is very perky and eager, and a police officer, they'll have to keep their cool...

[respectthepetty]

Please share your favorite gmmtv actor ships - they do not need to be a fixed couple, if you have those (because i do). Also, this is not meant to be an ask for real people shipping, if you are uncomfortable with that. Just your favorites maybe in terms of on-screen dynamics or any other criteria. Sorry if this is so vague 😭

Anon, serious questions before I begin - Can First and Water be a favorite pair because the amount he cries in each series, I need my babygirl to stay hydrated?

Or can one of my favorite pairs be Sing & a suit/necklace combo with the shirt unbuttoned and his man bitties out?

No? Not what you are looking for? Well, then, let me redirect to my favorite people ships rather than shipping people with inanimate objects.

So . . . before I jump in, just remember that all of these HAVE happened, so I'm not crazy:

Gun x Gun?

Hold on before you think I'm not taking this seriously! I already stated I think Gun is one of the best actors on GMMTV's roster (if not the best), so understand that if GMMTV won't let him make out with Sing when both of them were giving us sexual tension as ToddBlack, or give Tor a little kissy kissy in Midnight Museum because they were brothers or whatever, at least let the man play against himself more. It could be like the Barbie movie, but with Gun being everything. It'd be fun to see, and if GMMTV wanted to go dark sci-fi, he could answer that age-old question: Would you have sex with your clone?

Neo x Phuwin

We had this. They were paired together in Cause You're My Boy. Then they were hinted at in Dark Blue Kiss. But then, they were made into brothers in Fish Upon the Sky, so Phuwin now has Pond, and Neo got Louis. But why though? Why were we denied another adventure of these two being paired up together?! I had them down on my hopes for a 2023 offering, and I'll have them down every year from now on. I want them back! NOW!

Earth x Papang

Aof was crazy for pulling this off in Moonlight Chicken, but now that I've seen it, I can't unsee it. And even more, I WANT IT! I have never seen Earth kiss like that, and he has had several partners. Did Aof strike a goldmine with this pairing? Papang has always done his job, but these scenes, which lasted no more than eight minutes, gave me an alternate timeline that I must see play out on my screen. Immediately.

Pond x Nanon

If Aof was crazy for Earth x Papang then Jojo was batshit insane for Pond x Nanon in Dirty Laundry. These two had a strip-off pole dance in a club called Boys Next Door, Nanon twisted Pond's nipples for information, then Pond's character had sex with a client with Nanon and Film's character in the car. This shit was wild, but that was only 15% of the hijinks between these two. I need them to recreate this creepy magic, and I need it to be twelve episodes long with at least 52 minutes runtime per episode.

Gigie x Fah

Since I mentioned Jojo, The Warp Effect is queer. QUEER! It gave use Fluke with Thor, Jan with Silvy (oh, my God that magical being could choke me!), and Mark with Best, yet, it toyed with us by suggesting the possibility of Gigie with Fah. Be brave about it, GMMTV! More than one wlw couple can exist in a show. Give me a redo, and this time, give me these two picking each other again, and again, and again regardless of what Alex (New) does with those Polaroids.

New x Sing x Fluke

Mentioning The Warp Effect reminded me that these three could out beat any historical trio including Destiny's Child, The Jonas Brothers, AND Charlie's Angels! Sing and New have been around for a bit, so I'm surprised they haven't acted in more together, but throw Fluke in there, and they had the perfect dynamic: Gay pretty boy and former bully with kinky puppy and space enthusiast trying to help out their bi idiot friend (it's canon to me). Sing and New will be in the Thai remake of Cherry Magic, so I'm sure Fluke could fit in there somewhere somehow. Make it happen, GMMTV!

First x Khaotung x Sea

And on the topic of throuples, this one hasn't happened, but by golly do I want it! Whoever paired First and Khaotung together deserves a Noble Peace Prize, but whoever thought of interviewing them with Sea deserves the Library of Congress Living Legend award and to be the Grand Marshall at the NYC Pride Parade. That person gets it. I'm not shipping them as actual people together. I want whatever chemistry they had in that interview to be transferred onto the screen and brought to me in 2024 because only a Year of the Dragon can handle the fire they would deliver.

