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Utter nonsense. Makes Cooper, the Labour party, and most of Parliament look out of touch, pathetic and stupid. supporting the murder of thousands of innocent humans while proscribing as terrorists those who protest against the killing.
Twenty-seven people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act at a demonstration in support of the direct action group Palestine Action, in London's Parliament Square, while Palestine activists blocked the London Pride parade to protest its ties to …
"Over R1 Trillion Looted Through BEE — South Africa’s Greatest Political Scam? !! "
"A bombshell revelation has shaken South Africa’s fragile economic credibility to the core. Professor William Gumede, one of the country’s most respected governance scholars, has exposed what many feared: over R1 trillion has been transferred under the banner of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), and almost all of it has landed in the pockets of fewer than 100 politically connected individuals.Yes — R1,000,000,000,000. Not to uplift a nation, but to enrich a recycled elite.
“BEE only benefits a very small group — politically connected, linked to the ANC, linked to the trade unions… and the same people are re-empowered again and again,” said Gumede in an explosive public interview. This is not transformation. This is state-sanctioned looting under the guise of empowerment."
"If “empowerment” means billion-rand transfers to under 100 people — most of whom are repeat beneficiaries — then South Africa is no longer a democracy. It is a captured state under economic apartheid, run by political bandits. This is not empowerment. It is daylight robbery, orchestrated from within government halls, funded by the suffering of the masses, and protected by a network of spin, censorship, and silence. !!"
This is a fixed version of the previous video with Parenti's voice being louder. I can't raise it any further though thanks to copyright purposes. This video...
Thinking about SMS security @ryan @Pheonix @phoneboy - it's my understanding that SMS is unencrypted w/in the network where it's sent (so phone-company secure), and that the biggest risk is rogue connection points that may trick the phone into connecting to it. People may underestimate how likely they are to encounter one of those ("who would want MY data?" LOL), but has that threat model changed?
I agree on the levels of security by content, but it also needs to be the highest level of security that content would need; otherwise, the presence of a certain level of security implies the value of the content being secured. I agree that should be baked in at the design level, not layers bolted on afterwards; but, do you not see some of those as pragmatic steps to save the uninformed masses from themselves"?
Joy Metzler left the Air Force as a conscientious objector over U.S. support for Israeli atrocities in Palestine and joined a 40-day Veterans for Peace hunger strike for Gaza. She says it is crucial we escalate our protest to stop genocide.
It’s always good to remind libertarians that Milton Friedman was one of the founders and scions of the outsourcing movement. He preached profit as a social good and attacked businessmen who thought otherwise as socialists undermining free society. One of the worst scumbags of all time.
Parcel giant UPS said on Thursday it will offer voluntary buyouts to its full-time U.S. drivers as part of the largest network reconfiguration in its history — a sweeping overhaul that includes cutting 20,000 jobs and closing 73 facilities.
Dang. Sounds like they're either losing business, or getting rid of a bunch off people so that they can, eventually, get self-driving trucks. Of course, the self-driving trucks are still a couple of years away. 😄
RT @UltimaShadowX@x.com: You all laugh now, but in 5 years they'll add Skibidi Rizz to Umamusume and she'll have the most cracked unique skill in the game.
The Trump Administration is working with State and Local Officials on the ground in Texas in response to the tragic flooding that took place yesterday. Our Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, will be there shortly. Melania and I are praying for all of the families impacted by this horrible tragedy. Our Brave First Responders are on site doing what they do best. GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES, AND GOD BLESS TEXAS!
Tribunal for Palestine against Germany pledges to bring the guilty “before the judges of the nations.” In the tribunal’s closing session, twelve leaders made symbolic accusations against the Federal Republic of Germany and its institutions.
Exigeons le rétablissement de la page Facebook de Mr Mondialisation !
Mr Mondialisation est avant tout un média en ligne, l’un des rares médias humanistes vent "debout" face aux logiques marchandes et aux monopoles de l’information.
This insult from that stalker guy finally processed...
Umm... My name isn't a Japanese name. How TF would it be "weeabo" or "anime"? Does he just assume 4 syllables = Japanese? I can't think of any 4 syllable anime names. 🤷♀️️
Also, I didn't come up with it. It was one of the few decent gifts from my blood family.
