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SANAA, July 09 (YPA) - Yemen's armed forces announced on Wednesday that it had targeted the ship 'ETERNITY C', which was heading to the port of Umm al-Rashrash in occupied Palestine.Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sarie said in a statement that the
Meanwhile, remember when San Francisco's "Mission Control" had not yet been moved to Oakland and definitely before "Mission Control" had been appropriated by a something erroneously claiming itself as SF's first "Hacker House"?
Does Unicorn Precinct 13 mean nothing to those people?
JFC.
It's a small world, and the people who were co-creating the prior art which the n00bz seem to be erroneously overwriting aren't dead yet.
Ah well, SNAFU, still on the worst timelines, apparently.
Iranian Geopolitical Analyst Ehsan Safarnejad noted that many Iranians were “humiliated” by the rhetoric from the Iranian president Pezeshkian during his interview with Tucker Carlson...
The County Tyrone village of Moygashel in Northern Ireland has adorned their ritual bonfire with an effigy of a migrant vessel and about a dozen lifesize mannequins with lifejackets, with placards beneath the boat stating: “Stop the boats” and “Veterans before refugees”.
The police have been told that there is a very real prospect of serious and sustained disorder should there be any effort to remove the bonfire.
I cannot help but admire the robust statement of the people in the County Tyrone village of Moygashel who have adorned their ritual bonfire with an effigy of a migrant vessel and about a dozen lifesize mannequins with lifejackets, with placards benea…
I gently remind those who think conquering the West is a push-over that they are dealling with the scions of the mud and blood, shit-stained barbarians that toppled Rome and everyone else that drew their focus.
Their current civility only exists because their barbarism was so destructive. Raised to temper your nature doesn't mean its gone, just buried, unhealthily deep. It has taken a ling time to lull it to sleep. Don't toy with the tail of a sleeping tiger.
Jurisdiction Is Nearly Irrelevant to the Security of Encrypted Messaging Apps
Every time I lightly touch on this point, I always get someone who insists on arguing with me about it, so I thought it would be worth making a dedicated, singular-focused blog post about this topic without worrying too much about tertiary matters. Here's the TL;DR: If you actually built your cryptography properly, you shouldn't give a shit which country hosts the ciphertext for your…
Every time I lightly touch on this point, I always get someone who insists on arguing with me about it, so I thought it would be worth making a dedicated, singular-focused blog post about this topi…
"NSA’s Tailored Access Operations is specifically chartered to hack foreign targets (and not domestic ones) for intelligence purposes. By hosting your metadata outside the USA, you’re putting it in scope of the more skilled government-employed hackers."
I do concur with that threat analysis!
"But Tor is a low-latency anonymity network designed for web traffic."
I do not concur with that.
There are reasons Tor is implemented as a SOCKS proxy.
Conflating the Tor Browser Bundle with Tor itself, isn't great?
Admittedly, while I am not a Tor developer, I have known Tor devs in plurality. I have co-habitated and worked with some of them elsewhere. Roger Dingledine crashed on my couch once upon a time, back when I had couches to offer as crash space to others; instead of years of homelessness as in more recent years (decade+?).
It's true that an egregious amount of traffic is web based though; so the Tor Browser Bundle is probably how a lot of folks ever use and/or encounter Tor in practice. Kind of orthogonal to the rest of your discourse.
Having written as much, I think even Roger would be the first to admit that Tor isn't a panacea. It attempts to provide a layer of anonymity predominantly at the IP (v4) layer. There are many other potential pitfalls, even for Tor users.
Giving a shit about which country (or more broadly; I would be concerned about NGOs) might be storing your data is probably still wise? It never sat well with me that Facebook would flag OTR traffic over XMPP as "encrypted message" in their WebUI. To me that screamed: "we are logging your data for future attacks."
As if (m)any users ever used OTR over Facebook's XMPP implementation in the first place! sigh
Which is a long winded way of saying: If Facebook/Meta Messenger claims to use the same Axolotl/Double Ratchet Algorithm utilized by Signal (and WhatsApp) and they have already previously demonstrated that they are actively logging ciphertext for potential future offline attacks, they seem to be showing everyone who should know better, that they are to be considered hostile, regardless of what nation state identity they may claim and whether the traffic hitting Facebook/Meta's servers from its ciphertext users ever leaves a nation state level border? It's totally inconsequential as a result. They should be treated as a Mallory.
