Category: Journal ISSN 1078-1935

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Stephen E Arnold: Amazon Sends an E2EE Message to the Google and Microsoft

IO Secrets, IO Technologies, Worth A Look
Stephen E. Arnold

Amazon Sends an E2EE Message to the Google and Microsoft

I gave a lecture to a group of cyber fraud investigators a week or so ago. I made a point of saying, “E2EE messaging is the new Dark Web.” I think some of the people in the audience resonated with my remarks, but Zoom lectures are not exactly in-person, meet-and-greet events.

I offered a similar observation at this year’s National Cyber Crime Conference. I know that at least one person was listening. I received on the sort of weird Whova app, an atta boy message from a real live Amazon professional.

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Matthew Ehret: An Open vs Closed System Struggle: The Fight for Continental Water Management in Quebec

Cultural Intelligence

An Open vs Closed System Struggle: The Fight for Continental Water Management in Quebec

While minister of Hydraulic Resources under the leadership of l’Union Nationale Premier Maurice Duplessis(1945-1959), Daniel Johnson championed large scale water and hydroelectric projects, making Quebec into the premier pioneer of hydroelectric engineering in the world.

Prior to Maurice Duplessis, Québec’s break with cultural backwardness that had plagued its population for so long, had been initiated most boldly with Premier Adélard Godbout (1939-1944) and his creation of Hydro Quebec via the nationalization of Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company. Godbout’s collaborator Louis Philippe Pigeon was inspired by Roosevelt’s Tennessee Valley Authority, and began bold programs that unleashed cheap electricity, advanced agricultural technologies and rural electrification, breaking the usurious private stranglehold of Montreal Light, Heat and Power which had been prohibiting development and squeezing the population dry with expensive and unreliable electricity for decades.

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Mongoose: Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment

07 Other Atrocities

Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment
A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.

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Stephen Arnold: Google and Unreliable Results: Like the Jack Benny One Liner, I Am Thinking, I Am Thinking

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Google and Unreliable Results: Like the Jack Benny One Liner, I Am Thinking, I Am Thinking

read a “real” news story called “Google Is Starting to Warn Users When It Doesn’t Have a Reliable Answer.”  (No, I will not ask, What’s reliable mean.)

Here’s the statement which snagged my attention in the write up:

“When anybody does a search on Google, we’re trying to show you the most relevant, reliable information we can,” said Danny Sullivan, a public liaison for Google Search. “But we get a lot of things that are entirely new,” Sullivan said the notice isn’t saying that what you’re seeing in search results is right or wrong — but that it’s a changing situation, and more information may come out later.\

I think Mr. Sullivan, a former search engine optimization guru and conference organizer, is the “new” Matt Cutts, a Google professional helping to point the way to the digital future at the US government. Is key word packing the path to more patents than China?

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Edwin Jewett: In just 5,000 posts the secretive QAnon’s ‘storm’ nearly brought down a US president, while it’s gone dark for now, what’s next?

Government

In just 5,000 posts the secretive QAnon’s ‘storm’ nearly brought down a US president, while it’s gone dark for now, what’s next?

A gripping new book follows QAnon from wrongly predicting Hillary Clinton's arrest to a key role in the Capitol riot that left five dead, using a hotchpotch of conspiracy theories and a persuasive ‘future proves past’ narrative.

It was after my youngest daughter, a TikTok devotee, kept asking if I’d seen the video of al the young children being rescued from slavery thanks to Donald Trump that I realised the social media storm created by QAnon had landed on our doorstep.

The videos she had come across were ‘witness’ testimonials centred on just one of QAnon’s cultish beliefs which maintained the wealthy world elites were trafficking in children to be used as sex slaves and harvested for their adrenochrome, which endowed god-like powers upon those who drank it.

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Edwin Jewett: The Climate Emergency Calls for a New Approach to Mental Health

07 Health, Cultural Intelligence

The Climate Emergency Calls for a New Approach to Mental Health
Yves here. I don’t mean to sound churlish, but devastation is a regular feature of human experience. It’s not hard to make a list. The firebombings of World War II. The Black Plague. The Mongol conquests. The US naplaming much of Laos. One can argue that the purpose of major religions is to reconcile humans to the inevitability of suffering and death. So the focus on mental health costs of climate disasters, in your humble blogger’s opinion, is a reflection of poor social health going into these crises.

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Matthew Ehret: The De Gaulle-Johnson Intervention to Break the Empire part 4: Daniel Johnson’s Courage

Cultural Intelligence

The De Gaulle-Johnson Intervention to Break the Empire part 4: Daniel Johnson's Courage

At the official dinner honouring General de Gaulle on the evening of his arrival in Québec, Premier Daniel Johnson was full of hope and outlined his acceptance of the General’s challenge to join in his Great Design.

“Under your leadership, France has recovered a stability that merits our admiration. She has vigorously pursued a vast program of national planning which, in two decades, has justified your unshakable faith in what you yourself have called the ‘genius of rebirth.”

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