dChan
Anonymous ID: 7026e0 Jan. 11, 2019, 8:36 p.m. No.4720491   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0532 >>0568 >>0658 >>0660 >>0850 >>1057 >>1146

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plane makes emergency landing near St. Petersburg

 

"Everyone is safe on the ground," spokesman Dave Vasquez said, but questions persist about the state's fleet

 

LARGO — A mechanical problem forced a state airplane carrying Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to make an emergency landing in Largo on Friday afternoon.

 

DeSantis, who was on the way to Fort Lauderdale for a news conference, and everyone else on board, were unharmed.

 

Dave Vasquez, DeSantis' spokesman, could not say what went wrong with the plane, which landed at St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport. The plane is operated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which referred questions to the governor's office.

 

Attorney General Ashley Moody, DeSantis' chief of staff, Shane Strum, and three members of his executive staff were on board.

 

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/01/11/gov-ron-desantis-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-st-petersburg/

Anonymous ID: 7026e0 Jan. 11, 2019, 8:39 p.m. No.4720523   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0577 >>0660 >>0850 >>1057 >>1146

9 million users installed 85 adware infected apps from Play Store

 

Google has now removed all 85 Adware from Play Store.

 

Reportedly, 85 Android applications on Google Play Store were discovered to be sending dangerous, full-screen adware to users. These apps collectively have been installed approx. 9 million times across the world. It is identified that the apps had a built-in adware strain that could display ads at regular intervals when the mobile is in-use as well as when the user unlocks the device.

 

The apps didn’t have any real functionality and their actual function was to bombard the mobile device with adverts so that their developers could earn revenues. Most of the applications were games such as car simulators, TV sets remote controllers or television channel streaming services for different countries including Spain, South Africa, Canada, and Brazil.

 

https://www.hackread.com/85-adware-infected-apps-on-play-store/

Anonymous ID: 7026e0 Jan. 11, 2019, 8:42 p.m. No.4720562   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0589 >>0660 >>0850 >>1057 >>1122 >>1146

BOOM! Irate Veteran Steps In After Muslim Leads Prayer Against ‘Infidels’ In The Senate

 

Delaware senator's anti-Muslim comments draw rebuke

 

Comments that state Sen. Dave Lawson, R-Marydel, made about Islam on the floor of the chamber Wednesday led to a rare rebuke from the chamber's chief member and sparked a brief but fierce discussion about religious freedom.

 

"We just heard from the Quran, which calls for our very demise," Lawson said after a Muslim duo gave the invocation, including a passage from their holy text. "I fought for this country, not to be damned by someone that comes in here and prays to their God for our demise. I think that's despicable."

 

Lawson served in the Air Force and did a tour in Vietnam. He addressed his colleagues on the floor of the Senate.

 

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2017/04/05/senator-muslim/100099642/

Anonymous ID: 7026e0 Jan. 11, 2019, 8:58 p.m. No.4720711   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0850 >>1057 >>1146

Law advocacy center sues CIA for access to Jamal Khashoggi files

 

Now the Open Society Justice Initiative, a New York-based foundation specializing in national security and human rights, has filed a lawsuit against the CIA over the Khashoggi case. The lawsuit also names the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as defendants. The 17-page complaint, filed in a New York court on Wednesday, calls for the “immediate release” of all records in possession of these government agencies about Khashoggi’s murder under the US Freedom of Information Act. It calls these records “imperative for the public to properly and timely evaluate Congressional and Executive responses to Mr. Khashoggi’s killing”.

 

The Justice Initiative is one of the programs of the Open Society Foundations, the international civil-society advocacy group founded by Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist George Soros. Since its establishment in 2003, the Justice Initiative has filed over 100 national and international lawsuits relating to national security, most notably regarding the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program, which the agency launched following the attacks of September 11, 2001.

 

https://intelnews.org/2019/01/10/01-2475/

Anonymous ID: 7026e0 Jan. 11, 2019, 9:11 p.m. No.4720837   🗄️.is 🔗kun

SpaceX launches final 10 satellites for Iridium, first launch of 2019

 

SpaceX on Friday blasted off a payload of global communications satellites for Iridium, marking the first launch of 2019 for the California-based company headed by Elon Musk.

