On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

An Anti-ICE App?

2026-03-22T19:56:38Z

Some of you may be interested in this.

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A Message from Hegseth to Kingston

2026-03-14T01:33:29Z

Canada is not a partner to Hegseth.

In his mind, we are prey.

https://www.kingstonist.com/news/u-s-armed-forces-severs-ties-with-queens-university-defence-fellowship-program/

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It's Still a Coup

2026-02-15T21:57:24Z

From Carole Cadwalladr, formerly of the Guardian and Observer network, now a co-founder of The Nerve:

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-us-coup-one-year-on

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Foreign Policy: DOGE is Hacking America

2025-02-12T12:40:31Z

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/doge-cyberattack-united-states-treasury/?tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=ZG9nZS1jeWJlcmF0dGFjay11bml0ZWQtc3RhdGVzLXRyZWFzdXJ5&pid=PNIhyCeS5sb3yqh

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Safety?

2024-11-22T12:22:19Z

So I'm looking at this item about Trump wanting Canadian water resources for California...and then, over to this item at the Guardian about Pete Hegseth's writings...

No, I can't afford to move. And I live in eastern Ottawa.

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Password News

2023-01-22T02:09:02Z

You might want to look at this if you ever had/have a LiveJournal account.

https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/41571.html

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Anti-Spam Measures Coming In

2023-01-15T20:45:26Z

Some of you have already seen and/or shared this one from denise:

https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/41273.html

Apologies for the repetition. Someone is likely to have this link/notice be their first such, so...

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Semi-Random Items from Other Dreamwidth Users- 21 Sept 2022

2022-09-21T13:46:52Z

1. "BYOD = Bring Your Own Distaster"?

2. Concerns over the consequences of Ukraine further reversing Putinist armed robberies.

3. The ridicule-worthiness of the official Putinist position.

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Secure Your Security Cameras!

2021-06-29T14:56:04Z

So this is a continuing issue for lots of people. My household doesn't have such security arrangements, but there are people on our block and elsewhere across the wider Orléans/Ottawa area - households and businesses - who may want to take another look at theirs!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/website-live-streaming-security-cameras-private-1.6083168

For that matter, the rest of the security-cam-equipped world might want to be more careful.

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About the "Great Firewall"?

2021-06-07T20:00:59Z

New research!

https://twitter.com/NP_tokumei/status/1401716316394844161/photo/1

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.02167.pdf

Also, new terminology: "DNS poisoning"...?

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The Business of News: Dancing With Whom Exactly?

2021-04-13T00:51:07Z

I think we have a problem here with this deal.

I'm annoyed that I missed or forgot to notice the implications of it for the better part of a year. Because Thomson Reuters owns the Globe and Mail as well, I think I'm going to have to stop buying that newspaper, regardless of what I think of the people working there. Am I wrong to believe that a realistic prospect?

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MCU: Post-Endgame Infrastructure Speculation

2021-03-21T20:51:03Z

The talks to start building that infrastructure HAD to have begun at Stark's funeral. Potts, Hogan, Fury, Hill, T'Challa, Okoye, Shuri, Danvers, Quill (okay, maybe not Quill), Strange, Secretary Ross...

Am I wrong?

We're not seeing much of that in WandaVision or Falcon/Winter Soldier but we do seem to be seeing it in Spider-Man: Far From Home...

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Some Notes on Regimes

2020-10-24T20:08:31Z

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/not-normal-election

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-can-you-do-if-trump-stages-a-coup

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SAFETY: Police Data Breaches

2020-09-22T22:01:27Z

Maybe it's the superhero comics fan in me, but this is the kind of thing that should get a Batman or an Iron Man's attention. Or more likely, Alpha Flight.

Thirty-eight police agencies across Canada?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/blueleaks-published-thousands-of-documents-from-canadian-police-agencies-1.5734311

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Insecurities Revisited

2020-07-27T23:34:02Z

And I just got informed by Firefox Monitor that, on 1 January 2017 - two months before I permanently called it quits with LiveJournal - my account there was hacked.

"What data was compromised:

Passwords
Email addresses
Additional information, including: Usernames

Breach data provided by Have I Been Pwned"

I didn't even know they were watching for this. I should have known.

