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States Storing And Selling Your DNA At Birth Without Explicit Notice Consent (TBA: Hospitals Doctors Testlabs Too)
by grarpamp 14 Nov '15

14 Nov '15

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/11/09/dna-data-from-california-newbor… http://slashdot.org/~DavidPoole (KPIX 5) — This might come as a surprise to California natives in their 20s and early 30s: The state owns your DNA. Every year about four million newborns in the U.S. get a heel prick at birth, Danielle Gatto ... was shocked to find, her daughters’ leftover blood was not thrown away. “The state collects the cards and then uses them in a database,” she said. Turns out a non-descript office building in Richmond contains the DNA of every person born in California since 1983. Law enforcement can request them. Private companies can buy them to do research – without your consent. “Everybody has a right to make an informed decision. That is not for the state to decide for them,” said Gatto. The CDPH turned down a request for an interview and wouldn’t explain why it doesn’t ask permission to sell babies’ blood spots. Yaniv Erlich with Columbia University and the New York Genome Center ... demonstrated how easy it is to take anonymized DNA, cross-reference it with online data and connect it to a name. “You need to have some training in genetics, but once you have that kind of training the attack is not very complicated to conduct,” But Gatto thinks the state should have to at least ask her consent before storing and selling her daughters’ DNA. “We are at the beginning of a frontier of so much genetic research, there is no knowing at this point in time what that info could be used for,” said Gatto. ‘The worst thing as a parent is to think that a decision that you are making today may negatively affect your children down the road.” Gatto's husband – state Assemblyman Mike Gatto – introduced a bill this year that would have required signed consent... Opposition from the state and the industry killed it.

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the nature of government
by juan 14 Nov '15

14 Nov '15

http://kissasian.com/Drama/On-the-Job Of course, phillippines is not a first world country and the people who live there are brown. Politics are radically different in the first, white world, ruled by moses and the rule of law.

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Black woman who grew up under segregation and in absolute poverty, must receive diversity training
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Nov '15

14 Nov '15

It just get's better: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260759/angry-white-leftists-target-black-co… Bring it on! SJWs, eat your heart out! Evidently human rights, and "social justice", are not quite the same thing...

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Free speech advocates vs Crybullys
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Nov '15

14 Nov '15

Thankfully, there seems to be some contention, discord and potential police involvement, various resignations have already occurred, so such turmoil, around allegations of free speech and violations of free speech, portends well in my book. Bring it on! Great to see fights around the right to, and limits of, freedom of speech. Free speech advocates may be required "to go through the Disciplinary Process if a formal complaint is filed, and that they will be required to attend extensive training for racial and cultural competency" : "Amherst Crybullies Demand Punishment for Student Who Put Up Free Speech Poster" http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260779/amherst-crybullies-demand-punishme…

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Re: [tor-talk] Bear Bonds - a new cryptocurrency that uses Tor
by grarpamp 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:52 PM, <allen(a)bearbonds.org> wrote: > I'm involved in a project to create a new cryptocurrency called Bear > Bonds(TM). > > One of the notable features for the Tor community is that all communication > is via Tor using Tor hidden services. This includes communication between > users and the network, and all communication between network nodes. Tor is > used for both privacy and security. In particular, since the users are > anonymized, it prevents a node on the network from attempting to send > targeting information to a certain user or group of users. > > If Bear Bonds is successful, we of course plan to give extensive support > back to the Tor community. > > We have a whitepaper, technical documentation and a technology preview > software release on our website at https://www.bearbonds.org. The code is > over 80% complete and we are working to finish it as quickly as possible. > > Please feel free read the documentation and try out the wallet simulation > script. We welcome any comments and questions. > > Thank you, > > Allen > http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2015-November/027092.html An admittedly very brief reading, site verbage, including trademark, patent and copyright claims leaves question as to commitment to fully decentralized p2p model and opensource. If true, you might find quite limited interest here and more interest by banks, govts, and commercial. If untrue and misread, please address. And details on "directory servers", "witnesses", "trusted party transaction servers". What is your .onion? What networks besides Tor do you have as pluggable (or even multihome) options for when Tor is or becomes incapacitated or unreachable or users simply prefer other?