 

"Three, two, one, ignition. Liftoff of Falcon 9," Iridium CEO Matt Desch said on a live webcast as the white Falcon 9 rocket took flight from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 7:31 am (1531 GMT).

 

The mission, carrying 10 Iridium's NEXT satellites to orbit, also marked the completion of Iridium's project to replace the world's largest commercial communication satellite network with 75 new satellites in orbit.

 

Iridium, a provider of voice and data communications, has planned to replace its entire constellation with next-generation satellites since 2017.

 

Its NEXT satellite constellation was designed to deploy a cross-linked Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) architecture, providing coverage over 100 percent of the Earth's surface, including across oceans, airways and polar regions.

 

https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e7759544f31457a6333566d54/share_p.html

Anonymous ID: 7026e0 Jan. 11, 2019, 9:16 p.m. No.4720879   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Yet Another Left-Wing Couple Visits Dangerous Country to Spread Love, Disappears

 

Yet another left-wing couple visited a dangerous foreign country to spread love and engage in utopian activism before promptly disappearing in another tragic case of cultural relativism.

 

Canadian Edith Blais and her Italian boyfriend Luca Tacchetto were traveling in the West African country of Burkina Faso when all communications with their families abruptly ceased on December 15. It is thought that their pair were kidnapped, although their whereabouts remain unknown.

 

The couple traveled through Burkina Faso despite a Canadian government travel advisory warning to “avoid all unnecessary travel” in the country. They were also on their way to the capital of Ouagadougou despite six Canadians being killed in a 2016 attack in the city when Islamic jihadists stormed a hotel.

 

“Canada’s travel advisory for Burkina Faso is about as explicit as you can make these things,” said Gar Pardy, a former director-general of consular affairs who also served as ambassador to multiple countries. “It’s a very troubled country.”

 

The couple had also arrived in Burkina Faso from Mali, despite the Canadian government warning to “avoid all travel” to Mali due to the severe threat of terrorism and violent carjackings.

 

http://www.eutimes.net/2019/01/yet-another-left-wing-couple-visits-dangerous-country-to-spread-love-disappears/

Anonymous ID: 7026e0 Jan. 11, 2019, 9:21 p.m. No.4720922   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0958 >>1057 >>1146

Americans increasingly accept unrestricted facial recognition tech

 

Posted by EU Times on Jan 11th, 2019 // No Comment

 

Americans are increasingly embracing Big Brother, according to a recent survey that found only one in four want restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology by governments – a marked change from two months ago.

 

Just one in four Americans want strict government limits on the use of biometric technology – with opposition shrinking further if such technology would help law enforcement, reduce shoplifting, or speed up security screenings at the airport, according to a national poll conducted last month by the Center for Data Innovation. Opposition to biometric surveillance decreases with age, and women are more accepting of the technology than men, the poll results show.

 

Half of respondents oppose restrictions on biometric tech if the scanners are used to stop shoplifting. Just three months earlier, half of Americans were still against facial recognition for theft prevention purposes, according to the Brookings Institute. Only a quarter of them would oppose retail use now.

 

What changed? Have Americans chosen convenience over dignity? Biometrics executives put their heads together in November to figure out how to sell biometric surveillance to the citizens, worried about numbers that revealed as many as half of Americans opposed use of the tech in the retail sector and believed law enforcement’s use of the technology should be strictly limited. But only three percent of the population were “vocally opposed,” even then – meaning everyone else could be convinced to stop worrying and love Big Brother.

 

Almost two-thirds of respondents support the use of biometrics when the software is right 100 percent of the time, but that number drops to 39 percent if the results are incorrect for one out of five scans. Perhaps unsurprisingly, coverage of the government’s adoption of biometric surveillance has focused on its accuracy: US Customs and Border Protection has caught 26 “imposters” in airports using the technology, and stories of Chinese authorities catching fugitives in the middle of large concerts using biometric tech paint a picture of an accurate – if dystopian – crime-fighting tool.

 

The reality is more unsettling. The ACLU ran a test of Amazon’s Rekognition biometric software last year that found 28 false matches when comparing a database of 25,000 mugshots with photos of every member of Congress, and the error rate is even higher for non-white faces.

 

http://www.eutimes.net/2019/01/americans-increasingly-accept-unrestricted-facial-recognition-tech/