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French police and intelligence services take the Encrochat service to pieces and fill it with malware to catch the bad guys.
Really quite impressive work considering how far behind the curve LEA tend to be. That said, it always felt like the Encrochat architecture was likely to be riddled with attack vectors. Even so, takes a bit of skill to roll something like this up.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-53263310
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Yeah damn impressive.
Dame Cressida said: "These people are in business to make enormous amounts of money. Many of them lead a very respectable lifestyle - and definitely a high-end lifestyle in fancy houses with big cars going to... clubs and restaurants, splashing the cash sometimes, but sometimes being very discreet about it."
So being the boss of a criminal enterprise that has people dismembered and murdered is a very respectable lifestyle? Guess it’s true that money’s all that matters...
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This pompous and vain fool has been getting away with it for too long. It would be nice to think that he will no longer be seen as a respectable person, let alone an intellectual. How his career survived his comments on the London riots I will never know.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jul/02/david-starkey-widely-criticised-for-saying-slavery-was-not-genocide -
Oh that Grimes is a grubby little cunt. Him and Tom Harwood. They have some powerful backers though #tuftonstreetmafia
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Starkey losing positions and book deals left right and centre: https://mobile.twitter.com/Tony_Diver/status/1279032682991824896
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Which is quite encouraging that there's less tolerance for it now.
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From a report of a sexual assault, so not at all a funny story, but...hay?
During the police investigation, officers found a black leather jacket with latex gloves in the pockets, a T-shirt, a long silver wig and a bra as well as some hay in a Tesco bag.
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A pet shop boy?
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When an officer smashed in the window of Ryan Colaço’s car, after he was wrongly accused of concealing drugs, they did not know he was driving home from a TV interview in which he told of institutional racism in the police after being stopped and searched the week before.
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'We could smell weed' seems to be a standard pretext for stopping people. Here's the next one right on cue:
In Michigan, we had the 'driving under the minimum speed limit' nonsense, here it's probably more often this.
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There's another element to these pretend drug stops that also makes me nervous.
The relatively new road side drug tests are incredibly sensitive. The law was changed to make it an offence to drive with a certain amount of cannabis in your system regardless of whether your driving is impaired. The bar was set so low that it is now perfectly possible to smoke cannabis and fail a road side drug test several days later when you have a tiny fraction of the amount in your system that could cause your driving to be impaired. There are stories of people failing road side drug tests over a week after they last took drugs. The government claim that cannabis should be undetectable in Saliva after 12 hours but in reality this is utter nonsense.
Everyody metabolises drugs differently. The government have not provided access to any self testing system that could be used to assess whether you are clean or not. It feels very much like a change to drug law that could lead to people being stripped of their driving license despite taking sensible precautions to ensure that your driving is not compromised.
I'd feel a little less suspicious about this law change if there was actually a way for somebody to self test before driving, but the police and government have so far refused to provide access to their test methods. The cannabis equivalent of a breathalyser doesn't exist.
This basically means that somebody could smoke a joint on a Friday night, be stopped under the false pretence of smelling of Cannabis on the Monday, and fail a drugs test and be banned from driving despite being in no way impaired. It feels like a system that could be abused or lead to disproportionate punishment for what shouldn't even be an offence.
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https://www.scribd.com/document/467553047/Hong-Kong-national-security-law-full-text
English translation of the New HK national security law.
As a non-permanent resident I could now face deportation for an accusation of an offence under article 34 of the new law without prosecution of the offence. So summary deportation upon denouncement by an official. I’ll be careful about what I write on here, especially around sanctions and universities like Cambridge who have in the past bestowed fellowships on HK leaders and whether they should now revoke said fellowships.