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Threat Assessment

2020-05-12T19:34:04Z

Filed by Garrett M. Graff with Politico:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/05/07/experts-knew-pandemic-was-coming-what-they-fear-next-238686

Call it stuff that civil defense planners, science fiction writers and citizens in general need to take interest in.

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Scam Artists

2020-03-26T18:54:45Z

An acquaintance of mine on NCF is keeping an eye on computer security news, and flagged this to the attention of our membership. Seeing as NCF is a co-operative-style ISP, it's a good idea to pay attention to such advice.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/26/watch-out-scummy-scammers-target-home-deliveries/

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TREK/SCIENCE: Safe Distance from Supernovae (Trek Spoilers?)

2019-04-22T02:25:08Z

Since the topic came up in in last week's episode of Star Trek: Discovery...thanks to the suggestion of the Emperor Emeritus of the Terran Empire...which was rightly condemned by the rest of the people at that particular table.

https://twitter.com/marsrader/status/1120097175197900801

50-100 lightyears. And that's even before we get into the discussion of subspace effects propagating far faster compared to normal-space damage-waves, as established in Trekkish lore in movies VI and XI.

Noting also this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supernova_candidates

Alpha Lupi, cited in Michael Burnham's backstory in "The Red Angel", is definitely on that list. A good thing that it's about 460-465 lightyears away from us. Eta Lupi/Cerberus is about 150 lightyears closer to us...but still at least as safe, given current theory on supernovae.

(Would IK Pegasi be in Breen territory? Apparently not, going by Geoffrey Mandel and Jed Whitten. More likely, it's on the far side of what the former had pegged as Breen space in 2002.)

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An Older Fight Than Most of Us Know?

2019-03-17T01:34:28Z

Some of you have already seen this.

To the rest of you, I suggest this: arm your minds..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2019/03/14/feature/the-strongmen-strike-back/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f61bd6a83e84

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IBM vs Flickr Users?

2019-03-12T10:18:41Z

Courtesy of NBC News:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921

If I understand this correctly, IBM's people didn't even talk with Flickr, let alone Flickr account-holders...?

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Brexit, Trump, Putin: Resisting All Three

2018-12-28T01:33:36Z

I believe this to be true. I suspect the same goes for most of my friendlist here. Which is why I'm going to leave this linkage out in the open where other users can see it too.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/27/putin-trump-brexit-europe-britain-eu

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RIP Google Plus - Effective August 2019

2018-10-09T10:10:46Z

Seems (relatively) quick on the trigger, but...oh well. It's nice having that service available to me while it lasts.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/alphabet-google-1.4855092

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People, Data Rights, the European Union...

2018-05-31T00:37:31Z

If this helps: apparently, if you've dealt with any EU member state-based company, you've got specific rights. Ideally, no matter where on or off Earth you call home, those rights attach to you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/opinion/gdpr-eu-digital-privacy-law-data-subject-europe.html

This is probably the kind of thing that Messrs. Putin, Xi and DT-45 - among others - intend to make problematic to enforce if/whenever they can. So getting the word out as far and as fast as possible is likely a good thing.

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Paranoid Thought re: Boeing vs. Bombardier

2017-09-28T02:13:20Z

Putinists might be more than a little pleased with this consequence of DT-45's installation as US president.

Why?

Because Bombardier is Canada's main aircraft manufacturer. And it's headquartered in Montréal, Québec. One of its main extranational plants is in Northern Ireland. Both QC and Northern Ireland are national unity faultlines of their respective "parent" nations. (Yes, I am using "parent" in a dangerous way here. Understood. Let's move on for now.)

If Bombardier gets killed as a company because of this mess, that means major high-tech job losses in Canada and the UK, each in their respective national unity "faultline" zones. Which can lead to NATO's internal political cohesion taking a hit due to Canadian and British resentment of Washington's siding with Boeing.

So, two NATO countries internally disrupted, resenting a third which is itself already disrupted. Defence supply chains within NATO also messed up.

Am I wrong about this theory?

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Two Speeches

2017-06-07T09:47:53Z

Up here in Canada yesterday, we had two speeches I would consider noteworthy and related in ideals somewhat. The first by our global affairs minister Chrystia Freeland here in Ottawa-Gatineau, and the second by Barack Obama in his visit to Montréal.

I can't help but feel that something's changed in a permanent way here.

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