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UK To Ban Crypto In Devices, Email And More
by grarpamp 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11970391/Interne… Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new laws 3:16PM GMT 02 Nov 2015 Internet and social media companies will be banned from putting customer communications beyond their own reach under new laws to be unveiled on Wednesday. Companies such as Apple, Google and others will no longer be able to offer encryption so advanced that even they cannot decipher it when asked to, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. Measures in the Investigatory Powers Bill will place in law a requirement on tech firms and service providers to be able to provide unencrypted communications to the police or spy agencies if requested through a warrant.

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Cpunk Propaganda To Reach The Sheeple [New functionality of Facebook]
by grarpamp 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net> wrote: > There's a lot to dislike about The Facebook, but I do my best to > assure that my participation causes more harm to the opposition > team than to my own interests. They do get a constantly updated > map of a big chunk of my real-world social network, and that kind > of collection used to cost money and deplete finite resources > dammit. But then, so did reaching a receptive audience with > anarchist propaganda and commentary, so, I figure it for a > break-even proposition. Everyone bitches about having a hard time reaching the sheeple, from their tech lab in the basement that is. So similar above, to reach them you have to go to them, to their boring online "forums" and facebooks, the ones about football, beer, trucks, sewing, baby raising, cooking, etc... just start posting links to news stories you want them to see... all automated from the comfort of your basement.

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Call William Binney's Friend...
by grarpamp 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

http://hop3.de/text_en.html Telephone: +49 174 276 6483 This mobile phone was used to call the personal number of William Binney, a former technical director of the U.S. National Security Agency who quit in protest in 2001 and later became one of the first whistleblowers on illegal NSA programmes. He must be considered to be what the intelligence agencies call “cast iron” – an internal term to identify targets that are so important that every bit of data personally connected to them has to be recorded and saved forever. ... By calling this phone from your own device... Do you really want to live a life where you shy away from completely normal, legal things, like calling a mobile phone? https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2015-September/009104.html Telephone: +9647705648252

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Fwd: 2 WikiLeaks questions
by Ryan Carboni 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ryan Carboni <ryacko(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:15 AM Subject: Re: 2 WikiLeaks questions To: dal(a)riseup.net Woah, woah, woah. Back up. The Palestinians started this whole mess by trying to kick the Jews out in the 1947 civil war, while there were Jewish attacks on British institutions, the Arabs committed the bulk of the violence. The only feasible peace process is for the Palestinians to integrate into the Israeli community, which is impossible because any moves towards a peace process will get you assassinated in the Middle East (Sadat, Rabin). Furthermore, wikileaks made it too obvious that they were pawns of Russian intelligence, they post a form letter from McCain to the Russian Ambassador asking for donations? They cavort with a Russian lawyer? If you behave as an enemy to US interests, US interests will treat you the same (and if you read the Rancid Honeytrap, you'll be surprised at the extent of US penetration into US society). Wikileaks should have towed a strict moralistic line making it clear they should not receive an appropriate response. It's too bad the US intelligence community insults their own employees intelligence. The only reason why they don't want leaks is because once something is leaked, it becomes OSINT, not HUMINT. And HUMINT gets expensive, and the last thing you want is explain to an intelligence committee why Botswana is equally effective at intelligence as you. But if they advertise to their employees that being loyal is a pointless endeavor, that'll just drive down the price of espionage. It's really a silly thing. Ultimately, if wikileaks wanted to enact positive change, as opposed to behaving like narcissistic morons, well, it's too late for that. But obviously don't stick your penis into a white woman who's anti-Castro. Young white people don't give a damn about Castro. Only the CIA cares about Castro. Wikileaks got what it deserved.

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TV ad tracking-thru-secret-inaudible-noise program is named... wait for it... PRISM!
by Razer 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

...and you thought you were only being stalked in the intertubz... SilverPush Prism and "Unique Audio Beacon" http://www.silverpush.co/#!/prism http://www.silverpush.co/#!/uab

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