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Unconscionable of you, Beth, to still hawk the COVID shot.

Signal already has a backdoor. It was developed with FBI money, in order to be able to spy on unwitting criminal gangs and cartels.

I welcome the U.K. government’s forcing Apple to provide more transparent access to users’ data. This is an important tool in the herculean effort to fight misinformation and right-wing extremism. Unfortunately, a Trump administration cannot be expected to make similar demands on Apple.

RFK jr. now is the FDA. So we no longer trust the FDA?

Could the funding cut-off have anything to do with the shuttering of USAID yesterday?

I would say that it is a recognition that you cannot determine good engineering by government fiat.

When FOIAed, the FDA could not produce a single clinical trial that pitted a new vaccine against an inert placebo, like saline. I would consider that a huge red flag for a product my kids are almost required (in California they are literally) to take. Couple that with the maker of the product...

Vaccines are products. What RFK jr. stands for is not the abolishment of vaccines, but the access to the information necessary for the consumer to give informed consent to the administration of a vaccine, or, alternatively, to decline it. Most current vaccines have a pathetic safety testing...

It is amazing how one-sided the comments here are. Ars readership gleichgeschaltet.

I did not run any of those extensions, because I don’t use Chrome. Reasons are both vulnerabilities and the gross compromise of my privacy by the browser.

Let’s make New York City, Chicago, L.A., the Bay Area city states and have them secede. Not sure, where you all live. We can throw in a few more blue counties, too.

Hey, why do I see so much pharma advertising on your site? Can you truly be objective on issues that might have a negative impact on the pharma industry?

The CCP, not China, is not just an adversary but a mortal enemy. Their words, not ours.

This is a little bit outside of the scope of this discussion, but not by much: I recommend setting up a dedicated VLAN for any home automation or IoT equipment. While that will not protect the world from your smart light bulb becoming part of a distributed attack network, it will at least...

Put that in bridge mode and use a separate, reputable router as your edge device on your network, and you should be very safe. Of course, even purely Wi-Fi equipment could phone home, but it would eventually be discovered, and your edge device could be configured to block those outbound connections.

Check out Netgate. Their pfSense router software is based on FreeBSD. Also, it is largely open-source. You can run a 100% open-source version of pfSense on any x64 hardware with dual Intel NICs.

You could put those behind a good router/internet gateway, like the ones from Netgate (not Netgear). If you purchased a Netgate router 15 years ago, it would still run the latest pfSense software. Probably not with the performance parameters you would want, but it would be secure.

What about all the hospitals that killed COVID patients with remdesivir? And the government rewarding them with more money for a dead COVID patient than one who was cured?

And he will get to the bottom of whether undue influence by powerful commercial interests are the reason that this article says:

Bring it down and dunk it in a swimming pool and look for bubbles.