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Facialized: By France Liberte de Alicem
by grarpamp 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/french-liberte-tested-by… France is poised to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital identity -- whether they want it or not. Saying it wants to make the state more efficient, President Emmanuel Macron's government is pushing through plans to roll out an ID program, dubbed Alicem, in November, earlier than an initial Christmas target. The country's data regulator says the program breaches the European rule of consent and a privacy group is challenging it in France's highest administrative court. It took a hacker just over an hour to break into a "secure" government messaging app this year, raising concerns about the state's security standards. None of that is deterring the French interior ministry. "The government wants to funnel people to use Alicem and facial recognition," said Martin Drago, a lawyer member of the privacy group La Quadrature du Net that filed the suit against the state. "We're heading into mass usage of facial recognition. (There's) little interest in the importance of consent and choice." The case, filed in July, won't suspend Alicem.

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iPhone charger hacking device developed by cybersecurity researcher
by jim bell 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MzB0h8z?s=a3&pd=02h1yVjC iPhone charger hacking device developed by cybersecurity researcher Mic A cybersecurity researcher has successfully found a means to mass produce an Apple iPhone charging cable lookalike that can allow a hacker to remotely access someone else's computer, reported Vice. When a victim uses the cable to connect a device to their computer — for everyday reasons like charging or transferring files — a hacker can jump onto the connection to gain access. Once the intruder has access to the computer, they can run commands and rummage through your data. Shared from News Break

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[change@e.change.org: Australian Assange Campaign: Please get involved see link for updates.]
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

Perhaps the campaign below will be useful. I hope. ----- Forwarded message from "Phillip Adams via Change.org" <change(a)e.change.org> ----- From: "Phillip Adams via Change.org" <change(a)e.change.org> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 04:15:15 +0000 Subject: Australian Assange Campaign: Please get involved see link for updates. Phillip Adams shared an update on <em>Free Julian Assange, before it's too late. Sign to STOP the USA Extradition</em> Check it out and leave a comment: Petition Update Australian Assange Campaign: Please get involved see link for updates. We are excited to announce that an Australian Assange Campaign has recently launched in Australia. The Campaign serves as a banner organisation in Australia to assist and support the coordination of efforts by individuals and organisations in raising awareness about Julian's plight and the cruel injustice of his situation. Led by Greg Barns, the team of experienced campaigners work with... https://click.e.change.org/f/a/jIi9EP5O8xE2TEZnwUA94Q~~/AANj1QA~/RgRfd_rTP4… ----- End forwarded message -----

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Traffic Filter Evasion: GoodByeDPI, Etc
by grarpamp 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI https://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/fragroute/ https://noxxi.de/research/http-evader.html https://github.com/bol-van/zapret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowsocks https://github.com/Yawning/obfs4 https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/snowflake.git/tree/READM…

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sample garbage from 'green' 'progressive' terrorists
by Punk 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

this is specially unhinged, enjoy : "As I have pointed out before (here and here), the inevitability of the climate catastrophe we now face was predicted with absolute precision – almost to the week – by scientists working for the fossil fuel industry back in the early 1980s." "inevitability of the climate catastrophe we now face" good!!! - so the surveillance state is finished. "was predicted with absolute precision – almost to the week – by scientists working for the fossil fuel industry" that line is so unhinged...it's almost impossible =) - Is the turd talking about 'scientists' or maybe is he talking about 'god' itself? Climate 'change' was 'predicted' with 'absolute precision' more that 30 years ago? Wow. source : https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/01/greta-thunberg-the-consolation-of-dou… I once foolishly thought consortiumnews was kinda decent...fuckinly stupid on my part.

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US DNA Collection from Children, Asylum, Citizens - Motorola Spy Rampant - WiFi Spy Walls
by grarpamp 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

https://techxplore.com/news/2019-10-method-enables-person-walls-candidate.h… https://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~ymostofi/papers/MobiCom19_KoranyKaranamCaiMostofi… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/us/dna-testing-immigrants.html https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-bill/1606 The Trump administration is moving to begin collecting DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people The new rules would allow the government to collect DNA from children, as well as those who seek asylum at legal ports of entry and have not broken the law. They warned that United States citizens, who are sometimes accidentally booked into immigration custody, could also be forced to hand over their private genetic information. And unlike the testing under the pilot program, the results would be shared with other law enforcement agencies. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/motorola-company-known-cellphones-fast… The surveillance tools have been installed in schools and public housing, deployed on roads and public transit, and worn by police officers. They've been developed by an array of technology firms competing for government business. And many are now owned by a company seeking to grab a bigger piece of a booming market. Motorola, a brand typically associated with cellphones and police radios, has joined the race among tech firms to deliver new ways of monitoring the public. Since 2017, the Chicago-based tech company -- now known as Motorola Solutions, after Motorola spun off its mobile phone business -- has invested $1.7 billion to support or acquire companies that build police body cameras; train cameras to spot certain faces or behavior; sift through video for suspicious people; and track the movement of cars by their license plates. By consolidating these tools within a single corporation, and potentially combining them into a single product, Motorola Solutions is boosting its stature in the surveillance industry -- and amplifying concerns about the government's growing power to watch people almost anywhere they go. "Your privacy is more protected when information about you is scattered among agencies and entities. When all that is unified under one roof, that sharpens the privacy issues," said Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst for the American Civil Liberties Union, where he researches technology's impact on privacy. "I don't know exactly what kind of synergies a company like Motorola Solutions might get from assembling all these pieces, but in general it's a scary prospect."

