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CFP IEEE DependSys 2020: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications
by Jun Feng 05 Jun '20

05 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 http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html 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. ============================================================================= All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be be published in 8+ 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… * More special issues will be added later. ================== Important Dates ================== Workshop Proposal/Special Session Due: July 01, 2020 Submission Deadline: Aug 01, 2020 Authors Notification Date: Sept 01, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: Oct 15, 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 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 E-Mail: junfeng989(a)gmail.com WeChat: junfeng10001000

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Re: Rights - ex defense sec Jim "Mad Poodle' Mattis slams Trump -- Re: How to protect a town - "your great second amendment" - folks living their rights - AWESOME results! :D
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

Correction, James 'Mad Poodle' Mattis actually "quit in protest over US’ Syria withdrawal" (see rt.com article gbelow). IOW, the Mad Poodle is a quitter where Peace and 'less imperialism' is sought. Not only that, Mattis is a quitter. That man, is a quitter. Did I mention he's a quitter? Because he's also the new hero of the Democratic Demon-rat-tick party for calling Trump a Nazi (now -that- was a truly original and knockout slur, Mr Mattis). So, quitters know how to quit, and Jim "Mad Dog" Mattis, it appears, is a quitter. Ya know, that's quite a legacy, to be a quitter. For an American general to quit on 'American nationalism' because the pouting quitter wanted more imperialism, well, that just about sums up the existential crisis America faces today :/ At least Trump knows that we Ozzies (as it's pronounced) or Aussies as it's properly spelt, or even Ossies as it's usually pronounced by North Americans, are no quitters - in fact, at least historically and to date, we, are your, greatest ally. And besides, we ain't quitters to our allys. Dems cheer Mattis after he compares Trump to Hitler, conveniently forgetting he quit in protest over US’ Syria withdrawal https://www.rt.com/usa/490700-mattis-denounce-trump-democrats/ US President Donald Trump’s first defense secretary, General Jim Mattis, is the new hero of the Democrats, after he denounced Trump as a threat to the Constitution and compared him to the Nazis. ... -------------------------- James "Mad Poodle" Mattis, the ultra "liberal" (read 'Democrat') former defense secretary under Trump, comes out against the constitution whilst claiming Trump is against the constitution, whilst it is actually Trump calling all upstanding men (and Women :) ), to literally "save your great 2nd Amendment" - here it is: LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege! 8:25 AM - 17 Apr 2020 Donald J. Trump Verified Account @realDonaldTrump https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1251169987110330372 So Mad Poodle is in fact using his Ministry speak to turn words upside down and to pretend black is white. What is Mattis' "blistering" statement? : “I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled, The words ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand — one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers” Oh, so nothing, evidently. <shrug> Obviously "Mad Doggy Mattis" has absolutely no grudges whatsoever for being fired by Trump. 'We Can Unite Without Him': Former Defense Secretary Slams Trump as Threat to US Constitution https://sputniknews.com/us/202006031079511901-we-can-unite-without-him-form… .. “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children," Mattis added. He also contrasted the Nazi ideology to Americans values of unity and cooperation. “Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that ‘The Nazi slogan for destroying us … was "Divide and Conquer." ... IOW, literally "please, think of the children", and "evil Nazis" :D On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 05:50:56PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Folks this is some serious inspiration on the rise - when a few good > men stand, often that's enough, and often a few more good men join > them, and then here and there we are seeing literally 100s of good > folks getting out to join the corageous initial few good men, and > standing in solidarity and protecting their towns. > > >From Texas to Idaho, it's time to celebrate if you've stood already in > the right, and time to man up and live the right if the turoil is yet > to hit your town. > > Live the right muh grits! Yee haw :D > > Fantastic times all - join in and experience the feelings of liberation. > > > Idaho Town Taken Over By Armed 'Patriot' Patrols Amid Rumors Antifa > Headed There > https://www.zerohedge.com/political/idaho-town-taken-over-armed-patriot-pat… > > .. "Reports and rumors that groups bent on rioting and violence > in Coeur d’Alene brought out men and women with guns on Monday > determined to stop them if they arrive," local Idaho media reported. > https://cdapress.com/news/2020/jun/02/armed-patriots-patrol-coeur-dalene-5/ > > "Dan Carson was patrolling Sherman Avenue with an AR-12 > automatic 12-gauge across his chest, an AR-15 strapped to his back, > two 9mm handguns holstered and a .38 special, too," the report > continued. > > Groups of loosely affiliated 'Proud Boys' and armed 'patriots' > began lining the streets of downtown Coeur d’Alene over reports left > wing militants and Antifa anarchists were planning to cause mayhem in > the area: > > Soon, more armed men, self-described as a loosely formed > group of patriots, arrived. They took up posts at corners on both > sides of Sherman Avenue. > > Later, they were joined by hundreds of citizens packing > rifles, semi-automatic weapons, handguns, and bows and arrows. > > The sidewalks were packed with people walking up and down > Sherman Avenue, firearms proudly displayed for all to see. > > They carried guns, had them holstered around their hips > and had them strapped across their backs. > > https://t.co/9kMcX8WgMS > — Maher Kawash (@MaherKXLY) June 2, 2020 > https://twitter.com/MaherKXLY/status/1267668615018377216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw > > As it turns out, a group of Black Lives Matter protesters did in > parts of the city briefly face off with the 'protect Idaho' group of > armed locals, however, the scene stayed peaceful and without incident, > dispersing relatively early into the evening as the police monitored > the situation. > > Ultimately it appeared that in the downtown area it was only the > armed patriot group which was out in force, unopposed. But the armed > citizens patrols were in such large numbers they effectively took over > the streets. > > Our beautiful home sweet home of North Idaho!! God bless > our patriots, law-enforcement, & peaceful protestors (we support you) > you are welcome! Those of you who incite violence, to destroy our > communities will be met with a force in the likes of which you have > never seen! #NIdaho pic.twitter.com/JKyUrLzqSD > — Laurie Powell (@JaynLaurieP) June 2, 2020 > > https://twitter.com/JaynLaurieP/status/1267884355201822720?ref_src=twsrc%5E… > > It's a scene that's also played out in places like Texas, where > smaller towns and rural areas have vowed to keep rioters far away, > also as individual citizens practice 'open carry' in states where it's > permissible. > > ... > > [full article and brief live stream worth it for the conviction...] > > > > > Trump reassures NRA: 'We will protect your Second Amendment' > https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/04/politics/trump-nra-convention-dallas/ind… > > Trump calls protesters against stay-at-home orders 'very responsible' > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/17/trump-liberate-tweets-coron… > > Trump's Mere Mention of the Second Amendment Sent Progressives Off > the Deep End > https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/06/01/progressives-and-antig… > > > > > Wanna avoid this 'Soros' blueprint for turmoil and the consequent > locking down of the nation? Then pick up your balls and live your > great second amendment! > > This Is Not A Revolution. It's A Blueprint For Locking Down The Nation > John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, > https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentar… > https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-revolution-its-blueprint-locking-do… > > > Shocking Evidence Suggests Coordinated Effort To Orchestrate An > Uprising Inside The United States > Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, > http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/shocking-evidence-that-indicates-t… > https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shocking-evidence-suggests-effort-orche… > > > > Even single shops in the middle of a burning city can be and have been > saved in this way: > > ARMED CITIZENS STAND WITH MN PROTESTERS, BUT DEFEND STORES FROM LOOTERS > https://www.infowars.com/armed-citizens-stand-with-mn-protesters-but-defend… > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsItCadcPwc > https://www.sgtreport.com/2020/05/armed-citizens-stand-with-mn-protesters-b… > ‘Cops are a lot less likely to tread on people’s rights when > there’s other armed Americans with them’ > Four armed men were filmed standing in front of businesses in > danger of being looted on Wednesday night as an anti-police brutality > protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota quickly turned into an all-out riot. > ... > .. When asked why they were protecting the store in the > background, the pair described heading to the shop to purchase some > tobacco and finding out it was closed and the owners were out front > with machetes to defend their businesses. > “We heard that and we thought ‘we better kit up and see if > those guys need help,’ and it turns out these guys are out here with > machetes and shattered windows – trying to keep looters out of their > business because cops can’t get here,” another armed protester said. > “So, you know, I figure before there were cops, there were just > Americans. So here we are,” he continued. ... > > Corbo’s bakery owners in Cleveland, Ohio are armed with guns in > order to defend themselves and their business during the protest for > George Floyd. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bexEXiqEjQs > > Note To Rioting Americans: Why Looting A Gun Store Isn't Such A Great Idea > https://www.zerohedge.com/political/note-rioters-why-looting-gun-store-isnt… > > Who were the rooftop Koreans defending a gun store during the Los > Angeles 1992 riots? > https://www.quora.com/Who-were-the-rooftop-Koreans-defending-a-gun-store-du… > > Leftists Panic After Seeing ‘White Men With LARGE GUNS’ Defending > Their Own Neighborhoods > https://www.infowars.com/leftists-panic-after-seeing-white-men-with-large-g… > .. This hilarious clip out of Snohomish, Washington was shared > Sunday on Twitter by a leftist who lamented how the town was “trash.” > Some leftist uploaded this video from #Snohomish, WA on > Sunday showing patriots defending their (riot free) town with guns. > He complained about how the town was "trash." > He deleted it after it went viral and was praised by > right-wing Twitter. 😂👌 pic.twitter.com/5i9ZoBSeHf > — Chris Menahan 🇺 🇸 (@infolibnews) June 1, 2020 > https://t.co/5i9ZoBSeHf > > Looters break into a Philly gun store overnight... - TheBlaze > https://www.theblaze.com/news/looters-philly-gun-store-owner > > Gun Sales Soar 80% In May Amid Race Riots, Government... > https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/gun-sales-soar-80-may-amid-race-ri… > > https://www.yandex.com/search/?text=armed%20men%20defend%20gun%20store%20du… ----- End forwarded message -----

