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Daily Mail: Fibre-optic cables may be used to eavesdrop up to 1km away, study says
by jim bell 30 Jul '22

30 Jul '22

Daily Mail: Fibre-optic cables may be used to eavesdrop up to 1km away, study says. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11057699/Fibre-optic-cables… 21st Century wire tap? Spies could use fibre-optic broadband cables to EAVESDROP on people from over half a mile away, study shows By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline14:24 28 Jul 2022, updated 15:02 28 Jul 202 54 comment Scientists have developed a system that picks up sound from fibre-optic cables - Fibre-optic cables use light pulses to transmit data and are used for broadband - But they are sensitive to changes in environmental pressure caused by sound - This security flaw may let snoopers eavesdrop on confidential conversations Fibre-optic cables could be used to eavesdrop on people over half a mile away by detecting changes in light that occur when they speak, a new study shows. Researchers in China have developed a system that picks up sound at one end of a fibre-optic cable and transmits the audio at the other end. But they're sensitive to changes in environmental pressure, which could be caused by acoustic waves, such as sound from someone speaking – a potential security risk.Modern fibre optic cables, which use pulses of light to transmit data, deliver full fibre broadband (file photo) The new study was conducted by researchers at Tsinghua University, Beijing and published on the pre-print server arXiv. 'Optical fibre networks are widely deployed all over the world, which not only facilitates data transmission but also provides an opportunity to obtain additional information,' they say in their paper.

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Tech Xplore: Twin physically unclonable functions (PUFs) based on carbon nanotube arrays to enhance the security of communications
by jim bell 30 Jul '22

30 Jul '22

Tech Xplore: Twin physically unclonable functions (PUFs) based on carbon nanotube arrays to enhance the security of communications. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-twin-physically-unclonable-functions-pu… As the amount of data stored in devices and shared over the internet continuously increases, computer scientists worldwide are trying to devise new approaches to secure communications and protect sensitive information. Some of the most well-established and valuable approaches are cryptographic techniques, which essentially encrypt (i.e., transform) data and texts exchanged between two or more parties, so that only senders and receivers can view it in its original form.Physical unclonable functions (PUFs), devices that exploit "random imperfections" unavoidably introduced during the manufacturing of devices to give physical entities unique "fingerprints" (i.e., trust anchors). In recent years, these devices have proved to be particularly valuable for creating cryptographic keys, which are instantly erased as soon as they are used. Researchers at Peking University and Jihua Laboratory have recently introduced a new system to generate cryptographic primitives, consisting of two identical PUFs based on aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays. This system, introduced in a paper published in Nature Electronics, could help to secure communications more reliably, overcoming some of the vulnerabilities of previously proposed PUF devices. "Classical cryptography uses cryptographic algorithms and keys to encrypt or decrypt information, and the most popular strategies are Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman (RSA) encryption," Zhiyong Zhang, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. "In an asymmetric algorithm, the public key can be accessed by anyone, but the public key cracking requires factoring a very large number, which is extremely difficult for a classical computer. This task has, however, been shown mathematically to be accomplishable in polynomial time using a quantum computer." One of the most employed cryptographic strategies today is symmetric encryption, which shares the same "secret keys" for encryption and decryption with all users participating in a specific conversation. These strategies generally store secret keys in a non-volatile memory, which is vulnerable to physical and side-channel cyber-attacks. In recent years, researchers have thus been exploring alternative cryptographic approaches, including quantum key distribution (QKD). QKD methods exploit concepts rooted in quantum theory to protect communications. Specifically, they leverage the intrinsic disturbances affecting quantum systems while they are being measured.

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1984: Digital ID - The Road To Hell, End Of Human Rights
by grarpamp 30 Jul '22

