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Benn Jordan may have been notorious for its Flashbulb music, and later commented on the synthesis and effect pedals on YouTube in the name of Benn and Gear. But about five years ago, this decision led his YouTube channel in different directions. He did not stop reporting on music equipment overnight, but over time his channel has become more focused on scientific and technical investigations. He even turned the whole business into a non-profit organization.

Benn Jordan wants technology to stop watching your days.

This YouTube star has gone from censoring synthetics to assuming surveillance.

Benn Jordan wants technology to stop watching your days.

This YouTube star has gone from censoring synthetics to assuming surveillance.

Although there are occasional videos that focus on music or audio — for example, poisoning artificially intelligent music systems or storing data in birds — recently the main focus was on the state of surveillance. He discovered obvious security deficiencies in the Flock camera system, showed how easy it was to break Ring and seemed to confirm a conspiracy theory that Unitree's machine dog was secretly sending the data back to the Chinese server.

In short, Benn Jordan has gone from being one of the best music devices on YouTube to one of the best Internet security on YouTube. He has kindly spent some time proving that all our most serious concerns about government and business surveillance are true and answering our weekly questionnaires.

What was the first application you installed on your new phone or computer? (excluding preloading software such as Gmail)

In the new Windows PC on, Ninite. It's basically like you gave me a wish, and I made more. Ninite is a free tool to quickly install a customised list of what you want to install on the new PC in the next few hours.

Which one do you want to change your phone?

It's easy to unlock and root.

What are your happy places online?

Jelly and cheese. cc. It's a 100% free, powerful and document-rich music programming language that runs in the browser. This is a good way to delay or even unexpectedly learn the code.

What's your favorite little tool?

Original Pebble watch. It doesn't collect my data or track anything. It gives me time and date, tells me when there is new information and a charge can last a week. This happens to be the only three things I want on my rival watch.

Which is the most disappointing?

Amazon Echo Show (third generation). I only bought one for the permeation test, but it's an extremely slow and clumsy device, which exists essentially to monitor you, to show you the ad and to ask you to pay for the functionality you already have on the ad.

What is your most proud creation?

At least on YouTube (this is probably why I was invited to answer Verge random questions): In 2022, an impostor of the Rolling Stone band Andy Green contacted me on Instagram and told me he wanted to write an article about my music. Having learned about the real Andy Greene, I decided to follow the scam as deep as possible and tell Andy the story.

I thought it would be a video that I would lie to liars, but it ended up being a video about West African oppression, Sakakawa culture, and one time I was sitting with my partner's family on Chili's, talking to a Ghanaian witch doctor through whatsapp, actually drinking my own blood.

The video did not get many views, but the whole thing defined the current structure of my channel.

What is your obsession?

Spectrometry and interferometry. In particular, it involves taking advantage of the extremely delicate changes in the invisible light waves to capture the voices of reconciliation.

When was the last time you went somewhere without your phone?

I actually try to do it every day!

What do you think is worth the money?

A tripod. It's hard to imagine a huge price difference between the middle tripod on the Amazon and a product like Sachtler. This has proved to be very reasonable and, for more than a decade, it may be more beneficial than all the intermediate products you are about to replace or upgrade.

What's your biography slogan?

“If Joe Ham sells it on the tree.”

What are your recent GIF or Meme?

I'm not sure if it's a meme, but I always use a triangle, and each corner has one option, but you can only have two at the same time.