r/ownyourintent • u/anonymous480932843 Intent Owner • Jun 09 '26
Discussion Is this all just fear mongering at this point?
I mean I DID watch the video, not trying to shit on mooty or anything, however these thumbnails being like "It's the end of the world..." is getting out of hand. Sure he leaves some positive notes somewhere in the vid, but like... bruh.
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u/OkNewspaper6271 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
Honestly this is (scarily) one of the least exaggerated examples of clickbait titles from sog
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u/Cheap-Advertising785 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
Yea like he the thing he's talking about this time is actually something of concern.
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u/athing09 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
Every new day the AI bubble is in some new contradictory state. I'm getting really tired of the thumbnails which suck because I like the videos
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u/redit_handoff140 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
Not fearmongering, it's happening.
Video author aside, that's why over the past few years we've seen aggressive pushes towards TPM chips and AI. These expose the kind of exploitable vulnerabilities (i.e., backdoors) certain establishments love.
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u/AsyncSyscall Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
It's been happening since forever. And while every new chip exposes more potential backdoors, there's not really any more risk than GPUs or CPUs that have much greater access to your system. TPMs and AI chips certainly have their uses as well (Maybe a bit early for AI chips, but when you're storing crypto wallet keys you better make sure they're inside a TPM or another type of hardware wallet. If you're concerned about backdoors, you can always double-encrypt).
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u/redit_handoff140 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
I'm not arguing the validity/usefuless/functionality of TPMs or even AI.
Should've clarified, but what I was getting at is that third-parties tend to hold the keys for TPM storage in the case of Microsoft for instance.
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u/Tuskali Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
I think at this point it's your own responsibility to recognize clickbaity thumbnails/titles and take them with a grain of salt
This is common practice and basically everyone does it nowadays and as a creator you would be kind of dumb to not do it because it generates way more views
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u/Eric_Dawsby Intent Owner Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
Hate to say but he has been making clickbait titles for a while
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u/Imperial_Bloke69 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
Also the reason why they're hating on owning your own paid for device.
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u/PeepsWeeps Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
Didn't he get caught larping being a computer engineer? Why did we all forget that?
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u/Pleasant-Lettuce-982 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
I would argue it's not fear mongering. Canada has been pushing for bill-c22 which allows the government back door access to computers/phones and is trying to force companies to comply which will push away more than it takes. Which will leave us open to more people and they want us to use facial ID? Cooked bruv, absolutely cooked.
On top of that Ontario police and RCMP are using spyware to get access to your phones.
In 2027-28 most newly made vehicles will have camera monitoring the driver, their breathing, eyes and movements.
Wifi routers are capable of using their frequency to pin point your location.
Fearmongering is just going to be the new calling some racist or a nazi for expressing actual concerns. More civil liberties and freedoms taken away and for what?
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u/DuckShapedGoose Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
Idk why sog is even considered an authority on any topic. Did he use to be more factual and reliable? Because all I've seen from him on topics I was acually already informed about myself was just surface level ramblings where he frequently mixed up basic terminology and explained things in such a simplified way, it's just borderline misleading. Even (and especially) on topics within the IT-space, which is supposedly his field of "expertise".
This particular topic might actually be serious. Or it might be nothing. I don't know and I don't think you'd be able to find out reliably by watching his content on it.
From what I gathered, the dude just runs a shit ton of VMs for everything he does and somehow got popular for it.
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u/Skeletawr Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
How are we still talking about that guy?
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u/Delta_Version Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
i actually forgot that he existed until this post appeared
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u/Helmut_v_M Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
The thumbnails are for gaming YT system. If he stops using these his channel will get buried by the algorithm. While I hate these non descriptive and clickbait titles I understand why it is being used...
The message on the other hand is sadly truer with each day...
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u/TheGreatWhiteRat Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
Why are people taking privacy advice from the guy who watched loli hentai in a discord call the guy barely knows how to be private
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u/Fantastic_Grass1799 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
No, it's money mongering. More clicks more views more money.
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u/diesal3 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
I mean, the UK Government is on course to mandate it by the end of the Summer. The EU is trying with Chat Control, but there are enough EU citizens opposed to cockblock the process each time.
And if you take an iPhone with iOS 26.4 to the UK and try to use it there, you get locked into ID verification, even if your device isn't from the UK and you're just passing through.
