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Papers Please!: Un-Liberation Tech - Stasi Papers Regimes Rollout re Coronavirus
by grarpamp 01 May '20

01 May '20

Relavant videos below... https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/03/23/in-a-pandemic-freedom-is-the-first-c… We’ve seen before — notably after September 11, 2001 — how a crisis can result in damage to rights and freedoms that persists long after the initial cause of public panic. Some advocates for restrictions on individuals and our movements and activities will exploit any crisis to ratchet the mechanisms of surveillance and control tighter. Other officials, including many who mean well but are too traumatized to recognize the long-term consequences of their short-term actions, will advocate “temporary” restrictions on individual rights and freedoms that almost inevitably become permanent. We don’t yet know what the cost in lost lives of the coronavirus pandemic will be. But we can already see the outlines of some of its potential cost in lost civil liberties. Earlier in the pandemic, we reminded our readers of the risks of abuse of overbroad quarantine powers. But that’s only one aspect of the problem. The basic methodology of control of travel and movement is that compulsory identification of travelers enables surveillance (tracking and logging) of travel and movement histories, and control of future movements based on individuals’ identities and the histories and other databases of personal information linked to those identities. Already, changes to policies and practices related to (1) identification, (2) surveillance, and (3) control of travelers have all been proposed in response to the coronavirus pandemic: Read More https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/04/14/dare-county-wants-to-see-your-papers/ Dare County, North Carolina, has established checkpoints on all roads crossing the county borders, at which travelers must show their papers to enter the county. A Federal lawsuit has been filed, seeking to have this enjoined as unconstitutional (at least as applied to the named plaintiffs). But as discussed below, the lawsuit barely scratches the surface of the issues this raises. Why is Dare County doing this? What’s wrong with this ID requirement? https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/04/29/no-cellphone-not-at-address-on-your-… The press release threatens that anyone who arrives without a working cellphone, charged, with service and coverage in the arrival area at the airport, will be arrested: An airport representative will collect the two forms and begin verifying their information. First, they will call their mobile phone number to confirm it rings right in front of them. If it does not ring, the person may have listed inaccurate information and is asked to verify the number. If the person refuses to provide a phone number that can be answered on the spot, law enforcement is contacted and they are subject to citation and arrest. https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/04/06/airline-passenger-data-and-covid-19/ https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/04/20/covid-19-the-real-id-act-and-id-to-f… https://papersplease.org/wp/2019/04/04/tsa-plans-to-put-new-lying-signs-in-… The supposed basis for the government’s demands for airlines to collect and pass on more information about travelers has shifted from “security” to “health.” But what’s happening is just another chapter in a long-running story. Understanding that story requires a deep dive into twenty years of history of airline and government collaboration and conflict over collection and use of data about travelers. Here’s some of the factual and historical context that the Times overlooked: https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/03/30/known-traveler-digital-identity-ktdi/ KTDI is a “surveillance-by-design” vision for tracking and control of travelers more dystopian than anything we have seen before. KTDI would use a blockchain-based distributed ledger to bind together, through an app on a traveler’s mobile device, all of the following data: Biometrics (initially facial images, possibly also fingerprints, etc.) Government-issued ID credentials (passport number, etc.) Travel history including logs of border crossings, hotel stays, and possibly also car rentals and/or other events Purchase logs and possibly bank account information and/or other financial and transaction records Pre-crime predictive “risk assessment” and profiling scores generated at each “intervention” point before and during each trip or transaction Videos... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQistTMRf-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5DBUK1K8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ltvDU8iEwc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX8JzSpUumY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOLWJyDGzt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI2WhogYEJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN4q2swvab8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qHLflTNTIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJwXL7vx5Q4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlsqBK3-vhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS13kFWQIYM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAd99oq526M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RbzBF2DvjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEo5l4BMdJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7vIGWfBX0A

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NSA Shills List Of Insecure Conference Tools
by grarpamp 01 May '20

01 May '20

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Apr/24/2002288652/-1/-1/0/CSI-SELECTING-AND-… Not a single fully opensource nontracking nonsharing noncollecting e2e encrypted decentral p2p app on the list. Seems someone doesn't want you communicating privately. If you can't run opensource code privately with no one else involved but your peers on your own infra, you can't trust it... yet another example people failing to take sage, propping the junk govcorpware... https://gizmodo.com/zoom-accused-of-misrepresenting-security-measures-in-ne… Consider... #OpenSource on #OpenHW from #OpenFabs All of which you support with #Cryptocurrency Create full circle ecosystem, deprecate the rest.

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Militia, law, impressment, guns, history
by grarpamp 01 May '20

01 May '20

> such implicit arguments have frequently been cited by (mostly > liberal?) debaters, and much of the clueless populace, lacking any sort of > legal education, accepts them without apparent question.) The Anti-Gun crowd generally avoids quoting, analyzing and debating law and its historical context and reasons. This is because it simply does not support their Anti-Gun position. And because sidestepping needing to voice or contend with such things makes their agenda easier. It's also relavant that most of them have never spent an afternoon or year learning the sport, defense, hunting, law, comparative statistics, etc. Let alone been exposed to or explored larger free thought subjects such as... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_secession https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rights_and_legal_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntaryism > Now, a state might hypothetically have a LAW requiring a militia > member to respond to a call. But that law would not necessarily > be Constitutional These sorts of "laws", including "mandatory service", taxes, etc are all immoral and against natural law... forcing somone to take an action, slavery, whatever you want others to do, them having done nothing to you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment Took till 1995 for even the UN to begin to understand that conscription and impressment are wrong.

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