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Hackers are always on the lookout for new ways to freshen up time-tested techniques. Where time-tested techniques are concerned, few are older than the humble phishing email.
In one form or another, it seeks to trick an unsuspecting user to innocently hand over sensitive information, like usernames and passwords that the hacker can then use later for any purpose.
The latest variant on this old chestnut is to send what appears to be a legitimate email, politely informing the user that they've received a number of confidential emails that are currently being held for them on a server. They're given the choice to either refuse these messages, accept them, or delete them.
This is a case, however, of all roads leading to the same destination. Whichever linked option is chosen, the user will be routed to a mock-up of a Microsoft Outlook login screen where the user will be prompted to enter his or her credentials. As you might suspect, there are no actual emails, and the only purpose this box serves is to capture the information for later use.
If there's a silver lining to this attack, it is that all of the samples that have been collected so far have the faux login box hosted on a hacked domain. Careful users will quickly note that they haven't been taken to Microsoft's domain and the game will be up.
Unfortunately, 'careful' does not describe the vast majority of internet users, and this ploy has already taken in its fair share of victims.
Make sure your IT staff is aware of this latest iteration in the ongoing evolution of the phishing email. It wouldn't hurt to send a company-wide communication to all employees so that it's at the forefront of everyone's minds. It only takes one person to slip up and a hacker could gain access to your company's network. That's never a good thing.

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If President Obama's second inaugural address did anything for conservatives, it was to reaffirm their suspicions of the president as an unreconstructed liberal with whom they won't find much, if any, common ground during his just-started second term. A day after the president's speech, that view appeared to be hardening.
Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee who — at least now — is considered a strong contender for the 2016 GOP nomination, very likely spoke for many conservatives Tuesday. In a Laura Ingraham Show radio interview, Ryan said he wasn't surprised that the president's speech didn't seem to be an attempt to reach out to political adversaries:
"That's what speechwriters or historians usually note, that inaugurals are meant to be that: Campaign's over, bring everybody together and try to unify. That's not the speech we got.
"To be candid, I wasn't really surprised by the speech. The president is a proud and confident liberal progressive. He invoked the Constitution and Declaration at times, which is something everybody likes to hear, especially conservatives. But he invoked them sort of as a means to legitimize the agenda he has going forward, which is very partisan, very ideological, for sure. It doesn't surprise me that he did that because he's basically saying: 'I'm a liberal and I'm going to govern as a liberal and I won and, so there.' "
Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, accused Obama of badly misstating the Republican position on entitlement beneficiaries, saying GOP policymakers don't label those who receive "earned entitlements" like Social Security and Medicare as "takers."
Instead, Ryan said, conservatives are talking about beneficiaries who receive entitlements like Medicaid — the joint federal-state program that pays for health care for the poor — which they didn't pay for through payroll taxes.
The guest host filling in for Ingraham didn't ask Ryan how he would label the middle-income elderly who get their long-term nursing home stays paid for by Medicaid.
After having a night to sleep on the president's speech, Senate Republicans alleged on Tuesday that Obama, freed from having to run for re-election, finally revealed to the world how much of a liberal throwback he actually is.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, told reporters after senators of both parties left their weekly lunchtime party meetings:
"One thing that's pretty clear from the president's speech yesterday — the era of liberalism is back. An unabashedly far-left-of-center inauguration speech certainly brings back memories of the Democratic Party of ages past. If the president pursues that kind of agenda, obviously, it's not designed to bring us together and certainly not designed to deal with the transcendent issue of our era, which is deficit and debt. Until we fix that problem, we can't fix America, and we cannot leave behind for our kids the kind of America that our parents left behind for us."
At the same gaggle with journalists, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota suggested that the president gave evidence of his liberal bent by what he left out of his speech:
"Well, we were reminded yesterday that this is a liberal president with a liberal agenda, which is why the words 'spending' and 'debt' probably weren't included in that speech.
"We happen to believe that the biggest threat to America's future is runaway government spending, debt that we're piling on the backs of future generations of Americans."
Meanwhile, Crossroads GPS, the nonprofit linked to Karl Rove's American Crossroads political action committee, was back in campaign mode Tuesday with a new video that sought to damn Obama by using the words of journalists and pundits who described Obama's speech as embracing a liberal agenda.
"If the media is calling Obama's policies liberal, what can we expect in the next four years?" is how the video ends.
The conservative reading of Obama's speech, such as that by Nicholas Eberstadt, an American Enterprise Institute scholar, suggests why the president can be viewed as having antagonized Republicans. He detected a take-it-or-leave-it defiance on Obama's part.
The president's "argument is that we have finished discussing the welfare state," Eberstadt said in an interview Tuesday. "We are not in the 'if you have a better idea let me hear it' portion of the show anymore."
"It's also strikingly different from the previous Democratic president, from President Clinton, who talked about, 'mend it, don't end it,' " said Eberstadt, who wrote a blog post taking issue with the president. "What's missing here is any notion that there's anything to be mended. No problems."
The reaction a day after the speech tracked pretty much with instant GOP reaction immediately following the speech. Roll Call reported Monday:
"Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, gushed about the civility of the ceremonial lunch Monday but indicated that his party's disappointment with the president's inaugural speech could boil over the next time he pays a call to the Capitol.
" 'Parts of it sounded more like a campaign speech and part of it was soaring rhetoric, which was positive, I thought, about getting together,' " Portman told Roll Call. He noted he is "absolutely" looking to the State of the Union on Feb. 12 — three weeks from Tuesday — to hear more details.
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Because he can't get Congress to approve the things that he wants to do, Barack Obama has apparently decided to rule by decree for the rest of his time in the White House. One of Obama's latest moves is to try to ban some of the most popular ammunition for the most popular rifle in America. Previously, the Obama administration attempted unsuccessfully to ban the AR-15. That didn't work, so now Obama is going after the ammunition. This is yet another example of the war on preppers that is going on all over the nation. Whether you are a gun owner or not, this assault on our constitutional rights should disturb you greatly. Barack Obama has promised to try to squeeze as much "change" as possible out of his last two years, and in the process he is "fundamentally transforming" America. But what will our country look like when he is done?
At the top of the Drudge Report today, there was a story from the Washington Examiner detailing this ammo ban…
As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela's, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president.