30 Jul '22

All of human history well into the late 1900's never prosecuted or needed ID, humanity never had ID before then and functioned just fine without such force, and it doesn't need it now either. "Paving The Road To Hell": Digital ID Systems Could Lead To Severe, Irreversible Human Rights Violations https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/digital-road-digital-id-systems… https://chrgj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Report_Paving-a-Digital-Road-t… https://www.accessnow.org/cms/assets/uploads/2021/10/BigID-Mythbuster.pdf Authored by Suzanne Burdick, The authors of a new report on digital identity systems warned “the actual and potential” human rights violations arising from the digital ID model can be “severe and potentially irreversible.” The 100-page report — “Paving the Road to Hell? A Primer on the Role of the World Bank and Global Networks in Promoting Digital ID” — published by New York University’s (NYU) Center for Human Rights and Global Justice urged human rights organizations to heed the threats posed by a global push for digital IDs. The NYU researchers said many proponents — including the World Bank — portray digital IDs as a means to achieving greater inclusivity and environmental sustainability when, in fact, the systems are likely to do just the opposite. According to the report, the digital ID has been dressed up as an “unstoppable juggernaut and inevitable hallmark of modernity and development in the 21st century,” causing dissenting voices to be “written off as Luddites and barriers to progress.” The authors argued for open debate “with full transparency and involving all relevant stakeholders,” including the most marginalized and most vulnerable. The authors, who include Christiaan van Veen, L.L.M., special advisor on new technologies and human rights to the United Nations, urged the human rights community and related civic society organizations to ensure that global decisions about the adoption of digital ID systems are not hastily made but are based on “serious evidence and analysis.” Where digital ID systems threaten human rights, the NYU researchers said, such endeavors should be “stopped altogether.” Who’s really profiting? “Governments around the world have been investing heavily in digital identification systems, often with biometric components,” the authors said in a statement. Digital ID systems that frequently collect biometric data — such as fingerprints, iris or other facial feature recognition — are being adopted to replace or complement non-digital government identification systems. According to an Access Now special report, in India in October 2021, digital ID systems — or “Big ID programs” as Access Now called them — are being pushed by a market of actors who sell and profit from digital ID systems and infrastructure, often while endangering the human rights of the people they’re supposed to benefit. The NYU researchers reached the same conclusion: “The rapid proliferation of such systems is driven by a new development consensus, packaged and promoted by key global actors like the World Bank, but also by governments, foundations, vendors and consulting firms.” Digital ID proponents argue the systems can contribute to inclusivity and sustainable development, with some going so far as to consider the adoption of digital ID systems a prerequisite for the realization of human rights. But the NYU researchers said they believe the “ultimate objective” of digital ID systems is to “facilitate economic transactions and private sector service delivery while also bringing new, poorer, individuals into formal economies and ‘unlocking’ their behavioral data.” “The promises of inclusion and flourishing digital economies might appear attractive on paper,” the researchers said, “but digital ID systems have consistently failed to deliver on these promises in real world situations, especially for the most marginalized.” The authors added: “In fact, evidence is emerging from many countries, most notably the mega digital ID project Aadhaar in India, of the severe and large-scale human rights violations linked to this model. These systems may in fact exacerbate pre-existing forms of exclusion and discrimination in public and private services. The use of new technologies may furthermore lead to novel forms of harm, including biometric exclusion, discrimination, and the many harms associated with ‘surveillance capitalism.’” The benefits of using digital ID are “ill-defined” and “poorly documented,” the NYU authors said. “From what evidence does exist, it seems that those who stand to benefit most may not be those ‘left behind,’ but instead a small group of companies and governments,” they wrote. They added: “After all, where digital ID systems have tended to excel is in generating lucrative contracts for biometrics companies and enhancing the surveillance and migration-control capabilities of governments.” More harm than good, especially for world’s most marginalized The authors did four things in their report. First, they examined the human rights impact of national digital ID systems and argued that a cost-benefit analysis of digital ID systems suggests they do more harm than good — especially for the world’s most marginalized individuals. “Through the embrace of digital technologies, the World Bank and a broader global network of actors has been promoting a new paradigm for ID systems that prioritizes what we refer to as ‘economic identity,’” the authors wrote. They added: “These systems focus on fueling digital transactions and transforming individuals into traceable data. They often ignore the ability of identification systems to recognize not only that an individual is unique, but that they have a legal status with associated rights. “Still, proponents have cloaked this new paradigm in the language of human rights and inclusion, arguing that such systems will help to achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals.” The authors added: “Like physical roads, national digital identification systems with biometric components (digital ID systems) are presented as the public infrastructure of the digital future. “Yet these particular infrastructures have proven to be dangerous, having been linked to severe