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From The Management at the Consent Factory: The Future of the Spectacle...
by Razer 06 Oct '19

06 Oct '19

The Future of the Spectacle … or How the West Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Reality Police "If you want a vision of the future, don’t imagine “a boot stamping on a human face — for ever,” as Orwell suggested in 1984. Instead, imagine that human face staring mesmerized into the screen of some kind of nifty futuristic device on which every word, sound, and image has been algorithmically approved for consumption by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (“DARPA”) and its “innovation ecosystem” of “academic, corporate, and governmental partners.” The screen of this futuristic device will offer a virtually unlimited range of “non-divisive” and “hate-free” content, none of which will falsify or distort the “truth,” or in any way deviate from “reality.” Western consumers will finally be free to enjoy an assortment of news, opinion, entertainment, and educational content (like this Guardian podcast about a man who gave birth, or MSNBC’s latest bombshell about Donald Trump’s secret Russian oligarch backers) without having their enjoyment totally ruined by discord-sowing alternative journalists like Aaron Maté or satirists like myself. “Fake news” will not appear on this screen. All the news will be “authentic.” DARPA and its partners will see to that. You won’t have to worry about being “influenced” by Russians, Nazis, conspiracy theorists, socialists, populists, extremists, or whomever. Such Persons of Malicious Intent will still be able to post their content (because of “freedom of speech” and all that stuff), but they will do so down in the sewers of the Internet where normal consumers won’t have to see it. Anyone who ventures down there looking for it (i.e., such “divisive” and “polarizing” content) will be immediately placed on an official DARPA watchlist for “potential extremists,” or “potential white supremacists,” or “potential Russians.” https://consentfactory.org/2019/09/03/the-future-of-the-spectacle-or-how-th… Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Forbes: Warning For Windows Users As Encryption Breaking Malware Breaks Cover
by jim bell 06 Oct '19

06 Oct '19

Forbes: Warning For Windows Users As Encryption Breaking Malware Breaks Cover. https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/10/04/warning-for-windows-use…

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US-UK Ask Facebook to Avoid Strong Encryption
by John Young 04 Oct '19

04 Oct '19

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/politics/barr-whatsapp-facebook-encry… https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg

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"Red Handed" admittance from Putin - “Yes, we will definitely intervene [in 2020 elections], don't tell anybody”
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Oct '19

04 Oct '19

Shockin, just shocking I tell ya! When it comes to election interference, da Russkies just don't know when, to, quit! This looks, very muchly, like a plot to get revenge against the Dem's endless exposure of Putin and his 2016 US elections interference in favour of Trump. Rayzer will be shedding buckets of tears for Maddow over this leak. (Don't worry, Taz, I won't tell...) https://www.zerohedge.com/political/putin-mocks-nbc-reporter-well-definitel… We'll "Definitely" Interfere In 2020, Just "Don't Tell Anybody": Putin Mockingly Tells NBC Reporter <boss music> The Rubber boys - Master of the Drop [Original mix] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6TZF81OXoQ Mandatory VLC EQ settings for y' drop. Yo: 60 9.0 170 0.7 310 -6.0 600 -2.9 1k -3.5 3k -2.2 6k 6.0 12k 9.0 14k 12.0 Although if you 'ave only cheap earbuds, a little more bass and a little less highs ftw: 7.1 9.3 10.2 -1.3 2.6 -5.6 -2.0 -1.9 -1.1 -3.0 -3.6 -5.2 7.1 3.8 5.2 8.5 8.7 9.7 5.2 8.9 </>

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Facebook Should say Fuck Off to New US DOJ and FVEY Crypto Demands
by grarpamp 04 Oct '19