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Who is GovCorpSecretServiceMafia?
by Karl 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

Hi, The targeting, disruption, etc are painful and "obvious". I was wondering if, maybe from back when they didn't have so much power on the internet, anybody figured out what kinds of people are causing it. How they work, what they value, maybe even who they are, etc. Obviously control is important but those seem more like strategies to sustain something else. Did a map of these influences ever make it somewhere permanent? I'm realizing that although we could make a new one, the process could be pretty dangerous. It just really helps comprehending anything at all to know why these things are happening, and be able to talk about it specifically even if that means repercussions when you do. Karl

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How to protect a town - "your great second amendment" - folks living their rights - AWESOME results! :D
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

Folks this is some serious inspiration on the rise - when a few good men stand, often that's enough, and often a few more good men join them, and then here and there we are seeing literally 100s of good folks getting out to join the corageous initial few good men, and standing in solidarity and protecting their towns. >From Texas to Idaho, it's time to celebrate if you've stood already in the right, and time to man up and live the right if the turoil is yet to hit your town. Live the right muh grits! Yee haw :D Fantastic times all - join in and experience the feelings of liberation. Idaho Town Taken Over By Armed 'Patriot' Patrols Amid Rumors Antifa Headed There https://www.zerohedge.com/political/idaho-town-taken-over-armed-patriot-pat… .. "Reports and rumors that groups bent on rioting and violence in Coeur d’Alene brought out men and women with guns on Monday determined to stop them if they arrive," local Idaho media reported. https://cdapress.com/news/2020/jun/02/armed-patriots-patrol-coeur-dalene-5/ "Dan Carson was patrolling Sherman Avenue with an AR-12 automatic 12-gauge across his chest, an AR-15 strapped to his back, two 9mm handguns holstered and a .38 special, too," the report continued. Groups of loosely affiliated 'Proud Boys' and armed 'patriots' began lining the streets of downtown Coeur d’Alene over reports left wing militants and Antifa anarchists were planning to cause mayhem in the area: Soon, more armed men, self-described as a loosely formed group of patriots, arrived. They took up posts at corners on both sides of Sherman Avenue. Later, they were joined by hundreds of citizens packing rifles, semi-automatic weapons, handguns, and bows and arrows. The sidewalks were packed with people walking up and down Sherman Avenue, firearms proudly displayed for all to see. They carried guns, had them holstered around their hips and had them strapped across their backs. https://t.co/9kMcX8WgMS — Maher Kawash (@MaherKXLY) June 2, 2020 https://twitter.com/MaherKXLY/status/1267668615018377216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw As it turns out, a group of Black Lives Matter protesters did in parts of the city briefly face off with the 'protect Idaho' group of armed locals, however, the scene stayed peaceful and without incident, dispersing relatively early into the evening as the police monitored the situation. Ultimately it appeared that in the downtown area it was only the armed patriot group which was out in force, unopposed. But the armed citizens patrols were in such large numbers they effectively took over the streets. Our beautiful home sweet home of North Idaho!! God bless our patriots, law-enforcement, & peaceful protestors (we support you) you are welcome! Those of you who incite violence, to destroy our communities will be met with a force in the likes of which you have never seen! #NIdaho pic.twitter.com/JKyUrLzqSD — Laurie Powell (@JaynLaurieP) June 2, 2020 https://twitter.com/JaynLaurieP/status/1267884355201822720?ref_src=twsrc%5E… It's a scene that's also played out in places like Texas, where smaller towns and rural areas have vowed to keep rioters far away, also as individual citizens practice 'open carry' in states where it's permissible. ... [full article and brief live stream worth it for the conviction...] Trump reassures NRA: 'We will protect your Second Amendment' https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/04/politics/trump-nra-convention-dallas/ind… Trump calls protesters against stay-at-home orders 'very responsible' https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/17/trump-liberate-tweets-coron… Trump's Mere Mention of the Second Amendment Sent Progressives Off the Deep End https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/06/01/progressives-and-antig… Wanna avoid this 'Soros' blueprint for turmoil and the consequent locking down of the nation? Then pick up your balls and live your great second amendment! This Is Not A Revolution. It's A Blueprint For Locking Down The Nation John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentar… https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-revolution-its-blueprint-locking-do… Shocking Evidence Suggests Coordinated Effort To Orchestrate An Uprising Inside The United States Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/shocking-evidence-that-indicates-t… https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shocking-evidence-suggests-effort-orche… Even single shops in the middle of a burning city can be and have been saved in this way: ARMED CITIZENS STAND WITH MN PROTESTERS, BUT DEFEND STORES FROM LOOTERS https://www.infowars.com/armed-citizens-stand-with-mn-protesters-but-defend… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsItCadcPwc https://www.sgtreport.com/2020/05/armed-citizens-stand-with-mn-protesters-b… ‘Cops are a lot less likely to tread on people’s rights when there’s other armed Americans with them’ Four armed men were filmed standing in front of businesses in danger of being looted on Wednesday night as an anti-police brutality protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota quickly turned into an all-out riot. ... .. When asked why they were protecting the store in the background, the pair described heading to the shop to purchase some tobacco and finding out it was closed and the owners were out front with machetes to defend their businesses. “We heard that and we thought ‘we better kit up and see if those guys need help,’ and it turns out these guys are out here with machetes and shattered windows – trying to keep looters out of their business because cops can’t get here,” another armed protester said. “So, you know, I figure before there were cops, there were just Americans. So here we are,” he continued. ... Corbo’s bakery owners in Cleveland, Ohio are armed with guns in order to defend themselves and their business during the protest for George Floyd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bexEXiqEjQs Note To Rioting Americans: Why Looting A Gun Store Isn't Such A Great Idea https://www.zerohedge.com/political/note-rioters-why-looting-gun-store-isnt… Who were the rooftop Koreans defending a gun store during the Los Angeles 1992 riots? https://www.quora.com/Who-were-the-rooftop-Koreans-defending-a-gun-store-du… Leftists Panic After Seeing ‘White Men With LARGE GUNS’ Defending Their Own Neighborhoods https://www.infowars.com/leftists-panic-after-seeing-white-men-with-large-g… .. This hilarious clip out of Snohomish, Washington was shared Sunday on Twitter by a leftist who lamented how the town was “trash.” Some leftist uploaded this video from #Snohomish, WA on Sunday showing patriots defending their (riot free) town with guns. He complained about how the town was "trash." He deleted it after it went viral and was praised by right-wing Twitter. 😂👌 pic.twitter.com/5i9ZoBSeHf — Chris Menahan 🇺 🇸 (@infolibnews) June 1, 2020 https://t.co/5i9ZoBSeHf Looters break into a Philly gun store overnight... - TheBlaze https://www.theblaze.com/news/looters-philly-gun-store-owner Gun Sales Soar 80% In May Amid Race Riots, Government... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/gun-sales-soar-80-may-amid-race-ri… https://www.yandex.com/search/?text=armed%20men%20defend%20gun%20store%20du…