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Un-Civil Unrest in Iraq and it's Intertubz go DOWN
by Razer 03 Oct '19

03 Oct '19

"Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory show that Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and other social and messaging apps have been blocked in Iraq by multiple internet providers as of 12:30 UTC, Wednesday 2 October 2019. The restrictions come just as hundreds have been reported wounded as police fire tear gas, bullets at protesters. Technical measurements show that each of the services have been intentionally restricted by leading Iraqi network operators including Earthlink, Asiacell and Zain in a manner consistent with previous incidents of censorship in the country. Findings are based on a set of technical measurements from across the country assessing reachability and network performance. Update: Internet access has been cut across much of Iraq including Baghdad as of 17:00 UTC, following the earlier blocking of social media platforms. NetBlocks diffscan measurements which map the IP space of a country show significant impact across multiple providers. Nationwide connectivity has fallen below 70% and outages continue to spread: Update: As of 19:30 UTC Iraq has gone largely offline amid widening mass-protests, with the situation on the ground unclear due to blackouts. Real-time network data show approximately 75% of the country including Baghdad is now offline, excluding autonomous regions which operate their own networks: Instances of network filtering and outages present a significant challenge to media freedom and the rights to free assembly and free association in Iraq. Why are Iraqis protesting? Demonstrators are out on the streets over unemployment, corruption and poor public services, focused in capital Baghdad but also impacting other cities around Iraq. The protests have escalated after police opened fire in the air as some 3,000 protesters tried to cross a bridge leading into Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, where government buildings and foreign embassies are based. Is the internet down in Iraq? Yes, largely. Restrictions were initially limited to specific online platforms and at first there was no sign of a wider nationwide internet blackout. However total outages began from 17:00 UTC, and by 19:30 UTC much of Iraq fell offline (see updates, above). Geographic impact covers Iraq’s centrally administered cities including Baghdad, while independent zones such as the Kurdish northern cities are governed under a different system unaffected by the restrictions. Iraq has previously extended social media disruptions to total shutdowns, hence the situation has been considered volatile by the observatory from its onset. On Wednesday afternoon, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger remained partially usable via mobile phones on some of the affected networks for some time. This is due to circumvention measures and alternative messaging protocols built into recent versions of the mobile apps. In such cases service quality and performance of media, photo and video transfers are generally degraded. Background NetBlocks has previously identified the total blocking of internet access as well as partial restrictions affecting social media platforms through recent years. Civil society group SMEX has campaigned for rights-based internet governance in the region." https://netblocks.org/reports/iraq-blocks-facebook-twitter-whatsapp-and-ins… Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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The Daily Beast: Smart Cities Like NYC Are Creating a Mass Surveillance Nightmare
by jim bell 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

The Daily Beast: Smart Cities Like NYC Are Creating a Mass Surveillance Nightmare. https://www.thedailybeast.com/smart-cities-are-creating-a-mass-surveillance… Notice it is the Left that does this.Excellent market for metal-foil card holders.

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WIRED: Decades-Old Code Is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk
by jim bell 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

WIRED: Decades-Old Code Is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk. https://www.wired.com/story/urgent-11-ipnet-vulnerable-devices

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Crypto Secession, Strife, Change: One's Terrist, Another's Principled Freedom Fighter
by grarpamp 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

https://www.voanews.com/usa/white-supremacists-lead-new-wave-foreign-fighte… "I've heard these guys tell me, you know, I don't care if the guy next to me is from another nationality,” “He has a similar methodology and ideology and I'm glad he's going to share a trench with me.” "Some European countries, like the Netherlands, have expressed hope that the same laws they put in place to track and crack down on [freedom lovers going to join freedom groups in wherever] will allow them to do the same with [freedom] fighters." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49874969 https://freestateproject.org/ https://bitcoin.org/ Consider the similarities, the news media / politician mentions... Observe historical parallels in and applied to models, actions, reactions, labels definitions thrown against, vilification rooting out of even the most passive of Voluntary actions to live freely associate, create and choose, etc. Shall it not [or not be intended to be] extended to... CryptoLibertarians to be droned out of their terror caves for speaking freely and living their V-NAP lives and communities together.

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