Pawin x Satang

GMMTV, you know what you did in that Star in My Mind x Our Skyy 2 episode was effed up. I don't care how many times you pair Pawin up with other boys. You know what you did, and I'm taking this grudge to the grave.

Ohm x Perth

The fact that Double Savage cast them as brothers instead of a one-sided love affair was in the words of the most beautiful Raye a "DUMB DECISION!" Then to have them color coded?! THE AUDACITY! And no, I will not be writing about the colors because unless these two get paired again, as LOVERS, I will rewire this story in my head of what it should have been to deserve these two amazing actors partnered up with each other rather than the poop pile I got. I wrote what I wrote.

Joong x Dunk

If you know anything about me, know that I'm a JoongDunk fan first, and a human second. It has absolutely nothing to do with their acting even though that's what you asked for. It has everything to do with them. Much like the interview with First, Khaotung, and Sea, Joong and Dunk in their interviews are ridiculous. They resort to tomfoolery and instead of answering the questions, they start arguing about the most trivial details. ForceBook and GeminiFourth do this, but add in JoongDunk's live streams and Safe House footage, and I don't know how they get anything done when filming because they are either arguing, dancing, napping, or giggling. Hidden Agenda yesterday, please!

Bonus: Since this was exclusive to GMMTV, I couldn't include who my ultimate acting pair is, but if you know me, then you already know, so without further ado

MAXTUL DOMINATION!

[kwebtv]

Character Actor

Jeremy Slate (born Robert Bullard Perham; February 17, 1926 – November 19, 2006)  Film and television actor, and songwriter. He is best known for Larry Lahr in The Aquanauts (1960–1961), Chuck Wilson in One Life to Live (1979–1987) and as Deputy Sheriff Ben Latta in The Sons of Katie Elder (1965).

Slate co-starred with Ron Ely in the 1960–1961 Ivan Tors series The Aquanauts,  which was renamed Malibu Run halfway during its brief run on CBS. The series could not compete successfully in the same time slot as NBC's durable western Wagon Train. He guest-starred in nearly 100 television shows and appeared in twenty feature films. Among his many television appearances were two roles in the courtroom drama series Perry Mason, both times as Perry's client: In season 3, 1960, he played Bob Lansing in the episode, "The Case of the Ominous Outcast", and in season 5, 1962, he played Philip Andrews in "The Case of the Captain's Coins."

He guest-starred in the 1959–1960 syndicated western series, Pony Express, starring Grant Sullivan.

In 1963, Slate was cast as Mark Novak in the episode "The Loner" of the NBC modern western series, Empire, set on a ranch in New Mexico. In the storyline he became involved in a deadly boxing match with series character Tal Garrett (Ryan O'Neal). Also in 1963, he co-starred in an episode of the second season of Combat! called "Off Limits," produced and directed by Robert Altman. That same year, he played Elroy Daldran, a hired assassin out to kill Eliot Ness, in "A Taste for Pineapple", the final episode (series finale) of The Untouchables starring Robert Stack. Finally in 1963, he appeared in James Arness’s TV Western series Gunsmoke, as gunslinger Billy Hargis in “Carter Caper” (season 9, episode 8).

He played a troubled surfer in a 1962, season 3 episode of Route 66 called "Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?" In 1965 he starred as Wally in season 1, episode 21 of Bewitched, entitled "Ling Ling". He later guest-starred as a German infiltrator in a fourth-season episode of Combat! entitled ”The Mockingbird” (aired 1966).

Slate played Hank in the NBC comedy Accidental Family in 1967–1968.

From 1979 to 1987, Slate portrayed Chuck Wilson on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live. For a short time, from April to October 1985, while Slate was not on One Life to Live, he portrayed the character of Locke Walls on the CBS daytime drama (soap opera) Guiding Light. Slate performed in nine episodes of CBS's long-running Western series Gunsmoke, including in the role of a likable but doomed cowboy in the 1962 episode "The Gallows" written by John Meston. He also guest-starred three times on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour on CBS and then NBC, on CBS's Mission: Impossible and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, ABC's Bewitched, then NBC's My Name Is Earl.  (Wikipedia)

Jeremy Slate

[warningsine]

All right, since I bombarded a poor mutual yesterday...

Privacy is not security and security is not privacy. These terms are not interchangeable, but they are intrinsically linked.