04 Oct '19

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-facebook-letter-halt… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21149744 Officials Will Ask Zuckerberg To Halt Plans For End-To-End Encryption Across Facebook's Apps... "We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services..." the letter is set to be released alongside the announcement of a new data-sharing agreement between law enforcement in the US and the UK... Signed by Barr, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, acting US Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, and Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton, the letter raises concerns that Facebook’s plan to build end-to-end encryption into its messaging apps will prevent law enforcement agencies from finding illegal activity conducted through Facebook, including the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse (FHOTI) *plus* today's hot Fifth Rider... "election meddling". "Companies should not deliberately design their systems to preclude any form of access to content. The letter calls on Facebook to desig its encryption by enabling law enforcement to gain access in a manageable format and by consulting with governments ahead of time to ensure the changes will allow this access." Backdoored and bent over... how world's Govts want to keep you. https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-full-transcript… "I actually wouldn’t be surprised if we end up having similar engagements like this on other socially important things that we’re trying to move, like our big push to get towards more encryption across our messaging apps," "That will, over time, be very sensitive when we get closer to rolling it out." "Law enforcement, obviously, is not going to be psyched about that," he added. "But we think it’s the right thing to protect people’s privacy more, so we’ll go defend that when the time is right." 4 October 2019 Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, OPEN LETTER: FACEBOOK’S “PRIVACY FIRST” PROPOSALS We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services without ensuring that there is no reduction to user safety and without including a means for lawful access to the content of communications to protect our citizens. In your post of 6 March 2019, “A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking,” you acknowledged that “there are real safety concerns to address before we can implement end-to-end encryption across all our messaging services.” You stated that “we have a responsibility to work with law enforcement and to help prevent” the use of Facebook for things like child sexual exploitation, terrorism, and extortion. We welcome this commitment to consultation. As you know, our governments have engaged with Facebook on this issue, and some of us have written to you to express our views. Unfortunately, Facebook has not committed to address our serious concerns about the impact its proposals could have on protecting our most vulnerable citizens. We support strong encryption, which is used by billions of people every day for services such as banking, commerce, and communications. We also respect promises made by technology companies to protect users’ data. Law abiding citizens have a legitimate expectation that their privacy will be protected. However, as your March blog post recognized, we must ensure that technology companies protect their users and others affected by their users’ online activities. Security enhancements to the virtual world should not make us more vulnerable in the physical world. We must find a way to balance the need to secure data with public safety and the need for law enforcement to access the information they need to safeguard the public, investigate crimes, and prevent future criminal activity. Not doing so hinders our law enforcement agencies’ ability to stop criminals and abusers in their tracks. Companies should not deliberately design their systems to preclude any form of access to content, even for preventing or investigating the most serious crimes. This puts our citizens and societies at risk by severely eroding a company’s ability to detect and respond to illegal content and activity, such as child sexual exploitation and abuse, terrorism, and foreign adversaries’ attempts to undermine democratic values and institutions, preventing the prosecution of offenders and safeguarding of victims. It also impedes law enforcement’s ability to investigate these and other serious crimes. Risks to public safety from Facebook’s proposals are exacerbated in the context of a single platform that would combine inaccessible messaging services with open profiles, providing unique routes for prospective offenders to identify and groom our children. Facebook currently undertakes significant work to identify and tackle the most serious illegal content and activity by enforcing your community standards. In 2018, Facebook made 16.8 million reports to the US National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) – more than 90% of the 18.4 million total reports that year. As well as child abuse imagery, these referrals include more than 8,000 reports related to attempts by offenders to meet children online and groom or entice them into sharing indecent imagery or meeting in real life. The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) estimates that, last year, NCMEC reporting from Facebook will have resulted in more than 2,500 arrests by UK law enforcement and almost 3,000 children safeguarded in the UK. Your transparency reports show that Facebook also acted against 26 million pieces of terrorist content between October 2017 and March 2019. More than 99% of the content Facebook takes action against – both for child sexual exploitation and terrorism – is identified by your safety systems, rather than by reports from users. While these statistics are remarkable, mere numbers cannot capture the significance of the harm to children. To take one example, Facebook sent a priority report to NCMEC, having identified a child who had sent self-produced child sexual abuse material to an adult male. Facebook located multiple chats between the two that indicated historical and ongoing sexual abuse. When investigators were able to locate and interview the child, she reported that the adult had sexually abused her hundreds of times over the course of four years, starting when she was 11. He also regularly demanded that she send him sexually explicit imagery of herself. The offender, who had held a position of trust with the child, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Without the information from Facebook, abuse of this girl might be continuing to this day. Our understanding is that much of this activity, which is critical to protecting children and fighting terrorism, will no longer be possible if Facebook implements its proposals as planned. NCMEC estimates that 70% of Facebook’s reporting – 12 million reports globally – would be lost. This would significantly increase the risk of child sexual exploitation or other serious harms. You have said yourself that “we face an inherent tradeoff because we will never find all of the potential harm we do today when our security systems can see the messages themselves”. While this tradeoff has not been quantified, we are very concerned that the right balance is not being struck, which would make your platform an unsafe space, including for children. Equally important to Facebook’s own work to act against illegal activity, law enforcement rely on obtaining the content of communications, under appropriate legal authorisation, to save lives, enable criminals to be brought to justice, and exonerate the innocent. We therefore call on Facebook and other companies to take the following steps: · Embed the safety of the public in system designs, thereby enabling you to continue to act against illegal content effectively with no reduction to safety, and facilitating the prosecution of offenders and safeguarding of victims; · Enable law enforcement to obtain lawful access to content in a readable and usable format; · Engage in consultation with governments to facilitate this in a way that is substantive and genuinely influences your design decisions; and · Not implement the proposed changes until you can ensure that the systems you would apply to maintain the safety of your users are fully tested and operational. We are committed to working with you to focus on reasonable proposals that will allow Facebook and our governments to protect your users and the public, while protecting their privacy. Our technical experts are confident that we can do so while defending cyber security and supporting technological innovation. We will take an open and balanced approach in line with the joint statement of principles signed by the governments of the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada in August 2018[1] and the subsequent communique agreed in July this year[2]. As you have recognised, it is critical to get this right for the future of the internet. Children’s safety and law enforcement’s ability to bring criminals to justice must not be the ultimate cost of Facebook taking forward these proposals. Yours sincerely, Rt Hon Priti Patel MP United Kingdom Secretary of State for the Home Department William P. Barr United States Attorney General Kevin K. McAleenan United States Secretary of Homeland Security (Acting) Hon Peter Dutton MP Australian Minister for Home Affairs

