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Researchers Have Found A Way To Bypass Face ID Using A Pair Of Glasses And Tape
by jim bell 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MYQyLJ2?s=a3&pd=02bR0aZz Researchers Have Found A Way To Bypass Face ID Using A Pair Of Glasses And Tape Ubergizmo However, despite how strong Face ID appears to be, it is not invulnerable. In a report from Threatpost, it seems that researchers from Tencent have managed to come up with what seems to be a possible way to bypass Face ID, and this can be done by using a pair of glasses and a tape. Shared from News Break

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Critical Infrastructure As Weapon: Kashmir Telecom Blackout
by grarpamp 10 Aug '19

10 Aug '19

https://www.totaltele.com/503591/Kashmirs-telecoms-blackout-When-critical-i… Kashmir Telecom Blackout When critical infrastructure becomes a weapon. Large parts of the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir were subjected to a total telecommunications blackout this week, as the Indian government passed new legislation to reduce the region’s political autonomy Kashmir’s mobile and fixed line telecoms networks fell silent this week, as the Indian government implemented a telecommunications blackout following escalating tensions in the troubled province. On Sunday evening, the Indian government cut telecommunication lines in the region, leaving Kashmiris without mobile phone or fixed line communication services. The move came as the Indian government announced that it would be revoking Article 370 – a special decree that gives Kashmir a greater degree of political autonomy than any other Indian state. In doing so, it has sparked huge unrest in the province and ramped up the already fractious dialogue between India and neighbouring Pakistan. Kashmir has been a flashpoint for separatist violence since India was granted full independence from British rule in 1947, with religious and ethnic tensions flaring between those who favour Indian, Pakistani and even independent rule. The current escalation in tensions shows how critical telecommunications infrastructure is to people's everyday lives. If you want to render a militant group or insurgency movement inert, the first thing you do is to shut down the region's mobile phone networks. It works - but in the process you are also grinding the day to day lives of your citizens to a halt and causing potentially life-threatening isolation. The situation in Kashmir raises so many questions: To what extent should the government be able to revoke access to connectivity? Have we reached a point where people are entitled to demand connectivity as a fundamental human right? When do the interests of national security trump the rights of millions of people? For everyday Kashmiris, the telecommunications blackout is having a profound effect on their ability to do business and provide basic services. Worse still, it is already affecting key services such as healthcare. “We are managing for now,” a senior hospital official in the region’s main city of Srinagar told journalists from Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-kashmir/second-day-of-telecoms-bla… adding that conditions were worsening. Shop keepers in the region also warned of imminent food shortages, unless the telecommunications blackout was lifted soon. “No provisions are left in my shop, and no fresh supplies are coming,” grocery store owner, Jehangir Ahmad, told Reuters. As the Indian government struggles to suppress the growing resentment on the streets of Kashmir, the State’s telecoms blackout could end up being a catalyst for dissent, as people rail against the disruption to their lives. Indian Telcos haemorrhaging money at a time when they can least afford it In addition to the bevvy of practical and philosophical questions the telecommunications blackout raises, there is also the very real question of who will be expected to bare the financial cost. Indian mobile network operators are already surviving on starvation rations, with the average ARPU for the industry hovering somewhere between $1.50. All this at a time when they are expected to be investing multiple billions of dollars in capex for their 5G networks, due to launch next year. A report in the Business Standard https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/telcos-to-lose-rs… said that the enforced blackout could end up costing Indian telcos as much as $40-$50 million per day in lost revenues (4-5 crore rupees). The report shows that Bharti Airtel stood to lose the most, with 5.64 million subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir. Next up was Reliance Jio with 3.31 million, whilst the newly merged Vodafone Idea had 1.34 million and state owned BNSL another 1.21 million. None of those operators will relish the prospect of having to reimburse customers for failing to provide services – especially given that the current situation is way beyond their control. As the crisis in Kashmir continues, civilians and MNOs alike will be hoping that critical telecoms services can be restored as soon as possible.

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Soon you will all have Huawei phones and live in Harmony, Capitalist Running Dogs
by Razer 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

"Huawei has rolled out its long-rumored Hongmeng operating system (OS), known as the HarmonyOS. The company says it can switch to the new system at any time, including on phones, if it is unable to use Android. The Chinese tech giant officially unveiled the new platform on Friday. The operating system can be used on various smart devices and will be launched on “smart screen products,” such as televisions, later this year. After the launch in China, the OS can become available on global markets, Huawei announced." More: https://www.rt.com/business/466133-huawei-launches-own-os/ Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Life Extension Research
by grarpamp 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/11/-sp-live-forever-extend-lif… https://newatlas.com/alkahest-young-blood-plasma-alzheimers-cognitive-decli… https://www.calicolabs.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetics_research_organizations https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/26/worlds-first-gene-edited-ba… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Genomics_Institute https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2012/10/China-Gene… The basic science and technology needed to start investigating large areas of the problem space has been coming online over the last decade or so. Another ten should start to see much larger research efforts and distributed througout the world. The same as it chooses to eat and stitch up its wounds to live, Humans are wired to forever seek fixes to death where it can. And it now knows that much much more lies beyond its former magic and methods of bronze age scalpels and space age nuclear radiation, that the entire field of bioscience and bioengineering is still completely unexplored, that any given year's brick walls therein are likely penetrable. Thus it will do so, more and more now, at speed.