And here is more on this ammo ban from the NRA…
As NRA has been reporting since the night the news broke, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) is moving to infringe upon the rights of law-abiding gun owners with a drastic reinterpretation of a nearly 30-year-old law regulating so-called "armor piercing" ammunition. So draconian is BATFE's new "Framework" that it would prohibit the manufacturing, importation, and sale of M855 ball ammunition, one of the most popular cartridges for the most popular rifle in America, the AR-15. Not coincidentally, the AR-15 is among the firearms the Obama Administration has unsuccessfully sought to outlaw. If they can't ban the pie, so the thinking apparently goes, they might at least get the apples.
In an effort to thwart BATFE's attempted action, NRA has worked with U.S. Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to draft a letter to BATFE expressing the lawmakers' opposition to the proposed Framework. To read a copy of the letter, please click this link.
According to the letter, "The idea that Congress intended [the 'armor piercing' ammunition law] to ban one of the preeminent rifle cartridges in use by Americans for legitimate purposes is preposterous." It goes on to state that the law "should be construed in accordance with the American tradition of lawful firearms ownership, as protected by the Second Amendment." This includes due consideration of "the many legitimate uses Americans make of their firearms including target practice, hunting, organized and casual competition, training and skills development, and instructional activities." The letter concludes with several pointed questions for B. Todd Jones, BATFE's director, including why the agency bypassed the Administrative Procedures Act in proposing such a radical change to its prior interpretation and enforcement of the law.
The crazy thing about all of this is the fact that this ammunition has never met the legal definition of being "armor piercing". So what the Obama administration is attempting to do is outside the law.
A recent Infowars article broke this down…
The ATF is trying to ban M855 AR-15 ammunition by declaring it "armor piercing," despite the ammo containing lead which exempts it from the classification according to law.
To be considered "armor piercing" under 18 U.S.C. 921 (a)(17)(B), a bullet must have an entirely metal core or have a jacket weighting more than 25% of its weight, which wouldn't include M855 rounds because their bullets are partly lead.
The definition in full:
(A) The term "ammunition" means ammunition or cartridge cases, primers, bullets, or propellent powder designed for use in any firearm.
(B) The term "armor piercing ammunition" means- (i) a projectile or projectile core which may be used in a handgun and which is constructed entirely (excluding the presence of traces of other substances) from one or a combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper, or depleted uranium; or (ii) a full jacketed projectile larger than .22 caliber designed and intended for use in a handgun and whose jacket has a weight of more than 25 percent of the total weight of the projectile.
(C) The term "armor piercing ammunition" does not include shotgun shot required by Federal or State environmental or game regulations for hunting purposes, a frangible projectile designed for target shooting, a projectile which the Attorney General finds is primarily intended to be used for sporting purposes, or any other projectile or projectile core which the Attorney General finds is intended to be used for industrial purposes, including a charge used in an oil and gas well perforating device.
Needless to say, this ban is creating quite a bit of panic among gun owners.
Many gun owners are stocking up on this ammo while they still can…
Word of ATF's proposal sparked a run on ammo at some Springfield gun stores, and steep price spikes for steel-tipped military surplus ammo at some online ammo dealers. Rounds that sold for 25 to 30 cents apiece tripled at some some stores after BATF posted its proposal on its web site.
"We sold out of what we had in stock," said Ryan Cook, manager of Eagle Armory in Springfield. "We didn't have a lot in the store but I might have sold four or five cases after ATF's statement came out. I called our suppliers but they said there was none available to order. It's like the ammo shortage before. People are going to panic."
Like I said earlier, even if you are not a gun owner you have got to be extremely concerned about this erosion of our constitutional rights.
We have a man occupying the White House that seems absolutely determined to stretch the limits of presidential power as far as they can possibly go.
And at this point he has become so arrogant that he doesn't even care if Congress believes that what he is doing is legal. Just consider what he said during one recent speech…
Pres. Obama is daring Republicans to vote on whether or not his executive actions are legal.
Discussing opposition to his executive amnesty orders at an immigration town hall Wednesday, Obama said he would veto the vote because his actions are "the right thing to do":
"So in the short term, if Mr. McConnell, the leader of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, want to have a vote on whether what I'm doing is legal or not, they can have that vote. I will veto that vote, because I'm absolutely confident that what we're doing is the right thing to do."
This is how republics die. When one man starts grabbing more and more power and nobody stops him, eventually a dictatorship is born.
This is not what our founding fathers intended. If they could see us today, they would be rolling over in their graves.
And a lot of Americans are getting fed up.
In fact, according to one recent survey only 47 percent of Americans still believe that Obama loves this country…
While the creepy #ILOVEOBAMA continues to trend on Twitter, fewer than half of American adults, 47 percent, say they believe that the president loves his country.
According to a survey conducted by Huffington Post/YouGov and released this week, a whopping 35 percent of Americans, more than one in three, believe that Obama doesn't love the United States, while 17 percent said they weren't sure.
The poll was conducted in the wake of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani telling a gathering in Manhattan that "I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America."
So what do you think?
Do you believe that what Obama is trying to do is legal?
And do you believe that Obama actually loves this country and everything that it is supposed to stand for?
Please feel free to add to the discussion by posting a comment below…


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Thank you so much for joining us for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge - Girly!
For each challenge, we select a LEAD who is invited to be a guest designer in an upcoming challenge. Show Stoppers are other projects that have caught the design team's eye.
The LEAD of the Girly challenge is...
Amy Rohl.
" I love how Amy was inspired to create her charming owl with the pink wings! I love her use of the big flag die, the fun eyes and heart nose, and all of the cute accents."
" I'm smitten by Amy adorable owl!"
Congrats! We invite you to be a guest designer in an upcoming challenge. Please email Stacey at firstname.lastname@example.com for the details!
There were so many amazing entries this week. We loved them all.
Here are a few the crew wanted to highlight!
The Show Stoppers for the Girly challenge are...
" I love the creativity of Keeway's card! The sweet treats in the circle is so cute!"
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Child porn possession has been a federal crime since 1990. In the last decade, federal prosecutions more than doubled in Texas and nationwide. In Texas, the cases have grown faster than nearly any category of federal offense, according to Syracuse University's TRAC database. Since October 2007, more child porn cases have been filed in Texas than old-school federal prosecutions for bank robbery or bank fraud, mail fraud or wire fraud.Further,
The cases often involve seemingly ordinary people with stable jobs and families. The nearly 1,000 Texans prosecuted since 2000 include band instructors and businessmen, physicians and pastors and prison guards, restaurant managers and retirees.
