- So it appears that the risks associated with Trump regime's use of the Signal app are not limited to inadvertently sending sensitive information to the wrong person. Apparently the Pentagon is now warning that the app is not as secure as it's supposed to be anyway; it seems that the end to end encryption can be bypassed by clever hackers, potentially including state actors.
- Besides the entirely justified anger at the US for electing a guy who is threatening to invade his neighbours and is in the process of tanking the world economy and making climate change even worse than it was going to be already, there is another factor keeping tourists away - fear. Fear that an innocent mistake regarding the terms of your visa could get you shackled and hauled off to some hellhole prison for an indeterminate period, even if you had previously thought you were immune to that sort of thing due to being a white person from a well-off country. That suits the regime just fine, of course; I suspect that they want to reduce the amount of contact between their own citizens and the rest of the world as much as possible. After all if an impoverished little country like the DPRK can survive almost total isolation, they must figure it should be a cinch for a wealthy country like the US. Especially if they can pick up some Lebensraum (not to mention resources) in the form of Canada and Greenland.
- The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says Pierre Poilievre's campaign for the Conservative leadership received assistance from the Indian government. While CSIS is careful to say that it hasn't been shown that Poilievre knew about said assistance, this might go some distance to explain why he refuses to get a security clearance.
- China has freed employees of an American corporate due diligence firm who had been detained two years previously, apparently as a way of attracting new investment. What's interesting, though, is the circumstances of their detention - their employer had been "conducting unauthorized statistical investigations". It seems they may have feared that this would reveal a bit too much about human rights abuses.
- Just as surely as the fossil fuel industry, the beef industry knew decades ago that their industry is a major contributor to climate change - and like the fossil fuel industry, they did their darnedest to keep this information hidden from the public.
- Joe Rogan, who a few days ago was saying that the Trump regime's behaviour towards Canada was "ridiculous", has now fallen in line. He had been scheduled to work as a commentator at a UFC event in Montreal in May, but now says he'd "rather go to Russia". I guess the MAGA crowd made enough threats to his livelihood - and his life - to get him to reconsider his views on Canada.
- The former CAO of Gilbert Plains, Manitoba had an arrest warrant issued after failing to appear in court on charges of faking a cyberattack in order to defraud the municipality of more than half a million dollars. I guess her lucky VLT didn't come through in time to pay the money back.
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