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Encrypted messages don't always stay private. Here's what that means for you - CNET
by jim bell 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

https://www.cnet.com/news/encrypted-messages-dont-always-stay-private-heres…

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Censorship: Ebay Bans Cute Origami Pigs, Britain Cancels Free Speech
by grarpamp 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUQ330oPV5o Ebay Bans Cute Origami Pigs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M9syWUNy8E The Original Piggy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLnBh7e2YEo Britain Cancels Free Speech

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Russia's 16nm Elbrus CPU: 16-Core, 2.0 GHz, 4-socket 16TB capable, VLIW CPU
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

Russian Company Tapes Out 16-Core Elbrus CPU: 2.0 GHz, 16 TB of RAM in 4-Way System https://www.tomshardware.com/news/russian-company-tapes-out-16-core-elbrus-… So the anarchist crowd spec's "open source/ open hardware" designs, for what it's worth. Step 1 is understanding the development models and the possibilities around various "open"ness options. "Open" anything has engineering tradeoffs, as do other models, the primary competition being "proprietary", which is mostly also "closed". The advantages of "open" include: - maintaining relevance and interest outside of the primary sponsor (e.g. govt. and military) - the possibility of development of an 'ecosystem' (software, hardware, community, startups/ companies/ industries) - to the extent that an ecosystem is born and develops, there grows a "demand economy" for the hardware at issue - this becomes a symbiotic thing where interest drives innovation drives demand which drives down costs, which in turn drives the interest and demand IF such an ecosystem is found to be a goal, certain steps foster this pathway, such as a "Rasberry-Pi"-type dev board, then a desktop workstation class computer, etc. Not unlike the steps IBM has taken with their Power architecture.

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Censorship: Who What Why How Behind Media Censorship
by grarpamp 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

> https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010071080690457-swedish-jewry-urges-inter… > A recent report by the Swedish Defence Research Agency > wielding influence and power in world politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_businesspeople_in_med… https://tapnewswire.com/2015/10/six-jewish-companies-control-96-of-the-worl… Were it possible to even identify a significant influence in say print, TV, online, social... Media. (But could be studied in anything such as business, politics, etc). Say from French, Jews, Democrats, Govts, people who prefer their tea on Tuesday, whatever... the output of such a study would be quite long. And covering weights in power, money, numbers of people, their capabilities, etc. Then you'd have to confirm the research. Then confirm what influence has been applied. Etc. Are the links above, or any other studies, reports, etc well regarded and complete surveys of all potential influence[rs] and their respective weightings. You decide. It is uncontestable FACT that all forms of Media are heavily censored, steered, etc. And that amid that random noise, there are major identifiable themes of action distillable from the mass of all censorship actions. Your job is to figure out the who, what, why, how behind it. And what to do about it.

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Anglin: "When you have a team of people in America and the most competent one is a black guy, you should be ashamed of yourself." - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

Sorry folks, shock memetic warfare is just so irresistible <pleads guilty as charged, hangs head low with double wrapping of brown paper bags>: My Boy Clarence is Fed Up with the Total Anal Overload https://dailystormer.su/my-boy-clarence-is-fed-up-with-the-total-anal-overl… ... The Supreme Court turned away Kim Davis' case, but Thomas (joined by Alito) wrote a jaw-dropping rant taking direct aim at Obergefell and suggesting that SCOTUS must overturn the right to marriage equality in order to protect free exercise. https://t.co/qES8IZkw0U pic.twitter.com/F0zrYdBaeH — Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) October 5, 2020 ... Frankly, [SCOTUS Judge] Clarence is the only one really holding down the fort, which says something. When you have a team of people in America and the most competent one is a black guy, you should be ashamed of yourself.

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U.S. Admits That Congressman Offered Pardon to Assange If He Covered Up Russia Links
by jim bell 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-admits-that-putins-favorite-congressman-of… U.S. Admits That Congressman Offered Pardon to Assange If He Covered Up Russia Links Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher offered Assange the deal in 2017, a year after the emails that damaged Hillary Clinton had been published.

