Reposted from Techrights

echrights wrote about this several times before, but it is worth repeating because a lot more is known now.

That is relevant because, as an associate put it:

TIL: Signal (app) is *only* for smartphones and even the desktop version
will not work without first registering via a smartphone instance. Not good.

Can I install Signal Desktop without a mobile device?

No. Signal Desktop must be linked with either Signal Android
or Signal iOS to send and receive messages.

Security theatre

“I would presume the connections are logged externally and at the minimum timing correlations can be made,” the associate noted.

Also, under oath, you might be compelled to admit you spoke over Signal or other digital means to a Serial Strangler from Microsoft about how to sue Roy.

That actually happened. And we have proof (under sworn oath).

That’s good to know, as it’ll prove relevant in the future.

That serves to prove that Brett Wilson LLP lied to me and also about me many times. Lying to a Court about a person isn’t a trivial thing to do. It’s also legally risky.

After more than 2 months since their own clients sued them (Yanpolsky and another v Brett Wilson LLP and another) they still appear to have filed no defence [1, 2, 3, 4].

I don’t want to comment much more at this stage, except note that now there is substantial proof of what we’ve said all along and got defamed for. How much will they spend to silence me?

ome years ago I reported about crimes in Microsoft [1, 2] and even crimes against women, perpetrated by Microsoft employees. Days (or about a day) later I got SLAPPed by associates of these people (who are also connected to Microsoft).

Years earlier the same happened after I had reported crimes at the EPO.

Right now I report on some more Microsoft crimes and substance abuse at the EPO. Crimes at Microsoft are routine, but some are more personal than others. Sometimes the companies can ‘personify’ matters to make the disputes seem like anything but corporate muzzling (like Philpott at EPO).

As a result, there is more heat and costs.

That does beg the question: how safe is it to be an investigative reporter in the UK?

Put another way: is it possible to really report on crime in the UK?

Or only the crimes detested by the state?

Back in 2009 we saw how the UK Ministry of Defence was classing Investigative Journalists among “Terrorists” or something to that effect.

Society where crimes cannot be reported – or cannot be safely reported on – would look something like Putin’s Moscow. We do not want that, do we?

think I’ve not embarked on an airplane since 2018 (Berlin) and we’re just 7 weeks away from 2026. It’s not that I didn’t go anywhere in the UK (for instance we were in Belfast the following year; that’s Northern Ireland, just a boat trip away) and a fortnight ago we went to London. It’s just that I promised myself not to waste energy on flights unless I absolutely need to (sometimes we must attend funerals and such; something like a conference is never a necessity).

The trip to Berlin was OK, but the flights and airports were not pleasant, with various delays among other issues.

I don’t miss air travel and have no imminent plan of boarding a plane.

I miss nothing about flights.

To most people in Western countries, due in part to peer pressure, it’s more difficult not to hitch planes than to conform/obey expectations.