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ECP NetHappenings Newsletter 9-22-2021

Science, Surveillance, Metaverse and more

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Science

A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom

China brings Covid19 amd Evergrande to the world.
Covid-19 origins: Chinese defector claims Wuhan Military Games was first superspreader event

Peter Kropotkin was a Russian aristocrat who renounced his titles, became a scientist and anarchist, and wrote many significant works, but none so important as MUTUAL AID, his 1902 treatise on the role of cooperation in evolutionary biology. Painstaking researched and beautifully argued, MUTUAL AID reveals the scientific fraud of “social Darwinism,” and its claims that hierarchy and exploitation are evolutionary inevitabilities baked into our very nature.

Surveillance

Researcher discloses iPhone lock screen bypass on iOS 15 launch day

Phones sold in Europe by China’s Xiaomi Corp have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms such as “Free Tibet”, “Long live Taiwan independence” or “democracy movement”, Lithuanian government has discovered

K12 Student’s Privacy Rights: Eye-opening reporting from @mkeierleber and @The74 on some of the technology that schools are using to keep tabs on kids, scanning their online messages, documents, and browsing history.
Where Gaggle tracks student’s online behavior

Apple Wallet is getting verifiable COVID-19 vaccination cards

Metaverse

It was called the “party line” in the 40’s when we used the telephone.

“The metaverse is the next generation of the internet…let’s unpack the things people have in mind.” Watch with your audio on for a 2-minute whirlwind explainer that gets into details. Two minute tour of the Metaverse: unpacking (most) of the stuff people are thinking about when they talk about it. #metaverse #games #blockchain #cloud #gamedev

HBO show won’t be filmed in Texas over abortion law, creator says

A strange moment in jazz history I’d never heard of before—when the great jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden was saved from legal prosecution because a Texas flood interrupted his 1921 court hearing. It’s like a scene in a Coen brothers movie.

David Simon, the creator of “The Wire,” said he will not allow filming for his upcoming HBO show to take place in Texas due to the state’s new abortion law.

Democrats

MSNBC – 9/22/2021 – #MorningJoe asking why did democrats put out a bill that did absolutely nothing to tax big corporations? “Because that’s the habit the Dems got into over the last 40 years and have only in the last few years … remembered, oh yea we were the party of labor” https://pic.twitter.com/UNBnTXYF8a

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior
“The way the Dems try to dodge accountability is through this veneer of respectability: ‘We can’t rock the boat.’ Well, the boat is sinking. And we’re on the boat. And when you act, you won’t be rocking the boat — you’ll be steadying it.” — @gaslitnation
Vice President Kamala Harris could simply overrule the Parliamentarian, or the Senate could fire the Parliamentarian…but since the Parliamentarian creates such an amazing excuse for Democratic inertia, they aren’t!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/parliamentarian-56443627

HODL

As appears to be tradition, smaller #Bitcoin HODLers can often be found stacking $BTC after significant corrections.The minnows @woonomic refers to, with < 10 $BTC, have accelerated their accumulation since the sell-off in mid-May. They now hold a collective 13.9% of supply.

Stablecoins are used to move money from one exchange to another, whereas poker chips are casino-specific. Gensler referring to US Dollar backed digital stable coins as “poker chips” shows he is not operating in good faith as a regulator. That’s not mistaken word choice, it’s intentional defamation hoping his audience doesn’t know better. Technically poker chips are not regulated by the SEC. Trump’s father bailed the donald out using casino chips. HSBC is calling for crypto regulation particularly on stablecoins, and also expressed enthusiasm for CBDCs. The ironyyyyy *cough* $881M laundered for drug cartels. If regulators really want to protect investors, they should look at insider trading / front-running activities by employees of exchanges. Not fucking stablecoins. Or users’ private data. Or boxing retail out of early-stage investment opportunities.

Republican = Evangelical

Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites
Emma Best, co-founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets, a nonprofit whistleblower group, said some researchers call the Epik hack “the Panama Papers of hate groups,” a comparison to the leak of more than 11 million documents that exposed a rogue offshore finance industry. And, like the Panama Papers, scouring the files is labor intensive, with payoffs that could be months away.

@Amy_Siskind
I worry how numb we have become to our near brush with authoritarianism – when it is revealed that there was a memo with a 6 step plan for a coup, and it doesn’t even get top of the hour news coverage – let alone consequences for all involved. We are in danger of a repeat folks!

AT&T abandons pledge, makes contributions supporting Republican objectors

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WHAT THE HELL!  DEPARTMENT

“A week after The Markup flagged a discriminatory job ad, Facebook quietly removed the “multicultural affinity” targeting category. The move follows years of news reports on how Facebook allowed racial profiling on its platform:

FBI Sits on Report Detailing White-Supremacist Terror Threat

San Francisco’s “Overpaid CEO tax” measure targets disparity
“During a normal year, they would have fought it,” said San Francisco supervisor Matt Haney, who introduced the measure.

