Be on the Lookout: Amazon Turns its Gaze to Surveillance
"AWS already has a sprawling Pentagon business, and it is the odds-on favorite for a new contract that could be worth $10 billion."
VPNFilter malware infecting 500,000 consumer devices is worse than we thought
"The FBI recommended that all owners of consumer-grade routers, switches, and network-attached storage devices reboot their devices. While the advice likely disrupted VPNFilter’s advance and bought infected users time, it may also have created the mistaken belief that rebooting alone was enough to fully remove VPNFilter from infected devices."
LTE wireless connections used by billions aren’t as secure as we thought
"The attacks work because of weaknesses built into the LTE standard itself. The most crucial weakness is a form of encryption that doesn’t protect the integrity of the data."
Oklahoma Passes Most Progressive Medical Marijuana Initiative Since California’s Prop 215
"Oklahomans for Health, the folks behind the initiative ought to be feeling pretty good right about now. They have successfully passed a very enlightened medical marijuana law in the face of opposition from the state's Republican and religious establishment."
Amazonian psychedelic ayahuasca may ease severe depression, new study shows
"These two studies, while preliminary, contribute to a growing body of evidence that psychedelic drugs like ayahuasca, LSD and mushrooms can help people with difficult-to-treat depression."
CEO: Tech companies should not permit governments to use face recognition
"In the hands of government surveillance programs and law enforcement agencies, there’s simply no way that face recognition software will be not used to harm citizens."
Bill Bonner: Do You Live Next to One of These Spy Hubs?
"Republicans are back on their feet, cheering the very Big Government they despised a generation ago."
How Silicon Valley workers are revolting against ICE overreach
"The growing recognition among white-collar workers that their labor is a precondition to the carrying out of unjust policies — and that if they withhold that labor, they can help bring these policies to a halt — is critical."
Microsoft Removes Glowing Mention of ICE Contract After Protests
"Microsoft Corp. scrubbed an online reference to its work for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the agency faces criticism for its role in separating families at the U.S.-Mexican border."
Amazon employees protest sale of facial recognition software to police
"The employees call out two specific businesses that Amazon should end: the sale of facial recognition software to law enforcement (marketed as Amazon Web Services Rekognition), and the sale of AWS cloud services to Palantir (a data analytics firm that provides 'mission critical' software to ICE)."
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