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ECP NetHappenings News Headlines 9-13-23

Sue the F’ckers into bankruptcy

ALL FIVE NEW YORK CITY EMPLOYEE PENSION FUNDS filed a shareholder lawsuit Wednesday against Fox Corporation for breach of fiduciary duty. The complaint alleges that the board knew that Fox News’ promotion of political falsehoods created defamation risk. NYC funds own more than $27 million worth of Fox shares.
“NYC Pension Funds Sue Fox for Neglect Over Election Lies”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nyc-pension-funds-sue-fox-news-for-neglect-over-election-lies

#HEALTH

#StaySafe #VaccinesWork
The CDC recommends the new #COVID19 vaccine booster for everyone 6 months and up.
Two immunologists answer some common questions, like the right time to get your shot and what’s known about protection for the latest subvariants.

#SECURITY

CEO calls for more unemployment to give companies upper hand over workers.

When The Rich Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them
The capitalist who just told the world that capitalism requires hurting workers
https://spore.social/@joshuaphilll/111058128671464015

Yesterday, at a “property summit,” millionaire property developer Tim Gurner was caught on camera saying something extremely revealing. Well, he wasn’t caught. He sat on stage talking into a microphone. He said that since the start of the pandemic there has been a shift towards more worker empowerment, and even arrogance. And he wants bosses and governments to end that, expeditiously. In fact he thinks, “We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy.”

How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products

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“A far-right figure who is involved in a secretive invitation-only fraternal organization, whose founder has spoken of being at war with the US government, is also part-owner of an ammunition company that has contracts with the federal government and law enforcement, the Guardian can reveal.” Nathaniel Fischer – a venture capitalist, former Claremont Institute fellow and president of the Dallas lodge of the secretive Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) – is also part-owner of Texas-based ammunition manufacturer S1 Armory, which trades as Stand 1 Armory.

Breakup these Monopolies
Get Rid of these LEECHES

Tech giants hold huge sway in matters of war, life and death. That should concern us all

CEOs of Anthropic, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir and X. The guest list also includes Bill Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, and Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, along with leading officials from the entertainment industry, civil rights groups and labor organizations.
Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are meeting in Washington to discuss future AI regulations
Musk was seated at the opposite end of the room from Zuckerberg, in what is likely the first time that the two men have shared a room since they began challenging each other to a cage fight months ago.

