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Lord Sumption, former UK Supreme Court Justice: "This Is What a Police State Is Like"
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

Former British Supreme Court Justice: ‘This Is What a Police State Is Like’ https://www.anti-empire.com/former-british-supreme-court-justice-this-is-wh… "The real problem is that when human societies lose their freedom, it's not usually because tyrants have taken it away" The former Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption, QC, has denounced the police response to the coronavirus, saying the country is suffering ‘collective hysteria’. This is an edited transcript of his interview with BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme earlier today. –BBC interviewer Jonny Dymond: ‘A hysterical slide into a police state. A shameful police force intruding with scant regard to common sense or tradition. An irrational overreaction driven by fear.’ These are not the accusations of wild-eyed campaigners, they come from the lips of one our most eminent jurists Lord Sumption, former Justice of the Supreme Court. I spoke to him just before we came on air. –Lord Sumption: The real problem is that when human societies lose their freedom, it’s not usually because tyrants have taken it away. It’s usually because people willingly surrender their freedom in return for protection against some external threat. And the threat is usually a real threat but usually exaggerated. That’s what I fear we are seeing now. The pressure on politicians has come from the public. They want action. They don’t pause to ask whether the action will work. They don’t ask themselves whether the cost will be worth paying. They want action anyway. And anyone who has studied history will recognise here the classic symptoms of collective hysteria. Hysteria is infectious. We are working ourselves up into a lather in which we exaggerate the threat and stop asking ourselves whether the cure may be worse than the disease. –Dymond: At a time like this, as you acknowledge, citizens do look to the state for protection, for assistance, we shouldn’t be surprised then if the state takes on new powers if it responds. That is what it has been asked to do, almost demanded of it. –Sumption: Yes that is absolutely true. We should not be surprised. But we have to recognise that this is how societies become despotisms. And we also have to recognise this is a process which leads naturally to exaggeration. The symptoms of coronavirus are clearly serious for those with other significant medical conditions, especially if they’re old. There are exceptional cases in which young people have been struck down, which have had a lot of publicity, but the numbers are pretty small. The Italian evidence, for instance, suggests that only in 12 per cent of deaths is it possible to say coronavirus was the main cause of death. So yes this is serious and yes it’s understandable that people cry out to the government. But the real question is: is this serious enough to warrant putting most of our population into house imprisonment, wrecking our economy for an indefinite period, destroying businesses that honest and hardworking people have taken years to build up, saddling future generations with debt, depression, stress, heart attacks, suicides and unbelievable distress inflicted on millions of people who are not especially vulnerable and will suffer only mild symptoms or none at all, like the Health Secretary and the Prime Minister. .. –Sumption: Well, I have to say, it does. I mean, the tradition of policing in this country is that policemen are citizens in uniform. They are not members of a disciplined hierarchy operating just at the government’s command. Yet in some parts of the country, the police have been trying to stop people from doing things like travelling to take exercise in the open country, which are not contrary to the regulations, simply because ministers have said that they would prefer us not to. The police have no power to enforce ministers’ preferences, but only legal regulations – which don’t go anything like as far as the government’s guidance. I have to say that the behaviour of the Derbyshire police in trying to shame people into using their undoubted right to take exercise in the country and wrecking beauty spots in the Fells so that people don’t want to go there, is frankly disgraceful. This is what a police state is like. It’s a state in which the government can issue orders or express preferences with no legal authority and the police will enforce ministers’ wishes. ..

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POLITICO: Justice Department audit finds widespread flaws in FBI surveillance applications
by jim bell 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

POLITICO: Justice Department audit finds widespread flaws in FBI surveillance applications. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/31/justice-department-audit-finds-wid…

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Top Secret: 20+TB SSD is nothing
by grarpamp 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/fjt30v/this_is_the_pcb_of_a_… https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/fjt6b8/thought_you_guys_would… https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/7b9l4c/who_here_likes_ssds_t… https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7b0coq/who_here_likes_ssds_th… https://twitch.tv/tt2468_h3 User works for a company that also sells classified SSD systems to government. 20TB is what they can post without getting fired, in production for over 2 years. Utah has much bigger, and you're in it. Anyone do a raw component and assembly cost workup on 25 / 50 / 100 TB class units? Jim?

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[MINISTRY] stop being racist - The Bee: Non-racist terminology replacements
by Zig the N.g 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

The Bee provides a helpful list of non-racist terminologies to replace racist terms that unthoughtful (at least nominally racist) racist people keep using. Please stop. PSA: Stop Using Racist Terminology https://babylonbee.com/news/psa-stop-using-racist-terminology With the rise of the novel coronavirus, there has been an uptick in people saying racist things like suggesting the virus came from the region it did in fact come from. So we're encouraging our readers to avoid problematic terms like "Wuhan virus," "Chinese coronavirus," "Kung Flu," "Black Pepper Death," "Chopsick," "Srirachoo," "Terracougha Army," or the "Great Whoop of China." Definitely don't use any of those. And certainly never name a disease, product, or cultural trend after the area it's from. Instead, use our handy guide to avoid problematic, racist language: Instead of Say: --------------------- -------------------------------------- Wuhan virus Lung pao sicken Black death Death of colour Indian giver Elizabeth Warren Canadian bacon Geopolitically irrelevant, inferior bacon Mexican jumping beans Latinx acrobatic moth larvae Chinese dictator Austere totalitarian scholar Japanese cartoons It's called Anime and it's totally normal for adults to watch, mum!

