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US Senators Introduce 'Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act' — With Backdoor Mandate
by jim bell 26 Jun '20

26 Jun '20

https://news.bitcoin.com/lawful-access-to-encrypted-data-act-backdoor/ US lawmakers have introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act to ensure law enforcement can access encrypted information. This bill is “a full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption in the United States,” one expert says. It requires manufacturers of encrypted devices and operating systems to have the ability to decrypt data upon request, creating a backdoor requirement.Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham and U.S. Senators Tom Cotton and Marsha Blackburn introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act on Tuesday. The new bill “would bring an end to warrant-proof encryption in devices, platforms, and systems,” the committee’s announcement reads. “Terrorists and criminals routinely use technology, whether smartphones, apps, or other means, to coordinate and communicate their daily activities,” Senator Graham said. He claims that law enforcement could not access “vital information” in many recent “terrorism cases and serious criminal activity” even after a court order was issued. Senator Cotton elaborated, “Tech companies’ increasing reliance on encryption has turned their platforms into a new, lawless playground of criminal activity,” adding:This bill will ensure law enforcement can access encrypted material with a warrant based on probable cause and help put an end to the Wild West of crime on the internet.[end of partial quote]

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Contact
by Karl 26 Jun '20

26 Jun '20

Cpunks, Many accounts were recently disabled from this list. I just discovered the situation myself and re-enabled my account. Is the list administrator able to bulk re-enable the accounts of everybody else affected, to undo this accidental censorship? Additionally, ddosecrets.com recently publicized 269GB of leaked police data. At this time of police brutality, this is important data, but the server hosting it became inaccessible the following day. Does anybody know where else to find this data? K

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Assange Superseding Indictment
by John Young 25 Jun '20

25 Jun '20

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Ooh ... she -really- mad! - "I am done, with you're bull shit!"
by Zig the N.g 25 Jun '20

25 Jun '20

Gen Z chick-a-roo just gone done got really, really mad! Did I mention "she got mad?" Coz you know, she.... One Gen Z'er Dares To Speak Out: "I'm Done With Your Bull$hit!" https://www.zerohedge.com/political/one-gen-zer-dares-speak-out-im-done-you… The HYPOCRISY is Unbelievable! 💥 MUST WATCH & RT!!!! 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/hH5aP9uk3c — TONY™️ (@TONYxTWO) June 22, 2020 https://t.co/hH5aP9uk3c ~6MiB

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Can Law Enforcement Really Recover Files You’ve Deleted?
by jim bell 25 Jun '20