F #ELON he is a traitor

  1. “Leaders Ignored Warning Signs That Musk Would Help Putin“
  2. Elon Musk, SpaceX Probes Demanded by Elizabeth Warren After Ukraine Revelations Elon Musk is a lesson in the dangers of unchecked corporate leader
  3. Musk “may have jeopardized data privacy and security” at X, DOJ says
  4. Elon Musk on X: “@TheRabbitHole84 There seems to be an innate need for religion. Many atheists simply adopt another belief system (eg wokeness) that is essentially a religion.” / X
  5. Elon Musk Frantically Moved Twitter Servers Himself, Eventually Realized His Mistake “In retrospect, the whole Sacramento shutdown was a mistake.” Musk’s wildly unconventional management style and, ultimately, his flair for extraordinary and sometimes self-destructive hubris. Instead of waiting for an orderly process to be put together, though, Musk decided to hastily move the servers with a motley crew consisting of himself, his cousins, a smattering of Tesla and SpaceX staff, and a moving company whose staff wanted to be paid in cash. Musk was so impatient that at one point he shimmied himself under a server floor and used a pen knife to open up an electrical cabinet in order to unplug the server.
  6. Watchdog accuses X again of not moderating hate speech
  7. Elon Musk Says He Has to Sue Jewish Anti-Hate Group to Prove He’s Not Antisemitic “Oh the irony!”
  8. Elon Musk Is Apparently Making the US Government Quite Nervous
    “Living in the world we live in, in which Elon runs this company and it is a private business under his control, we are living off his good graces.”
  9. “The U.S. Government Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars“
  10. Elon Musk is a lesson in the dangers of unchecked corporate leaders
  11. It Turns Out Facebook Also Owns a Trademark to “X,” Specifically for Social Media “There’s a 100 percent chance that Twitter is going to get sued over this by somebody.”
  12. “There seems to be an innate need for religion. Many atheists simply adopt another belief system (eg wokeness) that is essentially a religion.” ~ Elon Musk
  13. VLADIMIR PUTIN DECLARES HIS LOVE FOR ELON MUSK
    VLAD AND ELON 4-EVA.
  14. What Russia Got by Scaring Elon Musk
    The billionaire isn’t the only one who’s been frightened into holding back help for Ukraine.
  15. The PRC is infiltrating social media to sway popular opinion. Time to avoid getting news and info from mainstream media, including Facebook and Twitter/X.
    Meta: Pro-Chinese influence operation was the largest in history
    Meta researchers said the operation relied on thousands of accounts to spread pro-Chinese messages and attack critics of Beijing. Meta said on Tuesday that the company has taken down what officials at the firm describe as the largest ever “cross-platform covert influence operation in the world,” which featured thousands of accounts pushing pro-Chinese messages across Facebook, Instagram and other online platforms.
  16. Book reveals Elon Musk‘s secret deal with Jack DorseyWere Dorsey to ever need money, Musk would buy back his Twitter shares at the original takeover price of $54.20 per share. In other words, $22 billion became Dorsey’s valuation floor. Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social, the Decentralized Twitter-Killer. https://blueskyweb.xyz/
    Grimes reveals that Musk took a photo of her while she was having a C-section for their baby X Æ A-Xii and circulated it without her consent. The former couple have a third child named Techno Machanicus.  Shivon Zilis, an executive at his company Neuralink, bore Musk’s twins in 2021 after Musk wanted to be her sperm donor so that “the kids would be genetically his.”

Terry Kanefield  – I’ll try again to respond to this politico piece:
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/12/trump-doj-assist-biden-impeachment-probe-00115393

– First, some background.
The House issued a subpoena to Donald Trump in 2019 in as part of the first Impeachment inquiry.
Trump and his advisors made up a rule: The committee could not subpoena him without a full house vote.
Pelosi said that was nonsense. No full house vote was needed before the committee could issue subpoenas.
Pelosi, of course, was right. . .

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TECHNOLOGY

Alert: New Kubernetes Vulnerabilities Enable Remote Attacks on Windows Endpoints
Three interrelated high-severity security flaws discovered in Kubernetes could be exploited to achieve remote code execution with elevated privileges on Windows endpoints within a cluster.
The issues, tracked as CVE-2023-3676, CVE-2023-3893, and CVE-2023-3955, carry CVSS scores of 8.8 and impact all Kubernetes environments with Windows nodes. Fixes for the vulnerabilities were released on August 23, 2023, following responsible disclosure by Akamai on July 13, 2023.

JFC it works, this is not a joke
CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+WINDOWS+L opens up Linkedin your default browser

#MONEY

Interesting Read Charles Schwab’s 2023 Modern Wealth Survey. Jun 16, 2023
Americans consider a net worth of at least $2.2Million to be rich.
Don’t despair if you’re not there. Survey responders say having a fulfilling personal life is what is most important. Americans feel that having time is more important than having money.

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Elon is a Traitor

Maddow interviewed Ronan Farrow about it last night. Everyone treats Elon like he is his own state. No one holds him accountable for anything.
Elon Musk is a traitor, a dumbass, a fascist, a clown, a grifter, a narcissist, a sociopath, a liar, a coward, a bully, a money hoarder, a racist, a misogynist, a bigot, a transphobe, an anti-Semite, a fraud, a megalomaniac, a national security threat, & a shitty father. There needs to asset forfeiture involved in the name of national security.

Anyone check out the new Privacy and content rules from X?
In a nutshell: They can take your content and use it for their own benefit – without compensation. And privacy is and illusion. They can go into your encrypted messages and direct messages and pilfer the content.
I pity the foreign activists who are using this to get around their repressive governments only to find that Musk sold their messages to the government.

Is Elon Musk’s ‘affair’ with Sergey Brin’s wife the most colossal act of treachery?