Everything about Signal rubs me (and many others in the know; though I had a positively enlightening conversation over dinner with someone I met at REcon last month in Montreal who has, for reasons that remain mostly mysterious to me though grokked by someone else at the dinner table, unofficially and repeatedly backported various Signal versions to run on Windows 7 and dug into it more deeply and recently than I would ever care to [e.g. exfiltrated.com/download/signa… ]) the wrong way, and I was cajoled into running Signal when it was still called TextSecure and RedPhone.
I'd love to see you explore something such as SILC (which attempted to defend against malicious server operators, a threat model which is real and still denied by most/all end-to-end encrypted comms systems entirely) or better yet, PSYC2.
I have only encountered one detractor of SILC, who while not particularly outspoken (quite the opposite) was a former coworker of mine with some skills. Unfortunately, that individual has been less than communicative with me after I emailed about a laptop that was gifted to me by that same individual, having had a (U)EFI backdoor that took me considerable time and effort and expense to identify and remediate; just to give you an idea of the level of threats with which I have already contended by those professing to be allies.
I am a terrible judge of character, and much to my own detriment, have given folks the benefit of the doubt, even given past transgressions, since I acknowledge humans make mistakes, and we can learn from such situations! However, some things (at a level below most OSes at a minimum) seem to speak for themselves.
Oh yeah, updating because I meant to mention the deeply dystopian copaganda perspective (perhaps Devil's advocate) of assigning detention time based upon cryptographic key length as posited by Poul-Henning Kamp here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3703126 (direct link to 308KB PDF here: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/370…). That certainly isn't a world in which I would ever want to exist, but we already have a planet with fuckwits who have come up with "smart" contracts on the blockchain as an idiotic methodology to try to absolve themselves of attorneys?
Far be it from me to think highly of the "law" given that I was incarnated in a country which seems to have a so-called "justice" system which seems to be predominantly preoccupied with perpetuating carceral slavery in the 21st century, going so far as to apparently have over 90% of its inmates having never even had a jury trial (so much for "due process"!) but there are a lot of individuals with power and riches who likes things as they are, and would probably love a more punitive system as PHK seems to be advocating when it comes to encrypted comms systems. Just as there are, quite obviously from the headlines, governments (e.g. the UK) which are bullying private enterprises (e.g. Apple) into cryptographic backdoors (that will never end well yet they're doing it anyway!).
Having written as much, I think it's rather telling that while PHK pioneered the horridly named "jails" subsystem within FreeBSD, that Apple rather presciently (or more likely, because jkh [Jordan Hubbard], FreeBSD co-founder and also previously "Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies" at Apple for over a dozen years, leaving in 2013 sometime after Steve Jobs passed away [Jordan was CTO at iXSystems while I consulted for them around the same time]) decided not to integrate jails into OS X. Containers may be useful to some degree (Apple certainly eventually implemented their own Hypervisor Framework as an example in related realms), but words matter and PHK seems to have what is, from my vantage, and unhealthy obsession with "rule of law" nomenclature both in FreeBSD's jails subsystem, as well as that ACM writing to which I linked. I've never visited Denmark, maybe every cop and judge is honest there, but here in the USA, ACAB and judges are more likely to be "on the take" than benevolent and unfortunately that must be taken into account with threat modeling as well.
Kevin Crane dissects the absurd and chilling corporate fantasies around a post-war Gaza, where the involvement of Blair brings it all back to the lies of the Iraq War over twenty years ago
Last week, 170 humanitarian and human-rights groups, inclu…
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot
Wirre Welt der Rationalisten: Wie eine Gruppe Tech-Philosophen zu Mördern wurde https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000278547/wirre-welt-der-rationalisten-wie-eine-gruppe-tech-philosophen-zu-moerdern-wurde?ref=mastodon
It would take a broad, multi-year scientific study to cover the extent of Russo-Indian defense ties. The two (Eur)Asian giants have been allies for well over half a century.
Sharon Graham’s supporters force through neutralising ‘statement’ – delegates urged to defeat it tomorrow so motions are heard In what Unite conference delegates have descri…
And Albanese treats US mafia intimidation with contempt it deserves Human rights expert and former United Nations director Craig Mokhiber has slammed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s decis…
It is now several decades since the collapse of the British coal industry. But in Peterlee — a ‘left behind’ former mining town in County Durham — utopian dreams are being revived through a combination of grassroots creativity and public funding.
Photo from The Samuels Public Library After being targeted by anti-LGBTQ book banners and having their funding pulled, a local library in Virginia successfully stopped a threatened takeover by a pr…
As scores of people – including medical staff and their families – have reportedly been killed in the past week, UN health partners in Gaza continue to provide emergency care despite very limited resources.
