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>>14068935, >>14068945, >>14068986 Sgt. Babyfist admits to being the person that threatened to kill BV + BV family.

>>14056282, >>14056297, >>14056336, >>14056472, >>14056545, >>14056587, >>14056630, >>14059295, >>14059460, >>14059665, >>14059749, >>14061470 Proof-positive that the shills are all using a VPS/VPN to share IP addresses and attack the board.

>>14061867, >>14061869, >>14061879, >>14061886, >>14061927, >>14061929,Shill Tactics 101Educate yourself on your enemies

>>14056718, >>14056728, >>14061958,MJ12 / B / Ingersoll Lockwood / babyfister team is a Larping Conjob trying to take the board

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#17874

>>14127396 Auras n' stuff

>>14127444 There would be a whole other media narrative and β€œhorror story” vax anomalies if Donald Trump had "won"

>>14127506 The World Economic Forum announced June 29 it will initiate a new β€œpublic-private partnership” with Big Tech

>>14127553 Who's heating up the ionosphere?

>>14127573 What is cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome?

>>14127585 AZ SENATE TO HOLD LIVE HEARING THURSDAY 10. AM, Links Here

>>14127593 Man shot on SEPTA bus in Center City

>>14127718 Huge town size β€˜prisons’ need debunk/confirm

>>14127795 'Vampire' confesses to murdering ten children and sucking the blood from at least one victim in Kenya

>>14127798 Just a few more hours until AZ audit progress announcment

>>14127982 Today A Year Ago, 07/14/2020 #GeorgeTB ~ Image 1, 5:29PM ET

>>14128019 FREEDOM PHONE, designed to fight back against Big Tech... anon has doubts

>>14128130 PAIN23? The $WHACKD timer ends on the 23rd!

>>14128147 Dan Scavino [Telegram] account confirmed unofficial!

>>14128178 #17874

 

#17873

>>14126727 Maduro chaos in Venezuela

>>14126751 #JusticeForBeverly

>>14126756 Heebification continues with the vaccinations

>>14126761 What's exactly happening in Africa, Australia, Ireland, France?

>>14126730 New update to my Firefox userChrome.css project

>>14126736 Michael Yeadon RE: pfizer covid threat

>>14126855, >>14126882 Anon Notable Buns

>>14126898 So Dan Scavino doesn't have a Telegram

>>14126965 But Dan Scavino shared this pic on his Instagram

>>14126912 Products containing human fetal tissue cells: unless they proved otherwise

>>14127022, >>14127036, >>14126999 Symbolism? Creepypasta

>>14126955 THE ETHICS OF THE WALVAX-2 CELL STRAIN Background:

>>14127011 Search for "HEK293" It is used to create an "Umami"-effect

>>14126973 $WHACKD timer less than 07:23:23:23

>>14127006, >>14127014 Interestingly 31 tebibytes equals 34 terabytes. Using terabytes (1 000 gigabytes) instead of tebibytes

>>14127038 for the clockfags.

>>14127051 The Silent War Continues [Operation Truth Bomb]

>>14127054 Pentagon Confirmed using Air Force base to 'secretly' fly illegal migrants

>>14127069 Counter Attacks planned for disruption of AZ info. SHOW THEM.

>>14127062, >>14127312 CodeMonkeyZ May have been a guest on AF1

>>14127096 Please take time to read the creed

>>14127315 Breach of Contract!

>>14127366 #17873

 

#17872

>>14125921 It's over. Ya blew it.

>>14125973, >>14125978 ARIZONA AUDIT: Discrepancies Found – Ballot Totals Do Not Match – More Results Expected WITHIN 48 HOURS

>>14125990 Michigan Cease and Desist Letter to Vendor β€˜Election Source’ To Prevent Them from Removing Data from Election Machines on the 15th

>>14125984 Rep. Pat Fallon, sells up to $250,000 in $MSFT right before JEDI contract cancellation in June.

>>14126005 June 28, CIA Director William J. Burns, confirmed "delicate and important" mission.

>>14126023 U.S. Coast Guard Offloads $15M in Seized Cocaine

>>14126120 Fulton County falsified 7 audit tally sheets containing fabricated vote totals for their respective batches of ballot images.