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Re: iPhone charger hacking device developed by cybersecurity researcher
by Razer 04 Oct '19

04 Oct '19

Because it isn't a link to the article. It's CLICKBAIT to get suxers to install an app. On October 3, 2019 10:26:09 AM PDT, Jim Bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Okay, can you explain what I should do, or not do? > > >On Oct 3, 2019 9:35 AM, Razer <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > >Stop sending links to articles that are really links to an app >installation page, K? > >Use the app your own fucking self to go to the link and send the damn >link to the article. > >https://www.mic.com/p/iphone-charger-hacking-device-developed-by-cybersecur… > >Ps. This news broke in AUGUST. I hope you didn't have to pay for that >app. It seems a little "Slow". >https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/12/iphone-charging-cable-hack-computer-def-c… > > >Rr >Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail > > > >On October 3, 2019 1:14:58 AM PDT, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MzB0h8z?s=a3&pd=02h1yVjC >> >>iPhone charger hacking device developed by cybersecurity researcher >> >>Mic >> >> >> >> >>A cybersecurity researcher has successfully found a means to mass >>produce an Apple iPhone charging cable lookalike that can allow a >>hacker to remotely access someone else's computer, reported Vice. When >>a victim uses the cable to connect a device to their computer — for >>everyday reasons like charging or transferring files — a hacker can >>jump onto the connection to gain access. Once the intruder has access >>to the computer, they can run commands and rummage through your data. >> >>Shared from News Break -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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[...: Re: Un-Civil Unrest in Iraq and it's Intertubz go DOWN]
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 07:21:53PM -0700, Razer wrote: > "Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory show that > Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and other social and > messaging apps have been blocked in Iraq by multiple internet > providers as of 12:30 UTC, Wednesday 2 October 2019. Is that a tear I hear for "poor" Iraqis from you there Razer? Caring about some desert semite cousins all of a sudden? > The restrictions come just as hundreds have been reported wounded > as police fire tear gas, bullets at protesters. Sounds like a tear jerk :) Or am I confused and this is just social virtue signalling? > Technical measurements show that each of the services have been > intentionally restricted by leading Iraqi network operators > including Earthlink, Asiacell and Zain in a manner consistent with > previous incidents of censorship in the country. Findings are based > on a set of technical measurements from across the country > assessing reachability and network performance. Ohoh! No shit! 1. Israel bombs the crap out of "Greater Israel" - aka Iraq 2. a massive info psy op against "Greater Israel" - aka Iraq - is attempted in parallel, and 3. the Iraqi gov shuts down their Internet. And the precious? Now (((some folks))) are complaining. HA! What a firetrucking surprise. Made my day chuckle worth though :D Got anuddah for us Rayzer? Like an utterly pointless drone attack on a Saudi oil refinery? Or how about a chroline or sarin gas bomb on completely unarmed civilians and children with a convenient White Hat film crew on hand to "hose down the chillun"... Damnably ridiculous and STILL played off as real by CNN... ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED ALREADY ? !! MWAHAHAHAHHAAAAAA !!! Rayzer - from the front lines of the Info Psy-op For everything else, there's Russkies :D PS: Rayzer, less psilocibin rations for you boy-oh, this one was such a piss poor effort I can smell ya mushies from Austraya mate! > Update: Internet access has been cut across much of Iraq including Baghdad as of 17:00 UTC, following the earlier blocking of social media platforms. NetBlocks diffscan measurements which map the IP space of a country show significant impact across multiple providers. Nationwide connectivity has fallen below 70% and outages continue to spread: > > Update: As of 19:30 UTC Iraq has gone largely offline amid widening mass-protests, with the situation on the ground unclear due to blackouts. Real-time network data show approximately 75% of the country including Baghdad is now offline, excluding autonomous regions which operate their own networks: > > Instances of network filtering and outages present a significant challenge to media freedom and the rights to free assembly and free association in Iraq. > > Why are Iraqis protesting? > Demonstrators are out on the streets over unemployment, corruption and poor public services, focused in capital Baghdad but also impacting other cities around Iraq. > > The protests have escalated after police opened fire in the air as some 3,000 protesters tried to cross a bridge leading into Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, where government buildings and foreign embassies are based. > > Is the internet down in Iraq? > Yes, largely. Restrictions were initially limited to specific online platforms and at first there was no sign of a wider nationwide internet blackout. However total outages began from 17:00 UTC, and by 19:30 UTC much of Iraq fell offline (see updates, above). > > Geographic impact covers Iraq’s centrally administered cities including Baghdad, while independent zones such as the Kurdish northern cities are governed under a different system unaffected by the restrictions. > > Iraq has previously extended social media disruptions to total shutdowns, hence the situation has been considered volatile by the observatory from its onset. > > > On Wednesday afternoon, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger remained partially usable via mobile phones on some of the affected networks for some time. This is due to circumvention measures and alternative messaging protocols built into recent versions of the mobile apps. In such cases service quality and performance of media, photo and video transfers are generally degraded. > > Background > NetBlocks has previously identified the total blocking of internet access as well as partial restrictions affecting social media platforms through recent years. Civil society group SMEX has campaigned for rights-based internet governance in the region." > > https://netblocks.org/reports/iraq-blocks-facebook-twitter-whatsapp-and-ins… > Rr > Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Facialized: By France Liberte de Alicem
by grarpamp 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/french-liberte-tested-by… France is poised to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital identity -- whether they want it or not. Saying it wants to make the state more efficient, President Emmanuel Macron's government is pushing through plans to roll out an ID program, dubbed Alicem, in November, earlier than an initial Christmas target. The country's data regulator says the program breaches the European rule of consent and a privacy group is challenging it in France's highest administrative court. It took a hacker just over an hour to break into a "secure" government messaging app this year, raising concerns about the state's security standards. None of that is deterring the French interior ministry. "The government wants to funnel people to use Alicem and facial recognition," said Martin Drago, a lawyer member of the privacy group La Quadrature du Net that filed the suit against the state. "We're heading into mass usage of facial recognition. (There's) little interest in the importance of consent and choice." The case, filed in July, won't suspend Alicem.

