https://twitter.com/independent/status/1278988100295770113
More than 700 arrested after police crack crime chat network
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Boris Johnson's father undermining coronavirus measures with lockdown trip to Greek villa, Independent Sage warns
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-father-stanley-greece-lockdown-trip-independent-sage-a9599896.html
well ain't you fresh, CIA
>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8486915/Royals-politicians-celebrities-used-secret-EncroChat-phone-network.html
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Royals and politicians are among celebrities and wealthy business figures who used the SAME secret phone network as hundreds of crime kingpins as UK police smash encoded EncroChat app
Royalty and politicians are among celebrities and wealthy business figures who used the SAME secret phone network smashed by police to track down 746 UK crime kingpins.
High-profile names were today linked to the known 60,000 users of EncroChat, with 10,000 in the UK alone.
The devices used for the secure messaging app – usually a modified Android handset – are not illegal and until weeks ago were available to buy online.
But the network hack by European law enforcement teams, partnered with the UK’s National Crime Agency, saw the coded communications system smashed wide open.
Data was then passed to regional police forces who carried out waves of arrests in a drive codenamed Operation Venetic.
The breach by the NCA has prompted concern from legitimate users of the system over what information was uncovered and whether they could be visited by police.
Sources stressed EncroChat was not the exclusive domain of criminals, with the privacy it gave users an attraction for high-profile individuals.
One told the MailOnline: ‘There is no doubt big names will have used this app and system.
‘The nature of the network means it is highly-desirable for those who want privacy, certainly not just criminals plotting wrongdoing.
'They will be wondering if any of their messages have gone before investigators looking for crooks.'
>Operation Venetic
>https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1278996545535463425
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/03/us/what-is-qanon-trnd/index.html
Born on the dark fringes of the internet, QAnon is now infiltrating mainstream American life and politics
Since its origin three years ago, QAnon has festered in the darker corners of the internet. Now the group's followers, who call themselves "believers," have found a niche on social media and within the Republican Party.
QAnon began as a single conspiracy theory. But its followers now act more like a virtual cult, largely adoring and believing whatever disinformation the conspiracy community spins up.
Its main conspiracy theories claim dozens of politicians and A-list celebrities work in tandem with governments around the globe to engage in child sex abuse. Followers also believe there is a "deep state" effort to annihilate President Donald Trump.
But followers of the group have expanded from those beliefs and now allege baseless theories surrounding mass shootings and elections. Followers have falsely claimed that 5G cellular networks are spreading the coronavirus.
There's no evidence that any of what QAnon claims is factual.
>Didn't know what to call myself till till just now! Thanks CNN!
>https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2020/07/02/what-are-they-hiding-ohio-health-dept-says-foia-requests-can-be-delayed-until-90-days-after-covid-emergency-ends-n597273
https://time.com/4065338/margaret-sanger-clinic-history/
Why Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger Kept Getting Arrested
>https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-judge-releases-encrypted-blackberry-messages-from-20000-users-to-dutch-crime-probe
Canadian judge releases encrypted BlackBerry messages from 20,000 users to Dutch crime probe
After a police raid on a Toronto technology company, Canada has agreed to share a massive stash of encrypted BlackBerry Ltd. messages with Dutch police investigating an underworld conspiracy involving robberies, drug trafficking, attempted murder and assassinations.
But rather than simply hand over the messages, from 20,000 different users, an Ontario judge this week imposed restrictions designed to prevent a “fishing expedition” by police in the Netherlands or any other country. The ruling ensures the data will remain under Canadian control, and not be shared further without a court’s approval.
The fear is that unfettered disclosure would expose innocent people to the unjustified attention of police, just because they used an encrypted BlackBerry.
“Canada remains the home of this data,” Judge Ian Nordheimer wrote.
The case arose from a Dutch probe of an organized crime ring, in which police seized assault rifles, machine guns, grenades, vehicles, tracking devices, and large sums of money. Unusually, they also kept discovering BlackBerries that had been modified to send only encrypted messages, outside the normal cellphone network.
>There's no evidence that any of what QAnon claims is factual.
<NEVER MAKE GRETA CRY
>Her sister wrote dB software used by the FBI
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any links to read through?
second question; what's up with Comey's daughter?
>Christine Maxwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Maxwell
After Magellan was acquired by competing search engine Excite, in 1996, she went on to co-found Chiliad: a software company involved in the advance of on-demand, massively scalable, intelligent mining of structured and unstructured data through the use of natural language search technologies. The firm's software was behind the data search technology used by the FBI's counterterrorism data warehouse.
>Chiliad
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0817391D:US
The firm's software was behind the data search technology used by the FBI's counterterrorism data warehouse.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Maxwell
https://vimeo.com/4441214
Leonardo.info - interview with Christine Maxwell
At Forum Oxford this year we were treated to a fascinating talk by Christine Maxwell. She's currently running a startup looking into mobile search, but her talk was about the Leonardo, an online network where Art, Science and Technology converge.
