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  • Tricky
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    • Apr 2009
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    #1006
    Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

    Originally posted by NeoMatrix
    World wide Fact Watch audiences sounds like a good idea, but I have to ask, who watches the "Fact Watch" website for global corrections and errors.

    Centralised information makes it far easier for money, loans,favours leading to bribery and corruption.

    just saying...
    Associated press does exactly this, media outlets get an account and can reprint the stories.
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    • Tricky
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      #1007
      Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

      Originally posted by NeoMatrix
      Important news that the USA is monitoring Australians on the dark web. How are those privacy laws inacted?
      Good work from the Aussies police in Australia they saved 4 children from sexual predators.
      Needless to say these people need to be dealt with.

      However Darknet is accessed by the Tor Browser and uses onion routing which is a technology invented by the US Naval Research in an attempt to keep communications untraceable and encrypted. The technology was later open sourced and released to the public so the whole world can use it rather than just the US Military which introduces more anonymity. Its practically impossible to de anonymize a tor user and find out their location. People get caught by using email addresses and nicknames etc they have used somewhere else.

      A pdf called "Tor stinks" released by Edward Snowden and very easy to find on the internet has the following to say,

      We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time.
      With manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users, however no success de-anonymizing a user in response to a TOPI request/ on demand.
      There is a rather excellent fifteen minute youtube video on the subject here

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      • Tricky
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        #1008
        Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

        Originally posted by NeoMatrix
        I'm not against Microsoft per'se. It just that I believe I found internet backdoors in the early versions of Win10 software when installed directly off a clean authorised DVD. Something is not quite right. In saying that, I believe Microsoft sub-contracts their DVD manufacturing out to Singapore. So its a case of who has who's best interest at heart.
        Do I get this right, are you saying the Windows 10 code is modified in Singapore, copied to a dvd and then sold as a genuine product?

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        • n25an
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          #1009
          Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

          microsoft windows products typically ship with a lot of errors which can become exploits...

          for some they profit by this by finding these exploits and selling them to the highest bidder... they are zero days... errors which need to be fixed now... meaning so critical its like zero days to fix them... they are so critical...

          below is a link to what one of microsoft updates fixed...
          Microsoft's February 2020 Patch Tuesday Fixes 99 Flaws, IE 0day

          the idea of computer related equipment with common vulnerabilites and exposures is so common its not restricted to microsoft
          CVE security vulnerability database. Security vulnerabilities, exploits, references and more

          most of these back doors and "errors" were built by engineers for testing...
          and with the demands, firings, promoting, demoting and rehiring natural to any corporation... some of them become embarrassing exploits and zero days and need fixing...
          they are like the service mode for copiers...
          they have just been applied for malicious uses...
          hence the reason for updates... patches... or firmware updates... on microsoft and various platforms...



          Originally posted by skynet
          Do I get this right, are you saying the Windows 10 code is modified in Singapore, copied to a dvd and then sold as a genuine product?
          Last edited by n25an; 04-23-2020, 04:23 AM.
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          • Phil B.
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            #1010
            Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

            Originally posted by n25an
            microsoft windows products typically ship with a lot of errors which can become exploits...

            for some they profit by this by finding these exploits and selling them to the highest bidder... they are zero days... errors which need to be fixed now... meaning so critical its like zero days to fix them... they are so critical...

            below is a link to what one of microsoft updates fixed...
            Microsoft's February 2020 Patch Tuesday Fixes 99 Flaws, IE 0day

            the idea of computer related equipment with common vulnerabilites and exposures is so common its not restricted to microsoft
            CVE security vulnerability database. Security vulnerabilities, exploits, references and more

            most of these back doors and "errors" were built by engineers for testing...
            and with the demands, firings and rehiring natural to any corporation... some of them become embarrassing exploits and zero days and need fixing...
            they are like the service mode for copiers...
            they have just been applied for malicious uses...
            hence the reason for updates... patches... or firmware updates... on microsoft and various platforms...
            Getting way off topic again

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            • Phil B.
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              #1011
              Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

              Heroic Factory Workers Finally Clock Out After 28-Day Shift of Producing Vital Health Care Materials

              American laborers sacrificing to work a nearly month-long shift were finally able to clock out Monday.
              Braskem America in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, has been in operation round-the-clock for at least 28 days, manufacturing raw materials needed for the production of N95 masks, hospital gowns and sanitary wipes put in short supply by the ongoing pandemic.

