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Trouble_007on US pushes next phase of satellite missile defense system

Space Systems Command > Home : https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/

Space Systems Command (SSC) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Systems_Command

Trouble_007on The ‘King Kong’ of Weight-Loss Drugs Is Coming

Fool Me Once, Shame on You! . . . Fool Me Twice...

Trouble_007on Twitter – Algorithm Manipulation via mass blocks

Twitter’s current recommendation algorithm “allows attackers to cause a denial of service (reduction of reputation score),

  by arranging for multiple Twitter accounts to coordinate negative signals regarding a target account,

  such as unfollowing, muting, blocking, and reporting, as exploited in the wild in March and April 2023.”

: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-2921...

Trouble_007on '5 Seasons of Revolution' – Syrian Civil War – Changed Perspective on Journalism

Full Title;

  ‘5 Seasons of Revolution’ Director on Documenting Syrian Civil War, How It Changed Her Perspective on Journalism

>Lina not only used several aliases and the Tor Project during the experience,
but she also resorted to the deepfake technology in order to ensure her and her friends’ safety.
The inspiration for the aliases came from the Tor Project.

It’s a project to help people surf the internet without being censored by regimes such as the Syrian regime.

Trouble_007on Stealthy UEFI malware bypassing Secure Boot enabled by unpatchable Windows flaw

>rather than getting bogged down in the complexities of UEFI firmware,

and having to defeat various memory detections built into the SPI-connected flash chip that stores it,

BlackLotus developers deploy standard binary files to the EFI system partition.

The ESP, as it’s abbreviated, is a traditional disk partition that’s much easier to access.

  Unlike the flash chip, the ESP *doesn’t have protections* such as BIOS Write Enable,

  BIOS Lock Enable, and SPI Protected Ranges, which make it difficult to write or modify stored data.

>Running as a bootloader gives them almost the same capabilities as firmware implants,

but without having to overcome the multilevel SPI flash defenses, such as the BWE, BLE, and PRx protection bits,

or the protections provided by hardware (like Intel Boot Guard).

Sure, UEFI Secure Boot stands in the way of UEFI bootkits,

but there are a non-negligible number of known vulnerabilities that allow bypassing this essential security mechanism.

And the worst of this is that some of them are still easily exploitable on up-to-date systems

  even at the time of this writing—including the one exploited by BlackLotus.

Trouble_007on The Coddling of the American Mind

The September 2015 original essay in The Atlantic : https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod...

Trouble_007on Elon Musk blames cost cuts at Twitter on ‘$3B negative cash flow’

(A Non-Twitter redirect) – alternate source : https://archive.vn/mERtx

Trouble_007on Iran’s Online Crackdown Prompts Smuggling of Starlink Kits

alternate source : https://archive.vn/7Igjz

Trouble_007on Washington Needs a Crypto Rethink

>The thirty-year-old entrepreneur ( alleged Fraudster )

Trouble_007on The supply chain that keeps tech flowing to Russia

Time for batched hardware Easter Eggs to certain purchasers?

Trouble_007on Notes from the Field: Tetanus in an Unvaccinated Child – Oregon, 2017 (2019)

FYI;

Tetanus, aka, Lockjaw : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus

Tetanus Vaccine, aka, Tetanus Toxoid (TT) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus_vaccine

Trouble_007on The Golden Age of Cocaine Is Happening

Cocaine : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine

Biosynthesis of Cocaine : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosynthesis_of_cocaine

Trouble_007on Elon Musk Still Silencing Journalists He Banned from Twitter

Looks like these Journalists are effectively shadow banned.

Trouble_007on Chronic exposure to synthetic food colorant Red 40 promotes colitis in mice

FYI;

Food Coloring / Color Additive : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_coloring

List of Food Additives : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_additives

Trouble_007on KCBX to shut down Santa Barbara signal citing climate change

Ducting - Cause and Impact on Radio Performance : https://www.slideshare.net/MdMustafizurRahman1/ducting-cause...

  SF <-> LA <-> SD

  'aircraft contrail induced clouds'

Trouble_007on KCBX to shut down Santa Barbara signal citing climate change

Edit to fix URLs;

(Seasonal) Tropospheric Ducting : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_propagation

TV and FM DX : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_and_FM_DX

Trouble_007on Investor in Musk's Twitter buyout expects to make up to five times its money

>Aliya, a Miami-based manager of the wealth of rich families,
which invested $360 million alongside Musk in the Twitter buyout, said it believed

Musk would capitalize on Twitter's 229 million daily active users that have "historically been under-monetized."