>>14126131 WOW whole lot incoming in the last 48 hours

>>14126177 MOAR AUDITS PLEASE Quote from Bill O'Reilly on the History Tour

>>14126213 Patriots chanting "Liberte!" in Paris as the protest mandatory vax

>>14126219 2 Men Found Dead in Hotel Room at Former Versace Mansion on Miami Beach

>>14126357 Lin Wood’s whistleblower went by the name Ryan Dark White, declares his true name to be Jonathan Ambrose McGreevy

>>14126365 Feds Arrest California Woman For Fake Covid Vaccine Cards

>>14126379 BREAKING: Arizona Senate to Hold Hearing Thursday Morning at 10 AM on Arizona Election Audit

>>14126468 Golden Referee: Sweet Retriever 'Tricked' by Owner to Blow a Whistle, kek

>>14126438 #17872

 

#17871

>>14124933 Chris Cuomo’s Wife Found In Jeffrey Epstein’s β€˜Little Black Book

>>14124937 One-hour flight from Las Vegas to California turned into a 17-hour journey

>>14124941 New Rusty Video just dropped

>>14124947 Biden Admin Using US Military to Secretly Move Illegal Aliens Around the Country

>>14124937 One-hour flight from Las Vegas to California turned into a 17-hour journey

>>14124959 Brian Cates article from 2018 THE SILENT PROFESSIONALS To understand

>>14124933 Chris Cuomo’s Wife Found In Jeffrey Epstein’s β€˜Little Black Book

>>14124941 New Rusty Video just dropped

>>14124959 USAG Barr actually a B2 using the Chain of Command or just setting up Josh Shapiro to take the fall,(Old Skool CIA style)???

>>14124963 AZ Senate President @FannKfann announces a public election audit hearing for tomorrow at 10:00am MST.

>>14124994 Fauci on July 11 said he supported vaccine mandates at the local level as per the delta variant

>>14125074 PAIN This is a soldier's interviewing a green beret RE 1/6.

>>14125014, >>14125107 $706 Billion Pentagon Funding Bill Advanced by House Committee Would Close Gitmo, End 2001 AUMF, Nominee to Lead Pentagon Purchasing Withdraws Amid Investigation

>>14125292 Girls want to meet us Shills want to be us.

>>14125388 Johnson & Johnson is recalling five Neutrogena and Aveeno aerosol sunscreen product lines to the consumer level

>>14125504 The UN is on the way

>>14125546 Dan Scavino Fake telegram https://t.me/s/Dan_Scavino_Official

>>14125605 TODAY a Q drop said, β€˜[SMOLLETT] Federal charges coming?

>>14125581 #17871

 

#17870

>>14124157 Maricopa County Approves Millions to Obtain New Election Equipment From Dominion

>>14124234 Maricopa County is conducting the FIRST forensic election audit in US history.

>>14124247 @mattgaetz many things that still divide us but we can all still agree that James Spear is a dick.

>>14124255 The Cosmic Brotherhood Association (CBA) stated that they contacted aliens

>>14124258 Demand that Virginia colleges and universities revoke their mandate that students!!!!

>>14124265 Dan's tweet is William Wallace, from Braveheart, a Scottish warrior, and he is talking about FREEDOM!

>>14124284 Perryton Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Sharing Child Pornography on Kik

>>14124294 Manager of Water System in Red River Parish Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charge

>>14124305, >>14124363, >>14124404, >>14124441, >>14124473 Consolidated Past Bloatables

>>14124303 45 churches engulfed or attacked in ongoing anti-Christian terror campaign

>>14124325 Biden administration looks to set up β€˜red phone’ to China for emergency communications

>>14124333, >>14124372 A hotline to Beijing would let President Joe Biden to immediately send encrypted phone calls

>>14124343 There is some kind of steganography in COVID. Some message in the DNA

>>14124361 THIS IS NOT GOING AWAY JACKASS POSOBIEC

>>14124362 What happened at the Capitol today? Who did they take out?

>>14124484 Look at all the boat comms Trump card and Durham aren't the only vessel comms.

>>14124566 New evidence of an anomalous phase of matter brings energy-efficient technologies closer

>>14124568 please help downvote: Read Aloud Picture Book! Dr. Fauci

>>14124571 Attention all Plane Fags. The Biden Administration is transporting illegal aliens all over the country

>>14124728 #17870

 