In the last decade, according to a federal public defender's 2009 analysis, the mean federal child porn sentence increased by nearly six years in the decade ending in 2007 to more than 7 ½ years in prison.See this related chart (pdf) depicting the growth in child porn prosecutions both nationally and in Texas over the last decade.
Some experts note that those increases came without any scientific data or rationale. Most offenders, like Paroline, have no prior records – let alone sex offenses.
"People who look at child porn need to be arrested and need to have consequences. I think the consequences should be equitable," said psychologist David Delmonico, director of Duquesne University's online behavior research and education center in Pittsburgh. "I think we're on a modern-day witch hunt for child-porn offenders.


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Western Mexico: A Traveler's Treasury, 4th edition
By Tony Burton
Sombrero Books, 2013
Available from Amazon Books: Paperback
For anyone who lives or travels in western Mexico, Tony Burton's Western Mexico: A Traveler's Treasury is a "must have." I own a well travelled copy of the third edition (2001) but I was delighted to see a fourth edition (2013) recently appear… in part because so many changes have taken place in the decade or so that has followed the third edition. For example, Guachimontones, the round pyramids west of Guadalajara, was mentioned in the third addition but not described in any detail because it did not exist as a tourist destination. Full excavation began in 1996, and it was only in recent years opened to the public.
There are lots of other changes as well. "A federal project to promote cultural tourism, called Pueblos Mágicos (Magic Towns), has brought much more publicity to no fewer than 15 towns featured in previous editions, including Tapalpa, Tequila, Mazamitla, San Sabastián del Oeste, Lagos de Moreno, Comala, Pátzcuaro, Santa Clara del Cobre and Angangueo." In this past decade, the "quality of hotels has also improved, with the opening of excellent boutique hotels, some of them in quite unexpected places…."
New chapters have been added, new material has been added to existing chapters, maps and directions have been updated, new destinations, like Zacatecas, have been developed in detail.
Reading Western Mexico: A Traveller's Treasury, I felt that old desire rise up in me to be on the road, if only for a day or two. And so, even before writing this review, I called a young Mexican adventuress in Guadalajara. With the Kindle version of Western Mexico in hand, we headed up a now modern highway to the charming old colonial town of Mazamitla, high in the mountains on the south side of Lake Chapala… and far more sophisticated than when I visited it twenty years ago. We even stayed in the inexpensive ($40 USD) boutique hotel Hostal Ciervo Rojo (a member of the Haciendas and Country Houses of Jalisco) recommended by Tony in his book.
A few days later, I went with a Chapala buddy on a day trip to Guachimontones, the round pyramids west of Guadalajara, passing trucks loaded with sugar cane, passing stands of a local potent drink called pajarete (a combination of milk, aguardiente, brown sugar, and sometimes chocolate) to arrive at what has become in a few short years, "one of the most astonishing archaeological sites anywhere n Mexico," although only twenty years ago it was only "mounds of earth." "The dramatic circular structures at Guachimontones, tiered in concentric terraces, are absolutely stunning…."
As Tony notes in his Introduction, this is "not intended to be a comprehensive guide to all the possible day trips and longer tours in the region…. Rather, it is a personal, idiosyncratic collection of my favorite places in Western Mexico…." The book is filled with whatever Tony finds fascinating… interesting and curious details of history and geography and geology and flora and fauna, and art and architecture and archaeology.
My kind of book!
Parts One and Two cover destinations within three hours of Guadalajara or the north shore of Lake Chapala…day trips. Part One begins with a history of the region from ancient times to the present, and discusses in detail Mezcala Island — "Lake Chapala's National Monument" — and the "The Riviera communities: Chapala, Ajijic and Jocotepec," although the spas at San Juan Cosalá, like the luxurious Monte Coxala with its large-scale pre-Hispanic replicas, are also included along with interesting places to stay, like the Los Dos Bed & Breakfast in Jocotepec, which was the home and studio of internationally famous Austrian artist Georg Rauch. Although Rauch passed away a few years ago, his charming wife Phyllis continues to operate their bed and breakfast.
Part One also takes us to the south shore of Lake Chapala, to places like Jiquilpan, a nondescript town that gave birth to two important Mexican presidents — Anastacio Bustamante and Lázaro Cárdenas), and several distinguished artists, like José Clemente Orozco, "one of the famous "Big Three" of Mexican Muralism." Rafael Méndez (whom I heard when I was a teen, back in Ohio), "arguably the world's greatest ever trumpet virtuoso," was also born in Jiquilpan.
In Part Two we go west of Guadalajara to Guachimontones — those round pyramids — and to old haciendas (with concise histories of each), and to Tala, the sugar town, and to the giant stone spheres near Alhualulco. We also learn about mines… silver, opals, obsidian, and of course we visit the ever popular town of Tequila.
Part Three takes us on longer trips, best for overnight stays, to picturesque mountains towns like Tapalpa, and through pine forests to Mazamitla, and to Colima, a provincial state capital with important archaeological sites. Near Colima is Volcán de Fuego, sometimes called Volcán Colima, "the most active volcano in Mexico, and indeed one of the most active in the world, having erupted at least 30 times since 1576."
Parts Four to Nine cover longer trips, to places like León, the "Leather Capital of Mexico," and to Aguascalientes, and Zacatecas, and Bolaños, where the "old mining town revives its fortunes." In Part Six we head west to the coast, to San Blas and Guayabitos (a youthful beach town for "a modestly-priced family holiday") and even to Puerto Vallarta, "the resort that keeps reinventing itself." In Part Seven, Barra de Navidad and Melaque — places once popular with pirates like Sir Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish — are jewels not to be missed, and discovered by tourists only a few decades ago. Part Eight finds us on the road to Tzintzuntzan and to Pátzcuaro, a region where the first Bishop of Michoacán, Don Vasco de Quiroga, "based his approach on the Utopian principles espoused by Thomas More. He established a series of communities in the vicinity of Lake Pátzcuaro, the heart of Tarascan country, where the people would receive training in arts and crafts alongside religious instruction." He allocated "specific crafts to specific places," and thus today, Paracho is famous for its guitars, Tzintzuntzan (named after the sound a hummingbird makes with its wings) is famous for its pottery, Santa Clara for copper, and so on.
