John McAfee's Warning About That Presidential Alert

Yesterday, the first Presidential Alert was sent to phones all across the country. Theories and screenshots took over the internet shortly thereafter.

But one of these theories, in particular, comes from a source that is especially credible with regard to cybersecurity: John McAfee.

Let’s take a quick look at what other folks were saying before we get into McAfee’s assertion.

First, political foes were “triggered.”

Before the alert ever came through, three people in New York were suing to stop it.

The activists filed the suit last week in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, arguing that the system violates their free speech rights and constitutes an unconstitutional seizure of their electronic devices…

…Wireless phone users have the ability to opt out of most alerts sent under the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. While some users can choose not to receive regional messages and so-called Amber Alerts regarding missing or endangered children, under federal rules, receipt of the top-level “presidential alerts“ is mandatory.

In the new lawsuit, J.B. Nicholas, Kristine Rakowsky and Liane Nikitovich contend that the system will effectively turn them into “government loudspeakers” that would allow Trump or others to disseminate propaganda. (source)

Since the alert went out, it appears that their request for a preliminary injunction was not approved.

The motive behind their suit was political, as opposed to constitutional.

Nicholas, Rakowsky and Nikitovich accuse Trump of disseminating “weaponized disinformation” on Twitter and say they “don’t wish to receive text messages, or messages of any kind, on any topic or subject, from Defendant Trump.” (source)

And they weren’t the only ones who were “triggered” by the alert. All across social media, people bemoaned the fact that the wording was “Presidential Alert.”

There are many acceptable names for the alert we all heard.

National Wireless Emergency Alert

National Alert

FEMA Alert

But it’s called the Presidential Alert because Trump has a huge ego. And he loves his intruding into our lives without consent. #PresidentialAlert pic.twitter.com/Zu3pN4p3Qm

— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) October 3, 2018

Don’t you ever contact my phone again for any reason whatsoever, @realDonaldTrump. I don’t give a fuck if it’s an earthquake, tsunami, or tornado. Don’t you ever contact my phone again. #PRESIDENTALALERT deez nutz.

— Rusty Redenbacher (@rustymk2) October 3, 2018

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/68635/john-mcafees-warning-about-that-presidential.html

Scholars’ Rewrite of ‘Mein Kampf’ as Feminist Screed Accepted by Academic Journal for Publication

Three academics rewrote parts of Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf,” infused it with far-left buzzwords, and made it a major part of an intentionally absurd “research paper.” And a notable feminist-oriented journal accepted it for publication.

The paper was a part of a broader effort by academics James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose to expose political bias in humanities research fields such as race, gender, and sexuality, according to a press release.

“Although purposely biased and satirical, our papers are indistinguishable from other work in these disciplines. This is a big problem as this scholarship is taught in universities, taken up by activists, and misinforms politicians and journalists about the true nature of our cultural realities,” Boghossian, an assistant philosophy professor at Portland State University, said in the release.

Over a 10-month period, the three produced 20 papers that covered disciplines such as gender studies, masculinities studies, queer studies, sexuality studies, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, critical whiteness theory, fat studies, sociology, and educational philosophy.

“Each paper began with something absurd or deeply unethical (or both) that we wanted to forward or conclude,” they wrote in an Oct. 2 essay.

Seven of the papers were accepted for publication and four were already published, they say, also estimating three to five more papers would have probably been accepted if they hadn’t stopped their experiment.

The authors were forced to cut their experiment short after their “dog park” paper caught the attention of the Twitter account, Real Peer Review, a platform dedicated to exposing shoddy research. After some ridicule of the paper on social media, the press picked up the story and one of the false identities used by the authors was exposed.

“After having spent a year immersed and becoming recognized experts within these fields, in addition to witnessing the divisive and destructive effects when activists and social media mobs put it to use, we can now state with confidence that it is neither essentially good nor sound,” they stated.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/scholars-rewrite-of-mein-kampf-as-feminist-screed-accepted-by-academic-journal-for-publication_2678375.html

Russia Spotted 21 Foreign Spy Jets Near Border Over Past Week

Twenty-one foreign jets have been spotted carrying out intelligence activities next to the Russian border over the past week, an infographic published by the Russian Armed Forces' official newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda showed on Friday.

In the course of the past seven days, Russian fighter jets have been scrambled five times to prevent foreign aircraft from entering Russian airspace, according to the outlet.

There were no trespasses, the data showed.

In January the Russian Defense Ministry said that one of their Su-27 jets had intercepted a US Nave EP-3 Aries surveillance plane in international airspace over the Black Sea. The Pentagon slammed the interception as "unsafe," but Moscow replied that they took "all necessary precautions" to avoid a hazardous situation.

https://sputniknews.com/russia/201810051068610334-russia-spy-jet-border/

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