Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Newsletter
Governance
Rep. Cory Bush proposes observing the 1st anniversary of #January6th by passing a resolution calling for the expulsion of GOP members involved. Saying “..those who participated must be removed.” !!!!
#14thAmendmentSection3
Merrick Garland Sucks
@clairecmc getting straight to the point — “That’s where Merrick Garland is either going to rise to the occasion or go down in infamy as one of the worst attorney generals in this country’s history.”
Charlie Miller on Twitter: “This seems like an impossible task to me. The director of the NSA makes 197k a year (with no equity). Glassdoor says the AVERAGE appsec engineer at facebook makes 195k. How can you recruit elite talent in that market?”
% who say within their community, the pandemic has… via Pew
driven people apart: 47%
not made much difference: 39%
brought people together: 13%
Unite for Colorado bankrolled almost every major GOP effort last year
“The rise and fall of rationality After the year 1850, the use of words associated with fact-based (vs. emotional) arguments rose steadily in books and the @nytimes But the pattern reversed in the 1980s, and emotion-based arguments accelerated around 2007.
The U.S. has spent 100s of millions of $s on research aimed at predicting disease outbreaks. I wanted to know whether the hunting & sequencing of dangerous unknown viruses, funded in an effort to prevent a pandemic, could instead cause one.
Education
Public Broadband Internet Isn’t a Luxury — It’s a Necessity
Everybody needs high-speed internet. But private corporations will never provide it. The solution: treat internet infrastructure as a public utility, funded by the public and built by union workers.
In Pennsylvania, A Lawsuit Could Make Historic Changes To School Funding The end result has been a state with one of the worst funding gaps between wealthy and poor school districts. “The districts that need the most get the least.” If the plaintiffs achieve their goal to have the court “declare the current school funding system unconstitutional and order the defendants to create and maintain a school funding system that enables all students to meet standards,” that’s a change that cannot be implemented over night. But it would represent a major shift for school funding in Pennsylvania and a lifeline to some of the Commonwealth’s struggling districts.
Merry Everything, dammit! Movie Reviews
Content Bits: Motherland: Fort Salem, American Sicario, Apex, Zeros and Ones
On the first day of Christmas my malware gave to me share widely with security friends
Just for the record, when we recorded this “12 Days of Malware,” CVE-2021-44228 had not been disclosed yet.
Kills & Targets
A UAE agency put Pegasus spyware on phone of Jamal Khashoggi’s wife months before his murder, new forensics show. The new analysis challenges NSO claims that the murdered journalist’s wife, Hanan Elatr, ‘was not a target’
The conservative urge to be a victim: Why right-wing victimhood is spreading so fast
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1470218210268094464
The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse
and
https://www.ft.com/content/319e691a-9db1-46e6-b7ea-c899715756b4
Money
All Sound Recordings Prior to 1923 Will Enter the US Public Domain in 2022
“The NFT Bay” Claims to Share Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs *
@maxkeiser ETH, NFT’s, all shitcoins – are scams and only good for money laundering and stealing people’s #BTC
The Future Is Not Only Useless, It’s Expensive
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photo
of rush to retrieve gold from
Shanghai bank on eve of the
communist takeover in 1948
Bitcoin can hit $333K ‘parabolically’ if this BTC price fractal plays out
Falling Further Back – Statement on Chair Gensler’s Regulatory Agenda
Tiffany Hayden: As I’ve learned from @rohangrey, solvency isn’t what protects bank deposits, deposit insurance is.
Even if the FDIC goes bust, the federal gov is legally required to honor the FDIC’s obligations to depositors. Being backed by public authority is the guarantee that matters. $USDT
Top US regulators are calling for urgent legislation on stablecoins, proposing they should become “insured depository institutions” (read: banks), that wallets should get federal oversight and affiliation with commercial entities should be limited.
MIT DCI Collaborating With the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to Build a Hypothetical Digital Currency
Are Governments PRINTING MONEY to adopt Bitcoin?
0:00 Political Reactions to Bitcoin and the Bond Market
01:40 Nation States buying Bitcoin
03:30 Buying Bitcoin and Issue Currency to Buy More
05:00 Are Banks and Countries the Enemy of Bitcoin?
06:15 Predicting the Future of Bitcoin
09:00 Bitcoin is the winning Strategy
Richest 1% Took 38% of New Global Wealth Since 1995. The Bottom Half Got Just 2%
Brazil considering zero tax on renewable Bitcoin mining
A new database of banking-crisis interventions since the 13th century covers 1,886 interventions in 20 categories across 138 countries.
Banking-Crisis Interventions, 1257-2019
Andrew Metrick & Paul Schmelzing
https://www.nber.org/papers/w29281
“Ribbit Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Fortress, Draper Dragon could have invested in @telegram’s TON blockchain
MORE about the Perkins Family: COLONEL THOMAS HANDASYD PERKINS JR. a partner of Baring Brothers in London “Old Shipping Days in Boston” https://RichAsHell.com
11/28/19 Deutsche Bank exec who signed off on Trump loans commits suicide at age 55
Want to know how we got here and who is responsible? Study the 2000 presidential election, including the manufactured Brooks Brothers riot orchestrated by Roger Stone & others who have continued to undermine American democracy. by Jennifer Cohn
Suckers List
This is what companies like Chainalysis are doing all in the phoney name of “compliance.”
“We will data mine your customers financial records and you can claim it’s because the government made you do it because of Silk Road.”
How your financial data can & will be used against you. A rare glimpse into an insurance’s “personalized pricing” algo modeled by how much people (big spenders) are willing to pay before they switch insurance companies.
VCs fund apps for their profit not what would be best for people or a civil society. A16Zs investment record speaks for itself. #facebook #coinbase