The final section, Part Nine, is mostly about the beloved monarch butterflies of Michoacán. "Every winter, some one hundred million monarch butterflies fly into Mexico from the U.S. and Canada. On arrival they congregate in a dozen localities high in the temperate pine and fir forests of the state of Michoacán." Tony discusses the various reserves where visitors can witness the amazing number of monarchs, but Tony also insists that you sample the delicious local blue-corn tortillas. He also takes you farther west to Tuxpan and the country where John Huston shot Treasure of the Sierra Madre, staring Humphrey Bogart. The first bend on the narrow road from Tuxpan to Jungapeo is the bend to have a name on the official topographic survey map: La Curva de la Gringa, a rather dangerous 110-degree bend.
Leaving The Gringa's Curve behind, you come to the best place to overnight or vacation in this "scenically-stunning part of Mexico," at the Agua Blanca Canyon Resort, "a charming, small spa-hotel with just 20 rooms, its pools and lawns overlooking the deeply carved valley of the River Tuxpan."
As in the earlier editions, Tony concludes with a useful appendix that has a "Table of elevations and approximate driving times," for example from Chapala to Barra de Navidad is four hours and thirty minutes, from Chapala to Mazamitla is one hour and forty-five minutes. He also advises you to take a look at "online forums, such as those on Mexmonnect.com, to ask for up-to-date information and advice from people who have recently made the same journey or visited the same places."
If you live in western Mexico or are thinking about living here or visiting here, make this the first book you buy. It has always been a favorite of mine and this latest edition of Western Mexico: A Traveller's Treasury is the best ever!


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Like other Western colonial-settler experiments, for over 70 years, Zionists have been systematically erasing the culture and history of indigenous Palestinians to justify their forced removal and the theft of their land. Ilan Pappe, in his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, calls this 'memorocide' and in The Palestine Nakba, Nur Masalha elaborates,
"The founding myths of Israel have dictated the conceptual removal of Palestinians before, during and after their physical removal in 1948… The de-Arabisation of Palestine, the erasure of Palestinian history and the elimination of the Palestinian's collective memory by the Israeli state are no less violent than the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948 and the destruction of historic Palestine."
This is why books such as Ancestral Journeys and Western Missions are so vital in recording the memories and eyewitness accounts of Arabs and Palestinians who experienced the arrival of Western colonialists to the Middle East, were co-opted into their wars, witnessed the rise of Zionism and then became refugees in the Palestinian Nakba. Anita Damiani-Shanley's book will most certainly help perpetuate their heritage and rightful historic claim to Palestine.
Ancestral Journeys is however much more than the story of two families, one Arab and the other Scottish joined in marriage. It traces the influence of missionaries, archaeologists, traders and colonialists competing with each other for a share of the Near East as the Ottoman Empire met its demise. Richly illuminated with family photos, the three main chapters trace the ancestral journeys of Damiani-Shanley's extended family from Scotland and Lebanon to Iraq and then to Palestine. A fourth chapter traces the role of the Anglican Church in Palestine.
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So the Sony saga continues. As if the whole thing about 77 million breached PlayStation Network accounts wasn't bad enough, numerous other security breaches in other Sony services have followed in the ensuing weeks, most recently with SonyPictures.com.
As bad guys often like to do, the culprits quickly stood up and put their handiwork on show. This time around it was a group going by the name of LulzSec. Here's the interesting bit:
Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext
Well actually, the really interesting bit is that they created a torrent of some of the breached accounts so that anyone could go and grab a copy. Ouch. Remember these are innocent customers' usernames and passwords so we're talking pretty serious data here. There's no need to delve into everything Sony did wrong here, that's both mostly obvious and not the objective of this post.
I thought it would be interesting to take a look at password practices from a real data source. I spend a bit of time writing about how people and software manage passwords and often talk about things like entropy and reuse, but are these really discussion worthy topics? I mean do people generally get passwords right anyway and regularly use long, random, unique strings? We've got the data – let's find out.
What's in the torrent
The Sony Pictures torrent contains a number of text files with breached information and a few instructions:
The interesting bits are in the "Sony Pictures" folder and in particular, three files with a whole bunch of accounts in them:
After a little bit of cleansing, de-duping and an import into SQL Server for analysis, we end up with a total of 37,608 accounts. The LulzSec post earlier on did mention this was only a subset of the million they managed to obtain but it should be sufficient for our purposes here today.
Here's what I'm really interested in:
- Length
- Variety of character types
- Randomness
- Uniqueness
These are pretty well accepted measures for password entropy and the more you have of each, the better. Preferably heaps of all of them.
Firstly there's length; the accepted principle is that as length increases, as does entropy. Longer password = stronger password (all things else being equal). How long is long enough? Well, part of the problem is that there's no consensus and you end up with all sorts of opinions on the subject. Considering the usability versus security balance, around eight characters plus is a pretty generally accepted yardstick. Let's see the Sony breakdown:
We end up with 93% of accounts being between 6 and 10 characters long which is pretty predictable. Bang on 50% of these are less than eight characters. It's interesting that seven character long passwords are a bit of an outlier – odd number discrimination, perhaps?
I ended up grouping the instances of 20 or more characters together – there are literally only a small handful of them. In fact there's really only a handful from the teens onwards so what we'd consider is a relatively secure length really just doesn't feature.
Character types
Length only gives us so much, what's really important is the diversity within that length. Let's take a look at character types and we'll categorise them as follows:
- Numbers
- Uppercase
- Lowercase
- Everything else
Again, we've got this issue of usability and security to consider but good practice would normally be considered as having three or more character types. Let's see what we've got:
Or put another way, only 4% of passwords had three or more character types. But it's the spread of character types which is also interesting, particularly when only a single type is used:
In short, half of the passwords had only one character type and nine out of ten of those where all lowercase. But the really startling bit is the use of non-alphanumeric or characters:
Yep, less than 1% of passwords contained a non-alphanumeric character. Interestingly, this also reconciles with the analysis done on the Gawker database a little while back.
So how about randomness? Well, one way to look at this is how many of the passwords are identical. The top 25 were:
seinfeld, password, winner, 123456, purple, sweeps, contest, princess, maggie, 9452, peanut, shadow, ginger, michael, buster, sunshine, tigger, cookie, george, summer, taylor, bosco, abc123, ashley, bailey
Many of the usual culprits are in there; "password", "123456" and "abc123". We saw all these back in the top 25 from the Gawker breach. We also see lots of passwords related to the fact this database was apparently related to a competition: "winner", "sweeps" and "contest". A few of these look very specific (9452, for example), but there may have been context to this in the signup process which lead multiple people to choose the same password.