While we're at this, anonymity =/= security either. For example, Tor provides the former, but not necessarily the latter, hence using Https is always essential.

It is impossible to have privacy without security, but you can have security without privacy.

A case in point is administrators being able to view any data they want due to their full-access rights to a system. That being said, there are ethics and policies that usually prevent such behavior.

Some general tips:

Operating System: Switch to Linux. Ubuntu and Linux Mint are widely used for a reason. Fedora too. And don't worry! You can keep your current operating system, apps and data. If you're on a Mac computer, you can easily partition your hard drive or SSD by using Disk Utility. If you're on Windows, you can follow this guide.

You want to go a step further? Go with Whonix or Tails. They're Linux distributions as well, but they're both aiming for security, not beauty so the interface might not be ideal for everyone. Many political activists and journalists use them.

You want anonymity? Then you need to familiarize yourself with Tor. Also, Tor and HTTPS and Tor’s weaknesses. When you're using it, don't log in to sites like Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. and make sure to stay away from Java and Javascript, because those things make you traceable.

Alternatives for dealing with censorship? i2p and Freenet.

Is ^ too much? Welp. All right. Let's see. The first step is to degoogle.

Switch to a user-friendly browser like Firefox (or better yet LibreWolf), Brave or Vivaldi. There are plenty of hardened browsers, but they can be overwhelming for a beginner.

Get an ad blocker like Ublock Origin.

Search Engine? StartPage or Duckduckgo. SearXNG too. Like I said degoogle.

Get a PGP encrypted e-mail. Check Protonmail out.

There's also Tutamail that doesn't cover PGP, but uses hybrid encryption that avoids some of the cons of PGP.

Skiff mail is also a decent option.

Use an e-mail aliasing service such as SimpleLogin or AnonAddy.

Check OpenPGP out. Claws Mail is a good e-mail client for Windows and Linux, Thunderbird for Mac OS.

Gpg4win is free and easy to use for anyone that wants to encrypt/decrypt e-mails.

Instead of Whatsapp, Facebook messenger, Telegram etc. use Signal for your encrypted insant messaging, voice and video calls.

Get a metadata cleaner.

Get a firewall like Opensnitch, Portmaster or Netguard which can block Internet for trackers.

Alternatively, go with a private DNS that blocks these trackers. NextDNS is a good paid service. Rethink a good free option.

Replace as many of your applications as you can with FOSS (free and open source) ones. Alternativeto can help you.

Always have automatic updates on. They are annoying af, I know, but they are necessary.

Keep your distance from outdated software.

Always have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled.

Do not use your administrator account for casual stuff. If you're on Linux, you probably know you can be sudo, but not root.

On Linux distributions use AppArmor, but stay away from random antivirus scanners. Other distributions default to SELinux, which is less suited to a beginner.

Never repeat your passwords. If you can't remember them all, use a password manager like KeePass.

Encrypt your drive.

Honestly, VPNs have their uses and ProtonVPN, Mullvad and Windscribe are decent, but eh. If you don't trust your ISP, why would you trust the VPN provider that claims they don't log you when you can't verify such a thing?

[theinternetisaweboflies]

Jägermeister

Chapter Sixteen: Orders

The note that Lou slipped Hermann had only three lines.

Check the drafts.

eknf09973k@blackmail.com

MlKip80932210v.01

So Tendo drummed up a new-in-box cellphone from somewhere, and they logged into BlackMail.

BlackMail was an anonymous email client normally used in conjunction with Tor. Hermann knew a little bit about the so-called ‘darknet,’ but only due to another one of Newton’s rants. 

Newton had been on his third day without sleep. Counterintuitively, the greater his sleep deprivation, the faster he seemed to move. By then, he was practically vibrating. His patter had grown so rapid, it seemed like only auctioneers should have been able to follow it, but Hermann somehow still remembered it almost verbatim.

“All you have to do is download a Tor browser, which is perfectly legal, in a read-the-fine-font sort of way. Tor is short for The Ogre Router, but it’s based on an older network called The Onion Router that the NSA dismantled in 2023.”