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iPhone charger hacking device developed by cybersecurity researcher
by jim bell 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MzB0h8z?s=a3&pd=02h1yVjC iPhone charger hacking device developed by cybersecurity researcher Mic A cybersecurity researcher has successfully found a means to mass produce an Apple iPhone charging cable lookalike that can allow a hacker to remotely access someone else's computer, reported Vice. When a victim uses the cable to connect a device to their computer — for everyday reasons like charging or transferring files — a hacker can jump onto the connection to gain access. Once the intruder has access to the computer, they can run commands and rummage through your data. Shared from News Break

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[change@e.change.org: Australian Assange Campaign: Please get involved see link for updates.]
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

Perhaps the campaign below will be useful. I hope. ----- Forwarded message from "Phillip Adams via Change.org" <change(a)e.change.org> ----- From: "Phillip Adams via Change.org" <change(a)e.change.org> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 04:15:15 +0000 Subject: Australian Assange Campaign: Please get involved see link for updates. Phillip Adams shared an update on <em>Free Julian Assange, before it's too late. Sign to STOP the USA Extradition</em> Check it out and leave a comment: Petition Update Australian Assange Campaign: Please get involved see link for updates. We are excited to announce that an Australian Assange Campaign has recently launched in Australia. The Campaign serves as a banner organisation in Australia to assist and support the coordination of efforts by individuals and organisations in raising awareness about Julian's plight and the cruel injustice of his situation. Led by Greg Barns, the team of experienced campaigners work with... https://click.e.change.org/f/a/jIi9EP5O8xE2TEZnwUA94Q~~/AANj1QA~/RgRfd_rTP4… ----- End forwarded message -----

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