and large-scale human rights violations in a range of countries around the world, affecting social, civil, and political rights.” Prioritizing ‘economic identity’ Next, the researchers looked at how an “identification for development” agenda driven by multiple global actors came into being. They discussed the digital ID system called Aadhaar that is currently being tried out by the government of India and the digital ID system promoted by the World Bank — Identification for Development, commonly called the ID4D Initiative. The ID4D Initiative draws inspiration from the highly criticized Aadhaar digital ID system in India. In the Aadhaar system, individuals are voluntarily assigned a 12-digit random number by the Unique Identification Authority of India — a statutory authority backed by the government of India — that establishes the “uniqueness” of individuals with the help of demographic and biometric technologies. This digital ID model, NYU report authors said, is dangerous because it prioritizes an “economic identity” for an individual. The model is not about an individual’s identity alone, confirmed Joseph Atick, Ph.D., executive chairman of the influential ID4Africa, a platform where African governments and major companies in the digital ID market meet. It’s about their economic interactions, Atick said. The ID4D model “enables and interacts with authentication platforms, payments systems, digital signatures, data sharing, KYC systems, consent management and sectoral delivery platforms,” Atick announced at the start of ID4Africa’s 2022 annual meeting in mid-June, at the Palais de Congrès in Marrakesh, Morocco. The authors of the NYU report criticized this model: “The goal then, is not so much identity as it is identification. The three interlinked processes of identification, registration, and authorization are an exercise of power. “Through this process, one actor acknowledges or denies another actor’s identity attributes. Individuals may be empowered through the process of identification, but such systems have long been used for the opposite purpose: to deny rights to certain groups and exclude them.” Third, the authors assessed the nitty-gritty details of how the World Bank and its network of proponents of digital ID systems worked to implement an “identification for development” agenda around the globe. They explained how the funding and governance of the ID4D Initiative operate, and claimed the World Bank and its corporate and governmental partners are “manufacturing consensus” by presuming that the shift to a digital ID model is inevitable, desirable and required for human progress. But this “manufactured consensus” lacks a basis, they said. “Concrete and robust evidence of the purported benefits associated with digital ID systems is rarely provided, it is merely asserted that digital ID will lead to inclusion and development,” the authors wrote. 3 steps privacy advocates can take Finally, the authors outlined what human rights organizations and other civil society actors can do by highlighting three modes of action: “Not so fast!” Organizations can demand that governmental adoption of digital ID systems not be rushed. The authors wrote: “Before any new or augmented digital ID systems are rolled out nationwide, it is vital to establish an evidence base and take all necessary steps to anticipate and mitigate possible harms in advance. Baseline studies, research into the specific context, cost-benefit analyses, value for money analyses, and impact assessments are necessary and should be demanded every step of the way.” “Make it public.” The design and possible implementation of a digital ID system need to be thoroughly discussed in democratic forums, including public media and Congress or parliaments. “Civil society organizations should demand openness with regard to plans, tenders, and the involvement of foreign governments and international organizations,” they said. “We are all stakeholders.” While the World Bank presents itself as a respected advisor to governments who should be allowed to shape and create governments’ digital ID policies, it is only one actor. “It is important to realize,” the authors wrote, “that, ultimately, everyone has a stake in systems of identification, digital or otherwise, which are essential to recognize individuals and effectuate their human rights.” They added: “More and more organizations and experts are beginning to grapple with the rapid spread of digital ID around the world, from digital rights organizations to groups representing people with disabilities, and from experts working on social and economic rights to development economists. “As this range of organizations grows, it will be crucial to share experiences, learn from one another, and coordinate advocacy.” Human rights alliances can ‘reimagine’ the ‘digital future’ According to the report, multidisciplinary and geographically diverse alliances can not only help to ensure digital ID systems are not deployed “in the harmful ways described in this primer,” but can “also help reimagine what the digital future without the particular model of ID systems promoted by the World Bank and others could look like.” They said: “As digital ID systems are determining the shape of governments and societies as we hurtle into the digital era, questions as to their form and design — and their very existence in the first place — are critical. “What alternative visions can we offer that will better safeguard human rights and preserve the gains of countless years of struggle to improve the recognition and institutionalization of rights? “When we bring together actors who want a society where the human rights of every individual and group are protected, what kinds of digital ID systems might we imagine? How might digital ID systems be designed to truly promote human well-being? “How would this alternative, rights-fulfilling vision differ from the economic, transactional identity described here, as promoted by the World Bank and others? Indeed, would we have digitalized identification systems at all?” The authors did not provide answers to these questions. 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1984: Genetic Panopticon - Freedom Must Destroy The Matching Engine
by grarpamp 30 Jul '22