Also, I'm from New England. I had my name long before I got out here.
A poor assumption based on that your name somewhat looks like I guess Mikado? It’s amusing how much people continue to talk when they are given no response.
The hacker that found his college application might just save New York City from communism. Also, did you ever notice how these journalists like to find camera angles to give people they like halos? It's not very subtle.
I never thought that accounting could be that easy and amusing until I installed GnuCash. The amusing part begins when debits and credits do not match or when one buys shares just to have more things to track with GnuCash. In other words, GNU/Linux gaming is—as fellow gamers may say—"poggers".
We had to move our #Coleus #plants a few weeks ago because the rats-with-hooves (city deer) mowed them down. They have recovered very nicely in their new safe zone.
Il a l'expérience du terrain, et bien avant gaza depuis plus de 25 ans la bien-pensance ( y compris à gauche) lui crache dessus, pour ses positions humanistes contre la connerie humaine.
#Sozialismus ist eine Geisteskrankheit. Er bedeutet, zu glauben, dass Menschen etwas sind, was sie nicht sind. Er wird durch Neid geschmiedet, durch Heuchelei verwaltet, erzeugt Faulheit und zerstört Wohlstand. Er ist reine Demagogie. |Armando Ribas
Linux is suddenly booming in Europe. April 2024, Linux had a small 2.84% slice of the desktop market in Europe. Fast forward to July 2025, and that share has jumped to an impressive 5.21%. That’s a massive 83.45% increase in just over a year.
When Windows 10 support ends, hundreds of millions of computers won’t get vital security updates. Instead of buying new hardware, people are choosing a different path.
Millions of people using Windows 10 are facing a tough choice. Microsoft plans to stop offering security updates for the system, leaving countless computers
In Russia, state accounts are transferred to Linux forcibly. According to an employee of accounting: when working with documents, you have to do almost 2 times more actions, which slows down the work.
@DearFox to be honest, it blows my mind how any nation could rely on proprietary software from another nation for its essential government work. Either you develop your own or you use open source. Digital sovereignty is a must.
In my personal experience, the generally poor quality of Libreoffice Impress compared to PowerPoint in terms of performance and features is the significant reason why I (and many other universities) cannot completely ditch Microsoft.
Wir freuen uns, die LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUT DEUTSCHLAND Konferenz 2025 anzukündigen: „Die Freiheitsrevolution in Argentinien“ Eine Blaupause für den Westen Samstag, 11.
🎶 Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used to raise a glass or two Remember how we laughed away the hours; Think of all the great things we would do.
Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way. 🎶 "Mary Hopkins, circa 1968)
« Comparer Jean-Noël #Barrot à un Henry Kissinger ou à un Sergueï #Lavrov, c’est cruel, tant l’un incarne ce qu’est un diplomate et l’autre ce que la #diplomatie ne devrait jamais devenir. Kissinger, disparu en 2023, restera comme un maître des rapports de force, un homme qui savait lire le monde, anticiper ses soubresauts, et bâtir des équilibres durables avec un mélange d’intelligence froide et de cynisme assumé. Lavrov, que l’on peut aimer ou détester, c’est la constance, la redoutable efficacité du professionnel qui domine la scène internationale depuis plus de vingt ans, sans jamais perdre son sang-froid ni son cap.
Et puis il y a Jean-Noël Barrot : l’anti-diplomate par excellence. Agressif là où il faudrait être subtil, agité là où il faudrait peser ses mots, il aligne des déclarations qui sont systématiquement l’exact inverse de la réalité, comme si sa boussole était déréglée au point de toujours pointer le mauvais nord. Peut-être est-ce cela qui l’exaspère tant : de sentir confusément qu’il parle pour ne rien dire, qu’il gesticule sans rien obtenir — alors les yeux s’exorbitent, les traits se contractent, la nervosité éclate au grand jour. Il ne négocie pas : il tempête, il ne convainc pas : il agresse. Le tout au service d’une diplomatie française devenue transparente, voire ridicule, sur les grandes scènes internationales.