However in the grand scheme of things, there weren't a whole lot of instances of multiple people choosing the same password, in fact the 25 above boiled down to only 2.5%. Furthermore, 80% of passwords actually only occurred once so whilst poor password entropy is looking rampant, most people are making these poor choices independently and achieving different results.
Another way of assessing the randomness is to compare the passwords to a password dictionary. Now this doesn't necessarily mean an English dictionary in the way we know it, rather it's a collection of words which may be used as passwords so you'll get things like obfuscated characters and letter / number combinations. I'll use this one which has about 1.7 million entries. Let's see how many of the Sony passwords are in there:
So more than one third of passwords conform to a relatively predictable pattern. That's not to say they're not long enough or don't contain sufficient character types, in fact the passwords "1qazZAQ!" and "dallascowboys" were both matched so you've got four character types (even with a special character) and then a 13 character long password respectively. The thing is that they're simply not random – they've obviously made appearances in password databases before.
This is the one that gets really interesting as it asks the question "are people creating unique passwords across multiple accounts?" The thing about this latest Sony exploit is that it included data from multiple apparently independent locations within the organisation and as we saw earlier on, the dump LulzSec provided consists of several different data sources.
Of particular interest in those data sources are the "Beauty" and "Delboca" files as they contain almost all the accounts with a pretty even split between them. They also contain well over 2,000 accounts with the same email address, i.e. someone has registered on both databases.
So how rampant is password reuse between these two systems? Let's take a look:
92% of passwords were reused across both systems. That's a pretty damning indictment of the whole "unique password" mantra. Is the situation really this bad? Or are the figures skewed by folks perhaps thinking "Sony is Sony" and being a little relaxed with their reuse?
Let's make it really interesting and compare accounts against Gawker. The internet being what it is there will always be the full Gawker database floating around out there and a quick Google search easily discovers live torrents. Gnosis (the group behind the Gawker breach) was a bit more generous than LulzSec and provided over 188,000 accounts for us to take a look at.
Although there were only 88 email addresses found in common with Sony (I had thought it might be a bit higher but then again, they're pretty independent fields), the results are still very interesting:
Two thirds of people with accounts at both Sony and Gawker reused their passwords. Now I'm not sure how much crossover there was timeframe wise in terms of when the Gawker accounts were created versus when the Sony ones were. It's quite possible the Sony accounts came after the Gawker breach (remember this was six months ago now), and people got a little wise to the non-unique risk. But whichever way you look at it, there's an awful lot of reuse going on here.
What really strikes me in this case is that between these two systems we have a couple of hundred thousand email addresses, usernames (the Gawker dump included these) and passwords. Based on the finding above, there's a statistically good chance that the majority of them will work with other websites. How many Gmail or eBay or Facebook accounts are we holding the keys to here? And of course "we" is a bit misleading because anyone can grab these off the net right now. Scary stuff.
Putting it in a exploit context
When an entire database is compromised and all the passwords are just sitting there in plain text, the only thing saving customers of the service is their password uniqueness. Forget about rainbow tables and brute force – we'll come back to that – the one thing which stops the problem becoming any worse for them is that it's the only place those credentials appear. Of course we know that both from the findings above and many other online examples, password reuse is the norm rather than the exception.
But what if the passwords in the database were hashed? Not even salted, just hashed? How vulnerable would the passwords have been to a garden variety rainbow attack? It's pretty easy to get your hands on a rainbow table of hashed passwords containing between one and nine lowercase and numeric characters (RainbowCrack is a good place to start), so how many of the Sony passwords would easily fall?
82% of passwords would easily fall to a basic rainbow table attack. Not good, but you can see why the rainbow table approach can be so effective, not so much because of its ability to make smart use of the time-memory trade-off scenario, but simply because it only needs to work against a narrow character set of very limited length to achieve a high success rate.
And if the passwords were salted before the hash is applied? Well, more than a third of the passwords were easily found in a common dictionary so it's just a matter of having the compute power to brute force them and repeat the salt plus hash process. It may not be a trivial exercise, but there's a very high probability of a significant portion of the passwords being exposed.
None of this is overly surprising, although it remains alarming. We know passwords are too short, too simple, too predictable and too much like the other ones the individual has created in other locations. The bit which did take me back a bit was the extent to which passwords conformed to very predictable patterns, namely only using alphanumeric character, being 10 characters or less and having a much better than average chance of being the same as other passwords the user has created on totally independent systems.
Sony has clearly screwed up big time here, no doubt. The usual process with these exploits is to berate the responsible organisation for only using MD5 or because they didn't salt the password before hashing, but to not even attempt to obfuscate passwords and simply store them in the clear? Wow.
But the bigger story here, at least to my eye, is that users continue to apply lousy password practices. Sony's breach is Sony's fault, no doubt, but a whole bunch of people have made the situation far worse than it needs to be through reuse. Next week when another Sony database is exposed (it's a pretty safe bet based on recent form), even if an attempt has been made to secure passwords, there's a damn good chance a significant portion of them will be exposed anyway. And that is simply the fault of the end users.
Conclusion? Well, I'll simply draw back to a previous post and say it again: The only secure password is the one you can't remember.
Update, 7 June 2011:
I've cleaned up a couple of the graphs and would also like to clarify some of the points coming through in the comments:
- There does not appear to have been either length or character type restrictions on the databases. There are lengths ranging from 1 to 35 characters and (occasional) uses of non-alphanumerics.
- As far as I know, this database is not directly related to PSN. Sony is a huge media network and LulzSec claims this came from SonyPictures.com. There is no evidence to suggest that these passwords were created using a handheld game console controller.


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When climbing Colorado's fabled fourteeners, one must take the necessary fuel up the mountain. Here, I offer picks that brought me up to 14,000 feet and back.
As a relatively new Colorado resident, I deemed it a right of passage to climb a fourteener—a mountain that rises to at least 14,000 feet in elevation. True, this is a tall order (pun intended) for a Connecticut native, who has spent most of her life at sea level. But I was confident that by doing this hike, I would be embracing the ethos of my new, outdoorsy state.
