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https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-run-by-miserable-jews-says-rebel-chief/
Ukraine run by ‘miserable Jews,’ says rebel chief
Leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic calls for ‘Cossacks’ to take back country from pro-Western leaders
DONETSK, Ukraine — Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebel chief on Monday branded the country’s leaders “miserable” Jews in an apparent anti-Semitic jibe.
Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, claimed that Kiev’s pro-Western leaders were “miserable representatives of the great Jewish people.
“I can’t remember a time when Cossacks were led by people who have never held a sword in their hands,” Zakharchenko told a press conference in the eastern rebel stronghold of Donetsk, in a reference to Ukraine’s nationalist forebears, the Cossacks.
Zakharchenko said that the country’s historical nationalists “would turn in their graves if they could see who is running Ukraine.”
Anti-Semitic sentiment remains widespread in Ukraine, where leaders are commonly labelled as Jewish by those seeking to discredit them.
The comments by Zakharchenko, who was flanked by the leader of the neighboring rebel-held region of Lugansk, Igor Plotnitsky, were carried live by Russian news channel Rossiya-24.
The rebels leaders on Monday announced a mass call-up, aimed at bolstering their forces to 100,000 troops.
Fighting between Ukrainian forces and the pro-Russian rebels, which has claimed 5,100 lives since April, has surged in recent weeks after the collapse of a tenuous ceasefire deal.
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Google has yanked dozens of apps from its Google Play store after determining that they include a software element that surreptitiously harvests data.
The Panamanian company that wrote the code, Measurement Systems S. de R.L., is linked through corporate records and web registrations to a Virginia defense contractor that does cyber intelligence, network-defense and intelligence-intercept work for U.S. national-security agencies.
The code ran on millions of Android devices and has been found inside several Muslim prayer apps that have been downloaded more than 10 million times, as well as a highway-speed-trap detection app, a QR-code reading app and a number of other popular consumer apps, according to two researchers who discovered the behavior of the code in the course of auditing work they do searching for vulnerabilities in Android apps. They shared their findings with Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., federal privacy regulators and The Wall Street Journal.
Measurement Systems paid developers around the world to incorporate its code – known as a software development kit, or SDK – into their apps, developers said. Its presence allowed the Panamanian company to surreptitiously collect data from their users, according to Serge Egelman, a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, and Joel Reardon of the University of Calgary.
Modern apps often include SDKs written by little-known companies like Measurement Systems "that aren’t audited or well understood," Mr. Egelman said. Inserting them is often enticing for app developers, who get a stream of income as well as detailed data about their user base.
"This saga continues to underscore the importance of not accepting candy from strangers," Mr. Egelman said.
The two men – who also co-founded a company called AppCensus that examines the security and privacy of mobile apps – consider the software to be the most privacy-invasive SDK they have seen in the six years they have been examining mobile apps. It can "without a doubt be described as malware," Mr. Egelman said.
He and Mr. Reardon documented their findings on the Measurement Systems code in a report published Wednesday that was shared with the Journal and was earlier provided to the Federal Trade Commission. They also shared their findings in March with Google, which initiated an investigation resulting in the ban. "FTC investigations are nonpublic, we cannot comment on whether we are investigating a particular matter," an FTC spokeswoman said.
The apps containing Measurement Systems software were removed from the Google Play Store as of March 25, according to Scott Westover, a Google spokesman, for collecting users’ data outside the rules that Google has established. Mr. Westover said the apps could be relisted if the software was removed. Some are already back in the App Store.
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"We Are Witnessing Right Now the Chinafication of Europe" - Romanian MEP Cristian Terheș
"When the government knows everything about you, where you go, what you eat, where you enter, that's a tyrannical system, and we've seen the system being implemented right now… "
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“Today we finally managed to start the evacuation of people from Azovstal. After many weeks of negotiations, after many attempts, different meetings, calls and proposals. There was not a single day when we did not try to find a solution that would save our people. Today, for the first time in all the days of the war, this vital corridor has started working. For the first time there were two days of real ceasefire.
More than a hundred civilians have already been evacuated - women and children fleeing hostilities there. At Azovstal. Given all the complexities of the process, the first evacuees will arrive in Zaporizhzhia tomorrow morning. Our team will meet them there. I hope that tomorrow all the necessary conditions will be met to continue the evacuation of people from Mariupol. We plan to start at 8 am.”
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