Freedom Convoy and GiveSendGo



from the article:
“Attackers only have to be right once, while defenders have to be right all of the time,” said Richard Henderson, chief information security officer with cybersecurity firm WithYouWithMe.

“It just takes a single mistake to allow a skilled attacker in, and once they’re inside its game over.”

The scope of the attack, which saw intruders not only take control of GiveSendGo’s DNS records but also get their hands on their donor lists, suggests they had “free rein” inside the company’s data.

“We’ve seen this multiple times in the past with other ‘copycat’ sites quickly thrown up rapidly by right-leaning groups,” he said.

“Get something online quick with little to no attention paid to security or secure deployment, and all it takes is a skilled hacker to come along and rip it all to shreds.”*


2022-02-016T20:35−08* / February 16, 2022
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intervening in Ukraine: for and against




2022-02-15T09:40−08* / February 15, 2022
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Sri Lanka could easily triple the amount it produces per hectare (Doug Saunders)

“A country like Sri Lanka could easily triple the amount it produces per hectare.”*


2022-02-10T15:40−08* / February 10, 2022
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on German TV every New Year’s Eve

video from NDR – Norddeutscher Rundfunk – with a 2-minute introduction in German

The sketch is almost completely unknown in England. It was first broadcast on German TV in 1963 and has been a New Year’s Eve fixture since 1972.


2022-02-04T21:12−08* / February 4, 2022
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the line "Same procedure as every year" (in the original English) is now used in newspaper headlines and advertisements in Germany (!?)
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thorium: Kirk Sorensen interviewed on Fox News Radio




2022-02-03 / date also may be listed as a link to this post at bit.ly/dateposted – along with more about posts – 2022-02-03T07−08*
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thorium (!*)

latest DOE report on US stockpile of uranium-233 (!?)


TK* / to come (!?)*

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to Conservatives freedom means freedom from concern for other people

image of Grenfell Tower fire copied from 2017 post*



George Monbiot:
[Johnson’s Brexit freedoms bill] is the point of Brexit. The multimillionaires who funded the campaign to leave the European Union sought freedom from the decencies they owe to other people, freedom from the restraint that defines civic life. Our country has been torn apart in the civil war within capitalism: between the businesses seeking stability and predictability, and the asset-strippers and oligarchs who want to rip everything down and then sift the rubble for gold.*


2022-02-02T21:33−08* / February 2, 2022
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see also a November 2020 column by George Monbiot on the civil war within capitalism over Brexit*
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Where is everybody?

image on Twitter*

“Can we continue to trust our intelligence to get us out of any impending ecological disasters?”
Well, one of the most famous solutions to the big question – “Why haven't we discovered any aliens? If there are alien civilizations in the universe, why haven’t they contacted us?" – one of the most famous solutions to that paradox is that it’s quite likely that civilization, once it reaches a certain technological advancement, simply destroys itself.

And from our experience, that would seem to be a very reasonable hypothesis. I mean, we are not doing a good job. Prospects for the human race do not look good. Whether we will still be here in a thousand years is a question that we don’t know the answer to. So it could just be that once you reach a certain level of technological mastery over your environment, but haven’t reached a level of sophistication and wisdom to be able to protect your environment, then you’re essentially doomed to extinction.*


2022-01-29T21:08−08* / January 29, 2022
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Where is everybody? / the Fermi paradox (!?)
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a universal coronavirus vaccine and the human challenge (Peter McKnight)

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prepares to testify before a U.S. congressional committee in Washington, D.C., last week. Fauci’s prognosis that coronavirus is likely to be with us indefinitely isn’t meant to scare us, but prepare us. Photo by Shawn Thew/POOL /via REUTERS

Fauci’s ideal universal vaccine … would provide lifelong immunity against all coronaviruses, preferably in one dose. Development of such a vaccine will require greater knowledge of the human immune system and its response to coronaviruses. And that, as Fauci acknowledges, will likely require the use of (ethically controversial) “human challenge” trials.*


2022-01-20T22:02−08* / January 20, 2022
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