25 Jun '20

https://www.howtogeek.com/675784/can-law-enforcement-really-recover-files-y…

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[Submission Deadline: Sep. 1][9+SIs] CFP IEEE DependSys 2020: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications, 14-16 December 2020, Fiji
by Jun Feng 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call For Papers ============================================================================= The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (IEEE DependSys 2020), 14-16 December 2020, Fiji (Submission Due: 1 September 2020) http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html IEEE DependSys 2020 conference is the 6th event in the series of conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new ideas, techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor, cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors, individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to the dependability of our designed systems. As these systems often tend to become inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running. Effectively improving the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems and applications has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for individuals, academics, practitioners, and organizations who are developing or procuring sophisticated computer systems on whose dependability of services they need to place great confidence. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of challenges in different circumstances. The emphasis will be on differing properties of such services, e.g., continuity, effective performance, real-time responsiveness, ability to overcome data fault, corruption, anomaly, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions, reliability, availability, sustainability, adaptability, heterogeneity, security, safety, and so on. ============================================================================= IEEE DependSys 2020 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). All accepted papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Engineering Index (EI). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be be published in 9+ SCI & EI indexed prestigious journals (confirmed). 1. Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) SI on Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data 2. Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) SI on Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/specia… 3. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF: 7.377) SI on Digital Twinning: Integration AI-ML and Big Data Analytics for Virtual Representation http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2020/Digital_Twinning_Integrati… 4. Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 5.768) SI on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-f… 5. Journal of Cloud Computing (IF: 2.14) SI on Security and Privacy Issues for AI in Edge-Cloud Computing https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/securityprivacyaiedgecloud… 6. Software: Practice and Experience (IF: 1.931) SI on Software and Hardware Co-Design for Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/page/journal/1097024x/SI_s… 7. MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) SI on Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/BTMA 8. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatics Sinica SI on Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges http://www.ieee-jas.org/news/news_en/9248195c-6d90-4868-9962-263ed9ba12f3_e… 9. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering SI on Computing and Networking for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/cfp/computing-and-ne… * More special issues will be added later. ================== Important Dates ================== Workshop Proposal/Special Session Due: 30 June 2020 Submission Deadline: 1 September 2020 Authors Notification Date: 15 October 2020 Final Manuscript Due: 10 November 2020 Conference Date: 14-16 December 2020 ================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ================== Track 1: Dependability and Security Fundamentals and Technologies - Concepts, theory, principles, standardization and modelling, and methodologies - Dependability of sensor, wireless, and Ad-hoc networks, software defined networks - Dependability issues in cloud/fog/edge - Security and privacy - Security/privacy in cloud/fog/edge - Homomorphic encryption, differential privacy - Blockchain security - Artificial intelligence - Big data foundation and management - Dependable IoT supporting technologies Track 2: Dependable and Secure Systems - Dependable sensor systems - Dependability and availability issues in distributed systems - Cyber-physical systems (e.g. automotive, aerospace, healthcare, smart grid systems) - Database and transaction processing systems - Safety and security in distributed computing systems - Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems - Dependability in automotive systems - Dependable integration - Dependability in big data systems - Software system security Track 3: Dependable and Secure Applications - Sensor and robot applications - Big data applications - Cloud/fog/edge applications - Datacenter monitoring - Safety care, medical care and services - Aerospace, industrial, and transportation applications - Energy, smart grid, IoT, CPS, smart city, and utility applications - Decentralized applications, federated learning applications - Mobile sensing applications, detection and tracking Track 4: Dependability and Security Measures and Assessments - Dependability metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity, easiness, comfort, and worry - Levels and relations, assessment criteria and authority - Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools - Dependability evaluation - Software and hardware reliability, verification and validation - Evaluations and tools of anomaly detection and protection in sensor, cloud, big data systems ================== Paper Submission ================== All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/ Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference. ================== Organizing Committee ================== General Chairs - Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada - Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - Alireza Jolfaei, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs - Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada - Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia - Jun Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee - Jie Wu, Temple University, USA (Chair) - Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA (Chair) - Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China - Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy - Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA - A. B. M Shawkat Ali, The University of Fiji, Fiji - Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA - Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh - Kenli Li, Hunan University, China - Shui Yu, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia - Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Kamruzzaman Joarder, Federation University and Monash University, Australia -- Dr. Jun Feng Huazhong University of Science and Technology Mobile: +86-18827365073 WeChat: junfeng10001000 E-Mail: junfeng989(a)gmail.com