30 Jul '22

The Genetic Panopticon: We're All Suspects In A DNA Lineup, Waiting To Be Matched With A Crime Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Solving unsolved crimes is a noble objective, but it occupies a lower place in the American pantheon of noble objectives than the protection of our people from suspicionless law-enforcement searches… Make no mistake about it…your DNA can be taken and entered into a national DNA database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason… Perhaps the construction of such a genetic panopticon is wise. But I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would have been so eager to open their mouths for royal inspection.” - Justice Antonin Scalia dissenting in Maryland v. King Be warned: the DNA detectives are on the prowl. Whatever skeletons may be lurking on your family tree or in your closet, whatever crimes you may have committed, whatever associations you may have with those on the government’s most wanted lists: the police state is determined to ferret them out. In an age of overcriminalization, round-the-clock surveillance, and a police state eager to flex its muscles in a show of power, we are all guilty of some transgression or other. No longer can we consider ourselves innocent until proven guilty. Now we are all suspects in a DNA lineup waiting to be matched up with a crime. Suspect State, meet the Genetic Panopticon. DNA technology in the hands of government officials will complete our transition to a Surveillance State in which prison walls are disguised within the seemingly benevolent trappings of technological and scientific progress, national security and the need to guard against terrorists, pandemics, civil unrest, etc. By accessing your DNA, the government will soon know everything else about you that they don’t already know: your family chart, your ancestry, what you look like, your health history, your inclination to follow orders or chart your own course, etc. It’s getting harder to hide, even if you think you’ve got nothing to hide. Armed with unprecedented access to DNA databases amassed by the FBI and ancestry website, as well as hospital newborn screening programs, police are using forensic genealogy, which allows police to match up an unknown suspect’s crime scene DNA with that of any family members in a genealogy database, to solve cold cases that have remained unsolved for decades. By submitting your DNA to a genealogical database such as Ancestry and 23andMe, you’re giving the police access to the genetic makeup, relationships and health profiles of every relative—past, present and future—in your family, whether or not they ever agreed to be part of such a database. It no longer even matters if you’re among the tens of millions of people who have added their DNA to ancestry databases. As Brian Resnick reports, public DNA databases have grown so massive that they can be used to find you even if you’ve never shared your own DNA. That simple transaction—a spit sample or a cheek swab in exchange for getting to learn everything about one’s ancestral makeup, where one came from, and who is part of one’s extended family—is the price of entry into the Suspect State for all of us. After all, a DNA print reveals everything about “who we are, where we come from, and who we will be.” It can also be used to predict the physical appearance of potential suspects. It’s what police like to refer to a “modern fingerprint.” Whereas fingerprint technology created a watershed moment for police in their ability to “crack” a case, DNA technology is now being hailed by law enforcement agencies as the magic bullet in crime solving, especially when it helps them crack cold cases of serial murders and rapists. After all, who wouldn’t want to get psychopaths and serial rapists off the streets and safely behind bars, right? At least, that’s the argument being used by law enforcement to support their unrestricted access to these genealogy databases, and they’ve got the success stories to prove it. For instance, a 68-year-old Pennsylvania man was arrested and charged with the brutal rape and murder of a young woman almost 50 years earlier. Relying on genealogical research suggesting that the killer had ancestors who hailed from a small town in Italy, investigators narrowed their findings down to one man whose DNA, obtained from a discarded coffee cup, matched the killer’s. In another cold case investigation, a 76-year-old man was arrested for two decades-old murders after his DNA was collected from a breathalyzer during an unrelated traffic stop. Yet it’s not just psychopaths and serial rapists who are getting caught up in the investigative dragnet. In the police state’s pursuit of criminals, anyone who comes up as a possible DNA match—including distant family members—suddenly becomes part of a circle of suspects that must be tracked, investigated and ruled out. Victims of past crimes are also getting added to the government’s growing DNA database of potential suspects. For instance, San Francisco police used a rape victim’s DNA, which was on file from a 2016 sexual assault, to arrest the woman for allegedly being involved in a property crime that took place in 2021. In this way, “guilt by association” has taken on new connotations in a technological age in which one is just a DNA sample away from being considered a person of interest in a police investigation. As Jessica Cussins warns in Psychology Today, “The fundamental fight—that data from potentially innocent people should not be used to connect them to unrelated crimes—has been lost.” Until recently, the government was required to at least observe some basic restrictions on when, where and how it could access someone’s DNA. That was turned on its head by various U.S. Supreme Court rulings that heralded the loss of privacy on a cellular level. For instance, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Maryland v. King that taking DNA samples from a suspect doesn’t violate the Fourth Amendment. The Court’s subsequent decision to let stand the Maryland Court of Appeals’ ruling in Raynor v. Maryland, which essentially determined that individuals do not have a right to privacy when it comes to their DNA, made Americans even more vulnerable to the government accessing, analyzing and storing their DNA without their knowledge or permission. It’s all been downhill since then. Indeed, the government has been relentless in its efforts to get hold of our DNA, either through mandatory programs carried out in connection