INSURECTIONISTS
Organizers of Trump Rally Had Been on Campaign’s Payroll https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-22/trump-campaign-paid-organizers-of-pre-riot-rally-2-7-million
Capitol rioter charged with threatening to ‘assassinate’ New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Garret Miller Did it and said Trump told him to do it — just like all the rest of the “soldiers” that did what Hitler told them to do it too. they were only following orders.
“Fight for Trump”: Video Evidence of Incitement at the Capitol
ELITES
Birx wears $1000.00 dollar Hermes scarves,
Biden wears a Rolex. So What!
Republicans call them “Elites”
Republicans who say Elite are not talking about RICH PEOPLE when they use that word because they LOVE RICH PEOPLE and they only want to be rich people, what Republicans are talking about is “SMART” people they hate smart, educated people!! ELITE = SMART
Birx says there was no “full-time team” working on COVID response in Trump White House
SECURITY
Departing Trump lifts Global Magnitsky Sanctions against Dan Gertler 5 days before leaving office. These sanctions were one of the big success stories of the Global Magnitsky Act and lifting them a big setback for anti corruption campaigners.
Two men were arrested on Friday in Amsterdam for selling data from the Dutch government’s COVID-19 databases on private groups on Telegram, Snapchat and Wickr
HIPAA explained: definition, compliance, and violations
This landmark law imposes stringent privacy and security mandates on health care providers—and most of their IT vendors.
Chris Vickery
Break the feedback loop. You can’t stop the messaging from getting “in”, but you can strictly criminalize the act of measuring and reporting back the resulting effect that messaging has in your citizens as individuals and as a whole. Be transparent and emphatic about this. Sending “media metrics” and other measurement reports to foreign entities absolutely is, at this current point in time, *treason*. You need to make this clear. Incident response is not a profitable industry because responding to security incidents generates no easily discernible business profit. – Chris Vikery
— If your face is your password, every selfie you post is like giving away the md5 hash of your master passphrase.
I am getting more and more concerned about biometrics being used for authentication because credentials are still being stolen left, right and center. I can replace a user id and password, not so much a biometric. At minimum, facial recognition authentication systems should require an additional typed passphrase to act as a salt for the face image “hash”. Otherwise there is no real security gain in the end. You’re just teaching people to blindly trust flawed systems. The security provided by aspect #2 is decreased with every picture of you posted to the internet. Facial recognition is inherently flawed as an authentication method and is degrading daily in reliability. Peak facial has passed. #1 is roughly equal to relying on security through obscurity- meaning that it’s only a matter of time and technical knowledge before the capability to send such an attempt is had by widespread bad actor populations. Which means the only thing preventing a bad guy from authenticating as you with facial recognition is two things:
1. Can they send “attempted numbers” to the authentication system as if coming from your cam?
2. Can they guess a close-enough-resemblance number to trick the system? Think about it. Facial recognition systems turn an image into a number and then decide if that number is a close enough resemblance to the number it has been told to trust.
That’s it! No magic. That’s (basically) all there is to it.
“Remember to change faces regularly…”
At minimum, facial recognition authentication systems should require an additional typed passphrase to act as a salt …
For many years, Switzerland of all places had a secret agreement with China to allow Chinese agents to roam at will across Switzerland (and all Schengen states) at Swiss taxpayer expense to hunt down “irregular” Chinese immigrants. It has now been exposed.
https://www.global-geneva.com/the-switzerland-china-agreement-the-dangers-of-becoming-beijings-security-satellite/
Italy Starts Largest Mob Trial in Decades
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/world/europe/italy-mob-trial-Ndrangheta-Calabria.html
When Adobe Stopped Flash Content From Running It Also Stopped A Chinese Railroad
https://jalopnik.com/when-adobe-stopped-flash-content-from-running-it-also-s-1846109630
Austria, Germany, France to Ban Cloth Masks to Slow Spread of New Covid Strains
http://www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com/2021/01/austria-germany-france-to-ban-cloth-masks-to-slow-spread-of-new-covid-strains/