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Won't Someone Please Think of the Archives (Re: My #OpDeathEaters review)
by grarpamp 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

On 6/1/20, Douglas Lucas <dal(a)riseup.net> wrote: > Due to high traffic, my website has been going up and down > https://twitter.com/DouglasLucas/ > http://www.douglaslucas.com/ This site, among so many thousands others on thousand different subjects, and countless youtubes, such a works of freespeech, research, documentary, etc that they may be, yet they have few saves to archive.org... which itself will fall to rampant censorship very soon... some none at all, nor saved anywhere, nor conducive to mirroring, etc. Many to needlessly fall to void of entropy without having executed firm plans for potentially infinite re-ups. As such, as with all such works, authors should ensure that they regularly archive their sites and works into a single compressed file and post and distribute it for curation by public and private collections, and/or establish further rsyncs, or somesuch, as deemed worthy perhaps not merely by selves. Nor did cryptome respond to public query on same, beyond quiescent implication of prior disclaimer, a treatise questioned by some before.

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Censorship: ROKU Adds Itself to List of Untrustable Platforms
by grarpamp 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21278342/roku-qanon-channel-ban-david-hay…

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Zoom Video Conferencing - Completely Untrustable, Falls to Government Surveillance Demands, keybase
by grarpamp 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

https://thenextweb.com/security/2020/06/03/zoom-wont-encrypt-free-calls-bec… https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-keybase-godaddy-breach-ransomware-nest-sec… https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announc… https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_(software) Zoom recently bought some cryptosec sellout called Keybase.io (which btw was started by Chris Coyne and Max Krohn, the same sellout duo that sold out and wrecked OKCupid over to Match/IAC which owns many other fuckall spy and peoplemining garbage piles), ostensibly to fix Zoom's right fucked up system. Now Zoom removes all guise of crypto from free unpaid (anon) calls presumably due to Government pressure to surveillance spy the fuck out of Zoom's users, which it is giving away free to ensnare millions of more unwitting users worldwide. Expect any strong crypto services at keybase to get backdoored and wrecked over the next few years too. "for sure, we don’t want to give that [end-to-end encryption]." --Eric Yuan (Chinese National re any programmed favor spy regimes), meme rt by Alex Stamos (affil Google Facebook etc spy corps) Zoom has been criticized for "security lapses and poor design choices" that have resulted in heightened scrutiny of its software.[52][13] The company has also been criticized for its privacy and corporate data sharing policies.[53][54][55] Security researchers and reporters have criticized the company for its lack of transparency and poor encryption practices. Zoom initially claimed to use "end-to-end encryption" in its marketing materials,[56] but later clarified it meant "from Zoom end point to Zoom end point" (meaning effectively between Zoom servers and Zoom clients), which The Intercept described as misleading and "dishonest".[57] The video conferencing company boasts about end-to-end encryption on its website, and in a separate security-related white paper. However, The Intercept’s report found that the service uses transport encryption instead. In March 2020, New York State Attorney General Letitia James launched an inquiry into Zoom's privacy and security practices.[58] In April 2020, Citizen Lab researchers discovered that a single, server-generated AES-128 key is being shared between all participants in ECB mode, which is deprecated due to its pattern-preserving characteristics of the ciphertext.[66] During test calls between participants in Canada and United States the key was provisioned from servers located in mainland China where they are subject to the China Internet Security Law.[17] ...