Previously Collected Notables

>>14124404 #17867, >>14124441 #17868, >>14124473 #17869

>>14119897 #17864, >>14124305 #17865, >>14124363 #17866

>>14117429 #17861, >>14118092 #17862, >>14119264 #17863

>>14119442 #17858, >>14117355 #17859, >>14119579 #17860

>>14112159 #17855, >>14114129 #17856, >>14114224 #17857

>>14109739 #17852, >>14110454 #17853, >>14111381 #17854

>>14110481 #17849, >>14110481 #17850, >>14109021 #17851

>>14104885 #17846, >>14105394 #17847, >>14109040 #17848

>>14109424 #17843, >>14103005 #17844, >>14105002 #17845

>>14099872 $17840, >>14100638 #17841, >>14101469 #17842

>>14102012 #17837, >>14098191 #17838, >>14099105 #17839

>>14094901 #17834, >>14098952 #17835, >>14096620 #17836

>>14092358 #17831, >>14093363 #17832, >>14094125 #17833

>>14090059 #17828, >>14090808 #17829, >>14091537 #17830

>>14087592 #17825, >>14088355 #17826, >>14089216 #17827

>>14087041 #17822, >>14085942 #17823, >>14090266 #17824

>>14082834 #17819, >>14083600 #17820, >>14087037 #17821

>>14085549 #17816, >>14081140 #17817, >>14081922 #17818

>>14079667 #17813, >>14078684 #17814, >>14085105 #17815

>>14075441 #17810, >>14079080 #17811, >>14077208 #17812

>>14073671 #17807, >>14074052 #17808, >>14074651 #17809

>>14070831 #17804, >>14071402 #17805, >>14072206 #17806

>>14074359 #17801, >>14069091 #17802, >>14069849 #17803

>>14066074 #17798, >>14066621 #17799, >>14067479 #17800

>>14064825 #17795, >>14064559 #17796, >>14065009 #17797

>>14061095 #17792, >>14061801 #17793, >>14062550 #17794

>>14058477 #17789, >>14059395 #17790, >>14060123 #17791

>>14056777 #17787, >>14057642 #17788, >>14061318 #17784

>>14053496 #17783, >>14055165 #17785, >>14055987 #17786

>>14051120 #17780, >>14053874 #17781, >>14053872 #17782

>>14048813 #17777, >>14050311 #17778, >>14050352 #17779

 

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Anonymous ID: 39142b July 15, 2021, 1:24 p.m. No.14130652   πŸ—„οΈ.is πŸ”—kun

all pb

 

>>14130637

>one would think finkestein would be in their glory, a dedicated thread… but no… they still come here

Exaclty, he posted all of his copy pasta and nothing more. Weird, no one has attempted to argue against anything on that bread. The people the scream "Muh Joo" seem to be avoiding it like the oven.

 

>>14130641

>haha…then why isn't anyone but your finklefaggot ass the only one discussing it on that thread?…are we all jews now cunt?

This is false, Finkle made 5 posts, the rest are other anons.

 

>>14130640

>exactly this… these faggots do nothing but bitch. All bark all day.

for centuries

Anonymous ID: 39142b July 15, 2021, 2:13 p.m. No.14130980   πŸ—„οΈ.is πŸ”—kun   >>0993

>>14130971

>Left eye gouged out because he was wearing the implant?

https://www.eff.org/pages/iris-recognition

 

Iris Recognition

 

Iris recognition or iris scanning is the process of using visible and near-infrared light to take a high-contrast photograph of a person’s iris. It is a form of biometric technology in the same category as face recognition and fingerprinting.

 

Advocates of iris scanning technology claim it allows law enforcement officers to compare iris images of suspects with an existing database of images in order to determine or confirm the subject’s identity. They also state that iris scans are quicker and more reliable than fingerprint scans since it is easier for an individual to obscure or alter their fingers than it is to alter their eyes.

 

Iris scanning raises significant civil liberties and privacy concerns. It may be possible to scan irises from a distance or even on the move, which means that data could be collected surreptitiously, without individuals’ knowledge, let alone consent. There are security concerns as well: if a database of biometric information is stolen or compromised, it is not possible to get a new set of eyes like one would get a reissued credit card number. And iris biometrics are often collected and stored by third-party vendors, which greatly expands this security problem.

How Iris Recognition Works

 

Iris scanning measures the unique patterns in irises, the colored circles in people’s eyes. Biometric iris recognition scanners work by illuminating the iris with invisible infrared light to pick up unique patterns that are not visible to the naked eye. Iris scanners detect and exclude eyelashes, eyelids, and specular reflections that typically block parts of the iris. The final result is a set of pixels containing only the iris. Next, the pattern of the eye’s lines and colors are analyzed to extract a bit pattern that encodes the information in the iris. This bit pattern is digitized and compared to stored templates in a database for verification (one-to-one template matching) or identification (one-to-many template matching).

 

Iris scanning cameras may be mounted on a wall or other fixed location, or they may be handheld and portable. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing long-range scanners that could even be used to capture images surreptitiously from up to 40-feet away.

What Kinds of Data Are Collected for Iris Recognition

 

Iris scanners collect around 240 biometric features, the amalgamation of which are unique to every eye. The scanners then create a digital representation of that data. That numeric representation of information extracted from the iris image is stored in a computer database.