Inside Elon’s Messages

Sanders: GOP Wants to Repeal Estate Tax, Give Elon Musk’s Family $83B Tax Break

“Dear @elonmusk, Please prioritize reinstating @geoffgolberg’s account. Then consider hiring him. His work exposed a lot of platform manipulation by bots and he was likely banned as a result, due to being mass reported by them.

“A scrolling message outside Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters has called @elonmusk a “lawless oligarch, space Karen, mediocre manchild, worthless billionaire” and more @6NewsAU

Trump and Elon Musk are dangerous narcissists tailored to 2022 America

Elon Musk broke law with threat to Tesla workers’ stock options, court rules
Appeal judges uphold previous ruling, citing ‘implied threat’ in CEO’s tweet directed at Fremont employees who wanted to join union

Elon Musk seeks to end $258 billion Dogecoin lawsuit

“Elon is like “I would totally kick your ass in a no rules streetfight, but my mom said no”

Elon Musk’s Twitter bans ad showing Republican interrupting couple in bedroom
‘Elon Musk loves free speech, but only when it’s convenient for him and his far-right political agenda,’ says founder of Progress Action Fund

Elon Musk’s X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts
We took a close look at Elon Musk’s more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

Why I Was Banned!
Elon Musk to strip headlines off news links on Twitter in latest overhaul
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/22/elon-musk-x-twitter-changes-news-links

Elon Musk to hide headlines, text from news articles shared on X to ‘improve the esthetics’ – yea sure it was to stop bad news about him spreading through the universe.

SECURITY

X Plans to Collect Biometric Data, Job and School History

#security #chrome #passwords
Password-stealing Chrome extension smuggled on to Web Store
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have demonstrated that Chrome browser extensions can steal passwords from the text input fields in websites, even if the extension is compliant with Chrome’s latest security and privacy standard, Manifest V3.

How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products

We believe PDD is a Dying Fraudulent Company and its Shopping App TEMU is Cleverly Hidden Spyware that Poses an Urgent Security Threat to U.S. National Interests By GRIZZLY RESEARCH

Trump has mystery office near Mar-a-Lago, reportedly with ‘boxes everywhere. That office is just 10 minutes down the road from Mar-a-Lago, in a building that also houses offices of the Secret Service and IRS. Not only is it reported that there were “boxes everywhere” in the office, it is also known to have housed classified materials at one time.

 

Donald Trump Wants to Give His Favorite Corporations Another Giant Tax Cut in a Second Term

 

 

 

One night, the ghost of FDR appears.
trump asks him, “How can I make America great again?
FDR says,” Think only of the people; don’t promote hate & bigotry.” trump sneers and goes back to sleep.
He is later awakened by Washington’s ghost. trump asks, “How can I make America great again?”
Washington replies, “Never tell a lie.” trump laughs and goes back to sleep.
He is then visited by the ghost of Lincoln. trump asks, “How can I make America great again?”
Lincoln responds, “Go to the theatre”

No one tell Republicans that if they do succeed in removing Biden from office…… we’ll get the nation’s first black female president.
Let it be a surprise.

Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic

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#SECURITY

Britain warns that Russia plans to strike civilian shipping in the Black Sea.

Nuclear Waste
@Mining_Atoms There’s no such thing as “nuclear waste.” We’re thinking about it wrong. Partially spent nuclear fuel can be manufactured into high-value, simple, safe energy products. Every atom. From new fuel to batteries. Ask a scientist👇
Stephen A. Boyd, Ph.D.@StephenABoydPh1
There’s no waste, because 100% of the partially spent nuclear fuel (PSNF) can be recycled – all of it. As Randall just indicated, beta batteries should be deployed EVERYWHERE there’s a need for remote ops.

“We, IDF chiefs of staff, Israel Police commissioners, former heads of Mossad and Shin Bet, retired IDF generals and heads of Mossad and Shin Bet divisions, see you [Netanyahu] as the person directly responsible for serious damage to…Israel’s security”
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r13h4ufc3#autoplay

Trump will stand trial on May 20, 2024 — after most presidential primaries have elapsed — on charges that he hoarded military secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate, a federal judge ordered today.