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Re: [liberationtech] "The Nine Most Terrifying Words In The English Language", Pre-dates Reagan... (LT Digest, Vol 30, Issue 1)
by grarpamp 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

> There is a VERY SERIOUS need for societies to have critical questions relating to "common-futures" brought to the surface, pondered and answered. Given that meme's all been explored since eons with quite some deleterious effect upon rights, there is VERY OBVIOUSLY far more serious need to give at least equal, for the first time ever in history, to pondering the natural right of others to not be forced upon theft and death, to determine and live their "own-future", free from the force of such ponderers commons of thuggery upon them. > OUR concentrations (in multiple areas) ought to DRAMATICALLY > shift from maintaining a "Law and Order" focus, to that of "Human & > Individual RIGHTS" based orientations. Democracy's "law and order", more precisely its self serving and preserving created defined scheme of such, is based at its underlying fundamental core upon a) forcing other harmless people to do the bidding the majority whim that "vote" or otherwise decide or craft such powers for themselves over others (which is in fact a false authority concocted purely and wholly out of thin air), or b) be thieved prisoned killed by such power and die. Both of which are grave offensive sins upon "human and individual" rights. These two options are ultimately the sum total offered by democracy, no other options exist, and there is no fixing or modifying of this facts. Democracy is thus utterly incapable of recognizing and incorporating "human and individual rights"... as it considers those and all other considerations to be lesser moot concepts entirely disposable at will to its primary concerns and functions... its own illegitimate abusive force power over others such rights, self preserving its system. This is why every democracy in history, and every democracy in the future, has, and will, utterly run roughshod and fuck over "human and individual" rights. If you want to shift to based on human and individual... natural rights, you must shift away from democracy to a school of something else. For so long as people continue to deny these basic facts, that something else must be left for you to discover at such time as their brains opens to seeking it. Giving up forcing other humans to do your will, what you want, becoming that freedom, is terrifying task for most. Nor can there be any free commons until such time.

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New IP and Emerging Communications Technologies
by coderman 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

