The Free

–by Matt Burgess .. from WIRED UK shared with thanks .. illustrations added

You are your own biggest weakness, but changing just a few of your behaviors can reduce the chances that your online accounts get breached.

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There are two big reasons why people get hacked. Flaws in software and flaws in human behavior. While there’s not much you can do about coding vulnerabilities, you can change your own behavior and bad habits.

Just ask former US president Donald Trump, whose Twitter password was “maga2020!” Or Boris Johnson, who revealed details of sensitive Zoom calls at the start of the pandemic in 2020. (These world leaders will have had specific security training from protection agencies too.)

The risks are just as real for the average person—even if the stakes aren’t quite so high. If your accounts aren’t properly protected, your credit card could be compromised or your private messages and photographs stolen and shared for all to see.

Working out if your accounts have been hacked is a time-consuming and potentially frustrating process. You’re better off taking some steps to mitigate the risks of getting hacked in the first place. Here’s what you can do to protect yourself.

Continue reading “How to NOT GET HACKED.. 6 Things You Need to Do, with easy links.”

Israel was the first to vaccinate with Pfizer and the ‘Poster Child’ to sell the experimental vaccine, hoping to eliminate Covid-19 under the spotlight of the world media.

But it didn’t work out that way.

Not only were there a growing number of deaths and severe reactions from the vaccine but gradually it became clear that it doesn’t even work.

The truth leaked out that 85% of new COVID Delta infections in Israel are fully vaccinated” Now they don’t give us that data anymore. In fact an ”official ” study now claims the opposite.

It all depends, in the US by now a ‘breakthrough’ case is near impossible to get registered, it has to be a hospitalized case, without complications from other illnesses, registered in a complex process by request, no autopsies performed….etc

But tacitly the Israelis admit there is a huge failure of the vaccine, by rushing out unproven third and fourth ‘booster’ shots already amid a spiraling new wave in the ‘most vaccinated country on earth’.

Continue reading “Israel struggles with Delta surge as Vaxxed victims still get Covid even after 3rd Pfizer jab”

Future corporate profits are officially more important than life on Earth.

By George Monbiot, Posted in climate breakdown 19^th August 2021, shared with thanks .. illustrations added

The human tragedy is that there is no connection between what we know and what we do. Almost everyone is now at least vaguely aware that we face the greatest catastrophe our species has ever confronted. Yet scarcely anyone alters their behaviour in response: above all, their driving, flying and consumption of meat and dairy.

During the most serious of all crises, the UK elected the least serious of all governments. Both the Westminster government and local authorities continue to build roads and expand airports. An analysis by WWF suggests that, while the last budget allocated £145 million for environmental measures, it dedicated £40 billion to policies that will increase emissions.

Pipeline Vandals Are Reinventing Climate Activism

Astonishingly, it is still government policy to “maximise economic recovery” of oil and gas from the UK’s continental shelf. According to the government’s Energy White Paper, promoting their extraction ensures that “the UK remains an attractive destination for global capital”, which is “the best way to secure an orderly and successful transition away from traditional fossil fuels”.

It’s hard to imagine a more perverse argument. But when you pursue incompatible aims, the first casualty is logic.

Continue reading “Dead Line: Future corporate profits are officially more important than life on Earth.”