"Music speaks. It speaks in its own language differently to each of us. I believe in music as a contribution to the discussion about who we are and where we are headed. ... The unruly thing about music is that it demands its own meanings that are beyond any explanation. You might be able to decipher the nuts and bolts, but in the end, you can't unscramble the mystery of how music makes you feel. That's why I don't often write about my music. Words can so often obscure the feelings and the sense of music. Music is not an argument, it lives in its own universe and refuses to be pinned down."
~ Dave Douglas not related to the Bellevue Hill Opera Singer Christine Douglas ;-)
Big day with my electioneering Aboriginal Mittleuropean mate and AFL Legend Mark Heiss whose twitter is busy today as the Swan Game brings Sydney Glorious sunny day even more alive https://mobile.twitter.com/mjheiss
“You judge books by their covers. Then we judge you. Cool? Cool.”
Why children born in years of the media dragon are more successful The Economist
India demonetisation failed to purge black money FT
Big day with my electioneering Aboriginal Mittleuropean mate and AFL Legend Mark Heiss whose twitter is busy today as the Swan Game brings Sydney Glorious sunny day even more alive https://mobile.twitter.com/mjheiss
It is always the same scumish psychopaths who get to leadership positions be it communism or capitalism : Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact.
“You judge books by their covers. Then we judge you. Cool? Cool.”
Why children born in years of the media dragon are more successful The Economist
India demonetisation failed to purge black money FT
Man jailed for selling VPNs to evade China’s ‘Great Firewall’ SCM
Grizzly bears go vegetarian due to climate change, choosing berries over salmon Telegraph
The New
York Times
The calls
started flooding in from hundreds of irate North Carolina voters just after 7
a.m. on Election Day last November. Dozens were told they were ineligible to
vote and were turned away at the polls, even when they displayed current
registration cards. Others were sent from one polling place to another, only to
be rejected. Scores of voters were incorrectly told they had cast ballots days
earlier. In one precinct, voting halted for two hours. Susan Greenhalgh, a
troubleshooter at a nonpartisan election monitoring group, was alarmed. Most of
the complaints came from Durham, a blue-leaning county in a swing state. The
problems involved electronic poll books — tablets and laptops, loaded with
check-in software, that have increasingly replaced the thick binders of paper
used to verify voters’ identities and registration status. She knew that the
company that provided Durham’s software, VR Systems, had been penetrated by
Russian hackers months before. “It felt like tampering, or some kind of
cyberattack,” Ms. Greenhalgh said about the voting troubles in Durham.
Cybersecurity firm says Russian hacking group using new malware tool
Cybersecurity firm says Russian hacking group using new malware tool
The Washington Post
Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan first published “The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries” in 2015. In that book, the pair used investigative reporting and sharp analysis to show how the Kremlin was using the Internet to its advantage. Two years later, Russia's alleged use of covert online operations became a topic of discussion all around world. And so Soldatov and Borogan began investigating again. Now they have released a new version of their book that includes an additional chapter on the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The new chapter provides important context about Russian President's Vladimir Putin's possible motivations — as well as evidence of apparent links between WikiLeaks and the Kremlin, and details of the ongoing fallout in Russia.
A sloppy spamming operation has exposed on a server in the Netherlands gigabytes of files that include 711 million email addressees and some associated account passwords. It's perhaps the largest batch of email addresses ever found in one spot. It tops the 393 million email addresses exposed earlier this year by U.S-based email and SMS marketing company River City Media, says Troy Hunt, an Australia-based data breach expert. While a good chunk of the email addresses and accompanying credentials appear to have been taken from other well-known breaches, including LinkedIn, Badoo and the Exploit.in list, some of them, nevertheless, are valid, which puts some users at risk. Hunt says individuals often reuse authentication credentials despite repeated warnings about the risks that come from data breaches. "There will be valid data in it," he says of the exposed batch of files. "The individual who passed this on has verified that there are valid credentials." The data is still exposed on an IP address hosted in the Netherlands that is run by a Russian hosting company. The spam operators mistakenly left directory browsing open, which exposed the data. Dutch law enforcement has been notified, and efforts are being made to have it taken down.
On a warm Phoenix night five years ago, Aaron Cashatt walked down the red-carpeted hall of the second floor of a Marriott hotel, trying to move casually despite the adrenaline and methamphetamine surging through his bloodstream.