TRump’s former DHS Chief of Staff, Miles Taylor, claims that TRump wanted his own Wagner-like “mercenary” Army. This is why the Republicans are going to try to cheat like hell in every election going forward they Will complain and whine and say every election they lose is rigged. By 2028, Millennial and Gen Z Voters will dominate the political landscape in the US. They were raised doing active shooter drills.

POTUS is the commander in chief of the DC national guard & doesn’t need permission to deploy them.
So why didn’t he deploy them after the riot started & Capitol police begged for them?
Pence had to make the call. Trump didn’t make ONE call to the DOD.
Traitor

@wikileaks
Amnesty: “We call on the UK to refrain from extraditing Julian Assange, for the US to drop the charges, and for Assange to be freed”
@amnesty #FreeAssange2023

Microsoft called a new report from Wiz on the recent U.S. gov’t hack “speculative and not evidence-based.” Wiz said they’re confused because they worked on the report with members of Microsoft’s security team

Researchers find deliberate backdoor in police radio encryption algorithm
Vendors knew all about it, but most customers were clueless.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/researchers-find-deliberate-backdoor-in-police-radio-encryption-algorithm/
The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre assumed the responsibility of notifying radio vendors and computer emergency response teams around the world about the problems, and of coordinating a timeframe for when the researchers should publicly disclose the issues. The researchers say anyone using radio technologies should check with their manufacturer to determine if their devices are using TETRA and what fixes or mitigations are available. Critical infrastructure in the US and other countries use TETRA for machine-to-machine communication in SCADA and other industrial control system settings—especially in widely distributed pipelines, railways, and electric grids, where wired and cellular communications may not be available.

Jessica Lessin @Jessicalessin Jul 20
Goodness gracious. Let it be said, journalists don’t need Google to write their articles as “a personal assistant.” And anything that Google (or any AI) could write has no real original reporting value. NYT

Florida revised school curriculum on slavery is an obscene revision of Black history and they wouldn’t have been able to do it unless publishers agreed to accept the money to change the content, and that wouldn’t have happened if the writers on staff the “educated PhDs” who do the writing hadn’t cooperated like good little Nazis.
The push continues for school districts to move away from paper textbooks and toward digital curricula and e-textbooks. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged educators last year to move quickly to adopt digital textbooks and materials. Also last year, the Federal Communications Commission and the Education Department released a report, the “Digital Textbook Playbook,” which provided a blueprint for schools to make the shift. Florida, for one, has already adopted legislation requiring districts to spend half their instructional-materials budgets on digital content by 2015-16, and other states are considering legislation promoting digital textbooks.
Now, the only publisher approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education for K-5 mathematics is Accelerate Learning, a company out of Houston, Texas.
Florida approves dozens of K-12 social studies books after Studies Weekly publishers tweak material
A Florida textbook publisher apparently altered the story of Rosa Parks printed in its books, removing all references to her race.
https://www.publishersglobal.com/directory/subject/school-publishers

Example of Capitalism that went off the rails.
2010 Abu Dhabi has a 75 year lease on all of the parking meters in Chicago.
In a decade they’ve already made back their investment
The city of Chicago has 36,000 parking meters. In 2008, it sold them on a 75 year lease for over one billion dollars. The buyers were led by Morgan Stanley. “Mayor Daley has nodded to operational problems with the parking meter sale but says it’s financially sound.”
Financially sound for who? ~ Max Fisher
118 degrees Climatologists: July’s intense heat “exactly what we expected to see”
Deadly temperatures will become common unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut fast.

Is The Internet At Risk From Too Much Security?

Is The Internet At Risk From Too Much Security?
Karl Auerbach is the Chief Technology Officer at InterWorking Labs (IWL) in Scotts Valley, California. He was the first (and only) North American publicly elected member of the Board of Directors of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. In addition to his technical work, Karl has been an attorney in California since 1978. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Section of he California State Bar. In 2002 he received the Norbert Wiener Award from the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR).