 There's this kind of unfortunate hole that a lot of people fall into if they're talking about free and open-source software or Digital privacy digital security all this kind of stuff a lot of people will get that they will Bite that they'll go down that rabbit hole. Okay, and they'll be interested in oh, how can I do things right online? How can I be secure? How can I reduce spyware all that kind of stuff one issue that I find is that many of those people Obsessed with the technology that oh my goodness open-source software is so cool all Encrypted all Monero it's so cool all this all this technology is fantastic Ignoring the context in which it's used and what I mean by that it here. Here's my actual viewpoint The absolute most secure way to do something is always Not using the internet Always a hundred percent of the time you want to have a secure end-to-end encrypted chat Well talk to someone in real life without cell phones around. Okay. Do you want to? Buy something anonymously well buying cash all of that exists in real life and it functions perfectly Actually, I was talking about this over the weekend I did an interview with Kevin Wad who's one of those Monero guys Maybe you guys know about him and initially he disagreed with this point because I he said something like oh my goodness It's gonna be so great. We're gonna have Monero this private cryptocurrency if it takes over the world We can all you know transact privately and stuff like that And you know, we won't have cash anymore and all that kind of stuff and I was like no I don't want that I absolutely don't want that because what that means even if you have a solid technology That actually really does You know protect people's privacy. I Want the option of being able to use something physical some physical currency some paper cash to transact with people now It can be a cash based on gold or silver or even it could be based off a digital currency But I always want that ability to be able to transact without a cell phone app without Connection to the internet that is something that we inherently need and most people if they they're really worried about personal privacy They wouldn't be more Technological and they wouldn't use more and more fancy equipment They would be less technological and not use the internet and not use digital technology What so ever? Over Christmas. I actually saw this pretty good video. There's this guy on YouTube Eli the computer guy I've known that he existed for a while, but I watch his what I watched one of this video These videos he did on tour or maybe it was I2P or something like that and he made this really good comparison and that is Tour if you're using tour to be anonymous. Hey, that's great. If it works, you know There are problems for there are potential vulnerabilities and things with it But hey, if you're trying to be anonymous online, that's great But what he said is trying to be private online is kind of like trying to encrypt Yodeling right because when you're making connections on the internet, you are I mean that stuff is all over the place The the amount of metadata leakage even if you're doing everything perfect is enormous Okay, so trying to use that digital technology in a privacy respecting way is like trying to encrypt yodeling I absolutely agree with that. That's a perfect analogy of his and so Most of the time if you need to talk to someone, right? Should your first Option be let me get this encrypted chat application and I'll use that. No your first Reflect should be let's see. Can I talk to this person in real life, right? Can I can I wait until I see this person in real life when I talk to him, right? That should be reaction number one and I absolutely don't want what I don't want and what I'm worried about Especially when I see free and open-source technology becoming this enforced standard Even if it's an open standard actually if it's free and open source as an enforced enforced standard that's Arguably even worse because you know more people can build stuff on top of it easier than you know proprietary programs And I'm very worried about living in a digital police state that's built on free and open-source software, right? technology can easily be designed to Cause people problems even if you know it could be worse worse if it's proprietary or something else like that, right? I mean we saw a bunch of governments Try to develop contact tracing apps and there are even a lot of free and open-source people even I think the Linux Foundation and Those groups of people would fund projects for contact tracing apps that were open-source. I don't give a crap if the Dystopia we're gonna live in is proprietary or open-source It doesn't make a lick of difference for me because I don't want to live in one of those dystopias I do not want to have to be reliant on that kind of technology and yes when you're using digital technology 100% of the time use Free and open-source software use cryptocurrency in crypto encrypted, you know private cryptocurrency like Monero Use always use the best technology if you have to use technology But 90% of the time I'm gonna go ahead and guess you don't really need to use technology, right? You're just you're doing things as a replacement for real life that you shouldn't really be doing anyway I mean this is this is half self-help half privacy advice But a lot of people just use the internet for things for social things they shouldn't be using them for anyway and it is a privacy liability and the solution is not necessary to not even necessarily to move to some Super private social media site that is free and open-source. I mean that in some use cases you could you know make a You know use that to an end and that might be helpful But I think at most cases people just shouldn't be using digital technology for most of this stuff You are trying to encrypt yodeling. That's a that's a great analogy and that's what you're doing. So That's just a reminder if you need to touch grass relax Just try not to use computers that that's I don't know that that's basically what all of my videos are about, right?