“The new Tor popped up practically overnight. I would say the NSA doesn’t know about it, but they probably shut down the old one because it was running too slow. This is the Too Much Information Age. Coke’s secret formula is no longer secret. KFC’s eleven original herbs and spices are old news. They added five more, which immediately went viral, in more ways than one. Not even the Illuminati can keep a secret these days.”

“You can buy or sell anything on the darknet if you have enough digitally laundered cryptocurrency. Remember that girl who tried to sell her kidney for the latest iPhone, then found out that wouldn’t be enough money and tried to sell the other one? The cops got there just in time? That was the Silk Superhighway. You can even hire an assassin. The Unicoder will make the hit look like a suicide for anyone who refers a friend.”

Eventually, Hermann had succeeded in convincing him to put down the scalpel and go to bed, but the rant had actually been rather fascinating. As Newton was so fond of saying, “The internet is a web of lies.” 

Lou and Dierdre had left an email in the drafts folder. That was a trick commonly employed by BlackMailers. Anyone with account access could read the email without leaving behind an incriminating paperless trail. 

The draft read:

Hey Hermann,

We’re trying to get assigned to Newt’s detail so we can bust him out. We need you to distract the Sec Gen and his security officers once we switch shifts.  We’ll leave a new draft once it’s go time and another once we've got Newt. 

Love,

Dierdre & Lou

P.S. It would be nice if we still had jobs after this, but it’s no big deal if we don’t. Lou’s old man isn’t really on dialysis. :P

If the PPDC fired Dierdre and Lou, Hermann was going to hire them personally. After all, it seemed Newton was in need of full-time security. 

“They might not be able to time their shift change with the meeting,” said Raleigh, once they’d all stopped headbutting each other in an attempt to look at the same tiny screen. 

They had decided to meet in the Jaeger Refuse Storage room this time. It was dark and cramped, but there was relatively little chance of covert listening devices. 

“Do we need a backup distraction?” asked Tendo. “I make a mean trashcan fire. Lots of smoke, no collateral damage.”

“I think that's the first time a PPDC officer has said the words ‘no collateral damage’ in that order,” said Marshal Hansen, “but I get the feeling Secretary Krieger will want his own security officers present for this meeting. He was acting a bit troppo about it.”

“You know no one understands you when you start using Australian slang, sir,” said Tendo. 

“I noticed that too, sir,” said Raleigh, at the same time. “It was strange how he changed the time and place like that. Do you think he’s going to try something?” 

Marshal Hansen crossed his arms. “I would bloody well like to see him try and start something with me in my own Shatterdome.”

“That would be foolish at best,” agreed Hermann, “but I believe it’s a good sign that he changed the time and location of the meeting. It may have simply been another power play, but it’s also possible that he pushed back the meeting so his security detail would have time to return.”

“What about the location?” asked Mako. 

“He wants to have the meeting in his own office, which indicates that he doesn’t want to risk surveillance,” said Hermann, "which in turn indicates that he may say something incriminating. Did you notice the item on his desk? That was a nonlinear junction detector. They're used to identify covert recording devices. I recognized it from the time Newton thought J Science was spying on us.”

“Say what?” asked Tendo.

Hermann waved his free hand dismissively. “Oh, he had been consuming some black market energy drinks from Japan, and I believe they were interfering with his medications. The point is that the Secretary General is apparently quite paranoid about being bugged.”

“I wonder why,” said Raleigh, in a voice dryer then the canteen’s chicken fricassee. 

“So you are suggesting we oblige him?” asked Mako.

Marshal Hansen tapped a finger against his folded arms. “Well, we can’t let Lou and Dierdre have all the fun.”

“We will have to find a way to avoid detection,” she reminded him. 

“Could the Marshal wear a wire?” asked Hermann.

“This is 2025,” said Tendo. “We use cellphones to spy on each other these days.”

“It's standard practice to turn in cellphones or even use signal jammers before classified meetings,” said Marshal Hansen. “That’s one of the reasons we all use Zoom. I guarantee you Secretary Krieger will insist on it, even if it’s just to scratch his own ego. I wouldn't be surprised if he patted me down too. You know, even Stacker used to complain about him?”

“If the Secretary General were to discover a recording device on your person, then you could potentially be charged with seditious conspiracy,” said Hermann. 

“I have an idea,” said Mako, “but we'll need to bring some very specialized help.”

...

@lastdaysofwar