America’s Secret Terrorist Watchlist Exposed on the Web Without a Password
August 19th, 2021Via: Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko:
On July 19, 2021 I discovered a terrorist watchlist containing 1.9 million records online without a password or any other authentication required to access it.
The watchlist came from the Terrorist Screening Center, a multi-agency group administered by the FBI. The TSC maintains the country’s no-fly list, which is a subset of the larger watchlist. A typical record in the list contains a full name, citizenship, gender, date of birth, passport number, no-fly indicator, and more.
I immediately reported it to Department of Homeland Security officials, who acknowledged the incident and thanked me for my work. The DHS did not provide any further official comment, though.
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What data was exposed?
The exposed Elasticsearch cluster contained 1.9 million records. I do not know how much of the full TSC Watchlist it stored, but it seems plausible that the entire list was exposed.
Each record in the watchlist contained some or all of the following info:
Full name
TSC watchlist ID
Citizenship
Gender
Date of birth
Passport number
Country of issuance
No-fly indicator
The data also included a couple of categorical fields that I was unable to identify, including “tag,” “nomination type,” and “selectee indicator”.
Notably, the database was found on a Bahrain IP address, not a US one.
Doctor Who Did Early Research on COVID Vaccine: This Is Not a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated
August 19th, 2021Via: Fox:
Dr. Byram Bridle tells the ‘Ingraham Angle’ that unvaccinated individuals ‘are likely acquiring’ in substantial numbers, ‘naturally acquiring immunity’
Victor Dominello’s Bell’s Palsy, “Has No Known Exact Cause”
August 18th, 2021I wonder if it was lack of affection from his family, or worries about growing up?
Via: News:
The NSW MP was bombarded with messages after appearing at the daily Covid-19 press conference on Wednesday, asking him to seek medical help.
Scientists Grew Stem Cell ‘Mini Brains’. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes
August 18th, 2021Via: ScienceAlert:
Mini brains grown in a lab from stem cells have spontaneously developed rudimentary eye structures, scientists report in a fascinating new paper.
On tiny, human-derived brain organoids grown in dishes, two bilaterally symmetrical optic cups were seen to grow, mirroring the development of eye structures in human embryos.
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The team hopes to develop strategies for keeping these structures viable on longer time-scales for performing more in-depth research with huge potential, the researchers said.
Our Voices Matter – Stories Of COVID-19 Vaccine Injured Australians
August 18th, 2021Via: The COVID World:
Businesses Are Refusing to Enforce France’s Vaccine Passport
August 18th, 2021Via: Summit News:
Anecdotal evidence detailed by former Google software engineer Mike Hearn strongly suggests that most restaurants, cafes and other businesses in France are not enforcing the country’s controversial vaccine passport system.
As we highlighted last week, on the first day the new program was in place, police were visibly patrolling bars and cafes demanding customers show proof they’ve had the jab.
However, this seems to have largely been a bluff as just days later, businesses and venues have become very lax at checking people’s papers despite the threat of large fines.
“I decided to do a simple experiment to find out: always present an expired test even though I had a valid negative one, and see what happens,” writes Hearn.
“Over a four day stay I was required to show a valid pass exactly zero times; that includes at the airports in both directions. Compliance is absolutely min viable and often lower.”
“At small businesses enforcement was non-existent: sometimes the pass requirement was ignored entirely, other times we were asked “do you have a pass” and our answer wasn’t checked. One restaurant had come up with a clever way to detect police stings without requiring customers to actually present a pass. As expected, enforcement was stricter by larger firms, however even there we saw the following:
– Test certificates being checked once and then swapped for a token that doesn’t expire.
– Expired tests being accepted.
– People accepting paper test certificates without scanning them.
– Scanning tests and then not looking at the screen to see the results.
– Accepting QR codes that failed to scan.”
Hearn also reveals how mask mandates in theme parks and other venues are also not being followed, despite signs everywhere ordering people to cover their faces, while social distancing is also a “forgotten memory.”
Norway: Infection Fatality Rate for Flu .1%, Infection Fatality Rate for COVID .05%
August 18th, 2021Via: Peak Prosperity:
All of New Zealand Goes to Maximum Lockdown After One Covid Case in Auckland
August 17th, 2021Via: Business Insider:
New Zealand is back in strict national lockdown after one 58 year-old-man tested positive for COVID-19, with no immediate evidence that he’d traveled abroad.
REPORTER: “So there’s no US actions being taken to prevent equipment from falling into the hands of the Taliban by destroying it or anything else?” MAJOR GENERAL HANK TAYLOR: “I don’t have the answer to that question.”
August 16th, 2021REPORTER: "So there's no US actions being taken to prevent equipment from falling into the hands of the Taliban by destroying it or anything else?"
MAJOR GENERAL HANK TAYLOR: "I don't have the answer to that question." pic.twitter.com/m0wGN1fcFR
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 16, 2021
— CT POLICE LIVE (@CTPOLICELIVE) August 16, 2021
NEW ? Taliban with weapons taking a helicopter ride reportedly over Herat, Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/oZM8k17WkM
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) August 16, 2021
Free Society Dwindles as Permission Requirements Grow
August 16th, 2021Via: Reason:
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a bonanza for government officials, allowing them to extend authority that they then exercise with relatively little oversight or restraint in ways that would have been inconceivable in the past. It has accelerated the transformation of previously free societies into permission-based states, where things once done as a matter of right are now considered privileges to be dispensed or withheld by those in power. Case in point: the Biden administration reportedly discussed making travel within the United States conditional on vaccination status but is holding back out of fear that the public has yet to be sufficiently softened-up for such an intrusive restriction.