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Cryptocurrency: Music
by grarpamp 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

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Cryptocurrency: Cloudflare Ditches ReCaptcha for HCaptcha
by grarpamp 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

https://old.reddit.com/r/hCaptcha/comments/fpxzg8/hcaptcha_is_a_brick_wall_… https://old.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/frtaiv/cloudflare_has_swit… https://www.hcaptcha.com/ " hCaptcha is a way for every website in the world to create a new revenue stream from the work their visitors already do. Simply put, when website users prove their humanity via a captcha (to keep out bots and spam), website owners get paid. " " Lately there's a lot of concern over Google having significant power over us on the Internet. Remember the whole CCN fiasco from their tweak on their Algorithm? Well, reCAPTCHA is their product which is easy to set up, weak in security, and essentially helps them train their driverless cars AI for free. It's weak by design which allows for captcha solvers to beat them like 2captcha and DeathbyCaptcha. We're different, hCaptcha helps connect companies (usually AI) who are looking to get their Data labeled or more to sites that have visitors who solve the labeling for them. Of course this is not free for them, but it is free for anyone to implement on their Website to earn from visitors solving them! So we're essentially running on the HUMAN Protocol Engine, and we're going to be implementing a Token system called HMT, because it's much easier to handle Micropayments and using the Proof of Balance algorithm it allows labelers in the Data Exchange to prioritize their tasks. We've already got many sites up using our hCaptcha widget, and we're looking to ask the folks in r/Cryptocurrency on what you guys think, and if you have any questions. We recently set up our own Subreddit and feel it's necessary to get feedback from the Crypto community and hope to address any concerns! "

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Re: [liberationtech] COVID-19 (Update) U.S. Cellphone tracking
by grarpamp 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

>> https://news.trust.org/item/20200328130228-rzdk2/ > It is probably worth noting that the needed surveillance does not require > privacy violations. > In fact, better solutions have been available for a long time: > > https://cosmism.blogspot.com/2020/03/from-tracing-to-preemption.html Regarding trust, accuracy, liberty, etc of "delivered health certificates", users must have individual ability to assign trust levels to various testing organizations, such as via loading their pki/ca scheme in app. Various "government" and private tests are using many different assay and collection methods, these have already proven to have varying levels of false positive/negative, and may or may not have signed their cert over the holders phone serial number or simple face pic leading to fradulent presentation. Users may wish to select an accurate private test company, strong liberation, privacy preserving, etc... over some authoritarian government body that only gets 2 out of 3 test param right, does not test blood sample under full realtime custody of the user to monitor their own test and personally destroy after, welds your ass behind a steel door, etc. P2P proximity apps are interesting tools for these situations, but be very wary establishing granting slippery powers, forever databases, ID, tracking, etc to central "authorities" in the process. Also users don't really care as much to "record a [risky] contact forever", that is the old after the fact tracking database surveillance anti-privacy state apologist mindset. And, were it the sole operation mode, would be entirely useless/unsafe in the realtime moment. Users really just want to gauge "should I have some reasonable or particular interaction with this person right now at this moment". Of course there is always delay continuum from test, to disease acquisition, to spreading phase, to later discovery in later test, a window of risk. That operation mode would require a distributed social overlay network personal test repository to backcheck old contacts against, and mandatory time based contact record destruction falloff curve on each users device and or in the distributed net. Making both users contact history anonymous, and or ensuring privacy self destruct of contact falloff, is an implementation challenge. P2P proximity app could even offer other potential decision metrics to proximity peers, such as number of unique contacts over time, distance traveled, risky or evidencial places visited, degree-of-freedom depth to other pass/fails, ranking and voting on testing entity pki/ca levels of trust, etc. None of this requires any government exist power or intrusion at all. Good things can be recognized and achieved voluntarily. Last, beware the very potential disgusting impact of "social scoring" "caste enforcing" etc that even P2P schemes can enable and devolve into.

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Re: [tor-relays] Migrating to a new data center (Censored by Tor)
by grarpamp 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Regarding... https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-March/018243.html https://i.imgur.com/VG7pm3S.jpg Tor's censors did not let below truth through, cowardly let it expire quietly, while approving the others. " Your mail to 'tor-relays' with the subject Re: [tor-relays] Migrating to a new data center Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Post to moderated list Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/confirm/tor-relays/b96923aac26… " " Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:22:40 -0400 Message-ID: <CAD2Ti29AH=aBPdqRtBmDqEsEJzvM0iK6MK5RHt3sC6gy2tL1qQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Migrating to a new data center From: grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org > Where can you get the eff.org and Tor stickers that are under the USB > ports? NSA one too since truth is fun. "

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CopWatch: Talk to Cops Like a Cop - Reddit, Anarchast
by grarpamp 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Front page of Reddit today (with 11+ gildings)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55BFO9ZVaM https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/frleyb/guy_talks_to_a_cop_like_a_c… https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF7vSikMWThKp3Zhc2PdAmg/videos James Freeman on Anarchast a week before... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQXsHyDgRCA Anarchism rising? Activist Awarded $75,000 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxN8kUGMZFU

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PGP key
by Se7en 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

This is a message to confirm that my previous PGP key was compromised and should be considered compromised since its creation one week ago. I have made a new PGP key and have already uploaded the revokation of the old one, as well as the new one to the MIT Keyserver. I will begin to upload these keys to more servers to speed up its distribution. The revocation message explains in more detail. A Proof of Identity <https://freespeechextremist.com/notice/9tVhrbvPE0PLFrLBx2> -- |-----/ | Se7en / The One and Only! | se7en(a)cock.email / | 0x0F83F93882CF6116 / | https://se7en-site.neocities.org

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