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Please trust our contact-tracing app

jeudi 7 mai 2020 à 02:00

The UK has released a centralized contact-tracing app and asks people to trust it.

I don't trust what they say about "privacy" and "security" because I think they are using twisted definitions of those two terms. I think that when they say "privacy" they mean "privacy from all parties except the UK government, and Apple or Google", and when they say "security" they mean "security against all parties except the UK government, and Apple or Google".

The UK government tracks all car travel, and has used this against suspected nonviolent protesters to stop them from reaching a protest. If its standard of "respecting privacy" permits that, we must treat whatever it says about "privacy" as worthless.

Spoke too soon

jeudi 7 mai 2020 à 02:00

Just after Bolsonaro said the epidemic was decreasing, the death rate shot up.

What was to blame

jeudi 7 mai 2020 à 02:00

What was to blame for the death of political prisoner Shady Habash in an Egyptian prison?

It could have been that he drank hand-sanitizer by mistake.

It could have been that the thugs did not let a doctor treat him.

It could have been imprisoning him for criticizing the government.

I put the blame on the last two, because those were injustices anyway.

No time is the right time

jeudi 7 mai 2020 à 02:00

Bogus Johnson says that no time is the right time to investigate his inconsistency and incompetence. Especially not now.

Hotspots

jeudi 7 mai 2020 à 02:00

US jails, prisons and deportation prisons are becoming hotspots for spreading Covid-19 to surrounding communities. The guards and other staff get infected and carry the disease to the places where they live.

Mathematical modeling suggests jails could cause 100,000 to 200,000 more cases. That doesn't count the prisons.