{"id":772,"date":"2025-05-24T21:51:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T21:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2025-05-24T22:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:03:35","slug":"thieves-and-deceivers-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/tech-weapons-of-war\/thieves-and-deceivers-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves and Deceivers all &hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Warmongers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/brian-eno-creator-of-the-windows-95-startup-sound-calls-on-microsoft-to-sever-ties-with-israel-if-you-knowingly-build-systems-that-can-enable-war-crimes-you-inevitably-become-complicit-in-those-crimes\/\">Brian Eno Speaks Out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has long been thus. <\/p>\n<p>Audrey Watters argues persuasively that ITTech is born from military goals. And of course corporate complicity is older than that, and pre-digital e.g. see Edwin Black&#8217;s work on IBM&#8217;s secretive connivance with Holocaust management.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s not forget that Palantir is the possibly the most evil company on Earth (Alex Karp, that&#8217;s you), possibly by far responsible for more genocidal murder than Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>But they are all at it &#8211; keyboard killers even as they preach at us about enlightenment &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Worthwhile noting here that Hedy Lamarr&#8217;s invention of frequency hopping fed into very early work on mobile battlefield communications that in turn fed into the early work on packet switching, the foundation of today\u2019s digital data systems.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edwin Black:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nazi Nexus: <a title=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Nazi-Nexus-Corporate-Connections-Holocaust\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Nazi-Nexus-Corporate-Connections-Holocaust\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Nazi-Nexus-Corporate-Connections-Holocaust<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IBM and the Holocaust: <a title=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corporation-Expanded-ebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corporation-Expanded-ebook\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corporation-Expanded-ebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Audrey Watters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com\/swords-into-plowshares\" href=\"https:\/\/2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com\/swords-into-plowshares\">https:\/\/2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com\/swords-into-plowshares<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep! Brian Eno Speaks Out It has long been thus. Audrey Watters argues persuasively that ITTech is born from military goals. And of course corporate complicity is older than that, and pre-digital e.g. see Edwin Black&#8217;s work on IBM&#8217;s secretive connivance with Holocaust management. Let\u2019s not forget that Palantir is the possibly the most evil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/tech-weapons-of-war\/thieves-and-deceivers-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thieves and Deceivers all &hellip;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-weapons-of-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}