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LocationSmart phone tracking

mercredi 4 juillet 2018 à 02:00

The LocationSmart web site enabled anyone to roughly track the position of any mobile phone, due to completely missing security.

However, anyone willing to commit a crime can get the same data through the bad security of the SS7 protocol through which one phone network talks with another phone network.

Even worse, the data is easily available the government.

This is one reason I refuse to carry a mobile phone. The other is that it can be modified through a back door to listen and transmit all conversations in its vicinity.

Flight attendant's moral responsibility

mercredi 4 juillet 2018 à 02:00

Flight attendant Hunt Palmquist vowed he would refuse to work on flights to transport immigrant child prisoners.

He realized that if he helped do this, he would morally responsible for his actions.

His response may be the reason that some airlines have since refused to carry those prisoners. We should pressure the other airlines in the US to do the same.

'Trauma charge'

mercredi 4 juillet 2018 à 02:00

A visit to a US hospital's emergency room can land you with a "trauma charge" for tens of thousands of dollars, despite your insurance.

Hospitals do this even for patients that required hardly any treatment.

Deportation prison deals

mercredi 4 juillet 2018 à 02:00

Many US cities and counties have cancelled deals with the deportation thugs to hold their prisoners.

Protest isn't civil

mercredi 4 juillet 2018 à 02:00

Protest Isn’t Civil. Indeed, protest against unjust rule cannot be effective if it accepts the limits imposed by unjust rule.