Russians Who Pose Election Threat Have Hacked Nuclear Plants and Power Grid. The hacking group, Energetic Bear, is among Russia’s stealthiest.

MTN Faces 2021 U.S. Court Date for Allegedly Assisting Taliban Terrorism in Afghanistan

UC Berkeley disavows a recent eugenic research fund

Grayshift, The Startup That Breaks Into iPhones For The Feds, Raises $47 Million 
As Upturn said in its report, the widespread use of forensics tools like the GrayKey “represents a dangerous expansion in law enforcement’s investigatory powers.” “Given how routine these searches are today, together with racist policing policies and practices, it’s more than likely that these technologies disparately affect and are used against communities of color,” Upturn wrote.

[sarcastic shit]I don’t see anything wrong here… do you?
… Mention -> Authority -> Access Requested -> Pay Ransom to Capitalism -> Access Granted -> Bloatware ???

EARS

EARS — #PSA This is a kind reminder that the largest uniquely identifiable area of the human body is your ears. They can be mapped from afar using software with very high accuracy. Share this &amp; remember to always cover your ears to help protect your anonymity.
Epstein didn’t kill himself? Photoshopped ears? or maybe the Military mask department didn’t get the ears right.
https://twitter.com/R3DAC73D/status/1320823926872809472
Jonna Mendez, who spent 27 years working for the CIA, was in charge of creating advanced disguises for agents to use on undercover missions.

SURVEILLANCE EarVN1.0: A new large-scale ear images dataset in the wild
Ear recognition is starting to grow as an alternative to other biometric recognition types in recent years. The EarVN1.0 dataset is constructed by collecting ear images of 164 Asian peoples during 2018. It is among the largest ear datasets publicly to the research community which composed by 28,412 colour images of 98 males and 66 females. Thus, this dataset is different from previous works by providing images of both ears per person under unconstrained conditions.

HEALTH

Woman may Woman have caught coronavirus in airplane toilet, researchers say

Researchers link 59 Irish COVID cases to inbound long-haul flight – PaxEx.Aero

DO NOT GET TOGETHER WITH THE FAMILY ON THANKSGIVING

THE CORRUPTION OF SCIENCE BY THUGS

Exclusive: GM, Ford knew about climate change 50 years ago
Scientists at two of America’s biggest automakers knew as early as the 1960s that car emissions caused climate change, a months long investigation by E&E News has found. The discoveries by General Motors and Ford Motor Co. preceded decades of political lobbying by the two car giants that undermined global attempts to reduce emissions while stalling U.S. efforts to make vehicles cleaner. Researchers at both automakers found strong evidence in the 1960s and ’70s that human activity was warming the Earth. A primary culprit was the burning of fossil fuels, which released large quantities of heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide that could trigger melting of polar ice sheets and other dire consequences. A GM scientist presented her findings to at least three high-level executives at the company, including a former chairman and CEO. It’s unclear whether similar warnings reached the top brass at Ford. But in the following decades, both manufacturers largely failed to act on the knowledge that their products were heating the planet. Instead of shifting their business models away from fossil fuels, the companies invested heavily in gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs. At the same time, the two carmakers privately donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups that cast doubt on the scientific consensus on global warming.

 

YOUTUBE  – RIAA – DMCA

“Today, I found a new treasure in the genre, @damienslash’s impersonation of Bob Dylan singing a “standard user agreement.” It is the most remarkable 34 seconds I’ve experienced since waking.
The rise and rise of terms of service is a genuinely astonishing cultural dysfunction. Think of what a bizarre pretense we all engage in, that anyone, ever, has read these sprawling garbage novellas of impenetrable legalese.

Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer Using id
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1405/stream-youtube-url-directly-to-mplayer

Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received.

One liner to clone the DMCA censored “youtube-dl” from the DMCA repo: git clone -n https://t.co/l4KhZ2QyWB

2013 Chilling Effects

They don’t want anyone to share this code:

 mplayer $(echo -s "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?$(curl $youtube_url | sed -n "/watch_fullscreen/s;.＊\(video_id.\+\)&title.＊;\1;p")&fmt=22")

Woops.   RIAA: Please go die in a fire.

The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark
Biker gangs in Australia, drug traffickers in California, and even members of the Sinaloa Cartel all used Phantom’s phones. Rather than treat Phantom as an innocent third party to crime like Apple or Google when criminals use phones made by those companies, authorities said Ramos himself was part of criminal conspiracies. The agents had Ramos on tape suggesting he made the phones to help drug smugglers. On the other side of that hotel room door, when the agents finally stopped asking their questions, there was likely a long prison sentence.

THE GOOD PEOPLE

Five cryptologic giants inducted into the NSA/CSS Cryptologic Hall of Honor Release No: PA-001-20 Oct. 16, 2020