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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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1. Freedom Makes People Smarter - homeschooling
by Zenaan Harkness 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

Stating the obvious dept, using for those stucked in the oblivious dept. 6 Reasons to Start Homeschooling ASAP https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-31/6-reasons-start-homeschooling-asap

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Sweden: 35% of "anti-Semitic stereotypes and tropes" internet posts, turn out to be negative - [MINISTRY] [PEACE] [SHUT IT DOWN]
by Zenaan Harkness 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

This could possibly be juxtaposition of memes and facts, which (((those in power))) don't like, but the Shut It Down meme is an effective meme for a reason - it's literally real. There simply must be some Jewish "power" meme within their own theocratic/ dogmatic/ Jewric system which results in the dictat "when in doubt, shut it down", and Sweden today is a classic example: Swedish Jewry Urges Internet Giants to Purge Messages About 'Jewish Power' https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010071080690457-swedish-jewry-urges-inter… A recent report by the Swedish Defence Research Agency has indicated an incidence of "anti-Semitic stereotypes and tropes" on social media. Thirty-five percent of the posts about Jews turned out to be negative, and a lot of them deal specifically with Jews in power. Following a report by the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) indicating a proliferation of online theories about Jews wielding influence and power in world politics, the Jewish Central Council has demanded that internet giants ensure such posts are not spread by timely deleting them. According to the new report from the Swedish Defence Research Agency, "anti-Semitic stereotypes and tropes" are common on social media. Thirty-five percent of the posts about Jews turned out to be negative, and a lot of them deal with Jews in positions of power. Aron Verständig from the Jewish Central Council said he is "worried" and "saddened" by the report. According to Verständig, the belief in Jewish power is a "mental delusion". He mused that its consequence may be a spike in anti-Semitism and what begins as an internet discussion can easily inspire others to commit acts of violence. "Society must take this incredibly seriously", he stressed. ... [Yes, society must take this "incredibly seriously" because "muh 6 million holocaust"] Just like the double amputee black sheila in a wheelchair calling to end whiteness was hailed with screeching of "SHE'S A DOUBLE AMPUTEE, LISTEN TO HER AND DO NOT QUESTION WHAT SHE SAYS", this is a similar Judaic meme imposed on all goy around the world "YOU CANNOT QUESTION THE HOLOCAUST, 6 BAZILLION SOULS LOST THEIR LIVES AND THEY'RE THE MOST IMPORTANT SOULS FOR EVER AND EVER AND WE ARE THE BIGGEST VICTIMS OF ALL HISTORY SO HOW DARE YOU EVER -THINK- ABOUT QUESTIONING ANYTHING WE DO!"

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Fwd: The White Man Behind BLM / Black Lives Matter - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

A simply -great- exposé of the virulently anti-White origins of BLM. Thanks Gil :) ----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 15:19:37 +1000 Subject: Fwd: The White Man Behind Black Lives Matter The White Man Behind Black Lives Matter https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/the-secret-origins-of-black-lives-matter/ YouTuber Mr Reagan says, "People think Black Lives Matter is a grassroots organization born out of the Black community but this is not remotely true" and in this video, he does a deep dive into BLM, which he calls, "A racist organization, the stated purpose of which is the destruction of Western civilization, which they refer to as 'imperialist'. "They're anti-American, anti-family, anti-heterosexual, anti-christian, sexist against men and racist against white people. They are 100% a hate group. In their own words, they want to 'Disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family.'" Black Lives matter was putatively founded by three women of African descent, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and Patrice Cullors. Cullors trained for many years at the Labor/Community Strategy Center, founded by former Weather Underground member, Eric Mann, who called it a "center for revolutionaries." Cullors' mentor, Eric Mann is a grandfather of the social justice movement and a former member of the violent domestic terrorist group, the Weather Underground, which bombed several Federal buildings during the 1970s, including the Capitol and the Pentagon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Weatherman_actions The Weather Underground was led by Bill Ayers, who gained renewed notoriety during the 2008 presidential election, when it was revealed that his path had crossed with Barack Obama's at the Annenberg and the Woods foundations at the kick-off of Obama's meteoric rise. As we've recently discussed, American oligarchs have been actively financing Communist subversives for over a century. In many ways, Black Lives Matter is a resurrection of the Weather Underground. The practices of maximum property damage and extreme anti-white racism originated with the latter. Mr Reagan says, "According to Wikipedia, the Weather Underground adopted the belief that all white babies were tainted with the original sin of skin privilege, declaring that all white babies are 'pigs'." So, Eric Mann was the mentor of Patrice Cullors, Founder of Black Lives Matter, which has the same basic philosophy and tactics as the Weather Underground. Mr Reagan says, "Keep in mind that Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and several other members of the Weather Underground eventually became university professors... "There is a theory amongst Marxists called the 'Long march through the universities,' and the idea is that if Marxist ideas can be taught to several generations of university students, then eventually, there will be a cultural shift towards Marxism - and this has been effective, as we've see. Ironically, it might be Eric Mann who has had the greatest impact, having germinated the Black Lives Matter movement through Patrice Khan Cullors." The organization in which Cullors met Eric Mann was the Labor/Community Strategic Center, which describes itself as an "Urban experiment to grassroots organizing, focused in Black and Latino communities, with deep historical ties to the long history of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, pro-Communist resistance to the US Empire..." In other words, as Mr Reagan says, "They're against this country. That's their position. They stand in opposition to America... "Black Lives Matter seems to merely be an extension of an older terrorist organization, the Weather Underground ...it seems to have the same motivations, it seems to have the same philosophy and it seems to have the same goals. Both groups seem to believe that the United States is evil, the police are the enemy and the country must be destroyed, so that a new Marxist state will emerge from the ashes. *"Black Lives Matter is not actually interested in Black lives. The organization is interested in the destruction of the country. Black people are merely being exploited to that end."* The Secret Origins of Black Lives Matter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1m_PJtu5o *Running Time 15 mins:* ----- End forwarded message -----

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Anonymity Networks and Developer Determination
by Karl 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

This email is shared from a place of forthrightness (and hope). https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37 Just to add, I suspect the reason that the state of public anonymity tools is not stronger is that the existing international powerholders, whose power could be reduced by widespread accessible anonymity, take diverse action to slow the release and hinder the effective use of the research. The way to make things change would be for people like us to agree to work together on forging one right thing in a development community, and use tools of both interpersonal mediation and software development to bring the result to happen by force of collective determination. It might help if everyone kept themselves more anonymous, collaborated in private as well as in public, and supported people who ran into personal issues so as to resist disruption and keep the work moving forward. On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, 5:49 PM David Stainton <notifications(a)github.com> wrote: > It's too late for this discussion. IPFS has failed to embrace the concept > of free Tor integration from volunteer developers. > > That having been said, anonymity is a synonym for traffic analysis > resistance; that is to say, even encrypted traffic can be analyzed for the > metadata it leaks. Tor is the very weakest of the existing designs for > anonymous communication networks however it is the most widely used whereas > the other designs from academia have not had much field testing; such as: > mix networks, dcnets, verified shuffles and other things can be used to > form anonymous communication networks such as private information > retrieval, oblivious ram, multi party computation etc. > > Tor is trivially broken by any sufficient global adversary by means of > timing correlation whereas mixnets are not. There are many other ways to > break Tor. > > Anonymity aka traffic analysis resistance is not yet a popular security > feature because these designs are in some respects ahead of their time... > just like not every software project embraces deterministic builds. Just > because your white middle class platitude doesn't allow you to understand > why people in high risk situations might need these things doesn't mean > they are not needed. In fact, in dealing with such folks I find the easiest > way to impart the importance to them is to describe military scenarios, > e.g. if you were in the military, overseas, you might actually be > interested in traffic analysis resistance. > > Think about a future brighter than Tor! Think about mixnets, hybrid > networks, dcnets and so on. Monoculture is death. Why is Tor the only > successful anonymity network? And to a lesser degree I2p? Although the I2p > observation is less valid because it's design is so similar to Tor in that > it can easily be broken by timing correlation from a sufficiently global > adversary. > > — > You are receiving this because you commented. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37#issuecomment-687407153>, or > unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACEIIKJAJVQXDV267SEBU3SE…> > . >

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IRS buying smartphone location data
by jim bell 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

https://www.quora.com/q/techinsider/The-IRS-is-under-investigation-for-buyi…

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Thorium Nuclear Clock coming up?
by jim bell 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-nucleus-thorium-scientists-closer-nuclear.htm… This is NOT going to be just another "atomic clock". It will be a NUCLEAR clock! Based on the thorium nucleus. Much more accurate! Jim Bell

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New measurement of nucleus of thorium-229 moves scientists step closer to a nuclear ...
by jim bell 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> recommends the following story from Science X: New measurement of nucleus of thorium-229 moves scientists step closer to a nuclear clock https://phys.org/news/2020-10-nucleus-thorium-scientists-closer-nuclear.html jim bell's comment: No, this is not an "atomic clock". This is a NUCLEAR clock! -------------------------------------------------- NOTE: This e-mail was sent by jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> by filling e-mail form at https://sciencex.com/. If you do not know this person you may choose to disregard this e-mail or report it to info(a)sciencex.com

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"Suprise crude build" - "Suprise crude draw" - repeat, ad infinitum - [PEACE] [AND] [RIGGED] [MARKETS]
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

There is so much cynicism in certain rigged markets, for example the oil cartels, that their media don't even -try- to contain the crap The WTI, West Texas Intermediate, is a primary benchmark used by financial and trader types for the price of black gold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas_Intermediate can refer to a grade or a mix of crude oil, and/or the spot price, the futures price, or the assessed price for that oil; colloquially WTI usually refers to the price of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) WTI Crude Oil futures contract or the contract itself. The WTI oil grade is also known as Texas light sweet, although oil produced from any location can be considered WTI if the oil meets required qualifications.[1] Spot and futures prices of WTI are used as a benchmark in oil pricing. This grade is described as light crude oil because of its relatively low density, and sweet because of its low sulfur content. And so, year in, year out, week in, week out, we get around 2 news articles per week, one which is titled something like today's: WTI Slides Back Below $40 After Surprise Crude Build https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/wti-slides-back-below-40-after-surprise-cr… and the other which is its inverse, something like "WTI Now Above $45 After Suprise Crude Draw". These tick tock is like clockwork - a literal "surprise crude build" followed by a "surprise crude draw". Every week. Week in, week out. Always both, build and draw, and each is always a "surprise". It's pretty funny actually, and although it's been going on for years, the headlines literally never change, always the same (bar the actual numbers), with around 2 "surprises" a week. Oddly, even after years of seeing these two headlines each week as "new" news articles on Zerohedge, it always brings a wry smile, which is almost certainly due to a sleepy neurone rattling around my head wondering why it's so alone "and surely there's another neurone in here somewhere" - as they say, "simple minds". But I'll have you know -right- now, I experience absolutely NO shame in finding these recurring headlines humorous ;)

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The Verge: Congress releases blockbuster tech antitrust report
by jim bell 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

The Verge: Congress releases blockbuster tech antitrust report. https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/6/21504814/congress-antitrust-report-house…

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