>"We believe Twitter will produce a return of 4-5x in just a few years,

with comparably limited downside risk," Aliya Chief Executive Ross Kestin said in a statement.

>In his statement, Kestin pointed to Musk's other accomplishments at electric car maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O),

and rocker developer SpaceX as the source of his confidence in the billionaire entrepreneur.

  ** Past performance is Not indicative of future results **

Trouble_007on Tails 5.8 – (Portable Debian O/S and Tor Browser) Released

Tails 5.8 Change Log (Text) 2022-12-20 : https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/raw/master/debia...

Tails Install : https://tails.boum.org/install/

Tails Documentation : https://tails.boum.org/doc/

Tails FAQ : https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/

Tails Support : https://tails.boum.org/support/

* The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you Install instead of Upgrading. *

* tails.net – The new domain name – It will take us some time to migrate all our services to this new name.

  As a start, we deployed https://download.tails.net/

Tails Distribution Directory : https://download.tails.net/

Tails (amd64-5.8) Distribution Directory : https://download.tails.net/tails/stable/tails-amd64-5.8/

Tails (amd64-5.8) Distribution Directory : https://mirrors.wikimedia.org/tails/stable/tails-amd64-5.8/

Debian (Recent Security Advisories) : https://www.debian.org/security/

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Tor Project Blog – Tails 5.8 Released : https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-58/

Tor Project – Tor Status : https://status.torproject.org

Tor Project – Tor Metrics : https://metrics.torproject.org

Tor Project – Check Tor Connection : https://check.torproject.org

Trouble_007on Terry Hall: lead singer of the Specials dies aged 63

Va·le Terry Hall

Terry Hall : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Hall_(singer)

Terry Hall Discography : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Hall_discography

Trouble_007on Amazon Ring cameras used in nationwide ‘swatting’ spree, US Justice Dept. says

Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims : https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/12/hacked-ring-cams-used-to...

(2017) Thugs who sent Brian Krebs heroin and a SWAT team sentenced : https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/02/21/thugs-who-sent-b...

SWATting - Krebs on Security : https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/swatting/

Trouble_007on Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims

Amazon Ring cameras used in nationwide ‘swatting’ spree, US Justice Dept. says [ 3 hours ago - 68 comments ] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34059633

Trouble_007on Swatters used Ring cameras to livestream attacks, taunt police, prosecutors say

Amazon Ring cameras used in nationwide ‘swatting’ spree, US Justice Dept. says [ 3 hours ago - 68 comments ] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34059633

Trouble_007on Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

>A million users is insignificant

True, however high profile account contents matter to both advertisers and other twitter uses.

>Stephen Fry, who last week tweeted an image of Scrabble letters spelling out ‘goodbye’, and abandoned his 12.5 million followers!

Stephen Fry quits Twitter following Elon Musk’s takeover : https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/tv/stephen-fry-quits-twitter-...

Trouble_007on Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

Update; Twitter bans posting of handles and links to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and more : https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/18/twitter-wont-let-you-post-...

>(Update December 19, 2022, 8:40 AM IST):

Twitter has deleted the tweets announcing the policy that prohibited people from posting handles and links to other social networks.

The company has also silently removed the policy page that detailed these rules.

Trouble_007on Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

>Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned.

Twitter may have lost more than a million users since Elon Musk took over : https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/03/1062752/twitter-...

[1 hour ago - 4 comments] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34046074

This does Not bode well;

links to Mastodon, including your Mastodon account in your profile or even the mere mention of Mastodon.

Is this action for the actual bleed? - Or paranoia at the current projected losses? - Competition?

Trouble_007on Elon Musk seeks to sell Twitter shares in search of new funds

alternate source : https://archive.vn/3CfCk

Trouble_007on Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain

An incredible intellect, combined with an amazing wit, and a truly talented performer. - Thanks Tom.

Trouble_007on Binance, Alone at the Top After FTX, Stirs ‘Too Big to Fail’ Crypto Worry

alternate source : https://archive.vn/uj0vt

Trouble_007on Tor Browser – 12.0.1 ( Windows, macOS, Linux) – Released

Tor Browser (bundle) – 12.0.1 (Windows, macOS, Linux) Change Log (Text) → (December 15, 2022) : https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-b...

Tor Project – Tor Status : https://status.torproject.org

Tor Project – Tor Metrics : https://metrics.torproject.org

Tor Project – Check Tor Connection : https://check.torproject.org

Tor Support – FAQ : https://support.torproject.org

Tor User Support Forum : https://forum.torproject.net

Tor Community : https://community.torproject.org

https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/TorPlu...

Tor Download : https://www.torproject.org/download/

Tor Distribution Directory : https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/12.0.1/

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