Quant à Mark #Rutte, secrétaire général de l’ #OTAN, ses sarcasmes sur la longévité de Lavrov trahissent surtout une gêne : il sait bien qu’en face de lui, Lavrov a des décennies de métier que lui-même ou ses alliés ne pourront jamais rattraper. Et Kaja #Kallas, à la tête de la diplomatie européenne, complète ce tableau d’ #amateurisme : des postures binaires, des slogans vides, aucune profondeur, aucune vision, rien que des leçons creuses données au monde, dont personne ne se soucie. Voici la diplomatie occidentale : des figurants ignares et nerveux. »
“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.”
@Günter One could say ants especially know what to eat. They seem pretty intelligent and shouldn't be discounted. They make excellent food testers. The ants that I live among seem to be fans of black tea. I don't use any sweeteners and I'm partial to black teas and I have an electric tea kettle outside and they're always flocking to it. They also do not like sugar free sodas according to my experiments and observations.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.
#Tchéquie #cannabis #marijuana 🇨🇿 La République Tchèque légalise : 1. Possession jusqu’à 100g à domicile 2. Culture de 3 pieds à domicile 3. Utilisation thérapeutique / médicale de #psylocybine
The team behind Trump's World Liberty Financial project has proposed lifting restrictions on the WLFI "governance token" to make it tradeable. I predicted shortly after its launch that if Trump succeeded in gutting the SEC, he would do this.
This would lift the substantial restrictions on the token (non-US or accredited investors only, locked tokens with no secondary sales) that were aimed at sidestepping attention from the previous SEC, and could be enormously lucrative for Trump.
It could also be enormously lucrative for early buyers like Justin Sun or the Emirati Aqua 1 Foundation, who hold $75 million and $100 million worth of WLFI, respectively.
Prior to the Trump administration, a token like this would likely have been considered an unregistered security by the SEC, and its sales illegal offerings.
We built a thing! I spent the past few months building Trusted Signatures, a SaaS product that makes it easy to provide durable signed PDFs at scale.
This makes it easy to prove documents came from who they’re supposed to, unaltered.
✅ AATL and eIDAS compatible signatures (Adobe Reader green check ✅)
✅ Detached CMS support — send only the SHA-256 hash, keep your files local
✅ Accessible via HMAC API key
✅ No full-PDF uploads — just clean cryptography
Perfect for building secure workflows for finance, legal, or compliance — or if you’ve ever wanted a programmable signature API you can actually trust.
Get authentic PDF signatures with the green checkmark in Adobe Acrobat. Incredibly affordable, automated digital signing. Secure, compliant, enterprise-grade.
It turns out the maintaining an OV certificate (needed for signing PDFs) is extremely tedious. You need to create the private key in an HSM (which cost thousands of dollars) and the security protocols required to keep the certificates safe are very onerous. Add to that Timestamp Authorities, CMS creation and maintenance, and the whole thing becomes an expensive hassle. Outsourcing this complexity to a specialist makes a ton of sense.
The value proposition of our business is that we manage these complexities for you at a price so low that it makes no sense to try to do it in house. While the protocols are open and you certainly can DIY, there's no way you can build and maintain this service for less than we can.
Yeah, DocuSign has a bunch of challenges, sender authentication being one. Another is that after everyone has signed, it signs the PDF with its own certificate, which can tell you if the document was modified but not where it came from.
We're looking at solving problems like this as a supply chain issue; it turns out there's a lot of fraud involving doctored PDFs.
For example, if someone sends you an invoice against a valid PO, but they've put in their own account for payment, you're out the money. But if you only accept signed PDFs, you (or better: your systems) can immediately validate that the invoice actually came from the correct source, unmodified.
Another common problem area is real estate fraud: documents pour in from all over the place (appraisals, inspections, bank statements) and people try to put forward fraudulent ones all the time. If they were signed, then the risk of fraud drops precipitously, and even if there is fraud, the senders cannot repudiate the documents and are still on the hook.
We make it so cheap (our price per PDF quickly approach $0.001 per PDF) that there's no reason not to sign everything your organization sends, and to require the companies sending you PDFs to sign theirs.
Avoiding a single loss or lawsuit will cover the cost a thousandfold.
@Brad Koehn ☑️ - You've got what appears to be a useful service. I sent pointers to some of our company people who might be interested. And I've got to revisit into some trust/will materials that could be improved by a layer of content/source integrity protection.
