It’s Hot ; Random News Bits
Jun. 8th, 2021 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutIt’s really hot again today. I did get a walk with M.
A. is feeling a little better, but still not eating as much as usual.
I saw another article at WaPo about a Qster who has been in jail for several months following the terrorist attack on Jan 6, in which they say, I believed a bunch of lies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/08/douglas-jensen-qanon-conspiracy/
Altho, in the same breath, continuing to say bad things about the police, so, you know, only very partially reformed.
This all brought up thoughts of, so, what’s up with the other crazy people who aren’t in jail? Apparently, during the months I have Not Been Paying Attention, Bongino (local crazy radio personality) hyped and then became disillusioned with Parler, and the coupsters have apparently migrated to Telegram. I have all kinds of Thoughts about relying upon encrypted communication systems (mostly, this amounts to, why would I go have a conversation in a place that I Thought Was Safe for Having Illegal Conversations unless I knew a whole lot about the technical details, which I do not, and I don’t want to know either). And that thought led, in turn, here:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/08/australia/afp-fbi-anom-app-operation-ironside/index.html
Apparently, phones get stolen that you can’t use for the usual purposes (calling) because of deterrence measures, but you _can_ use them on wireless and there is (was?) an app (never heard of it before) that Bad People Who Steal Phones Or Consciously Buy Stolen Phones believe was a secure encrypted form of communication. I should say, “believed”, because, it wasn’t secure and a whole lot of them have learned that the hard way. The same article includes this gem:
“Kershaw added there were other, larger encrypted communication apps which police were working to access.”
More detail here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/08/fbi-app-arrests-australia-crime/
We should get the police to WFH more often.
A. is feeling a little better, but still not eating as much as usual.
I saw another article at WaPo about a Qster who has been in jail for several months following the terrorist attack on Jan 6, in which they say, I believed a bunch of lies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/08/douglas-jensen-qanon-conspiracy/
Altho, in the same breath, continuing to say bad things about the police, so, you know, only very partially reformed.
This all brought up thoughts of, so, what’s up with the other crazy people who aren’t in jail? Apparently, during the months I have Not Been Paying Attention, Bongino (local crazy radio personality) hyped and then became disillusioned with Parler, and the coupsters have apparently migrated to Telegram. I have all kinds of Thoughts about relying upon encrypted communication systems (mostly, this amounts to, why would I go have a conversation in a place that I Thought Was Safe for Having Illegal Conversations unless I knew a whole lot about the technical details, which I do not, and I don’t want to know either). And that thought led, in turn, here:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/08/australia/afp-fbi-anom-app-operation-ironside/index.html
Apparently, phones get stolen that you can’t use for the usual purposes (calling) because of deterrence measures, but you _can_ use them on wireless and there is (was?) an app (never heard of it before) that Bad People Who Steal Phones Or Consciously Buy Stolen Phones believe was a secure encrypted form of communication. I should say, “believed”, because, it wasn’t secure and a whole lot of them have learned that the hard way. The same article includes this gem:
“Kershaw added there were other, larger encrypted communication apps which police were working to access.”
More detail here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/08/fbi-app-arrests-australia-crime/
We should get the police to WFH more often.