Hiking a fourteener is no small task: You must wake at an excruciatingly early hour (4 a.m.) to be on the summit before the oft-inevitable afternoon storms. The thin altitude makes what would normally be a tough hike, even harder. This past weekend I hiked four of these behemoths: Mt. Democrat, Mt. Lincoln, Mt. Cameron, and Mt. Bross.
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Today in Masonic History Paul Revere passes away in 1818.
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, merchant and patriot in the American Revolution.
Revere was born in the North End of Boston on December 21st, 1734. Revere left school at 13 to apprentice with his father, a silversmith.
In 1754 Revere's father passed away and Revere was to young to become the master of the family silver shop. In 1756 he enlisted in the provincial Army to serve during the 7 years war, known in the America's as the French Indian War. His time in the Army was very short and by 1757 he was back in Boston and was married to Sarah Orne.
In 1765 the economy in the colony's was not good and was made worse by the Stamp Act. This caused Revere's business to falter and for a brief time Revere took up dentistry.
Also in 1765 the Sons of Liberty formed and coincidently met at the Green Dragon, the same meeting place as St. Andrews Lodge. Frustration over a variety of policies coming from England and King George III had Revere making a variety of engravings about the events occurring in Massachusetts at the time including the Boston Massacre and a bowl commemorating the Massachusetts assembly's refusal to retract the Massachusetts Circular Letter. The Massachusetts Circular Letter called for colonial action against the Townsend Acts.
In 1773 Revere along with several Sons of Liberty companions boarded the merchant ship Dartmouth, dumping the tea in it's hold into Boston Harbor. The event now known as the Boston Tea Party was further protest to the Acts of King George III and England.
In 1774 a year before his famous ride, Revere rode to Portsmouth New Hampshire on rumors the British were landing troops there. The Portsmouth Alarm as it is now called turned out to be a false alarm, it did inspire a rebel assault on Fort William and Mary where gun powder supplies were seized from 6 British soldiers guarding the fort.
On April 18 1775 Revere's famous ride took place. Riding from Charlestown to Lexington Revere avoided British patrols until being stopped just short of Lexington by a British roadblock. Held captive with other patriots Revere used every opportunity to warn the British soldiers not to continue on to Lexington. Eventually Revere and the other captives were able to scare off the soldiers who released them and returned back to the main British unit.
Revere was able to help John Hancock, one of the leaders of the revolution, and his family escape from Lexington.
During the American revolution, Revere was a military leader and participated in many battles and events of the war, some positive and some utter failures like the Penobscot disaster.
Revere passed away on May 10th, 1818.
Revere was a member of St. Andrews Lodge in Boston and was the Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts from 1794 to 1797.
This article provided by Brother Eric C. Steele.


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Weekly Digest – 30 November 2022
Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. Read on for the latest updates and some ideas to help us all move forward.
RBA governor says it's "regrettable" that some Australians now have mortgages they can't afford
At a Senate estimates hearing on Monday, Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe apologised to Australians who took out a home loan due to the RBA's guidance that interest rates would stay the same until 2024.
Workers should expect to earn less in real wages next year
Lowe also warned us to brace ourselves for fresh economic pain, saying that workers should not expect a pay rise in line with the rate of inflation – which he anticipates will continue to rise.
Bunnings expected to cut 300 staff
The hardware giant is one of Australia's biggest employers, but multiple insiders report that a recent review of the company's back office will result in mass layoffs. A Bunnings spokesperson denied the rumour but did say they are in the process of preparing their structure for the future.
Amazon workers strike during Black Friday
Amazon workers in over 40 countries staged Black Friday strikes and protests. Employees are demanding better wages and conditions.
Australian mortgages among the "worst" in the world
The majority of Australian mortgage holders have variable rate mortgages, meaning they're at the mercy of rising interest rates. Many are approaching a point of complete mortgage affordability because of it.
Thousands more welders needed
Weld Australia says that we are facing a shortfall of 70,000 welders by 2030 unless radical action to attract more is taken. The shortage would disrupt our drive for renewable energy infrastructure.
Family dairy farm challenges the status quo by offering direct-to-consumer milk in a glass bottle
In 2018, dairy farmer Shane Hickey went viral with a video explaining that he made $2.46 per hour by providing his milk to big supermarkets, and calling on them to pay dairy farmers more. They didn't respond, so Shane changed his business model – and now it's truly fair and sustainable.
30,000 Australians lost money in the FTX collapse
Some people lost their life savings and then some in the spectacular collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange earlier this month. The Guardian provides an in-depth view of some of their stories.
Traditional Christmas lunch may turn out just fine
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An introduction to audio compression.
Learn how to use compression to make your recordings sound more polished, so you can deliver the best quality audio files to your listeners.
What is audio compression?
Whether you're mixing a music track or recording a podcast, audio compression is a useful tool for sound engineers who want to smooth out the sound of instruments, vocals and more. From an acoustic guitar with too much pick noise to a piano that doesn't have any punch to it, an audio compressor has the power to decrease the dynamic range of an audio signal by making the loudest noises quieter and the quietest noises louder.
"You may set your levels so everything sounds good in one spot, but as the song goes on on, some things may be hard to hear or get too loud and jump out of the mix," explains producer and mixing engineer Peter Rodocker. "The most common use of compression is to keep this from happening so you can get a more cohesive sound."
The fundamental controls of audio compressors.
Understanding the technical aspects and terminology of audio compression will allow you to work more comfortably with a wide range of compressors.
The threshold is the level at which compression begins. Once a threshold level is set, any audio below the threshold will be unaffected, but any audio above the threshold will be compressed by the ratio set. "Imagine a guitarist that's strumming at a constant volume, then hits a few notes super hard in the middle of the song. You would want the compressor to be set where the threshold grabs only that loudest part of the track," says Rodocker.
The ratio is the amount of attenuation — or downward compression — that will be applied once a signal reaches the threshold. Peter explains that "the volume of audio is measured in decibels (dB), so if you set a 3:1 compression ratio, every 3dB of input signal above the threshold will produce 1dB of output signal."
The attack time is how long it takes the audio signal to be fully compressed to the ratio set after it has crossed the threshold. "It's going to affect the first part of the sound you hear," says Rodocker. "So you can set a slower attack to create some punch from an instrument that's softer, like a keyboard or a fast attack to quickly compress the sound of a loud guitar pick."
