Is it possible the ‘retaliation’ was too subtle? No mushroom cloud, no body count, not even a mention in the press?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/us/politics/us-military-ransomware-cyber-command.html
U.S. Military Has Acted Against Ransomware Groups, General Acknowledges
… Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, the head of U.S. Cyber Command and the director of the National Security Agency, said that nine months ago, the government saw ransomware attacks as the responsibility of law enforcement.
But the attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS beef plants demonstrated that the criminal organizations behind them have been “impacting our critical infrastructure,” General Nakasone said.
… General Nakasone would not describe the actions taken by his commands, nor what ransomware groups were targeted. But he said one of the goals was to “impose costs,” which is the term military officials use to describe punitive cyberoperations.
Not yet an internal passport or national ID card.
‘Tool to Enforce Orwellian Rules’: 80 House Republicans Help Pass Bill to Fund Federal Vaccination Database
Dystopia is in the eye of the beholder?
Katherine Hamilton reports:
Eighty House Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday to pass the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, which if passed by the Senate and signed into law would fund a federal vaccination database.
According to the bill, also called H. R. 550, the government would provide $400 million in taxpayer dollars to fund “immunization system data modernization and expansion,” a system otherwise defined as “a confidential, population-based, computerized database that records immunization doses administered by any health care provider to persons within the geographic area covered by that database.”
Read more at Breitbart.
Perspective.
Browser cookies are not consent: The new path to privacy after EU data regulation fail
The endless cookie settings that pop up for every website feel a bit like prank compliance by a surveillance internet hell-bent on not changing. It is very annoying. And as it turns out, it doesn’t even matter what you click. Because “Real-Time Bidding,” the primary tracking-based ad system, nevertheless “broadcasts internet users’ behavior and real-world locations to thousands of companies, billions of times a day.” And the main European provider of these pestering pop-ups to Google and 80% of all websites in Europe knew it and is now in trouble.
This fake compliance also feels a little bit like revenge on regulators by ad-driven tech, giving the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) a bad name and so it might seem like political bureaucrats have once again clumsily interfered with the otherwise smooth progress of innovation.
The truth is, however, that the vision of privacy put forward by the GDPR would spur a far more exciting era of innovation than current-day sleaze-tech. As it stands today, however, it simply falls short of doing so. What is needed is an infrastructural approach with the right incentives. Let me explain.
Perspective.
Try to Imagine the Death of American Democracy
To head off the next insurrection, we’ll need to practice envisioning the worst.
Tools & Techniques
https://www.makeuseof.com/fun-ai-tools/
10 Fun AI Tools You Should Check Out
While AI is an important technological development, you can also have some fun with it. So, here are ten fun AI tools you should check out.
Tools & Techniques. Be the Google! (Certainly not a hacking tool!)
https://www.bespacific.com/show-me-a-10ft-paywall-ill-show-you-a-12ft-ladder/
Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.
Thomas Miller – I build things on the internet http://12ft.io / http://billclintonswag.com
FAQ What? Prepend 12ft.io/ to the URL of any paywalled page, and we’ll try our best to remove the paywall and get you access to the article.
How does it work? The idea is pretty simple, news sites want Google to index their content so it shows up in search results. So they don’t show a paywall to the Google crawler. We benefit from this because the Google crawler will cache a copy of the site every time it crawls it. All we do is show you that cached, unpaywalled version of the page.”
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