with law enforcement and corporate America, by warrantlessly accessing our familial DNA shared with genealogical services such as Ancestry and 23andMe, or through the collection of our “shed” or “touch” DNA. Get ready, folks, because the government has embarked on a diabolical campaign to create a nation of suspects predicated on a massive national DNA database. This has been helped along by Congress (which adopted legislation allowing police to collect and test DNA immediately following arrests), President Trump (who signed the Rapid DNA Act into law), the courts (which have ruled that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime), and local police agencies (which are chomping at the bit to acquire this new crime-fighting gadget). For example, Rapid DNA machines—portable, about the size of a desktop printer, highly unregulated, far from fool-proof, and so fast that they can produce DNA profiles in less than two hours—allow police to go on fishing expeditions for any hint of possible misconduct using DNA samples. Journalist Heather Murphy explains: “As police agencies build out their local DNA databases, they are collecting DNA not only from people who have been charged with major crimes but also, increasingly, from people who are merely deemed suspicious, permanently linking their genetic identities to criminal databases.” All 50 states now maintain their own DNA government databases, although the protocols for collection differ from state to state. Increasingly, many of the data from local databanks are being uploaded to CODIS, the FBI’s massive DNA database, which has become a de facto way to identify and track the American people from birth to death. Even hospitals have gotten in on the game by taking and storing newborn babies’ DNA, often without their parents’ knowledge or consent. It’s part of the government’s mandatory genetic screening of newborns. In many states, the DNA is stored indefinitely. There’s already a move underway to carry out whole genome sequencing on newborns, ostensibly to help diagnose rare diseases earlier and improve health later in life, which constitutes an ethical minefield all by itself. What this means for those being born today is inclusion in a government database that contains intimate information about who they are, their ancestry, and what awaits them in the future, including their inclinations to be followers, leaders or troublemakers. Just recently, in fact, police in New Jersey accessed the DNA from a nine-year-old blood sample of a newborn baby in order to identify the child’s father as a suspect in a decades-old sexual assault. The ramifications of this kind of DNA profiling are far-reaching. At a minimum, these DNA databases do away with any semblance of privacy or anonymity. The lucrative possibilities for hackers and commercial entities looking to profit off one’s biological record are endless. It’s estimated that the global human identification market is projected to reach $6.5 billion by 2032. These genetic databases and genomic technology also make us that much more vulnerable to creeps and cyberstalkers, genetic profiling, and those who would weaponize the technology against us. Unfortunately, the debate over genetic privacy—and when one’s DNA becomes a public commodity outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on warrantless searches and seizures—continues to lag far behind the government and Corporate America’s encroachments on our rights. Moreover, while much of the public debate, legislative efforts and legal challenges in recent years have focused on the protocols surrounding when police can legally collect a suspect’s DNA (with or without a search warrant and whether upon arrest or conviction), the question of how to handle “shed” or “touch” DNA has largely slipped through without much debate or opposition. As scientist Leslie A. Pray notes: We all shed DNA, leaving traces of our identity practically everywhere we go… In fact, the garbage you leave for curbside pickup is a potential gold mine of this sort of material. All of this shed or so-called abandoned DNA is free for the taking by local police investigators hoping to crack unsolvable cases… shed DNA is also free for inclusion in a secret universal DNA databank. What this means is that if you have the misfortune to leave your DNA traces anywhere a crime has been committed, you’ve already got a file somewhere in some state or federal database—albeit it may be a file without a name. As Heather Murphy warns in the New York Times: “The science-fiction future, in which police can swiftly identify robbers and murderers from discarded soda cans and cigarette butts, has arrived… Genetic fingerprinting is set to become as routine as the old-fashioned kind.” As the dissenting opinion to the Maryland Court of Appeals’ shed DNA ruling in Raynor rightly warned, “A person can no longer vote, participate in a jury, or obtain a driver's license, without opening up his genetic material for state collection and codification.” Indeed, by refusing to hear the Raynor case, the U.S. Supreme Court gave its tacit approval for government agents to collect shed DNA, likening it to a person’s fingerprints or the color of their hair, eyes or skin. It’s just a matter of time before government agents will know everywhere we’ve been and how long we were at each place by following our shed DNA. After all, scientists can already track salmon across hundreds of square miles of streams and rivers using DNA. Today, helped along by robotics and automation, DNA processing, analysis and reporting takes far less time and can bring forth all manner of information, right down to a person’s eye color and relatives. Incredibly, one company specializes in creating “mug shots” for police based on DNA samples from unknown “suspects” which are then compared to individuals with similar genetic profiles. Of course, none of these technologies are infallible. DNA evidence can be wrong, either through human error, tampering, or even outright fabrication, and it happens more often than we are told. What this amounts to is a scenario in which we have little to no defense against charges of wrongdoing, especially when “convicted” by technology, and even less protection against the government sweeping up our DNA in much the same way it sweeps up our phone calls, emails and text messages. 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Whistleblowers: FBI Manipulating 'Domestic Terrorism' Data To Fit Biden Narrative [re: jan6]
by grarpamp 30 Jul '22

