Remember that your mother told you to "not put all your eggs in one basket"?  This same principle applies to sensitive data; these records should not be kept in one place where a single hack can compromise all of the data.  So why is this practice continuing?  Because the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.  There's a huge profit to be made off collection of sensitive data which allows authority to manipulate the public in various ways for its own selfish purposes.

I just saw this announcement on my VMWare Windows 10 machine:

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Lifelock has a conflict of interest because its future success requires future data breaches.  What authority doesn't want you to know is that the technology exists which makes such attacks next to impossible to carry out.  At the same time though, it would eliminate benefits to authority and they can't have that.

I don't keep personal info on this machine for a lot of reasons and have virtually all features of Windows 10 turned off.  It's used for one thing only: as a place for writing my [software](http://www.astrology-x-files.com).  These days it's a good idea to have at least one machine that never connects to the internet.  This is the machine that I use for private information such as the generation of cryptocurrency keys.  You have to assume that every machine is taking screen shots and sending your private keys through your internet connection, so only do such procedures on a machine that never connects.

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This is why I don't like Windows 10 because it nags you to keep you connected saying that you won't be secure otherwise.  Precisely the opposite is true.  You can have all the malware in the world running on your machine and it won't matter one bit as long as you never connect to the internet.  That's where you run into trouble.  The way to handle this is to keep regular backups and if some ransomware tries to encrypt everything, do an fdisk and reformat, then use one of your uninfected backups to restore.  Get a new HD if necessary (they're really cheap these days).

But authority doesn't want you to think this way.  It wants to know everything about you in order to force you into surrender so that they have absolute control.  They want you to store your data on the cloud (another mistake).  This is known as a digital panopticon.  If you're a responsible person, you shouldn't allow this.  If you're smart, you'll understand that such control is the reason why terrorism exists in the first place.  [Terrorism is a byproduct of authority](https://steemit.com/politics/@zoidsoft/why-terrorism-is-a-byproduct-of-authority-that-will-eventually-cause-planet-wide-extinction-without-bitcoin).  Without authority, there can be no terrorism.

There's an excellent video that explains this entire situation by Andreas Antonopoulos called "Bubble Boy vs Sewer Rat"...

https://youtu.be/810aKcfM__Q
[credit - Andreas Antonopoulos](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJWCJCWOxBYSi5DhCieLOLQ)

Authority will never be able to protect your personal information.  Only you can do that and you'll have to decentralize your habits.  What is decentralization?  It's the idea that there should be distribution, that information should be spread out and placed where it's relevant.  Nature does this quite naturally which is why it's so stable because its design is flat and goes against hierarchy.

When data resides in one location, it creates a giant honeypot that is irresistible to hackers.  Why?  Because they can [break into a database just once and get 145 million records](http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/09/pf/equifax-hack-senate-disclosure/index.html).  What would happen if each record instead resides on a single device separated from all of the rest?  Then the hacker would have to break into 145 million devices.

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It's easy to see that the latter hack would never happen.  This is because who has the time and electricity to hack into this many machines?  The payout would be far less than your electric bill at the end of the month.  The alternative under this latter situation would require a botnet attack, which is significantly harder to pull off with much less success.

The public has been brainwashed into thinking that identity is needed for transactions.  A hundred years ago, even up to the current day, cash transactions have been done without identity.  You don't need to know who someone is when selling something to someone else.  You just look at the bill to see that it's real and that is all.

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Authority has been busy turning banks into a system of law enforcement.  Their ideal is to make all transactions part of an authority structure that puts censorship ability first.  KYC (Know Your Customer), AML (Anti Money Laundering) and CTF (Control of Terrorist Financing) have all been tools invented in the last 50 years to change the business of finance into one of absolute power and control.  Under such a system, the vote no longer means anything.

### The Model that Secures Life, Liberty, Property

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Bitcoin has as its underlying architecture the ability to eliminate these data breaches while at the same time assuring that transactions don't require your trust to be secure.  It's accomplished by stringing together the transaction history into blocks that are hash dependent which means that once the history is committed, it becomes like sediment in the ocean; a permanent record of what actually happened.  This is called "immutability" and is a feature of bitcoin.

We know that transactions can't be stolen or modified because to do so would cause the Merkle tree check of the hash to not match if it was modified.  Thousands of computers across the world would know instantly this was not the "truth" of the network and would overwrite the correct transaction details with the correct hashes.  At the end, anyone attempting to cheat in this way ends up with a large electric bill and nothing to show for it.

Your keys reside on a local hardware wallet (preferably) and never leave the security of the device.  Software wallets are less secure in this manner.  This is the model that should replace the banking system, and it will render the system of [law enforcement of money](https://youtu.be/FyK4P7ZdOK8) obsolete.

### The Myth that Government is Necessary

There is practically nothing that private citizens can't do better that government claims a monopoly on, from building roads to building buildings, if you benefit, you pay, but if not, you don't pay for what you don't use.  Government is filled with parasites who grift from an unnecessary system of death and destruction.  The biggest problem is how to reverse the trend toward hierarchy back into a flat system.  This is going to happen anyway because of the coming equity drain into the 3rd world.

A few generations ago, my ancestors built Manwaring Rd.  Here it is as it appeared in 1962...

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We did it with our horses because we needed it.  Later on our tractors smoothed it out because cars started coming through the dirt road creating potholes.  My family in fact became government in this area which is why the family name is on the road.  To people in the city who have been created as total dependents, this concept is foreign.  But it is the truth.  The difference is that long ago, the system was much more voluntary.  Then suddenly, it became compulsory or armed gunmen would cart you off to a cage.  This is not natural, but is a form of violence that most of you have been trained to ignore as necessary.  But it is highly unethical and fundamentally immoral.

Bitcoin at its root is capable of rending the system of overseeing authority obsolete.  Not quite yet today, but in a few years time, this underlying technology will render all forms of authority unnecessary.  Some will ask, what about the law?  The reality is that 98% of the people will do good things.  The other 2% will get whacked in self defense in the future when law enforcement collapses anyway due to inability to fund the USD.

When the parasites are driven from the system, you won't have to work so hard to survive.  That's when the incentive for crime will subside.  The corporate driven world of hierarchy is the source for all crime and terror and the reason why the USA is #1 in the number of people incarcerated.  How is this not completely obvious?

You are completely responsible for your own welfare and safety whether you realize it or not.  Anyone with a badge promising otherwise is making promises they can't keep.  They are not your God.

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