Europe has taken a major step forward in strengthening its resilience to extreme weather events with the successful launch of the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 (MTG-S1) satellite. MTG-S1 will deliver new streams of atmospheric data, enabling earlier, more accurate warnings that protect lives, property and infrastructure.
Most refugees head for a country where there is some link of language, family or community. North Africans stay in France because they have some French. Refugees from what were once UK colonies often have English as a second language."
Surely the language by itself is at best one factor and not a particularly strong one? Approximately zero refugees from the global south have any pre-existing knowledge of German, Hungarian, or Swedish, etc.
I played a minor role in helping to get some peoples’ very private information off of the internet. Small contributions can make a difference. Help when you can.
PostMortem: Data Leak Brandt Kettwick Defense
Type of leak
Azure Blob with the multi-year archive of a law defense firm. Files were readable and indexable for anyone. The leak contained data like search warrants, master case files from law enforcement, interviews with victim, accused and victim of sexual assault cases and much, much more. In total there were several tenthousand documents.
I see the following threats:Confidentiality people seeking legal counsel help is compromised Privacy of mutliple U.S. citizens compromisedVery likely violation of several laws and ethic guidelines
TimelineApril 2025: Leak is dicovered by a security researcher.June 4th 2025: Significance of the leak identified, multiple attempts by the security researcher to close the leak (Email, Web Contact), no reply during the complete incidentJune 12th 2025: A second security reseracher attempts to contact the law defense firm, no reply till the end. Calls to the designated phone number were hung up by the law firm.June 19th 2025: FBI and Hopkins (Minnesota police department) are informed.June 21st 2025: I join the effort. Email directed to the owner of the comany and one identified affected person. Not reply during the complete incident.June 25th 2025: Second security researcher reaches out to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). They reply nearly immediately that they will investigate,June 29th 2025: I make a infosec.exchange/@masek/114767… and ask for help to get the attention of the law firm. The second researcher reaches out again to the BCA.July 2nd 2025: Leak is closed. BCA answers that they were unable to get the attention of the law form via phone and email, so they send officers on site to convey the seriousness of the leak. They also say that the law firm had asked their IT department and it denied any possibility of a leak.
Analysis
This is not a complete failure analysis. These are only my own observations. Looking
Failures:The chosen IT department was unable to adhere even to the most basic levels of data security.Even when asked by the customer, the IT department denied the possibility of a leak.The law firm has no proper process to deal with external IT security alerts.Lack of understanding concerning the responsibility on the side of the law firrm. Outsourcing only delegates the work but not the legal obligations.
Impact
It can be safely assumed (due to duration and easiness to discover) that all data on those server is now in the hands of inttelligence services (e.g. Russia, China) and cyber criminals with little care about the privacy of US citizens. Especially for people looking for material to blackmail people, this leak was a gold mine.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to @JayeLTee and @PogoWasRight@infosec.exchange for doing most of the work. A description of the incident from the viewpoint of Dissent can be found databreaches.net/2025/07/04/no…
Furthermore I wish to praise the work of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Also thanks to @TonyYarusso and @bkoehn@hachyderm.io for assisting us in getting the necessary attention.
Closing Remarks
It is clearly necessary that we have at least one public contact in each country that investigates and closes data leaks reported to them. The effort to close even the worst leaks is unbearable and currently rests on the shoulders of security researchers and their supporting environment.
Time spent on this leak from my side (without the time for this report) is 4+ hours. My best estimate on the effort of all people involved closing this leak would be in the hundreds of hours. The amount of time spent by the person responsible for the leaking system on security issues: None.
Update 2: PostMortem published here: https://infosec.exchange/@masek/114800897587580803
Update: The leak is closed since July 2nd. Will write a postmortem on Saturday and add a link.
There was a Q&A session after a presentation of a bunch of films by high school students (5 students total) and the first lady that stood up was like, "congrats on you five young ladies for making these films but WHERE ARE ALL THE BOY FILMMAKERS?" 🤡
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in reply to Daniel J. Summers ~ East TN, USA • • •It used to be true that Verizon had public messaging gateways where you could read texts with a simple http get. All you needed was a phone number.
So the level of phone company security relies on how retarded the tech ppl and the management of the phone company are. Probably mostly management.
Which is an infinite security hole.
@ryan @Pheonix @phoneboy