The US Supreme Court issued an 8-1 order on Tuesday—without addressing the constitutionality of the issue—that allows the Trump administration to proceed with the destruction of government agencies and the firing of tens of thousands of federal emplo…
[as usual, independent thinking from #ZeynepTufekci ]
"What Kelly didn’t mention, but which has since become well known, is that the Weather Service employee whose job it was to make sure those warnings got traction — Paul Yura, the long-serving meteorologist in charge of “warning coordination” — had recently taken an unplanned early retirement amid cuts pushed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. He was not replaced.
To a Washington bean counter, his loss might have looked like one tiny but welcome subtraction in a giant spreadsheet, but not in a region so prone to these perilous events that it’s known as Flash Flood Alley. Hundreds of kids at summer camps slept in cabins along the river. The plan was for folks at the upstream camps to send word to the downstream camps if floodwaters got scary. But if even the highest official in the county wasn’t on high alert, how were the camp counselors supposed to understand the danger — or, in an area without reliable cellphone coverage, to act on it?"
Let the soothing sounds of rain to help you fall asleep fast. This collection of the coziest rainy bedtime stories are narrated by a woman's voice, accompani...
>> Three priests based in the village of Taybeh issued a statement calling for help in the face of growing settler violence
>> In a joint statement, priests from the three churches in #Taybeh — the Latin Church, Greek Orthodox, and Melkite Catholic — condemned the attack and asked for action in the face of growing settler violence against the village, which comes amid a spike in settler attacks across the West Bank…
A group of Jewish settlers set a fire near an ancient Christian church in the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Nabd El-Haya, a radio station based in the town, has reported.
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Please, don’t forget us… Hope is fading as donations slow down. We’re holding on to the little hope we have left. All we’re asking for now is to secure the most basic rights in life: Food, water, and medicine for my sick father. Please, stand with us. Your support keeps us alive. #gaza
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza.
⭕️ Taybeh, the last fully Christian town in the occupied West Bank, faces systematic Israeli settler attacks and illegal outpost expansion
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The heads of the three main churches in Taybeh — the Greek Orthodox, Latin Catholic, and Melkite Greek Cathol…
I used to suspect that the whale statue in front of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, aka "Sandy the Gray Whale" was cast from the same moldings as the whale statue in front of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.
Having investigated such things again now (despite having been local to the areas in my youth), it appears as if the Santa Cruz equivalent in Tyrrell Park has apparently been updated in 2025 and now has a baby whale companion! Whoa!
So I have no idea about their potential relation anymore!
The whale statue @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io shared is also new to me, but to my eyes? The barnacles do not appear as if they are to a consistent scale. ;)
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09:02 Palestinian sources: 11 martyrs, over 30 injuries reported as a result of an Israeli enemy airstrike on a house west of Al-Shati Camp english.masirahtv.net/news/366…
"just mad at myself for being upset and then feeling bad."
Been there. As a sage friend of mine once phrased it: "I eventually learned to stop beating myself up, for beating myself up."
Admittedly, I am not sure if I figured out that friend's solution for myself? His way of phrasing it was helpful framing to at least attempt to acknowledge when I am caught up in some similar mental anguish loop.
For me, changing scenery is a methodology that I find is sometimes helpful? Going for a walk in nature if possible, far away from humans and their noises is ideal! A babbling brook, raging rapids, or the moon reflected in an ocean with waves crashing seem to be fantastic for me when I can enjoy such things.
Rain drops, while soaking in some rustic hot springs far away from most signs of so-called "civilization"? Better still!
Unfortunately, it is not always easy or possible to change scenery to such realms without significant effort and often expenses.
Simpler things, such as making an herbal tisane, the meditative qualities of watching steam "peel" off the "skin" of the tea cup, help to slow down and be in the moment, a different moment than incessant negative thoughts.
Tea kettles and water and loose leaves are not always readily available.
So perhaps some headphones, and a song, or album, or something musical can be helpful, for me at least, to have another frame of reference when I am in exceedingly urban hellscapes full of human maladies.
Barring that, earplugs.
Admittedly, reducing inputs from the world around me that I find harrowing isn't the be all end all, but a starting point.
If stuck with human trappings and no good tunes are readily available, vegging out to some movies or something similar (ideally: comedic in nature if looking for levity) might be beneficial?
No doubt, if the negative thoughts are persistent (as they often are in my experience) such strategies may be of limited utility, but even temporary distractions can still be welcome in my experience.
WFP's Deputy Executive Director, Karl Skau, stated that the demands on Gaza are at an all-time high, while humanitarian access has been increasingly restricted since the start of the war on October 7, 2023.
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