https://labs.apnic.net/?p=1318 """ A “New IP” framework was proposed to the ITU last year . This framework envisages a resurgence of a network-centric view of communications architectures where application behaviours are moderated by network-managed control mechanisms. It’s not the first time that we’ve seen proposals to rethink the basic architecture of the Internet’s technology (for example, there were the “Clean Slate” efforts in the US research community a decade or so ago) and it certainly won’t be the last. However, it this New IP framework is very prescriptive in terms of bounding application behaviours, and it seems to ignore the most basic lesson of the past three decades of evolution: communications services are no longer a command economy and these days the sector operates as a conventional market-based economy, and this market for diverse services is expressed in diversity of application behaviours. What this market-based economy implies is that ultimately what shapes the future of the communications sector, what shapes the services that are provided and even the technologies used to generate such services are the result of consumer choices. Consumers are often fickle, entranced by passing fads, and can be both conservative and adventurous at the same time. But whatever you may think of the sanity of consumer markets, it’s their money that drives this industry. Like any other consumer-focused services market, what consumers want, they get. However, it’s more than simple consumer preferences. This change in the economic nature of the sector also implies changes in investors and investment, changes in operators and changes in the collective expectations of the sector and the way in which these expectations are phrased. It’s really not up to some crusty international committee to dictate future consumer preferences. Time and time again these committees with their lofty titles, such as “the Focus Group on Technologies for Network 2030” have been distinguished by their innate ability to see their considered prognostications comprehensively contradicted by reality! Their forebears in similar committees missed computer mainframes, then they failed to see the personal computer revolution, and were then totally surprised by the smartphone. It’s clear that no matter what the network will look like some 10 years from now, what it won’t be is what this 2030 Focus Group pondering a new IP is envisaging! I don’t claim any particular ability to do any better in the area of divination of the future, and I’m not going to try. But in this process of evolution, the technical seeds of the near-term future are already visible today. What I would like to do here is describe that I think are the critically important technical seeds any why. This is my somewhat arbitrary personal choice of technologies that I think will play a prominent role in the Internet over the next decade. """ The foundation technology of the Internet, and indeed of the larger environment of digital communication, is the concept of packetization, replacing the previous model of circuit emulation. IP advocated a radical change to the previous incumbency of telephony. Rather than an active time switched network with passive edge devices, the IP architecture advocated a largely passive network where the network’s internal elements simply switched packets. The functionality of the service response was intended to be pushed out to the devices at the edge of the network. The respective roles of networks and devices were inverted in the transition to the internet. But change is hard and for some decades many industry actors with interests in the provision of networks and network services strived to reverse this inversion of the network service model. Network operators tried hard to introduce network-based service responses while handling packet-based payloads. We saw the efforts to develop network-based Quality of Service approaches that attempted to support differential service responses for different classes of packet flows within a single network platform. I think some twenty years later we can call this effort a Grand Failure. Then there was virtual circuit emulation in MPLS and more recently variants of loose source routing (SR) approaches. It always strikes me as odd that these approaches require orchestration across all active elements in a network where the basic functionality of traffic segmentation can be offered at far lower cost through ingress traffic grooming. But, cynically, I guess that the way to sell more fancy routers is to distribute complexity across the entire network. I would hesitate to categorise any of these technologies as emerging, as they seem to be more like regressive measures in many ways, motivated more by a desire to “value-add” to an otherwise undistinguished commodity service of packet transmission. The longevity of some of these efforts to create network-based services is a testament to the level of resistance of network operators to accept their role as a commodity utility, rather than any inherent value in the architectural concept of circuit-based network segmentation. At the same time, we’ve made some astonishing progress in other aspects of networking. We’ve been creating widely dispersed fault tolerant systems that don’t rely on centralised command and control. Any student of the inter-domain routing protocol BGP, which is has been quietly supporting the Internet for some three decades now, could not fail to be impressed by the almost prescient design of a distributed system for managing a complex network that is now up to nine orders of magnitude larger than the network of the early 1990’s for which is was originally devised. We’ve created a new kind of network that is open and accessible. It was nigh on impossible to create new applications for the telephone network, yet in the Internet that’s what happens all the time. From the vibrant world of apps down to the very basics of digital transmission the world of networking is in a state of constant flux and new technologies are emerging at a dizzying rate. What can we observe about emerging technologies that will play a critical role in the coming years? Here’s is my personal selection of recent technical innovations that I would classify into the set of emerging technologies that will exercise a massive influence over the coming ten years. Optical Coherence For many decades the optical world used the equivalent of a torch. There was either light passing down the cable or there wasn’t. This “on-off keying” (OOK) simple approach to optical encoding was continuously refined to support optical speeds of up to 10Gbps, which is no mean feat of technology, but at that point it was running into some apparently hard limitations of the digital signal processes that OOK is using. But there is still headroom in the fibre for more signal. We are now turning to Optical Coherence and have unleashed a second wave of innovation in this space. Exploiting Optical Coherence is a repeat of a technique that was been thoroughly exercised in other domains. We used phase-amplitude keying to tune analogue baseband voice circuit modems to produce 56Kbps of signal while operating across a 3Khz bandwidth carrier. Similar approaches were used in the radio world where we now see 4G systems supporting data speeds of up to 200Mbps. The approach relies on the use of phase-amplitude and polarisation keying to wring out a data capacity close to the theoretical Shannon limit. Optical systems of 100Gpbs per wavelength are now a commodity in the optical marketplace and 400G systems are coming on stream. It’s likely that we will see Terabit optical systems in the coming years using high density phase amplitude modulation coupled with custom-trained digital signal processing. As with other optical systems it’s also likely that we’ll see the price per unit of bandwidth on these systems plummet as the production volumes increase. In today’s world communications capacity is an abundant resource, and that abundance gives us a fresh perspective on network architectures. 