30 Jul '22

When you make everyone a terrorist, you can persecute your opponents and prosecute freedom at will... 1984's gulags getting closer, worldwide... Whistleblowers: FBI Manipulating 'Domestic Terrorism' Data To Fit Biden Narrative https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1552378066495741958 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/15/fac… https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-11/justice-dept-creat… https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1480928569152917513 https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1529462289362931718 Multiple FBI whistleblowers have stepped forward to House Republicans to claim that the agency's leadership has been pressuring agents to 'artificially pad domestic terrorism data' by inappropriately classifying cases to meet quotas. "From recent protected disclosures, we have learned that FBI officials are pressuring agents to reclassify cases as ‘domestic violent extremism’ even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a classification," wrote Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) in a Wednesday letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray. "Given the narrative pushed by the Biden administration that domestic violent extremism is the ‘greatest threat’ facing our country, the revelation that the FBI may be artificially padding domestic terrorism data is scandalous," Jordan continues. 🚨 #BREAKING 🚨 Whistleblowers: FBI Leadership Pressuring Agents to Artificially Pad Domestic Terrorism Data pic.twitter.com/fGuQbUbjX3 — House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) July 27, 2022 "The Biden administration’s narrative may be misleading," Jordan writes. "One whistleblower explained that because agents are not finding enough DVE [domestic violent extremism] cases, they are encouraged and incentivized to reclassify cases as DVE cases even though there is minimal, circumstantial evidence to support the reclassification." "This information … reinforces our concerns regarding the FBI’s politicization under your leadership," Jordan continued, noting that there had been an alleged "purge" of conservative FBI employees, and that the agency seems "more focused on classifying investigations to meet a woke left-wing agenda" than addressing congressional concerns. Notably, the FBI created a 'domestic terrorism' unit in January after prioritizing the threat of "white extremism" as the most pressing domestic security concern. This followed a June 2020 report that the White House's National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism had defined the "the two most lethal elements of today’s domestic terrorism threat" as : (1) racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists who advocate for the superiority of the white race and (2) anti-government or anti-authority violent extremists, such as militia violent extremists." "The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism, the department's top national security official told lawmakers Tuesday as he described an elevated threat from violent extremists in the United States," The Associated Press reported in January. The unit was described as necessary to handle the "more than double" the number of suspected violent extremism cases which have popped up since spring of 2020, according to Congressional testimony this week of Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen. "We have seen a growing threat from those who are motivated by racial animus, as well as those who ascribe to extremist anti-government and anti-authority ideologies," Olsen stated. The specialized domestic terrorism unit, he described, is further necessary to "to augment our existing approach" - despite the DOJ already having a counterterrorism section within National Security Division, and such cases also long being handled by FBI units. Does this new FBI department exist to prevent domestic terrorism or to perpetrate it, like that time the FBI hatched a plan to kidnap and kill Michigan’s governor? https://t.co/niR5dVm51n — Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 11, 2022 And remember how Biden's Secretary of Education reportedly requested a 'domestic terrorism' letter from a school boards group, after parents angry about COVID-19 mandates and Critical Race Theory (among other things) showed up to school board meetings to voice their displeasure? Then, in May, Senate Republicans blocked a bill to create domestic terrorism offices within federal law enforcement agencies in response to the Buffalo, NY mass shooting that left 10 people dead. “The bill is so important because the mass shooting in Buffalo was an act of domestic terrorism. We need to call it what it is, domestic terrorism. It was terrorism that fed off the poison of conspiracy theories like white replacement theory,” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said just before the vote. Leader Schumer on the domestic terrorism bill: "This is a test; this is about accountability. Republican Senators: do you reject the views of MAGA Republicans? Do you reject white supremacy and replacement theory? Taking a stand … should be the easiest thing in the world." — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 25, 2022 As Sen. Rand Paul said in a floor speech at the time; "Today we will have a bill before us ostensibly titled and ostensibly about the subject of domestic terrorism. But this bill would be more accurately called the Democrat plan to brand and insult our police and soldiers as White supremacists and neo-Nazis – how insulting."