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2020 lockdown: "infant deaths fell by 30 percent on average each week"
by Zenaan Harkness 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 08:49:08 +1000 Subject: Infant vaccination rates plummeted during the lock down https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-06-23-infant-vaccination-rates-plummeted-l… Natural News Infant vaccination rates plummeted during the lock down, so why did INFANT mortality rates also plummet to historic lows? Tuesday, June 23, 2020 by: Lance D Johnson <https://www.naturalnews.com/author/ljdevon> *Tags: goodhealth <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/goodhealth>, goodmedicine <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/goodmedicine>, goodscience <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/goodscience>, human development <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/human-development>, immunology <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/immunology>, infant mortality <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/infant-mortality>, liability free products <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/liability-free-products>, over-vaccination <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/over-vaccination>, pediatric care <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/pediatric-care>, pediatric reform <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/pediatric-reform>, saving lives <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/saving-lives>, SIDS <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/sids>, synergistic toxicity <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/synergistic-toxicity>, vaccination coverage <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/vaccination-coverage>, vaccine injury <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/vaccine-injury>, vaccines <https://www.naturalnews.com/tag/vaccines-tag>* *2,700*VIEWS [image: Image: Infant vaccination rates plummeted during the lock down, so why did INFANT mortality rates also plummet to historic lows?] (Natural News <https://www.naturalnews.com/>) Vaccines are praised as the golden standard for saving millions of lives worldwide. That’s the promise that we are led to believe as parents ritualistically submit their infant sons and daughters to a cornucopia of state-sanctioned injections. Well-baby visits are designed to introduce up to 26 liability-free vaccinations <https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/growing/immunization-schedule.html> in the baby’s first year of life, during six or more visits to a pediatrician. However, during the covid-19 lockdowns, well-baby visits were cancelled and vaccination rates plummeted as a result. More parents stayed home, nursed their babies, watched them closely, and kept them away from pediatricians. When the national emergency order was declared, provider orders for routine pediatric vaccines dropped significantly. The Vaccines for Children Program and the Vaccine Safety Data link reported a drop-off in vaccination coverage starting in the third week of March, as hundreds of thousands of parents stayed home and skipped well-baby visits. The downward trend was observed from March 23rd to the end of April for all non-influenza vaccines, especially measles-containing vaccines. [image: image.png] *So why did infant mortality rates drop to historic lows as vaccination coverage fell?* If vaccines are so important for an infant to live, then why didn’t the infant death rate dramatically increase as vaccination coverage fell <https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/lessons-from-the-lockdown-why-are-s…>? The data shows that the opposite effect occurred; infant deaths actually plummeted to historic lows! In the U.S., infants mortality occurs at roughly 700 babies per week. This trend of infant death and sacrifice remained steady from 2014 to 2019. In 2020, this all changed. From early March to mid-April, infant deaths fell by 30 percent on average each week! Throughout April and into mid May, the infant mortality rate had declined to 500 on average per week. [image: image.png] Deaths among children under 18 are relatively rare when compared to deaths from other age groups. For the average death rate to change by 30 percent in the youngest age group (infants) – that is unprecedented! The main causes of death for infants is congenital malformation (birth defects), representing 32 percent of all infant deaths. On average, accidents account for 31 percent of infant deaths. Circulatory complications (9 percent) and homicide (7 percent) are also contributing causes. The biggest grey area for infant death is “sudden infant death syndrome” which accounts for roughly 32 percent of infant deaths. This is when an otherwise healthy infant suddenly dies in their sleep, through suffocation, poisoning, or from an undiagnosed condition or adverse reaction. *Infant mortality rates fall when less vaccine doses are administered* An important study found that infant mortality rates regressed <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/?fbclid=IwAR3nQODKPQa_…> against the number of vaccine doses routinely given. The study asks: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity? After all, the cumulative safety of the entire U.S. vaccine schedule has never been studied. Infant mortality rate is defined as the number of infant deaths per 1000 live births. The infant mortality rate for the US is an abysmal 6.22. Singapore, Sweden, and Japan have an infant mortality rate that is less than half that of the US (2.80). There were major differences in infant mortality for nations that gave 12-14 doses in the first year of a baby’s life compared to those that gave 21-23 and 24-26 doses. As of 2009, the five nations with the lowest infant mortality rate only require 12 vaccine doses in the infant’s first year, compared to 24-26 doses required by the US. The US pathetically has the highest infant mortality rate out of the 33 developed nations in the study. The covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 provided more insight into how a nation can lower the infant mortality rate. As a nation that cares for the lives of its citizens, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) must rethink the purpose of well-baby visits and the necessity of pumping infants full of numerous vaccinations. If the US can save 200 or more babies on average each week by simply foregoing well-baby visits and vaccinations, then how many more babies can be saved if pediatric care was reformed entirely, and vaccine doses were lessened <http://vaccines.news/>? How many babies can be saved if pediatric care adopted a more comprehensive and integrative approach to infant immunology and neurodevelopment? Finally, what if vaccine manufacturers were held liable in a court of law? *Sources include:* ChildrensHealthDefense.org <https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/lessons-from-the-lockdown-why-are-s…> CDC.gov <https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/growing/immunization-schedule.html> NCBI.NLM.NIH.gov <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/?fbclid=IwAR3nQODKPQa_…> Image credits: ChildrensHealthDefense.org ----- End forwarded message -----

