Educational CyberPlayGround Inc NetHappenings 5-25-2020


Chinese media estimates 500,000 coronavirus
Chinese media estimates 500,000 coronavirus cases in Wuhan, quickly deletes news

China Propaganda – US and Taiwan cannot afford starting new game over Taiwan question: Global Times editorial

America’s 2020 Spunik’s moment
Hope this  helps get us up off our asses to do something for our own future.
Chinese Communist Party Adds Crypto to Curriculum

Who is Patoshi?
Patoshi is the dominant miner in early bitcoin. He can be more or less identified because btc was previously including a “blocks mined since start up” parameter (extraNonce) It’s not a sure thing that he’s Satoshi but it’s widely believed so.

Twitter Bitcoin Mentions Now Almost Exactly Mimic Market Cap Dominance. Tweets including Bitcoin are far ahead of altcoins, but there are major similarities between Twitter and market cap rankings.

Hong Kong is now run by China. Anyone doing any business through Hong Kong will never have a solid deal of any kind that they can count on. Jeffrey Ngo 敖卓軒 👷‍♂️🥽🌂🎒 on Twitter: “Thank you, @SenMarkey, for spotlighting misinformation about #HongKong on @facebook, which receives advertising payment from the Chinese propaganda machine, in your letter to Mark Zuckerberg. You are right that he shouldn’t facilitate Beijing’s “repressive actions.”

Do You Really Need College? 

Bay Area Parents Plead Guilty In College Admissions Scandal

Some Universities Are About to Be “Walking Dead”
America’s Caste System is alive and well. College is only meant for those who afford to spend a fortune that an Oligarch is  entitled to.
A “Degree” grandfathered in,  for their entitled position.
What is the word for this? oh yeah… moral something something?
An education costs $350,000.00  for what exactly?
People seeing those classes online thinking –  what I’m paying for?

The Rant: The College Implosion | NO MERCY, NO MALICE

A University President Responds to Those Who Have Suggested the School Should Dip Into the Endowment

Cambridge University moves all lectures online until summer 2021

Harry Potter removed from Tennessee Catholic school library

Second AASA COVID-19 Survey
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SECURITY

VOTE — Paper ballots are a war on electronic voter fraud and manipulation which we actually know happens since it’s demonstrated every year at DEFCON.

Dear Donald, thanks for all the money you spend on facebook – I made a fortune off you and whatever you want is fine by me. Your Facebook friend forever ~  Zuck  fatberg Criticizes Twitter For Fact-Checking Trump Tweets

Defying Trump, Twitter Doubles Down on Labeling Tweets THERE IS NOTHING HE CAN DO TO TWITTER OVER FACT CHECKS HIS LIES.
An excellent, relatively brief analysis of Trump’s executive order text attacking Section 230 and social media firms — and the First Amendment — from Daphne Keller of Stanford CIS
Appeals court rules in favor of Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter in anti-conservative bias suit

Confessions of a Professional Hacker: How Russian Hackers Compromised the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s son led Deutsche Bank as it loaned Trump over $1 billion

Making Money, Moving Money: The World’s Financial Services Exports

OLIGARCHY Facebook Fatberg

is now richer than Warren Buffett – makes me throw up a little

A company owned by Joel Zamel, an Israeli entrepreneur whose work has drawn the scrutiny of special counsel Robert Mueller, formed a strategic partnership with a data firm for President Donald Trump ’s campaign in a joint bid to win business from the U.S. government and other clients after the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the matter. The Psy-Group, one of Mr. Zamel’s firms, signed a memorandum of understanding with Cambridge Analytica LLC, a digital media firm that helped propel Mr. Trump to the presidency, these people said. Facebook Inc. in March suspended Cambridge over allegations that it improperly harvested the data of millions of Facebook users, accusations that in part led to the firm’s closure earlier this month.

Public access court electronic records.
All major news orgs need PACER beat reporters like they have for FOIA. The same could be said for New York’s eCourts system – absolutely brilliant amount of newsworthy material to be had for the finding. #FreePACER

The cop that killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck.

The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking

Microsoft listened to Skype calls with ‘no security’ to protect recordings

World’s fastest internet connection: Researchers say they hit 44.2 Tbps

Lea Kissner “Do you like end-to-end encryption? Do you want your videoconferencing which scales to 1000 participants to have E2EE? Here’s the design and roadmap for adding end-to-end encryption to Zoom meetings. For your delectation and public comment:
https://github.com/zoom/zoom-e2e-whitepaper

A Field Guide to zkSNARKs (Part I) : A Primer on Computation
The introduction of Bitcoin in 2009 turned more research attention towards generalized blockchains, and privacy issues lead in turn to seeking methods to make blockchains more private.

If you’ve been using #Zcash $ZEC to protect the anonymity of your cryptocurrency transactions, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have some bad news for you…

Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges” with pretty graphs

ShinyHunters is a hacking group on a data breach spree
Wired ($): A new hacking group on a selling spree. In the first two weeks of May alone, the group known as ShinyHunters have posted 200 million records from at least 13 companies on the dark web, including Home Chef and allegedly other companies like Zoosk. It’s the same group that allegedly stole 500GB of Microsoft source code from a private GitHub account. The group is following in the footsteps of a similar hacking group, known as GnosticPlayers, which stole data on dozens of companies last year.

New details have emerged on how Grayshift, a company that sells iPhone hacking technology to law enforcement, breaks into devices when it doesn’t have the user’s passcode. NBC says when Grayshift’s technology, known as GrayKey, can’t unlock an iPhone, there’s another option: a spyware app called Hide UI, which can capture a user’s device unlock passcode when it’s typed in. But cops said the passcode app is buggy and doesn’t always work.

How to jailbreak iOS 13.5 on a Windows machine using Unc0ver jailbreak [Video]

Bluetooth Impersonation Attacks, is the name for a new set of flaws in the Bluetooth standard that can allow an attacker to bypass Bluetooth’s authentication procedures that take place when a Bluetooth device starts a connection. An attacker can then impersonate a device and take control of, or siphon off, data from another device. A number of devices are vulnerable, including Apple MacBooks, iPhones, iPads, and a number of Lenovo and HP laptops.

Washington state rocked by coronavirus benefit fraud in ‘the hundreds of millions

Trump took his mask off bc he ‘didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it’
Here it is!

Corona Virus #100,000 DEAD

#Vacationers flocked to the Lake of Ozarks

“White House adviser Kevin Hassett: “Our human capital stock is ready to go back to work.” #HumanCapitalStock

GO Savanna Georgia!