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Why does Spencer Beswick hate our anarchist freedoms?
by professor rat 30 Jul '22

30 Jul '22

Spencer Beswick (he/him) is a PhD Candidate at Cornell University researching the history of anarchism and the left; his dissertation, “Love and Rage: Revolutionary Anarchism in the Late Twentieth Century,” explores the attempted colonization of the anarchist movement in the 1980s-90s. https://anarchistnews.org/comment/46332#comment-46332 Reposts etc - you know the drill

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Samuel Alito needs killing ( My 200 sats )
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. born April Fools, 1950) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served since January 31, 2006. He is the second Italian-American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, after Antonin Scalia, and the eleventh Roman Catholic. And in related news… Mussolini was Catholic. Franco was Catholic. Himmler, head of the SS, was a Catholic. The SS was set up on the Jesuit model. Goebbels was Catholic. Hoss, the camp commandant of Auschwitz, was a Catholic. Frank,‘ the butcher of Poland ’, was Catholic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alito There he goes! GET HIM!

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APster rising
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

One of the funniest things about the inexorable rise of full-spectrum cryptoanarchy is how the worlds last super-power has been enlisted since 2002. Another proof of this will arrive shortly when it grants us such a generous amount of regulatory arbitrage ( Jurisdiction shopping ) that good money drives out bad. That is good money for us decadent Western liberal Atlanticist's. Bad for KGB Russia and the CCP. Adoption of deadpool-bounty-law also underlines the use of violence - controlled violence - in any political-economy. This then exposes all ' peace-loving agorist ' and NAP politicos as liars. They talk up PEACE! at every opportunity the same way libertarians once talked up smaller, leaner govt and Lenin promised the Proudhonian Commune - its bullshit. And its more than the usual toxic political bs when carpetbagger pacifists, like Ross Ulbricht and Jeff Berwick. get caught in the act of subsidizing violence. But youse knew that.

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Top down APster reports
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

The USG continues to proffer large rewards for information leading to the arrest of certain alleged miscreants - usually infamous criminals. " Bounty Law " is considered uncontroversial when done piecemeal and on an ad hoc basis. Unlike pentagon PAM from 2003 that was described as a " Terrorist Casino " If the USG is a great and omnipotent teacher, as described by Louis Brandeis, then its teaching the world how to move towards a new justice system. That's a bold statement, yet one, I believe is supported by the additional factoid that - since 2002 - no cypherpunk has had APster mentioned in legal proceedings against them. So its hard not to see APster as a clear and present trend. Its like giving the Defense portfolio to anarchism ( After first giving Treasury to crypto-currency ) Its like a new Westphalia - Welcome to the revolution.

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Whitepapers, source-code and privacy or ' CHAUM " for short
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

David Chaum has so many white-papers and so much unpatented source-code he makes us all look lazy. And in recent years he's devoted much time to healing the privacy breach represented by metadata. So Dave is like a ' Golden Goose ' for this list. But no good deed ever goes unpunished. SAD! Its enough to drive a Chaumian punk to suicide. Amirite?

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