kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

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> Россия будет сохранять связи с соотечественниками на Украине путем мягкой силы, заявил пресс-секретарь президента РФ Дмитрий Песков

https://www.interfax.ru/russia/749867

Cuban 🇨🇺 ruling party has been hit so hard by lack of dollars from wealthy western tourists coming for cheap booze and island fun, that it graciously expanded the list of sectors of economy where private enterprises are allowed. So far, there were 127 of them, now it will be over 2000.

It's what China did, only in 80's, rather than 2021.

https://www.forexlive.com/news/!/cuban-revolution-massive-change-announced-for-private-business-ownership-20210207

🇪🇺 To be honest, Borrell was just incompetent. He took part in a carefully staged show and came up as completely naive and unprepared. In the press conference both Lavrov and Sputnik played well-written roles, while Borrell was looking completely lost and mumbled something random in response to the questions. Each of which was a perfect opportunity to push EU position, and each of them was wasted.

https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/92722/my-visit-moscow-and-future-eu-russia-relations_en

If you're Polish, Czech or Slovak, and grew up in 80-90's you'll be certainly puzzled by this 🤔

Russian activist Alyona Kitayeva had a plastic bag put on her head on a police station, strangulated, shaken and threatened. Infamous state propaganda channel host Solovyev invites an "expert" who explains she was not strangulated with a plastic bag but... the police "let her breathe into a paper bag because she was hyperventilating" 🤷 Kitayeva of course clearly describes threats and strangulation.

The story from 2019 that we should be talking about all the time:

"A security flaw in WhatsApp can be, and has been, exploited to inject spyware into victims' smartphones: all a snoop needs to do is make a booby-trapped voice call to a target's number, and they're in. The victim doesn't need to do a thing other than leave their phone on."

https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/14/whatsapp_zero_day/

This article highlights all fundamental issues with #whatsapp business model but misses one particular issue, which actually made me remove WhatsApp from my primary phone: security exploits used for surveillance, as it was the case in 2019. The app is a closed-source binary blob that is analysed mostly by highly motivated and well-funded researchers, who sell exploits on zero-day market, leaving users exposed.

https://seirdy.one/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users.html

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Risks of #COVID19 transmission in different settings

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3223