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Privacy: IRS buying smartphone location data
by grarpamp 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

On 10/6/20, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > https://www.quora.com/q/techinsider/The-IRS-is-under-investigation-for-buyi… The hundred thousands articles over decades about data sharing only cover half the problem. The other half, in fact larger problem, is that ever since birth certificates, credit cards, BBS, internet, smartphones, etc... people have known that they and their data are being raped with little reason, payment, or recourse. Not only do they know, but they fail to do anything about it. They need to raise hell up and down the govcorp halls, flood their call and ticket centers with complaints, quit using the shit, sell the stock, and start new companies that don't fuck over their users, let users be the authoritative source and broker over all copies of their own data, and let users pay [anon or not] with cryptocurrency, cash in mail, etc. Companies that respect their users are just as valuable in the market as #OpenHW will be.

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Before the Web: The 1980s Dream of a Free and Borderless Virtual World – Reason.com
by Bob Hettinga 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

Cypherpunks write code. Says so right there in Reason magazine. :-) https://reason.com/video/before-the-web-the-1980s-dream-of-a-free-and-borde… God, everyone looks old now... Cheers, RAH

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FreeSpeech: California Officials Destroy Private Landowner TRUMP Sign, Supreme Court Case Imminent
by grarpamp 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ca-officials-topple-giant-trump-sign-ov… https://ktla.com/news/local-news/large-trump-sign-appears-along-405-freeway… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCY5Pd8_VQQ Giant Trump sign appears on the hills along the Sepulveda Pass https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/trump%20freeway%20sign.jpg State suppression of political free speech is a direct and clear violation of US Constitutional Rights. Fuck California... Put up your own huge "TRUMP" on your property, remain totally silent and document the State Censor thugs as they remove it etc, take it to court, get rich. BTW, the 1000's of roadside and overhead billboard advertising and Nanny State Mind Control "Mask Up, Buckle Up, blah blah blah" electronic lightup animated humor signs littering highways are obviously much more close and direct "Life and Safety Hazard" in motorists face. CA Officials Topple Giant 'TRUMP' Sign Overlooking 405 Freeway, Citing 'Life And Safety Hazard' by Tyler Durden Wed, 10/07/2020 - 14:22 California officials were so triggered after someone erected a giant "TRUMP" sign on a hillside overlooking a Los Angeles freeway, that they promptly removed it from the private property within two hours of a caller reporting it. The sign, visible on the hills near the Sepulveda Pass as Los Angeles drivers began their Tuesday commute, was first reported just before 7 a.m. by a driver who "was apparently concerned it could spark a blaze" after the state's history of "destructive brush fires in the past few years." As such, the CA Highway Patrol noted the sign as a "traffic hazard" as drivers began to decelerate to take photos of the sign. By 9 a.m., the sign was taken down by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), which entered private property and "laid it down so it wasn’t a visual distraction." (h/t The Federalist). Update: the sign is down. — Christina Pascucci (@ChristinaKTLA) October 6, 2020 It is unknown whether the owner of the private property was notified before the sign was toppled, or whether permission was given beforehand.

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China virus - of the UEFI flavour - :O
by Zenaan Harkness 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

Another China virus ("read my lips: Chai-nah vai-russ"), this time going all the way down to the mobo's UEFI: Kaspersky Finds Sophisticated UEFI Malware in the Wild https://www.extremetech.com/computing/315860-kaspersky-finds-sophisticated-… ... MosaicRegressor .. The infection was discovered on just two computers, both belonging to diplomatic officials in Asia. The full exploit chain is long and varied, allowing the attackers to load multiple modules to control the target system and steal data. However, it all starts with the UEFI loader. On each boot, MosaicRegressor checks to see if its malicious “IntelUpdate.exe” file is in the Windows startup folder. If not, it adds the file. ...

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