Tag Archives: False Sense Of Security

ECB wants to end deposit insurance, offer savers ‘appropriate amount’

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“Covered deposits no longer need to be protected, according to the European Central Bank (ECB), which has proposed this month to stop withdrawals when a bank is on the verge of failing. It has suggested the current €100,000 (£85,000) deposit level currently protected in the event of a bail-in would no longer be available.”

Read more: https://www.rt.com/document/5a1283f3fc7e93c0588b4568/amp/410373-ecb-end-deposit-protection

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Trump’s holiday gift is more invasive airport security

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“On the campaign trail last year, Donald Trump derided the Transportation Security Administration as a ‘total disaster.’ But his administration is making TSA more intrusive and abusive while its 42,000 screeners remain as incompetent as ever. New TSA screening guidelines will likely make Thanksgiving travel a disaster for legions of Americans  — and the worst is yet to come.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/17/thanksgiving-travel-trumps-holiday-gift-more-invasive-airport-security-james-bovard-column/871080001/

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Tighter Gun Laws Will Leave Libertarians Best-Armed Of All

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“Has it occurred to anybody that when restrictive laws are imposed, they’re likely to have the greatest impact on the people most willing to obey them?  Gun control advocates might want to give this whole matter a little more thought.”

Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2017/11/14/tighter-gun-laws-will-leave-libertarians

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How Congress and drug company lobbyists worked to neutralize the DEA

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“The law was the crowning achievement of a multifaceted campaign by the drug industry to weaken aggressive DEA enforcement efforts against drug distribution companies that were supplying corrupt doctors and pharmacists who peddled narcotics to the black market. The industry worked behind the scenes with lobbyists and key members of Congress, pouring more than a million dollars into their election campaigns.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/dea-drug-industry-congress/

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Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core

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“The Shadow Brokers disclosures, which began in August 2016, have been catastrophic for the N.S.A., calling into question its ability to protect potent cyberweapons and its very value to national security. The agency regarded as the world’s leader in breaking into adversaries’ computer networks failed to protect its own.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/us/nsa-shadow-brokers.html

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The Government Is Lying to Us About Cybersecurity

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“The idea that ‘strong security’ is compatible with a government backdoor is a lie. Any security expert can tell you that a backdoor leaves your product vulnerable, even if you trust the government agency with the key. Previous backdoors advocated by the US government have been blown wide open by security experts. There is near-universal agreement among security experts that government backdoors and security are not compatible – a reality that the DOJ continues to ignore.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-government-is-lying-to-us-about-cybersecurity/

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LA cops plant drugs on black suspect – unaware their body cams were on

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“The body cam of a fellow officer showed one officer picking up the small packet from the ground and placing it in the suspect’s wallet — before making a show of discovering it multiple times for the camera.  According Shields’ attorney, Steve Levine, officer Lee seemed stunned when he was shown the video while on the witness stand, saying the officer, ‘Looked dumbstruck to me. Period. He had really no answer.’  According to an expert discussing how the body cams work, the officer may not have realized that the camera was running 30 seconds before he believed he activated it.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/busted-watch-la-cops-plant-drugs-in-black-suspects-wallet-unaware-their-body-cams-were-on/

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John Whitehead: The Anatomy of a National Nervous Breakdown

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“This breakdown—triggered by polarizing circus politics, media-fed mass hysteria, militarization and militainment (the selling of war and violence as entertainment), a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness in the face of growing corruption, the government’s alienation from its populace, and an economy that has much of the population struggling to get by—is manifesting itself in madness, mayhem and an utter disregard for the very principles and liberties that have kept us out of the clutches of totalitarianism for so long.”

Read more: https://rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/america_breaks_down_the_anatomy_of_a_national_nervous_breakdown

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Napolitano: What if Government Steals Liberty and Fails to Deliver Safety?

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“What if this bulk surveillance is about power and control and not about safety? What if the use of intelligence data for political purposes and not for safety is a profound danger to democracy? What if government can’t keep us safe? What if we falsely think that it does keep us safe? What if that delusion makes us less safe? What if government’s bulk acquisition of private data makes us less free? What if government works not for us but for itself? What do we do about it?”

Read more: https://www.creators.com/read/judge-napolitano/11/17/what-if-government-steals-liberty-and-fails-to-deliver-safety

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Almost any Intel Skylake or later system can be owned via USB attack

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“The likes of the EFF have long argued that having a “black box” that can control networking and hardware, even when the computer is switched off, represents a major security and privacy risk.  Turns out they were right. Security firm Positive Technologies reports being able to execute unsigned code on computers running the IME through USB. The fully fleshed-out details of the attack are yet to be known, but from what we know, it’s bad.”

Read more: https://thenextweb.com/security/2017/11/09/researchers-find-almost-every-computer-intel-skylake-cpu-can-owned-via-usb/

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