Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
New Zealand PM Announces Semi Auto Gun Ban, Buyback Program
March 20th, 2019Via: Reuters: New Zealand will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country’s worst mass shooting, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday. In the immediate aftermath of Friday’s shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, Ardern labeled the attack as terrorism and said […]
Christchurch: NZSAS, Other Special Forces Teams and Armed Police Exercises Underway During Mosque Attacks
March 18th, 2019In other news: Due to conspiracy theories, make sure to get information about these attacks ONLY from the government. Via: New Zealand Herald: Some of the world’s most deadly sharpshooters were in Christchurch when New Zealand’s worst ever terror attack unfolded on Friday, with NZSAS taking to the streets to help hunt the rampaging mosque […]
New Zealand: The Most Hysterical Reaction to an Event I’ve Seen Since 9/11
March 17th, 2019Even before the Christchurch incident, I never bothered advocating for gun rights in New Zealand. Besides rural people, who tend to own guns, you have near total ignorance combined with a long running social engineering program designed to create a very anti-gun climate here—and that’s on the best of days. The average person here thinks […]
New Zealand: Dozens Killed in Terrorist Attack
March 15th, 2019I’ve been reading through Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto, The Great Replacement. As I was reading, I kept thinking, “This sounds familiar. Where I have seen this before?” It has been a while since I’ve thought about Pol Pot, but Tarrant is hoping to bring about a sort of white man’s version of the Khmer Rouge. If […]
‘DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System’
March 14th, 2019Mmm hmm. If this system relies on elliptic curve cryptography, an attacker with a large quantum computer will be able to crack it. Via: Vice: For years security professionals and election integrity activists have been pushing voting machine vendors to build more secure and verifiable election systems, so voters and candidates can be assured election […]
U.S. Government Will Be Scanning Faces at 20 Top Airports
March 13th, 2019Via: BuzzFeed: For Hasbrouck, the big takeaway is that the broad surveillance of people in airports amounts to a kind of “individualized control of citizenry” — not unlike what’s already happening with the social credit scoring system in China. “There are already people who aren’t allowed on, say, a high-speed train because their social credit […]
China’s “Democracy” Includes Mandatory Apps, Mass Chat Surveillance
March 7th, 2019Change the proper nouns and it would read like the situation in Europe or the U.S. Via: ArsTechnica: As the National People’s Congress gathers in Beijing for the beginning of China’s “Two Sessions” political season, state media is making an international propaganda push on social media—including on platforms blocked by China’s “Great Firewall”—to promote China’s […]
Chatty Gargoyle at Denver International Airport
March 5th, 2019It’s all a silly joke. Those conspiracy theorists are a zany bunch. Laugh it up. Via: Denver International Airport: He’s 243 years old, and is here to clear the air on all the conspiracies at DEN. Turns out this gargoyle is wiser than we thought, and is sharing more than we planned. Along with giving […]
Tim Berners-Lee: “The Web Has Been Hijacked by Crooks and Trolls”
March 4th, 2019Via: AFP: Thirty years ago this month, a young British software engineer working at a lab near Geneva invented a system for scientists to share information that would ultimately change humanity. But three decades after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has warned that his creation has been “hijacked by crooks” that may […]
Trump Vows Executive Order Requiring ‘Free Speech’ at Colleges
March 2nd, 2019Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would soon sign an executive order requiring American universities and colleges to maintain “free speech” on campuses and threatened that schools not complying could lose federal research funds. … If universities do not comply “it will be very costly,” he said. The U.S. government awards […]
