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sk on so they didn't know who I was. Maybe just a crazy woman." It could be. It could be that they didn't recognize her. This 20-something beautiful young couple, it could be they didn't recognize Cher because she had her mask on. That's one of the possibilities. The other possibility is that they're a young couple who have never heard of Cher. How many people in their 20s even would recognize Che…
← Previous segment →private communications just got released, I think, because I do have a history that I have communicated with more than one Fox host by digital means. So my private communications are now in play.
Let me give you some advice. Do any of you use encrypted apps so you can stay out of trouble? How many of you use some kind of an encrypted app for communicating? Stop it. Stop it. Don't do it. If you're using an encrypted app because you think it's safe, oh my God, you're a sucker. You are a sucker. They are the least safe thing you could ever do. Do you know why? Because that's where all the good stuff is. Where are you going to look for stuff? Here are the ways your encrypted communications can be corrupted. Number one, the government always had a back door. How would you know? Company tells you they don't. Government says, "No we don't do that." But that's what they would say, right? How do you know the government doesn't have a back door? Why wouldn't they if they could? Why wouldn't they? It's crazy not to. It would almost be an abdication of responsibility if they didn't have back doors to all the encrypted apps. Now I don't know that they do. I'm just saying I'd be deeply surprised if they or some other foreign entity doesn't have access to at least one of them. At least one of them.
Now I'm not worried about the encryption being broken at the moment. That's probably your smallest risk. The next risk is that the message you send can be captured on your device before it gets encrypted, because anything that you're typing could be captured by a virus, am I right? A hacker could install something on your phone or device. It would capture your message before it even got to the encrypted part, right? A key logger, yeah. And I imagine they could take a screenshot or something. You know, you would have those options. How about when it reaches the destination and then it's on the destination phone and it's on the screen? Could a hacker get it if it's on the screen? I assume so. It's just a screenshot. How hard would that be? So it's definitely hackable and it's definitely corruptable by some government entity, and they would lie to you because that's their job in this instance. It would be their job to lie to you. So if they're doing their job you wouldn't know.
But here's the biggest part: anything you send to somebody, they can show it to somebody else. That's it. Anything that you show to another human, that human can just show it to somebody else, right? And no matter how much trust you put in the encryption, you're just looking in the wrong place. It's not the encryption you have to worry about. It's all the people. So never send a message over digital means that you would be in serious trouble if it were outed. Just don't ever do it. No matter how private you think it is, just don't ever do it. Ever. Not once. I wouldn't do it under any condition ever once. And it doesn't matter if you're running for office or not, because you see in these cases you could be completely unrelated to any kind of crime and somebody can open up your messages. You've seen my messages in the news, haven't you? I'll bet you've seen a private message of mine in the news. I have, and I don't know how that happened.
Anyway, here's some good news on fusion. Now of course you have to take all fusion good news with a grain of salt because for 30 years we've had fusion breakthroughs that never reached any conclusion. But apparently the industry has been chugging along and they are making incremental breakthroughs all the time. It seems to be, as Sam Altman told me a few years ago, it's now a
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n engineering problem where they just have to figure out how to iterate quickly. Well, apparently this big breakthrough — and I don't know the science behind this, I'll just read this — so for the first time a fusion reaction has achieved a record energy output exceeding the energy absorbed. So they're saying that they've achieved some fusion breakthrough, but I think what they really achieved, if…
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