 

Iris scanning is sometimes used in conjunction with other biometrics, such as fingerprints and face recognition.

Who Sells Iris Recognition Technology

 

Companies selling iris recognition technology include Aware, BioID, Biometric Intelligence and Identification Technologies, Crossmatch, EyeLock, Gemalto, Idemia, Iridian Technologies, Iris Guard, Iris ID, IriTech, Neurotechnology, Panasonic, Tascent, SRI International, and Unisys. Many of these companies offer multiple forms of biometric identification technology.

How Law Enforcement Uses Iris Recognition

 

The U.S. military has used iris scanning devices to identify detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. For example, the handheld biometrics recorder SEEK II allows military personnel to take iris scans, fingerprints, and face scans and port the data back to an FBI database in West Virginia in seconds, even in areas with low connectivity. As is often the case with cutting-edge surveillance technologies developed for use in foreign battlefields, similar iris scanning technology has since been deployed by police departments across the U.S.

 

The New York City Police Department was among the first police departments to begin using iris recognition. The department installed BI2 Technologies’ mobile MORIS (Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System) in the fall of 2010. Although New York City’s use of iris scanning in jails was supposed to be voluntary, there have been reports of arrestees being held longer for declining iris photographs. Prisons, such as the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, have also begun using the technology. An EFF survey of California law enforcement agencies in 2015 found that sheriff offices in Orange County and Los Angeles County had plans to implement iris scanning technology.

 

Iris recognition devices are currently being installed in every sheriff’s department along the U.S.-Mexico border. The vendor BI2 offered these sheriffs free three-year trials of its stationary iris capture devices to be used in inmate intake facilities, and it has said it would eventually provide mobile versions as well. The iris templates generated with the mobile app can be compared against hundreds of thousands of other iris templates in less than 20 seconds. The scans will be added to BI2’s private database, which already has close to a million iris scans collected from over 180 law enforcement jurisdictions across the country.

 

The B12 database is housed by a third-party vendor in an undisclosed location in San Antonio, Texas, and in three other disaster backup facilities. A BI2 executive told The Intercept that it is the largest database of its kind in North America.

Threats Posed by Iris Recognition

 

Perhaps the biggest threat of iris scanning is the danger of a national database that can track people covertly, at a distance or in motion, without their knowledge or consent. This raises significant civil liberties and privacy concerns which increase as iris data are collected from more and more people. It may be possible for law enforcement officers to use long-range iris scanners on people simply glancing in their rear view mirror after being pulled over. At some point, it’s possible that every person could be identified at any place, even if they are not suspected of committing a crime.

 

There also are grave concerns with local law enforcement sharing biometric data to help federal immigration agencies such as the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which has direct access to many law enforcement databases.

 

No biometric is foolproof. A 2009 research study showed that patients with acute iris inflammation (also known as iritis or anterior uveitis) caused current iris recognition systems to fail. A 2012 report from the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) showed that iris recognition technology used to identify an individual in a crowd was inaccurate 1 to 10% of the time. Quality problems were due to poor subject presentation (e.g., a closed eye, rotated iris or off-axis gaze), problems with the capture environment (such as motion or defocus blur, reflections due to excessive ambient lighting or broken LEDs), image processing or storage (such as image compression or corruption), and unusual characteristics inherent in the individual (such as an abnormal pupil shapes). The miss rates (or false negative error rates) for single irises ranged from 2.5% to 20% or higher.

 

It is also possible to trick or bypass iris scanners. In 2012, security researchers at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid were able to recreate images of irises from digital codes stored in security databases. More recently, hackers with the Chaos Computer Club in Germany were able to bypass the iris-based authentication in Samsung’s Galaxy S8 smartphone (despite the company’s claims of β€œairtight security,”) by simply taking a digital photograph of the owner’s face in night shot mode, printing it out, superimposing a contact lens on the image, and holding the image in front of the locked phone.

 

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And then there is the issue of data security. It’s unclear what steps, if any, law enforcement agencies are taking to secure the sensitive biometric data they collect. Databases of iris biometric are a honeypot of sensitive, highly personal data that will be targeted by criminals. Data breaches and hacks are at an all-time high. Biometric information is a special risk because it’s not possible to revoke, cancel, or reissue an eyeball if digital biometric information is stolen or compromised. Making the risk of data breach even greater, law enforcement often stores its iris biometrics on databases operated by vendors and other private third parties. This also gives companies access to and control over criminal justice data, which many of their employees can access remotely.