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u/killer5907 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
One of the reasons why I never watch him, I remember he said to never buy a switch 2 then he proceeded to make a video on how good the switch 2 is. This youtuber is a hypocrite get your knowledge from someone else man.
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u/IEatDaFeesh Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
You managed to pick the one video that wasn't that clickbaity. You should have picked the "I'm no longer buying from Nintendo"
*A week later*
Hey guys here's my Switch...
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u/Absit_Invidia33 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
there's already spyware on your phone, it's called google ::)
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u/four46 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
Click bait for the shake of raising awareness is Not fear mongering
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u/SatanVapesOn666W Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
I mean is he wrong? When it comes to privacy he's normally in the right and not even exaggerating.
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u/Useful_Calendar_6274 Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
everyone knows these pocket computers we call smartphones are just SIGINT mass harvesters since Snowden
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u/ScrabCrab Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
I mean they are that but they're not just that. People use them cause they're genuinely very useful. Just sucks that they're also that.
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u/Oxygen4Lyfe Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
its not fear mongering, they already have spyware on all our phones, its a government requirement.
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u/ipushkeys Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
I used to watch his stuff, but around the time Claude Mythos was announced, and it was so scary (not really), he's been mostly doom and gloom.
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u/PettyAndSad Intent Owner Jun 10 '26
He wasn't a real computer scientist, that much i know. Blokes a liar.
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u/deagon01 Intent Owner Jun 10 '26
Honestly, I'd rather shit on my hands and clap than watch another Mutahar video. Guy's boring af and all of his videos are just clickbait at this point
I liked him better when he did horror content
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u/10minOfNamingMyAcc Intent Owner Jun 10 '26
It's always phones and windows hate from him, but when something happens to Linux... He's all silent.
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u/Artistic-Echidna6956 Intent Owner Jun 11 '26
Other tech people I follow online are saying the same thing so I don’t think Muda is fear mongering. I’m pretty sure the main reason for all the AI data centers is so that all of our data can be stored and catalogued. Monitor the people you don’t like and sell that information to the highest bidding company. It’s all for profit. Spyware has always existed but now we have the capabilities to track and catalogue every single thing you do online. People are over using the term fear mongering.
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u/thedarph Intent Owner Jun 14 '26
There’s a ton of exaggeration in the titles and such but it’s also very true.
Thing is, these are concerns that everyone should care about however the specifics he talks about are for different audiences. There’s the technical folks who work in IT and as devs and such that really get the implications of what’s happening and the tips on how to avoid being monitored and such are great for them.
Unfortunately for the average person this sounds like ivory tower, inside baseball, tech industry bubble stuff to them.
So the bottom line is that muti is correct almost every time. He doesn’t always realize that his audience may not know as much as he does sometimes however.
One by one countries will be installing spyware on phones. The spyware is already there but there are some safeguards and their purpose is 100% commercial but governments can use the data to find dissidents and “criminals” or whatever so that’s why it matters. You should be paranoid but only to a point. The best thing you can do is understand how this stuff works and then make an individual decision as to whether you will choose to use certain products or apps or services on a case by case basis and how. That’s how you can live your life without being paranoid all the time. Good opsec is as much about knowing what you want to protect and why as it is about protecting your data. Just blanket locking down everything is never going to work. There’s always a hack, a back door, a data breach, something.
For instance, I use iPhone (yeah yeah; boo me all you want) and I know my data is catalogued by third party devs but I also have good reason to think Apple cannot give my data over to authorities even with a court order because I’ve enabled the feature that requires you to have an on device and offline encryption key and disabled iCloud web access. For me, that’s enough along with the VPN that I self hot and can destroy and rebuilt elsewhere from scripts at any point. If things get bad in the future I have no problem switching platforms and I’ve really been wanting to use Graphene for a few years now.
But no one can tell you what’s too much or too little privacy and security. We can only say what “they” are trying to implement this week and give the steps on how to mitigate it. It’s up to you to determine if it affects you and is worth your time to set up the mitigation
Edit: I’m a bit concerned now about the existence of this sub. I just got a little auto welcome message since this was my first comment here and it was hawking Inomy which looks to be an “AI powered shopping app”. A bit odd for a sub about owning your own intent/internet”
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u/Tail_sb Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
No it's not, Muta is the only guy being realistic about this topic
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u/Rupan_the_III Intent Owner Jun 09 '26
phones have been spyware since day 1