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Personal Black Box?
by jim bell 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

A few weeks ago, I got done binge-watching every episode of NCIS, and am now up to Season 4 of Criminal Minds. Naturally, this induces a bit of what I'll call cinematic paranoia. In what seems to be a majority of episodes, a victim gets attacked, usually ends up dead, and the plucky investigators are stuck trying to figure out what happened. Naturally, they usually do, but only after about 45 minutes of high-tension showtime. It occurs to me that what people may need, for physical security, would be what might be called a "personal black box", analogous to an airplane flight recorder. Or, a civilian version of a cop's body-cam. Any modern smartphone would have the basics of such a device: A high-resolution camera, microphone, and a huge amount of storage. And a quick 911-call if necessary. The mere possession and use of such a device would probably deter the large majority of potential attackers. And even if it does not completely protect a given user, it would allow far more easy identification of the perpetrator. Parts of this, of course, are not a new idea. https://www.sparkfun.com/news/702 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/gadgets-and-gear/gadgets/your-ow… https://www.zdnet.com/article/fitbit-activity-data-as-evidence-in-court-wea… https://www.medgadget.com/2005/08/cpod_a_personal.html https://newatlas.com/australia-black-box-flight-recorder-soldiers/51267/ However, storage is not enough: In use, in some instances, an attacker would presumably be aware enough to take or break the device, so some sort of continuous or discontinuous upload of the data could be done, to be available no matter what else happens. Say, a frame per second when nothing seems to be happening, and a greater rate when triggered somehow. Could a heart-rate monitor be employed, sensed one axis of the phone's accelerometers? Or if the wearer falls down? Or if a sufficiently-loud noise is heard, etc. Or if a trigger-word is spoken a la Siri? Can the data transfer be made economical? Even an average of 1 megabit/second would be over one gigabyte during a 3 hour usage per day. That's substantially greater than most people currently use. One possibility is that the phone could upload the data to the cell phone company, where it could be "parked" for a few seconds or minutes. If nothing happens to the phone to cause a trigger (some sort of attack) the phone could instruct the cell phone company to abandon the data. Conversely, if a trigger occurs, the cell phone company would move 100% of the data to a backup system for later retrieval. Presumably, the cell phone company would offer discounted rates for such transfers, and only offer that service if the local service is sufficiently unloaded at that moment. Jim Bell

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"The proudest moment in the US Army's history - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

The proudest moment in the US Army's history - the downfall of the US army in Vietnam, when certain 'more honourable than murder' principles took hold of the hearts of soldiers: The Real Reason the US Lost in Vietnam - US Troops Were in Open Revolt, Killing Over 300 Officers in 1971 https://russia-insider.com/en/real-reason-us-lost-vietnam-us-troops-were-op… Despotism only gets a free ride for so long...

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Keyboard junkies and hackers from the literal Triassic :)
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Jun '20

22 Jun '20

For those who enjoy a little reminiscence of bygone digital eras, the Triassic is worthy of investigation. If you missed it before now, wonder at the magnitude of a simpler yet still blazing era: export TERM=aaa-60 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/export-termaaa-60/ .. This is an Ann Arbor Ambassador 60, manufactured in 1982 or 1983. It is a terminal. You probably think that word means "a GUI window that runs a command line shell in it". You think this thing must be a computer because it looks like what computers used to look like. But it is not a computer, it is a peripheral. This object consists of a keyboard, a serial port, and a CRT screen, and that's about it. ... Found on Xah Lee's glorious cite: Ann Arbor Ambassador 60 Terminal http://xahlee.info/kbd/Ann_Arbor_Ambassador_60_terminal.html

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