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Major conflict of interest for a big retailer to hold property beyond what they occupy themselves.
What then? Maybe 98% supports + 2% doesn't support the genocide?
That 2% because a genocide might be a bit inconvenient with an election coming up?
[alt-text for the vision-impaired] Image appears to be a twitter post from Craig Murray posted on 2023-10-14: "To be entirely plain. I have always viscerally opposed war. I have dedicated my life to conflict resolution and reconciliation. But in the coming Gaza genocide, every act of armed resistance by Hamas and Hezbollah will have my support. If that is a crime, send me back to jail."
Hmm. Could be seen as a rather outlandish thing to say in the immediate aftermath of 2023-10-07, but in hindsight with what we know now in terms of what atrocities the Israeli military forces have brought upon the people of Gaza since that attack on Israel, it seems a reasonable statement to support armed resistance against the coming episode of genocide which indeed materialised and continues today.
[UNRWA Defunding vs Genocide] Worse Than You Can Imagine - Craig Murray
Governments cannot take big decisions extremely quickly except in the most extreme of circumstances. There are mechanisms in all states that consider policy decisions, weigh them up, involve the various departments of the state whose activities are affected by that decision, and arrive at a conclusi...
> The coordinated decision of the Western nations to fast track famine by stopping UNRWA funding was announced within an hour, following the ICJ ruling that Gazans were at immediate risk of genocide, and drove from the media headlines the adverse ruling against Israel.
Nick Powell [horticulturalist] speaks up about Bunnings
Just like colesworth suppliers, plant nurseries and other suppliers suffer the same way as highlighted in recent news and inquiries into the supermarket sector.
Well within the budget of a private investigator or burglar or peeping-tom or abusive ex-partner.
No need to scale; plenty of privacy/security incursions don't require mass-surveillance.
That said, I'd suggest that the attack does scale economically . Think war-driving but with one of these setups -- cruising around in a van through a dense neighbourhood collecting short clips of cctv footage looking for something of interest.
[...] the attack is an extremely expensive nation state level operation that doesn’t scale.
About $250 at most. Quoting the linked page:
Below is a list of equipment we used for the experiments.
- (1) Software Defined Ratio (SDR): Ettus USRP B210 USRP, ~$2100.
- (2) Low Noise Amplifier (LNA): Foresight Intelligence FSTRFAMP06 LNA, ~$200.
- (3) Directional Antenna: A common outdoor Log-periodic directional antenna (LPDA), ~$15.
- (4) A laptop, of course.
Note that the equipment can be replaced with cheaper counterparts. For example, USRP B210 can be replaced with RTL-SDR that costs ~$30.
To reproduce the attack: our GitHub repository provides the codes and instructions for reproducing and understanding the attack. We have prepared a ready-to-use software tool that can produce real-time reconstructions of the eavesdropped videos with EM signal input from the USRP device.
I wonder when (if?) orbital radio receiver arrays (a la starlink) are sensitive and discriminating enough to be used for this type of attack.
EM Eye: Electromagnetic Side-channel Eavesdropping on Embedded Cameras
> EM Eye investigates a cybersecurity attack where the attackers eavesdrop on the confidential video data of cameras by parsing the unintentional electromagnetic leakage signals from camera circuits. This happens on the physical/analog layer of camera systems and thus allows attackers to steal victim's camera data even when perfect software protections (e.g., unbreakable passwords) are all in place. Exploiting the eavesdropped videos, attackers can spy on privacy-sensitive information such as people's activities in an enclosed room recorded by the victim's home security camera. [...]
Yeah, I made a small batch one year with excess comb/pollen/etc I had left over from a hive, and even after a few months it was, ...interesting, but a tasted bad/wrong. I was moving house and discarded (!) the last couple of bottles.
5 years later I was visiting a friend and they'd found a bottle of it that I'd given to them, and it was just awsome.. f'ing strong, but so smooth, and woah what depth of flavour.
No, the "distributor" is the part which runs on your portable device, receives the push notifications, and wakes up the target apps as necessary.
Spoiler (next season's twist): CIA also has an "A-Team".
Conversations can be a unified push distibutor: https://unifiedpush.org/users/distributors/conversations/
..and I'd trust it (battery-wise) with that. I have an old tablet with conversations running without battery restrictions on it, and if I'm not actually picking it up and using it it regularly goes 1-2 weeks on an 80% battery charge before it dies, the whole time giving audible notifications for XMPP messages/calls (which I attend to on other devices).
Apart from the pleasant one on the left, they're all the worst. The 4th from the right is almost good, but then you notice the creepy-as-fuck centre tine-gap length.
They're a little pricey I suppose, but judging by a few minutes comparing gumtree listings for hatchback cars and cargo bikes:
< 20% the cost of a hatchback in analogous condition/age/fanciness.
To be clear though: by E2EE here I mean browser-side encryption with zero-knowledge on the server side.
Etherpad is still encrypted in transit with https; only the server can snoop.
Cryptpad and other web-based E2EE services can still be completely compromised server-side by serving malicious code to the browser, and practically the user would never know.
Cryptpad:
- Full-on google docs / office365 / libreoffice type replacement with collaboration.
- E2EE
- The complexity means it doesn't work well on mobile, takes a while to load on a slow connection, more frequent bugs. (3.5 MiB page transfer)
- Self-hosting is complicated.
Etherpad:
- A competent collaborative rich-text editor. Doesn't do spreadsheets or presentations or [...].
- Not E2EE (you need to trust that the server a bit more).
- Lightweight, works on slower connections, works alright on mobile. (1.7 MiB page transfer)
- Self-hosting quite simple.
