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SECURITY
RIP Dan Kaminsky one of the nicest, kindest, fun, smartest hackers in the USA. Dan also held 1 of the keys that would along with 6 other people, could if the internet was killed, bring back the internet back to life!!!! He was loved.
The genius of the Internet is that nobody owns it.
“The 7 people who can shut down the internet. ICANN went a step further to not keeping these guys a secret from the world. They are Paul Kane (Great Britain) Dan Kaminsky (USA) Jiakang Yao (China) Moussa Guebre (Burkina Faso) Bevil Wooding (Trinidad and Tobago) Ondrez Suri (Czech Republic) Norm Ritchie (Canada)
https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/25/dan_kaminsky_obituary/
https://www.securityweek.com/security-researcher-dan-kaminsky-passes-away
Where the Internet Started DNS and only the good die young
John Postal, tld, iana, internic, IP INDEX NETWORK NUMBERS, NETWORK NAMES, AND IDENTITIES
The hero of this story turns out to be a little-known, quasi-private oversight group known as ICANN, which stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. It was founded in 1998 to take over an informal system that had been managed by an early Internet guru named Jon Postel, an eccentric computer-science professor at the University of Southern California.
The U.K. Spy Agency MI5 Has Joined Instagram. It’s Not for the Likes.
MI5’s new account is an effort to appeal to job applicants. It joins other intelligence agencies on social media, where results are anything but guaranteed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/world/europe/mi5-british-intelligence-instagram.html
#DELETEFACEBOOK How Facebook Failed To Prevent Stop The Steal
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-failed-stop-the-steal-insurrection
1/ Thread Cory Doctorow: “The wildest forensic stories are the ones where you pull at a loose thread and discover that you’ve got hold of a the tip of the tentacle of some kind of cthulhoid monster from the depths of hell. That’s the story of #Eliminalia, global fraudsters for hire.
FIAT MONEY
CEO Pay Does not Necessarily Line Up With Shareholder Interests, Even if it is in Stock Options
https://cepr.net/ceo-pay-does-not-necessarily-line-up-with-shareholder-interests-even-if-it-is-stock-options/
Bill Browder The U.K. has emerged as the money laundering capital of the world. The newly upgraded U.K. Magnitsky Act which includes corruption sanctions is sorely needed, but will only be effective if it’s aggressively applied to all the kleptocrats that stash their money here.
U.K. adds corruption sanctions to its Magnitsky Act, which brings it in line with the US and Canadian Magnitsky Acts and addresses the most pressing issue of kleptocracy worldwide. This has been a long time in the coming.
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2021-04-26/hcws936
Special Report-Giant U.S. landlords pursue evictions despite CDC ban
Marvia Robinson was dead tired from a week of overnight long-haul trips when she nosed her Greyhound bus into the station in deep predawn darkness. Still, the 63-year-old driver kept a friendly lilt in her voice as she said goodbye to the riders filing past her and stepping…
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/special-report-giant-us-landlords-pursue-evictions-despite-cdc-ban-2021-04-23/
Dean Baker – Tax Stock Returns: If Biden Really Wants to Close Corporate Income Tax Loopholes
https://braveneweurope.com/dean-baker-tax-stock-returns-if-biden-really-wants-to-close-corporate-income-tax-loopholes
Stronger unions could help fight income inequality – The Academic Times
https://academictimes.com/stronger-unions-could-help-fight-income-inequality
Thanks Jonathan A. Weiss – Delicious Icecream and Money Stampers
–Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield Co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s and diligent money stampers
Sources:
1. “Dozen Megadonors Gave $3.4 Billion, One in Every 13 Dollars, Since 2009,” The New York Times, April 20, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/153156
2. “House Democrats’ massive voting rights bill, explained,” Vox, March 3, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/150255
Threats by Scott Galloway No Mercy / No Malice
Below are the threats that I believe to be most present and not clear.
https://www.profgalloway.com/threats/
Bad software sent postal workers to jail, because no one wanted to admit it could be wrong – The Verge
DIGITAL ASSET CLASS
“You Make My Dreams” Daryl Hall
The genius of the Internet is that nobody owns it.
Wyoming is Turning Into the Delaware of Digital Assets
https://thedefiant.io/wyoming-is-turning-into-the-delaware-of-digital-assets/
Bitcoin OG is a State of Mind – Dr. Adam Back is a Bitcoin core developer, inventor of Proof of Work, and CEO/founder of Blockstream. His mission is to achieve security and privacy.
There is another point of view, Back capped the block size so that blockstream could exist and try to centralize bitcoin with the lightning network. Ironically the name of his company actually does what it says and blocks the stream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIkkqIJqyc
Adam Beck [… This could make gold parity in play for this cycle. at $500k BTC and gold continuing to bleed investors cycling into bitcoin ($585k today). If the current market tracked previous it’d peak mid-Sep 2021, with geometric mean about $500k, vs 2017 analog $300k and 2013 analog $800k. (@therationalroot has rebased graph at point of exceeding previous ATH, and then overlaid percentage increase since)…]
https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1386080787372679168
@therationalroot “#Bitcoin’s market cap is at 1T but it didn’t take a trillion to get there. People bought at prices as low as 1$. Market cap is a misleading and doesn’t represent real money invested. If we want to get to a market cap of 4T (half of gold) we obviously don’t need 3T of inflow.”
HEALTH
Covid-19: Countries are learning what others paid for vaccines
https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/372/bmj.n281.full.pdf
Dementia ‘linked’ to common over-the-counter drugs
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-30988643
#ForThePeopleAct
Hey there, a quick #selfcare tip from CREW: Take a deep breath, unclench your jaw, drop your shoulders and call your senators to tell them to get rid of the filibuster and pass the #ForThePeopleAct.
RETHUGLICANS
Did your members of Congress support American democracy when it needed it? Use this handy legislator search tool —->
https://accountability.gop/report-card/