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Stocks
‘Flash’ events hurt market liquidity for days: N.Y. Fed blog | Reuters http://ow.ly/R5K9F
Flash Boys Puts a Flashlight on Dark, Predatory HFT Trading | Dennis M. Kelleher http://ow.ly/R5Kou
The scariest reason China devalued the yuan, in one chart China employment market is showing strains http://ow.ly/R5Rnm
Ashley Madison
Notes on the Ashley-Madison dump http://ow.ly/R5SCf
https://twitter.com/rabite/status/633814926046416897
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– Are you a Californian worried about state deficit? Don’t worry, Ramon Hernandez of the CA FTB is looking for solutions on @adultfriendfind
.@Sidragon1 wouldn’t have to risk prison if FAA IT guys like Billy Enos found bugs instead of searching @adultfriendfind with state property
– Military legislative fellow Matt Daack used @ashleymadison to cheat on his wife with the House email he uses to evaluate classified data.
https://twitter.com/rabite/status/633813156641525761
-John Tokarczyk of the Attorney General’s office hard at work investigating potential sex partners on @ashleymadison
https://twitter.com/rabite/status/633814926046416897
From page 46 of the “How to Hack a Jeep” manual: masscan http://ow.ly/R5T6H
Hillary Emailgate
Hillary’s Secret Email @clintonemail.com culprits reg to Eric P. @eric_hothem, Teneo holdings http://ow.ly/R5WUf Douglas J. Band http://ow.ly/R5YLy
The Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillary’s Emails http://ow.ly/R5UsP
How the FBI Took Down the Botnet Designed to Be ‘Impossible’ to Take Down | Motherboard http://ow.ly/R5V5b
Hillary Clinton will hand over to the Justice Department the private email server http://ow.ly/R5WHF
The Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillary’s Emails “TOP SECRET // SI // TK // NOFORN”
Most seriously, the inspector general assessed that Clinton’s emails included information that was highly classified—yet mislabeled as unclassified. Worse, the information in question should have been classified up to the level of “TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN,” according to the inspector general’s report. http://ow.ly/R5VPv
For 3 months Hillary Clinton’s email was unencrypted, open to spies http://ow.ly/R5W6R
BITCOIN
Bitcoin at a crossroads: Bitcoin Foundation’s Andresen and Hearn propose Bitcoin XT – New York Business Journal http://ow.ly/R6bum
Money Laundering
Sons of Indicted Swiss Financial Adviser Keep Business in the Family
London is now the global money-laundering centre for the drug trade, says crime expert http://ow.ly/R6ugD
Cryptography
bcrypt There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files. This book is about the latter. — Preface to Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier
Tag: current-events
Outlaw Crush Videos
What is a crush video?
Crush videos, also known as squish or trampling videos, cater to fetishists who gain sexual gratification from watching women torture and kill small animals by stepping on them. Typically, those crushing will use their buttocks or feet, making this fetish popular amongst many foot fetishists, as crushing by feet is usually the main focus. The foot (barefoot or in shoes) is thus often idolized by someone with a crush fetish. With the explosive growth of peer-to-peer file sharing networks, the availability and production of crush videos is already increasing dramatically. Additionally, the increasing popularity of websites that thrive on displaying shocking and violent videos are putting more of these types of videos into the mainstream. “THE COVER UP”
Rep. Elton Gallegly, (R-Calif.) and Rep. James P. Moran (D-Va.), co-chairmen of the Animal Protection Caucus, wrote the law that would prohibit the interstate sale of images of animals being “intentionally crushed, burned, drowned or impaled” unless they have “religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historic or artistic value.” Violations would be punishable by up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $10,000 or both. The bill says the prohibition would not apply to hunting videos.
The justices threw out the criminal conviction of Robert Stevens of Pittsville, Va., who was sentenced to three years in prison for videos he made about pit bull fights.
The Supreme Court has struck down a federal law designed to stop the sale and marketing of videos showing dogfights and other acts of animal cruelty, saying it is an unconstitutional violation of free speech. This is the second time this year the high court has tossed out federal legislation on free speech grounds. The justices in January nullified parts of a sweeping campaign finance reform law, giving corporations, unions, and advocacy groups more power to bankroll federal elections.
No Kill Animal Shelters
US Dept of Commerce seeks comments on proposed export changes
The Wassenaar Arrangement (full name: The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies) is a multilateral export control regime (MECR) with 41 participating states including many former COMECON (Warsaw Pact) countries.
An FRN issued on 5/20/2015
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/05/20/2015-11642/wassenaar-arrangement-2013-plenary-agreements-implementation-intrusion-and-surveillance-items
describes a proposal by Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) for a license requirement for the export, reexport, or transfer (in-country) of systems, equipment or components specially designed for the generation, operation or delivery of, or communication with, intrusion software; software specially designed or modified for the development or production of such systems, equipment or components; software specially designed for the generation, operation or delivery of, or communication with, intrusion software; technology required for the development of intrusion software; Internet Protocol (IP) network communications surveillance systems or equipment and test, inspection, production equipment, specially designed components therefor, and development and production software and technology therefor.
The FRN notes that BIS is seeking information about the effect of this rule and would appreciate the submission of comments, and especially answers to the following questions:
1. How many additional license applications would your company be required to submit per year under the requirements of this proposed rule? If any, of those applications:
a. How many additional applications would be for products that are currently eligible for license exceptions?
b. How many additional applications would be for products that currently are classified EAR99?
2. How many deemed export, reexport or transfer (in-country) license applications would your company be required to submit per year under the requirements of this rule?
3. Would the rule have negative effects on your legitimate vulnerability research, audits, testing or screening and your company’s ability to protect your own or your client’s networks? If so, explain how.
4. How long would it take you to answer the questions in proposed paragraph (z) to Supplement No. 2 to part 748? Is this information you already have for your products?
* The ADDRESSES section of this proposed rule includes information about how to submit comments.
Italy new law passed get divorced in six months
History
Since the classic 1961 comedy “Divorce Italian Style” in which a Sicilian man played by Marcello Mastroianni desperately seeks a lover for his wife so he can catch them in the act, kill both in an “honor crime”, get a light prison sentence, and marry his younger cousin. Divorce did not become legal here until nine years after the Oscar-winning film. As a concession to the Church, the 1970 law imposed a mandatory five-year separation period intended to make couples reconsider. In 1987, this was reduced to three years.
Italy has slashed the time it takes to get a divorce to six months from three years in the latest sign of the Catholic Church’s waning influence over life and politics here.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/23/us-italy-divorce-idUSKBN0NE1JD20150423