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The Inconvenient Truth by Patrick Crusius, El Paso TX
by grarpamp 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

The_Inconvenient_Truth.pdf 7e1363f7757dbaa81b0be29cedfb854dbdd7c3559b1c5afa0e15d63402d39934 infohash:6E001863E93FE07D2EBA610930E59D8D72B00011 P._Crusius_-_Notification_Letter.pdf 7de586dfe57c3730dcdbdaa9657e6a1e843f26843e840985e8d7b70f50e3fd4e Quote or other error by media and politicals can be checked in original full doc (8chan's sha256 refs pasted above). https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2019/08/04/the-el-paso-shooting-an… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/search/manifesto/0/3/0

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Aldous Huxley - 1962 - The Ultimate Revolution
by grarpamp 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

On 8/8/19, Punk <punks(a)tfwno.gf> wrote: > your govcorp > leaders are working very hard to make the 'science fiction' from "Brave New > World" happen. It is, as a matter of fact, happening as we speak. You should > enjoy the achievments of your great industrial society =) > > Aldous Huxley - 1962 - The Ultimate Revolution. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEXs3RspWyU One of many commentaries from many fine commentators. How do you plan to get any of the enjoyers in society to realize and then do anything about the fiction being imparted upon them?

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Silicon Valley: Untrusted Computing [re: AMD Intel]
by grarpamp 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

On 8/8/19, Punk <punks(a)tfwno.gf> wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor > > see how much information wikipedia-NSA has on amd-NSA? One could make some > searches using google-NSA for "platform security processor" but I'm not > bothering. If anyone thinks that any commercially available CPU is trustworthy, they are wrong, there is ZERO trust. Wake On LAN (WoL) should have scared the shit out of you over 20 years ago... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN #OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenAudits Until you can walk in anon off the street and satisfy yourself as to what's in the CPU's you're buying off the line, you have ZERO reason to trust. Even your own favorite Government told you that over 35 years ago... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evaluation_Criteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Criteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing_base http://ts.data61.csiro.au/projects/seL4/ But you didn't listen, to that then, to this video over 12 years ago, or even to Snowden, or all the CPU exploits recently... http://archivecaslytosk.onion/Yeymq https://www.afr.com/p/technology/intel_chips_could_be_nsa_key_to_ymrhS1HS16… TG Daily: Secret military history of Silicon Valley gave rise to modern tech giants http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35695/113/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blank Steve Blank - The Secret History of Silicon Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSPHfZQpIQ Straight from the TOP SECRET NDA NSA man Steve Blank from Pine Gap (who, curiously, felt compelled to disclaim the talk as opensource to keep his Govt paycheck)... Spook Valley - How Stanford & the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today, by Steve Blank. How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place he/she works in - Silicon Valley? Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you - even seasoned Silicon Valley veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises. Steve Blank spent nearly 30 years as founder and executive of high tech companies in Silicon Valley, most recently the enterprise software firm E.piphany. He has been involved in or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups, ranging from semiconductors to video games, and personal computers to supercomputers. He teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Columbia University and Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering. Either start listening and start building and buying trust, or admit you're fucked (and been fucking owned), and give Juan a big hammer.

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My favorite White
by Steven Schear 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

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Re: Life Extension Research
by Michael Motes 08 Aug '19

08 Aug '19

Russia is way out ahead. See Kavinson's research, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tK-orGlHFDM

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Cryptocurrency: The Fed plans to create a system that would allow Americans to transfer money faster
by grarpamp 08 Aug '19

08 Aug '19

On 8/6/19, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MVbm5ZB?s=a3&pd=02bR0aZz > > The Fed plans to create a system that would allow Americans to transfer > money faster Ever notice how every Government and Corporation has been trying to make "their own amazing coin" for you, to FUD and to keep you hooked into using their silly Fiat system, even rebooting their old game you're already somewhat wary of... into something new shitcoin system that will take you decades to realize... so they can fuck you harder and faster in more new and wondrous ways in the interim. It's a trap !!! All of it! And being deployed out of their correct fear of losing out to true cryptocurrency which cannot be controlled by them. Cryptocurrency offers that which they simply cannot, your own control over your own p2p money, permissionless, no gatekeepers, no rulers, no lining their middleman pockets by abusing your deposits to make money on the backside.

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