Release time
The release time is how long it takes the audio signal to revert from being affected to uncompressed. At low levels of gain reduction, fast release speeds sound the most natural. However, extreme compression with a fast release time can result in a pumping effect — or a sudden increase in volume — that can make the track sound uneven in some genre of music.
The knee is how quickly the compressor transitions from not compressing the signal to compressing it. A soft knee will sound smoother because the compression doesn't begin as quickly, while a hard knee will sound more dramatic. "Bass guitar and vocals would sound better using a soft knee, but I would use a hard knee for any kind of percussive instrument, like the piano or kick drums," says producer, engineer and mixing artist Gus Berry.
The level of the signal coming out of a compressor won't be as high as it was when it went in because the compressor is actively turning down parts of the signal. Make-up gain is used to turn the overall level of the signal back up. "The way you do this is to play the material while bypassing and activating the compressor, adjusting the make-up gain to where they sound more or less the same level," advises Rodocker.
The five main types of compressors.
In addition to what controls you set, the type of compressor you choose will determine the overall effect on the sound.
Best for: Bass, drums and vocals.
The tube compressor is one of the oldest types of compression, used by the Beatles and Motown. "They usually have slower attack and release times and they have a specific sound that people often think of as 'old school' or vintage," says Rodocker.
FET compressor
Best for: Aggressive material like drums, percussion, electric guitars, vocals.
An FET or "Field Effect Transistor," emulates the tube sound with transistor circuits, making it a fast and reliable compressor that produces a clean sound.
Best for: Percussion, electric bass, vocals and live sound.
Parallel compression is achieved by mixing an unprocessed or lightly compressed signal with a heavily compressed version of the same signal. This reduces the dynamic range by bringing up the softest sounds.
Sidechain compressor
Best for: Bass guitar and kick drums in dance pop music.
In sidechain compression, the effect level of one instrument is controlled by the volume level of another instrument. When the kick drum sounds, the bass can be set to get more compressed so it can keep cutting through the mix, creating the pumping sound you hear in dance pop mixes.
Best for: Vocals, acoustic guitar, drums.
A multiband compressor allows you to split a track into different frequency ranges and compress them independently. For example, it can reduce the low end of a vocal when it's too boomy and leave it alone when it sounds fine.
Pro tips for fine-tuning your audio.
Before you dive in, here are a few tips from the pros to help you to get a good grasp on the basics of audio compression.
Compress with a purpose. It sounds intuitive, but producers and mixing artists can't stress it enough: "You don't want to arbitrarily use compression. There needs to be a reason, because you don't always need to use a compressor. Listen to the sound and figure out if there are any issues by asking yourself questions like, 'Is there too much attack on this? Is the back part of the sound disappearing? Do I need to bring that up?' You always want to go in with a plan for whatever you're doing," Rodocker says.
Experiment with subtle changes at the beginning of the mixing process. It will help you really hear what each element is doing and from there you can dial back to fine-tune it. "More subtle changes add up to a much bigger picture than one thing doing a huge amount of work," Berry explains. "That's where people tend to get stuck first. They'll throw on one compressor and squash the sound immediately, expecting it to sound bigger and better."
Combine different compressors to achieve your desired effect. When you have a lot of dynamic elements to address during the mixing process, it can be helpful to combine two or three compressors to gently compress at different stages rather than apply excessive compression at one point. "It's way more transparent and less noticeable to use several compressors — and still gets the same point across without really having to slam down on any one vocal or instrumental," advises Berry.
Accelerate your editing with the right digital audio workstation (DAW). DAWS like Adobe Audition allow you to add plugins, visually preview audio edits as you apply them and repair and restore audio to achieve a polished mix with pristine sound. "DAWS make starting a project seamless. There are handy drop-down menus where you can choose things like your bit depth and sample rate, so you don't have to type in exact numbers or specifications," says Berry.
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HSA 535 Assignment 2
Cohort Follow-up Studies Cardiovascular Disease CVD
Use the Internet and Strayer databases, and recall your readings in Chapter 11 of Introduction to Epidemiology and Chapter 7 of Epidemiology for Public Health Practice to complete this assignment.
Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:
Through cohort study designs and other evidence-based management studies, identify the major causes of CVD, and analyze the key steps, including current medications, used to address the disease. Develop at least five (5) leading questions that may be posed to your local health department in regard to mitigating the proliferation of the disease.
Provide a sound rationale for raising these questions. Based on the five (5) questions you developed in Question two (2), provide a rudimentary protocol to disseminate this information to your local community leaders.
Recommend six (6) steps that may be given to your current or previous place of employment to prevent the proliferation of CVD. Provide support for your recommendations. Use at least six (6) peer-reviewed academic resources in this assignment. These must come from journal sources. Note: Fact Sheets, Wikipedia, and non-academic Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
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NEW FOR 2018 The RMSc version of the extremely popular RMS is a slimmed down version of the RMS designed to fit on single stack pistols such conceal carry handguns such as the Glock43, Smith & Wesson shield and the 1911.
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Shoot early with both eyes open, hit early whilst providing large peripheral vision. It continues to excel in competition shooting and self defence and is a great choice for any and all aiming needs.
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We pick up our report from our recent visit to the Museum of Modern in Art where we left off after Part 1. Working my way gradually downstairs, I came to the special exhibition Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction―The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift. This is a major exhibition that fills several galleries with modernist works by South American artists through the 20th century.
As in other parts of the world, South American artists embraced abstraction in the decades following World War II, with lines shapes of minimal color palettes. In his aptly named Curves and Straight Series, Argentine artist Alfredo Hlito takes this to an extreme with thin lines and curves against an off-white background, while Uruguayan artist María Friere used bolder lines and colors in her Untitled.
Both of these pieces feel like they could have been three-dimensional pieces of design, and in fact, the exhibition does include several striking three-dimensional works. When seen head-on, Jesús Rafael Soto's Double Transparency appears to be a plat painting or print, but from the side the depth becomes apparent.
The lines-in-space motif is also used in Ocho cuadrados (Eight Squares) by Gertrud Goldschmidt, also known as Gego.
The recurring motifs in many of the works show the influence of Piet Mondrian, not just the most familiar neoplastic pieces but his earlier and later work as well. Indeed, I was happy to find Broadway Boogie Woogie hanging in this exhibition after not seeing it in the main collection display. As much as any work in MoMA's permanent collection, I have a regard for this painting as if it were a friend and not just a work of art.
