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Opensource Chef SW Co $upports Govt Thugs [re: HESSLA License]
by grarpamp 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

https://www.zdnet.com/article/developer-takes-down-ruby-library-after-he-fi… https://twitter.com/shanley/status/1173692656192385024 https://www.usaspending.gov/#/award/85073015 https://github.com/sethvargo/chef-sugar A software engineer pulled a personal project down after he found out that one of the companies using it had recently signed a contract with the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The engineer, Seth Vargo, cited the ICE's "inhumane treatment, denial of basic human rights, and detaining children in cages," as the reason for taking down his library. The project was called Chef Sugar, a Ruby library for simplifying work with Chef, a platform for configuration management. Varga developed and open-sourced the library while he worked at Chef, and the library was later integrated into Chef's source code. Earlier this week, a Twitter user discovered that Chef was selling $95,000-worth of licenses through a government contractor to the ICE. The news didn't go well with Vargo, who, yesterday, September 19, took down the Chef Sugar library from both GitHub and RubyGems, the main Ruby package repository, in a sign of protest. "I have a moral and ethical obligation to prevent my source from being used for evil," Vargo wrote on the now-empty Chef Sugar GitHub repository. Vargo's actions didn't go unnoticed, and in a blog post published later in the day, Chef Software CEO Barry Crist said the incident impacted "production systems for a number of our customers." The Chef team fixed the issue by scouring some of the older Chef Sugar source code and re-uploading it on their own GitHub account. Following public criticism of the contract, Chef Software CEO Barry Crist responded by saying the company had been a long-time ICE collaborator for years, since the previous administration, long before ICE became the hated agency it is today. "While I understand that many of you and many of our community members would prefer we had no business relationship with DHS-ICE, I have made a principled decision, with the support of the Chef executive team, to work with the institutions of our government, regardless of whether or not we personally agree with their various policies," Crist said. "I want to be clear that this decision is not about contract value - it is about maintaining a consistent and fair business approach in these volatile times. I do not believe that it is appropriate, practical, or within our mission to examine specific government projects with the purpose of selecting which U.S. agencies we should or should not do business," Crist added.

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Surveillance Databasing Dossier - Rambam HOPE, SurvCamMan, Top Spy Cities Corps Feds
by grarpamp 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

Surveillance Camera Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP5ZVPwP7bg Too bad he doesn't use it to engage in actual conversations on privacy, starting with the other cams visible in some of the scenes https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=surveillance+camera+man Rambam Privacy, Anonymity, and Individuality The Final Battle Begins HQ - HOPE XI 2016 https://youtube.com/watch?v=FHwl6AyL6js http://www.adsavvy.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/watchful_eyes.jpg http://www.adsavvy.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/creepcamz.jpg https://www.wired.co.uk/article/surveillance-technology-biometrics https://www.comparitech.com/vpn-privacy/the-worlds-most-surveilled-cities/ https://technology.ihs.com/583114/north-american-security-camera-installed-… https://www.eff.org/press/releases/new-report-finds-border-communities-inun… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/americans-deserve-their-day-court-abo… https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/data-privacy-fbi.html https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/facebooks-dating-service-full-red-fla… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/five-concerns-about-amazon-rings-deal… https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-dhs-uncover-information-about-b… http://usatoday.com/story/money/2018/11/09/americans-more-concerned-data-pr… https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/equifax-consumer-trust-after-b… https://www.muckrock.com/foi/atlanta-325/2018-vigilant-data-sharing-informa… https://www.banfacialrecognition.com/map/ https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/co… https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/09/ecuador-allanamiento-violent…

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Ars Technica: Medicine show: Crown Sterling demos 256-bit RSA key-cracking at private event
by jim bell 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

Ars Technica: Medicine show: Crown Sterling demos 256-bit RSA key-cracking at private event. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/medicine-show-crown-… Jim Bell's comment:. Are they talking about a 256 bit key, or a 512 bit composite key ?

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Google Says It's Achieved Quantum Supremacy, a World-First: Report
by jim bell 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

https://gizmodo.com/google-says-its-achieved-quantum-supremacy-a-world-fir-…

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snowflake's lies
by Punk 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

and by snowflake I mean edward snowden 'ex' agent of the child murdering americunt empire. snowflake vomited : "This layering method is called onion routing, which gives Tor its name: it’s The Onion Router. The classified joke was that trying to surveil the Tor network makes spies want to cry. Therein lies the project’s irony: here was a US military–developed technology that made cyberintelligence simultaneously harder and easier, applying hacker know-how to protect the anonymity of IC officers, but only at the price of granting that same anonymity to adversaries and to average users across the globe." so according to this little piece of lying shit, tor 'grants' the same anonimity to the NSA and to ross ulbricht, or any other ppl who are now in jail(or dead) thanks to tor. it's amazing that the little piece of snowden shit never heard about tor's 'global adversaries'....despite the fact that his 'job' was being THE 'global adversary' "In this sense, Tor was even more neutral than Switzerland." hilarious "For me personally, Tor was a life changer" wow listen to brother snowflake's testimony! he accepted tor as his personal saviour! That's why the asshole is now exiled in russia. Tor didn't again work too well eh.

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Making Sense of Julian Assange's Dilemma
by Razer 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

> "It makes absolutely no sense that the Australian government would stand by as one of its own is imprisoned and tortured for conducting journalism when it rushes to defend its citizens from other governments, unless you think of Australia as part of a single US-centralized empire, in which case it makes perfect sense. > It makes absolutely no sense that the UK would spend £16 million patrolling the Ecuadorian embassy to enforce a bogus and petty bail charge until it could drag him out kicking and screaming in coordination with the Ecuadorian government in its termination of his political asylum, unless you think of the UK as part of a single US-centralized empire, in which case it makes perfect sense. > It makes absolutely no sense that Sweden would sharply diverge from all its standard legal protocols for everything from testimony to hearings to InterPol Red Notices to extradition proceedings over completely unproven and plot hole-riddled allegations of sexual misconduct, unless you think of Sweden as part of a single US-centralized empire, in which case it makes perfect sense. > It makes no sense that Ecuador would suddenly begin acting like it’s gravely concerned about cat hygiene and skateboarding after the very serious reasons it gave for granting Assange political asylum in the first place, unless you think of Ecuador as part of a single US-centralized empire, in which case it makes perfect sense. > If you think of Australia, America, the UK, Sweden and Ecuador as separate, sovereign nations, then it looks like a very strange coincidence indeed that they would have all been pursuing agendas at the exact same time in a way that just so happened to result in Assange locked in solitary confinement awaiting US extradition. > If, however, you think of them all as a single entity, then it doesn’t look like a coincidence at all: it looks like a single empire imprisoning a journalist for exposing inconvenient truths." https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/novelty-joke-pm-from-fake-country-meets-… Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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LLVM 9 Switches to a Less Free License
by grarpamp 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21018675 https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/misc/license.template?rev=HEAD https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/112300.html https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/release/8.x/clang/LICENSE.TXT https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/release/9.x/clang/LICENSE.TXT

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Adam Lamo
by jim bell 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

The final days of the mysterious hacker who turned in Chelsea Manning https://mol.im/a/7486401 via http://dailym.ai/android

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Collapse: Bird Population 30++% Killoff Since Industrial Age
by grarpamp 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/09/19/north-america-has-lost-bi…

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FBI secret subpoenas.
by jim bell 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

The FBI got secret subpoenas for personal data, raising privacy flags https://mol.im/a/7486407 via http://dailym.ai/android Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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