PrivateBin:
- Super-simple plain-text/markdown pastebin. No editing possible once saved.
- E2EE
- Very small. Works fine on slow connections and mobile. (0.2 MiB page transfer)
- Self-hosting very simple.
A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon
In U.S. Pacific Northwest coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), stormwater exposure annually causes unexplained acute mortality when adult salmon migrate to urban creeks to reproduce. By investigating this phenomenon, we identified a highly toxic quinone transformation product of N-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-N′-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD), a globally ubiquitous tire rubber antioxidant. Retrospective analysis of representative roadway runoff and stormwater-affected creeks of the U.S. West Coast indicated widespread occurrence of 6PPD-quinone (<0.3 to 19 micrograms per liter) at toxic concentrations (median lethal concentration of 0.8 ± 0.16 micrograms per liter). These results reveal unanticipated risks of 6PPD antioxidants to an aquatic species and imply toxicological relevance for dissipated tire rubber residues.
Humans discharge tens of thousands of chemicals and related transformation products to water (1), most of which remain unidentified and lack rigorous toxicity information (2). Efforts to identify and mitigate high-risk chemical toxicants are typically reactionary, occur long after their use becomes habitual (3), and are frequently stymied by mixture complexity. Societal management of inadvertent, yet widespread, chemical pollution is therefore costly, challenging, and often ineffective.
[...paper continues: A ubiquitous tire rubber–derived chemical induces acute mortality in coho salmon]
On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations...
>On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat. Unmentioned by Whittaker, this budget shortfall results in large part due to the US intelligence community, which lavishly financed Signal’s creation and maintenance over several years, severing its support for the app. > >Never acknowledged in any serious way by the mainstream media, Signal’s origins as a US government asset are a matter of extensive public record, even if the scope and scale of the funding provided has until now been secret. The app, brainchild of shadowy tech guru ‘Moxie Marlinspike’ (real name Matthew Rosenfeld), was launched in 2013 by his now-defunct Open Whisper Systems (OWS). The company never published financial statements or disclosed the identities of its funders at any point during its operation. > >Sums involved in developing, launching and running a messaging app used by countless people globally were nonetheless surely significant. The newly-published financial records indicate Signal’s operating costs for 2023 alone are $40 million, and projected to rise to $50 million by 2025. Rosenfeld boasted in 2018 that OWS “never [took] VC funding or sought investment” at any point, although mysteriously failed to mention millions were provided by Open Technology Fund (OTF). > >OTF was launched in 2012 as a pilot program of Radio Free Asia (RFA), an asset of US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which is funded by US Congress to the tune of over $1 billion annually. In August 2018, its then-CEO openly acknowledged the Agency’s “global priorities…reflect US national security and public diplomacy interests.” > > [Article continues...]
Archive links:
- https://archive.md/DyfJB
- https://web.archive.org/web/20231205063052/https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia
- https://ghostarchive.org/archive/4ZzzV
Google docs infects html exports with google tracking redirects.
Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects. I was using their software because a friend wanted me to work with him on a google doc, he is a pretty big fan of their software, but we...
@[email protected] wrote: > Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects. I was using their software because a friend wanted me to work with him on a google doc, he is a pretty big fan of their software, but we were both somehow absolutely shocked that they would go that far.
[Australia] Government to overhaul privacy laws, including opting out of advertising, a right to be forgotten, and new rules for small businesses
The government has agreed to proposals that would allow Australians to opt out of targeted advertising, require search engines to "de-index" certain information about them, and draw small businesses into Australia's privacy scheme.
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/4017115
> Related material, not all as optimistic as the ABC news article: > - Video interview with Dr Katharine Kemp. > - Government response to the Privacy Act Review Report. > - Govt kicks Privacy Act can down the road - > Only commits to a handful of review recommendations.. >
[Australia] Government to overhaul privacy laws, including opting out of advertising, a right to be forgotten, and new rules for small businesses
The government has agreed to proposals that would allow Australians to opt out of targeted advertising, require search engines to "de-index" certain information about them, and draw small businesses into Australia's privacy scheme.
Related material, not all as optimistic as the ABC news article:
Energy $prices DOWN! Who's looking forward to the massive drop in the cost of their next electricity bill?
Following the "unprecedented price rises" in the past year for retail electricity rates across Australia, it looks like we have some "unprecedented price drops" just around the corner!
I'm not sure whether I need to end this post in a /s or not.
Alt-text: Line graph of annual avg wholesale electricity prices in NSW/QLD/SA/TAS/VIC over F.Y. ending 2010-2024. 2022,2023 show an increase of 100~130% compared to 2021; 2024 shows a return to ~2021 prices (except SA).
Data source: https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem
Pedestrians and cyclists implicated for their own mortality by Victoria Police in road safety education campaign. #australia
Excerpt from article: >“We all play a role in keeping our roads safe and Crime Stoppers Victoria is offering vulnerable pedestrians the tools they need to use our roads safely,” she [Crime Stoppers Victoria Chief Executive Stella Smith] said. > >“We have seen 175 pedestrians killed on our roads over the last five years, and a significant number of those have been in 60 km/h zones. > >“We hope with more education and awareness we can reduce the number of injuries and most importantly, deaths on our roads.” > >As part of the campaign, Crime Stoppers Victoria will hit the streets to actively engage with high-risk pedestrians to educate them on how they can help keep our roads incident-free.
I guess that means police will be out in force handing out fines to pedestrians and cyclists. "Job done!"
Archived: https://archive.md/UOcHu