But perhaps the most extreme interpretation of the grid was found in Antonieta Sosa's Visual Chess.
As part of its expansion, MoMA launched a new gallery space called the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, or simply "the Studio", a space dedicated for live, interactive, and multimedia art. The inaugural exhibit was Rainforest V, an evolution of David Tudor's Rainforest. Originally a score for a collaboration with Merce Cunningham, it evolved into a performance installation. The latest version, realized by Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), is controlled by computer rather than live performers, as visitors wander through the space.
The installation is constructed from everyday objects, such as a metal barrel, a vintage computer hard disc, plastic tubing, wood crates, and more. The objects and materials are fitted with a vast array of speakers and become resonators that shape and amplify the sound.
The best moments are getting close to an object, such as the barrel or balsa-wood box with simulated earphones, and standing for a moment then walking around. I regret that an iPhone in a crowded gallery is not the best way to record and share it with readers – it really music be seen in person.
There was still more to see, including the newly expanded second-floor gallery for contemporary (1980s-present) works. This period has traditionally been a more mixed one for me, but there are gems and inspirations to be found. There was a large gallery-spanning work by Keith Haring.
An equally monumental piece by Julie Mehretu called Empirical Construction: Istanbul a fantastic futuristic cityscape radiating in multiple dimensions.
On the opposite scale is Eduardo Kac's Reabracadabra, a video piece realized as graphics inside a vintage Minitel terminal.
Kac's piece reminded me of my interest in vintage electronics finding new life as dynamic art pieces.
We end with one panel from a larger work by the artist Zarina, Home Is A Foreign Place.
There is something bleak about an entire musical score made of rests, but also intriguing, and even curious. It is perhaps a reminder that exploring a museum top to bottom invites one to escape one's comfort zones even at the same time as seeking comfort and solace. I'm glad this visit afforded opportunities for both.


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Dennis Quaid's dog Peaches at the "A Dog's Journey" premiere Premiere of A Dogs Journey with Marg Helgenberger A Dog's Journey Some friendships transcend lifetimes. In A Dog's Journey, the sequel to the heartwarming global hit A Dog's Purpose, beloved dog Bailey finds his new destiny and forms an unbreakable bond that will lead him, and the people he loves, to places they never imagined. Bailey (voiced again by Josh Gad) is living the good life on the Michigan farm of his "boy," Ethan (Dennis Quaid) and Ethan's wife Hannah (Marg Helgenberger). He even has a new playmate: Ethan and Hannah's baby granddaughter, CJ. The problem is that CJ's mom, Gloria (Betty Gilpin), decides to take CJ away. As Bailey's soul prepares to leave this life for a new one, he makes a promise to Ethan to find CJ and protect her at any cost. Thus begins Bailey's adventure through multiple lives filled with love, friendship and devotion as he, CJ (Kathryn Prescott), and CJ's best friend Trent (Henry Lau) experience joy and heartbreak, music and laughter, and few really good belly rubs. Directed by Emmy winner Gail Mancuso (TV's Modern Family), A Dog's Journey is produced by Gavin Polone (A Dog's Purpose), and written by W. Bruce Cameron & Cathryn Michon, and Maya Forbes & Wally Wolodarsky, based on the best-selling novel by Cameron. The film, from Amblin Entertainment and Reliance Entertainment, in association with Walden Media and Alibaba Pictures, will be distributed by Universal Pictures domestically, and by Universal Pictures and Amblin Partners internationally. Genres Family Starring Marg Helgenberger, Betty Gilpin, Henry Lau, Kathryn Prescott, with Dennis Quaid and Josh Gad Directed By Gail Mancuso Produced By Gavin Polone


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July 28, 2021
Updates on COVID-19 in K-State communities
Submitted by Division of Communications and Marketing
Kansas State University continues to track and evaluate COVID-19 data in our community. Every week, the university is updating the online dashboard that tracks COVID-19 data in university-connected communities. The newest data will be uploaded on Wednesday, July 28.
The dashboard includes Lafene Health Center vaccination data as well as data on university employees who have been affected by COVID-19. K-State continues to encourage all employees to fill out the COVID-19 self-reporting form. Completion of the form is voluntary and anonymous.
Read the latest updates from the Riley County Health Department.
K-State is using 10 indicators and additional data to determine if and when changes to the university's operating status are necessary for the health and safety of the community. Data for each topic and indicator is collected and analyzed multiple times per week to provide updated information so leadership can make proactive decisions as quickly as possible.
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The background to the case concerned four documents: two flyers, one called "Keep Homosexuality out of Saskatoon's Public Schools!" and "Sodomites in our Public Schools"; and two flyers which were the reprint of a classifed ad with handwritten comments added.
Under the Saskatchewan Human Rights code, it is illegal to circulate publications which "expose a person to hatred and ridicule" on a protected ground - here, sexual orientation.
So the big question for the court was: where does prohibited hate speech end, and where does freedom of speech begin?
The Supreme Court of Canada analyzed what a publication must be like in order to contravene the hate speech provisions. It said that there must be three main elements. First, the person judging whether the publication contains hate speech must do so from an 'objective' point of view, asking themselves whether a 'reasonable person, aware of the context and circumstances, would view the expression as exposing the protected group to hatred'. (In other words, you cannot only ask queers what they think about that question). Second, it is only hateful and contrary to the protections in Saskatchewan's human rights legislation if it is really hateful...in the sense captured by the words 'detestation' and 'vilification'. It's not hate speech just because it is repugnant or offensive. And finally, the decision maker must look to see what the effect of the hate speech is: is the probably effect that it will expose the targeted person or group to hatred by others?
The complainants had argued that the section of the human rights law under which they had been convicted was a breach of their constitutionally protected right to freedom of speech. True, said the Supreme Court of Canada: but, your right to freedom of speech has to be balanced against the right to be free from speech which is likely to cause hatred; and in this case, most of the human rights law is appropriate and impairs one's freedom of speech minimally.
Part of the Saskatchewan human rights legislation outlawed speech which "ridicules, belittles or otherwise affronts the dignity of" a person. That part of the law, said the Supreme Court of Canada, is too broad. And they struck it down.
This case has been long-awaited. Queers have been holding our breath to see whether the Supreme Court of Canada would uphold our right to be free from malicious homophobic speech, or whether once again our rights would be seen as subordinate to someone else's rights to free speech, or freedom of religion.