5G What about radio systems? Is 5G an “emerging technology”? It’s my opinion that that 5G is not all that different from 4G. The real change was shifting from circuit tunnelling using PPP sessions to a native IP packet forwarding system, and that was the major change from 3G to 4G. 5G looks much the same as 4G, and the basic difference is the upward shift in radio frequencies for 5G. Initial 5G deployments use 3.8Ghz carriers, but the intention is to head into the millimetre wave band of 24Ghz to 84Ghz. This is a mixed blessing in that higher carrier frequencies can assign larger frequency blocks and therefore increase carrying capacity of the radio network, but at the same time the higher frequencies use shorter wavelengths and these millimetre-sized shorter wavelengths behave more like light than radio. At higher frequencies the radio signal is readily obstructed by buildings, walls, trees and other larger objects, and to compensate for this any service deployment requires a significantly higher population of base stations to achieve the same coverage. Beyond the hype it’s not clear if there is a sound sustainable economic model of millimetre wave band 5G services. For those reasons I’m going to put 5G at the bottom of the list of important emerging technologies. Radio and mobile services will remain incredibly important services in the Internet, but 5G represents no radical change in the manner of use of these systems beyond the well-established 4G technology. IPv6 It seems odd to consider IPv6 as an “emerging technology” in 2020. The first specification of IPv6, RFC1883, was published in 1995, which makes it a 25-year-old technology. But it does seem that after many years of indecision and even outright denial, the IPv4 exhaustion issues are finally driving deployment decisions and these days one quarter of the Internet’s user devices use IPv6. This number will inexorably rise. It’s hard to say how long it will take for the other three quarters, but the conclusion looks pretty inevitable. If the definition of “emerging” is one of large-scale increases in adoption in the coming years, then IPv6 certainly appears to fit that characterisation, despite its already quite venerable age! I just hope that we will work out a better answer to the ongoing issues with IPv6 Extension Headers, particularly in relation to packet fragmentation before we get to the point of having to rely on IPv6-only service environments. BBR Google’s Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip time TCP control algorithm (BBR) is a revolutionary control algorithm that is in my mind equal in importance to TCP itself. This transport algorithm redefines the relationship between end hosts, network buffers and speed and allows end systems to efficiently consume available network capacity at multi-gigabit speeds without being hampered by poorly designed active packet switching elements. Loss-based congestion control algorithms have served us well in the past but these days, as we contemplate end-to-end speeds of hundreds of gigabits per second, such conservative loss-based system control algorithms are impractical. BBR implements an entirely new perspective on both flow control and speed management that attempts to stabilise the flow rate at the same rate as a fair share of available network capacity. This is a technology to watch. QUIC There has been a longstanding tension between applications and networks. In the end-to-end world of TCP the network’s resources are shared across the set of active clients in a manner determined by the clients themselves. This has always been an anathema to network operators, who would prefer to actively manage their network’s resources and provide deterministic service outcomes to customers. To achieve this its common to see various forms of policy-based rate policers in networks, where the ‘signature’ of the packet headers can indicate the application that is generating the traffic which, in turn, generate a policy response. Such measures require visibility on the inner contents of each IP packet, which is conventionally the case with TCP. QUIC is a form of encapsulation that uses a visible outer wrapping of UDP packets and encrypts the inner TCP and content payload. Not only does this approach hide the TCP flow control parameters from the network and the network’s policy engines, it lifts the control of the data flow algorithm away from the common host operating system platform and places it into the hands of each application. This gives greater control to the application, so that the application can adjust its behaviour independent of the platform upon which it is running. In addition, it removes the requirement of a “one size that is equally uncomfortable for all” model of data flow control used in operating system platform-based TCP applications. With QUIC the application itself can tailor its flow control behaviours to optimise the behaviour of the application within the parameters of the current state of the network path. It’s likely that this shift of control from the platform to the application will continue. Applications want greater agility, and greater levels of control over their own behaviours and services. By using a basic UDP substrate the host platform’s TCP implementation is bypassed and the application can then operate in a way that is under the complete control of the application. Resolverless DNS I was going to say “DNS over HTTPS” (DoH) but I’m not sure that DoH itself is a particularly novel technology, so I’m not sure it fits into this category of “emerging technologies”. We’ve used HTTPS as a firewall-tunnelling and communication privacy-enhancing technology for almost as long as firewalls and privacy concerns have existed, and software tools that tunnel IP packets in HTTPS sessions are readily available and have been for at least a couple of decades. There is nothing novel there. Putting the DNS into HTTPs is just a minor change to the model of using HTTPS as a universal tunnelling substrate. However, HTTPS itself offers some additional capabilities that plain old DNS over TLS, the secure channel part of HTTPS, cannot intrinsically offer. I’m referring to “server push” technologies in the web. For example, a web page might refer to a custom style page to determine the intended visual setting of the page. Rather than having the client perform another round of DNS resolution and connection establishment to get this style page, the server can simply push this resource to the client along with the page that uses it. From the perspective of HTTP, DNS requests and responses looks like any other data object transactions and pushing a DNS response without a triggering DNS query is, in HTTP terms, little different from, say, pushing a stylesheet. However, in terms of the naming architecture of the Internet this a profound step of major proportions. What if the names were only accessible within the context of a particular web environment, and inaccessible using any other tool, including conventional DNS queries? The Internet can be defined as a coherent single namespace. We can communicate with each other by sending references to resources, i.e. names, and this makes sense only when the resources I refer to by using a particular name is the same resources that you will refer to when you use the same name. It does not matter what application is used and what might be the context of the query for that name, the DNS resolution result is the same. However, when content pushes resolved names to clients it is simple for content to create its own context and environment that is uniquely different to any other name context. There is no longer one coherent name space but many fragmented potentially overlapping name spaces and no clear way to disambiguate potentially conflicting uses of names. The driver behind many emerging technologies is speed, convenience and tailing the environment to match each user. From this perspective resolverless DNS is pretty much inevitable. However, the downside is that the internet loses its common coherence and it’s unclear whether this particular technology will have a positive impact on the Internet or a highly destructive one. I guess that we will see in the coming few years! Quantum Networking In 1936, long before we built the first of the modern day programable computers British mathematician devised a thought experiment of a universal computing machine, and more importantly he classified problems into “computable” problems where a solution was achievable in finite time, and “uncomputable” problems, where a machine will never halt. In some ways we knew even before the first physical computer that there existed a class of problems that were never going to be solved with a computer. Peter Shor performed a similar feat in 1994, devising an algorithm that performs prime factorization in finite time in a yet-to-be built quantum computer. The capabilities (and limitations) of this novel form of mechanical processing were being mapped out long before any such machine had been built. Quantum Computers are an emerging potentially disruptive technology in the computing world. There is also a related emerging technology, Quantum Networking, where quantum bits (qubits) are passed between quantum networks. Like many others I have no particular insight as to whether quantum networking will be an esoteric diversion in the evolution of digital networks or whether it will become the conventional mainstream foundation for tomorrow’s digital services. It’s just too early to tell. Architectural Evolution Why do we still see constant technical evolution? Why aren’t prepared to say “Well that’s job done. Let’s all head to the pub!” I suspect that the pressures to continue to alter the technical platforms of the Internet comes from the evolution of the architecture of the Internet itself. One view of the purpose of the original model of the internet was to connect clients to a service. Now we could have each service run a dedicated access network and a client would need to use a specific network to access a specific service but after trying this in a small way the 1980’s the general reaction was to recoil in horror! So we used the Internet as the universal connection network. As long as all services and servers were connected to this common network, then when a client connected, then they could access any service. In the 1990’s this was a revolutionary step, but as the number of users grew, they outpaced the growth capability of the server model, and the situation became unsustainable. Popular services were a bit like the digital equivalent of a black hole in the network. We needed a different solution and we came up with content distribution networks (CDNs). CDNs use a dedicated network service to maintain a set of equivalent points of service delivery all over the internet. Rather than using a single global network to access any connected service all the client needs is an access network that connects them to the local aggregate CDN access point. The more we use locally accessible services, the less we use the broader network. What does this mean for technologies? One implication is the weakening of the incentives to maintain a single consistent connected Internet. If the majority of digitally delivered services desired by users can be obtained through a purely local access framework then who is left to pay for the considerably higher costs of common global transit to access the small residual set of remote-access only services? Do local-only services need access to globally unique infrastructure elements. NATs are an extreme example of a case in point that local-only services are quite functional with local-only addresses and the proliferation of local use names leads to a similar conclusion. It is difficult to conclude that the pressures for Internet fragmentation increase with the rise of content distribution networks. However, if one looks at fragmentation in the same way as entropy in the physical world, then it requires constant effort to resist fragmentation. Without the constant application of effort to maintain a global system of unique identifiers we appear to move towards networks that only exhibit local scope. Another implication is the rise of specific service scoping in applications. An example of this can be seen in the first deployments of QUIC. QUIC was exclusively used by Google’s Chrome browser when accessing Google web servers. The transport protocol, which was conventionally was placed into the operating system as a common service for applications was lifted up into the application. The old design considerations that supported the use of common set of operating system functions over the use of tailored application functionality no longer apply. With the deployment of more capable end systems and faster networks we are able to construct highly customised applications. Browsers already support many of the functions that we used to associate only with operating systems, and many applications appear to be following this lead. It’s not just a case of wanting finer levels of control over the end user experience, although that is an important consideration, but also a case of each application shielding its behaviour and interactions with the user from other applications, from the host operating system platform and from the network. If the money that drives the Internet is the money derived from knowledge of the end user’s habits and desires, which certainly appears to be the case for Google, Amazon, Facebook and Netflix, and many others, then it would be folly for these applications to expose their knowledge to any third party. Instead of applications that rely on a rich set of services provided by the operating system and the network we are seeing the rise of the paranoid application as the new technology model. These paranoid applications not only minimize their points of external reliance, they attempt to minimise the visibility of their behaviours as well. Change as a Way of Life The pressure of these emerging technologies competing with the incumbent services and infrastructure in the Internet are perhaps the most encouraging sign that the Internet is still alive and is still quite some time away from a slide into obsolescence and irrelevance. We are still changing the basic transmission elements, changing the underlying transport protocols, changing the name and addressing infrastructure and change the models of service delivery. And that’s about the best signal we could have that the Internet is by no means a solved problem and it still poses many important technology challenges. """ Where does this leave the New IP proposal? In my view it’s going nowhere useful. I think it heads to the same fate as a long list of predecessors as yet another rather useless effort to adorn the network with more useless knobs and levers in an increasing desperate attempt to add value to the network that no users are prepared to pay for. The optical world and the efforts of the mobile sector are transforming communications into an abundant undistinguished commodity and such efforts to ration it out in various ways, or adding unnecessary adornments are totally misguided efforts. Applications are no longer being managed by the network. There is little left of any form of cooperation between the network and the application, as the failure of ECN attests. Applications are now hiding their control mechanisms from the network and making fewer and fewer assumptions about the characteristics of the network, as we see with QUIC and BBR. So if all this is a Darwinian process of evolutionary change than it seems to me that the evolutionary attention currently lives in user space as applications on our devices. Networks are just there to carry packets. """ - best regards,

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Re: on-list feminazi scum - douglas lucas
by Douglas Lucas 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

Unlike her glossary, Marsh's New Orwellian Dictionary is definitions of doublespeak, i.e. how the authorities use language, not her -- a fact that Punk obviously photoshopped out from Punk's false excerpting earlier. Just got over 800 new twitter followers these past 72 hours, about to break 3000, meanwhile we all know Punk is a bikeshedder https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding#cite_note-phk-bikeshed-1 But I'm too busy swimming in Pussy to waste more time laughing at Punk's boomer inceldom Enjoy this sculpture! http://www.douglaslucas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Sculpture.jpg Until next time! that 'douglas lucas' guy

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