              Of course, a manufacturing effort of that magnitude requires manpower and, according to WPVI-TVYouTubesacrificei BET NONE OF THESE WORKERS HAVE A $24,000.00 FREEZER STOCKED WITH GOURMET ICE CREAM!

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              • Phil B.
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                #1012
                Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                First U.S. coronavirus death earlier than thought, autopsy shows - Axios

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                • FrohnB
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                  #1013
                  Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                  A CNN story I read a couple days ago said, "Harvard researchers warned that if the country wants the economy to open back up -- and stay that way -- testing must go up to at least 500,000 people per day."

                  Then I heard Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci talking during the briefing. Dr. Deborah Birx, who serves as the response coordinator for the Trump Administration’s White House Coronavirus Task Force, recently said testing capacity of one million tests per week is available. At that rate, it would take more than six years to test every American.
                  “We really need to get up to at least maybe two times that, three times that.” Says Dr. Fauci.

                  So, with Fauci's words, and the Harvard Researchers' words, it would still take 2 - 3 years to test every American.?!? Are we supposed to remain "in fear" and shutdown, and completely unravel as a society for that long? Is that what it's going to take for these people to be "satisfied with the results". This argument of needing MORE and MORE and MORE testing to reopen the economy is getting WAY played out, and more and more Americans are getting fed up with the restrictions and draconian bullshit that is playing out every day.
                  Omertà

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                  • FrohnB
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                    #1014
                    Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                    Makes you wonder, huh?
                    It was theorized that the numbers are so much lower in California compared to New York because they had already developed a "Herd Immunity" (meaning that the virus has already made it's rounds, and the community "as a whole" has built up an immunity to the virus) in California, which happens to have the highest chinese population in the nation (1.25 Million). New York has the Second Highest number of Chinese with 577,000.
                    Omertà

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                    • n25an
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                      #1015
                      Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                      I don't know about you guys but I will take my chances with covid 19... look... if we had a social safety net that would last 5 years... I would be all in... but I am my social safety net... and the more I work the better it gets... I want to work... even if it kills me... because well... who knows how much longer I will have a home... as it stands I will have to start looking for work soon... to sure up my income... i appreciate the stimulus money but the last time uncle sam gave out stimulus money... he demanded twice as much in taxes... and i really don't want to be in that position... atleast thats my position...
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                      • bsm2
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                        • Feb 2008
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                        #1016
                        Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                        Originally posted by FrohnB
                        Makes you wonder, huh?
                        It was theorized that the numbers are so much lower in California compared to New York because they had already developed a "Herd Immunity" (meaning that the virus has already made it's rounds, and the community "as a whole" has built up an immunity to the virus) in California, which happens to have the highest chinese population in the nation (1.25 Million). New York has the Second Highest number of Chinese with 577,000.
                        Nope CA was one of the first states to do a stay at home orders. Weeks before others states followed.
                        That's why there infection rate is lower. Their Governor believes in the science and listened to the health experts.

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                        • Copier Addict
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                          #1017
                          Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                          Originally posted by bsm2
                          Nope CA was one of the first states to do a stay at home orders. Weeks before others states followed.
                          That's why there infection rate is lower. Their Governor believes in the science and listened to the health experts.

                          There is no conspiracy theory here!
                          We are looking for someone else to blame for this and you aren't doing your part. Try harder next time!!

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                          • n25an
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                            #1018
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                            • FrohnB
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                              #1019
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                              Originally posted by bsm2
                              Nope CA was one of the first states to do a stay at home orders. Weeks before others states followed.
                              That's why there infection rate is lower. Their Governor believes in the science and listened to the health experts.
                              You truly believe that California mandating a "stay at home order" only TWO DAYS before New York resulted in 1/5th of cases, and 1/10th the number of deaths??
                              You do realize that California has TWICE the number of people than New York does, don't you? Also, as stated before, Double the chinese population.
                              Omertà

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                              • bsm2
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                                #1020
                                Re: Latest on the Corona Virus

                                Originally posted by FrohnB
                                You truly believe that California mandating a "stay at home order" only TWO DAYS before New York resulted in 1/5th of cases, and 1/10th the number of deaths??
                                You do realize that California has TWICE the number of people than New York does, don't you? Also, as stated before, Double the chinese population.

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