The heart of their work seems to be the journal Leonardo which was founded in 1968 in Paris by kinetic artist and astronautical pioneer Frank Malina. In the years before widespread use of the Internet, Malina created an international channel of communication between artists, with emphasis on the writings of artists who use science and developing technologies in their work. After the death of Frank Malina in 1981, and under the leadership of his son, Roger F. Malina, Leonardo moved to San Francisco, California, as the flagship journal of the newly founded nonprofit organization Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST). The organisation has grown along with its community and today is the leading organization for artists, scientists and others interested in the application of contemporary science and technology to the arts and music.
Christine is a former Trustee of the Internet Society and The Santa Fe Institute. She serves on the Advisory Board of Leonardo, and it was in this capacity that she gave the presentation in Oxford. There is a mine of fascinating information on the website leonardo.info, although navigation is a challenge. Clearly offline publishing of the journal is the main priority.
>Chiliad
https://www.eweek.com/news/data-search-technology-used-by-fbi-makes-its-way-to-enterprises
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Data Search Technology Used by FBI Makes Its Way to Enterprises
Chiliad, the company behind the data search technology used by the FBI's counterterrorism data warehouse, is bringing its massively parallel processing technology to the enterprise space. The pitch - to help enterprises connect the dots between their unstructured and structured data so they can draw business value from it.
For the past several years, every time someone at the FBI wanted to search for a name in its Investigative Data Warehouse, they could count on technology from Chiliad working in the background.
Think of it as an uber Google - a search engine capable of pulling information from all of your organization's databases.
"The proof is in the pudding," said Paul McOwen, chief operating officer of Chiliad. "A lot of people can talk about a lot of systems; this one has been in full scale operation for six years [and is] the largest counterterrorism system of its kind at the FBI. When they run 50,000 queries a day, almost all of those queries are going against all billion documents in about 200 different search engine servers, and their average response time is less than three seconds."
Officials at Chiliad refer to this process as "connecting the dots," a task sure to challenge organizations as the amount of data in the world continues to expand. Now, after years of focusing on the government sector, Chiliad wants to take their technology into the enterprise space.
"The 'connecting the dots' problem is a universal problem in all enterprises whether government or industry-focused," said Dan Ferranti, CEO of the company. "The bottom line is that every organization can benefit substantially from being better able to find, fuse, analyze, share and act on information from across the enterprise or across the globe - as if it were all seamlessly contained in a single local real-time application."
The dot metaphor can be taken quite literally. The company's platform, dubbed Chiliad Discovery/Alert, works in parallel across distributed repositories of both unstructured and structured data. Rather than moving data across the network to a central indexing system, Chiliad's technology allows organizations to put a Discovery/Alert node wherever information is managed. Each node is part of a secure peer-to-peer network that allows a query to be executed in parallel across all locations.
"What Chiliad has done is to create a massively parallel processing virtual computer, so when we run a query, the query's actually delivered to different locations…around the world over multiple networks and that query is fired on the data sets that are behind the repositories in each of the applications," McOwen said.
The setup allows organizations to avoid problems tied to efficiency and security associated with traditional enterprise search, Chiliad officials said.
"If you search across an Oracle database, with an SQL query, for example, you're pulling big data through big pipes locally just to get the answer," he said. "When you search in this parallel virtual computer that Chiliad has designed and built, you're doing all the work at the endpoint."
The FBI began using Chiliad's technology to get around problems involving correlating and accessing data from disparate sources, which is at the heart of what the company does. Enterprises face similar issues as they deal with volumes of unstructured and structured data, and Chiliad has spent the past few months targeting the Fortune 500 with its message.
"We've found that the 'connecting the dots' problem manifests itself in slightly different ways in specific industries and companies," Ferranti said. "For example, Chiliad is helping a top pharmaceutical company with investigating and preventing drug counterfeiting. We are also working with multiple insurance companies in order to optimize their claims management process."
Selling to the enterprise space, however, will mean challenging incumbent vendors adding search into larger platform packages, noted IDC analyst Hadley Reynolds.
"Microsoft, IBM and Oracle have all upgraded their search offering in the past two years, and SAP is also hoping to use this strategy," he said. "Microsoft in particular, after its acquisition of FAST, has a highly capable enterprise search platform. Since Chiliad's product is a platform, rather than an application, they will often need to win both a technical evaluation and a vendor viability scan against the larger players in order to be considered."
Then there is also the issue of shrinking IT budgets as well as the presence of open-source alternatives such as Apache Lucene and Solr, he added.
Still, he referred to Chiliad's technology as a step towards a larger trend IDC calls "Unified Access."
"We are going to see a -virtualization' trend in information access that will change the playing field away from traditional enterprise application-based models and toward much more flexible 'search-like' intelligence that spans structured and unstructured data and is much more sensitive to a user's context," said Reynolds. "Chiliad's federation architecture is a step in this direction."
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