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School walkout & student strike wave hits LA today
https://twitter.com/dsmlacctv/status/1481345537009860615?s=20
https://twitter.com/dsmlacctv/status/1481345537009860615?s=20
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Students walk out of high school in Redondo Beach over COVID safety concerns High school students in Redondo Beach participated in a walk-out on Wednesday to bring attention to COVID-19 safety concerns on the campus. Aerial video from Sky5 showed a large…
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Hugestrike in the public education sector against the government’s management of Covid. High school students blocking their school in Paris and resisting the pigs. Many more videos in thread:
https://fxtwitter.com/tulyppe/status/1481538065097187334
https://fxtwitter.com/tulyppe/status/1481538065097187334
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Reuters
French teachers strike over 'chaotic' COVID-19 strategy for schools
Tens of thousands of French teachers angry with the government's COVID-19 rules walked off the job on Thursday and took to the streets to demand better protection for pupils and staff against infection.
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Gothamist
Scores Of NYC High Schoolers Walk Out Of Classes Demanding Remote Learning During COVID Surge
While precise numbers were not immediately available, organizers estimated hundreds of students participated, with about 400 students walking out at Brooklyn Tech alone.
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Employees of the largest freight railroad network on the continent just declared a strike 👀👀
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Employees of the largest freight railroad network on the continent just declared a strike 👀👀
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X (formerly Twitter)
John Schreiber (@johnschreiber) on X
Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted…
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Latest version of Android allows you to disable 2G connectivity, which is what "Stingray" IMSI catchers exploit to intercept cell phone activity:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-users-can-now-disable-2g-to-block-stingray-attacks/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-users-can-now-disable-2g-to-block-stingray-attacks/
BleepingComputer
Android users can now disable 2G to block Stingray attacks
Google has finally rolled out an option on Android allowing users to disable 2G connections, which come with a host of privacy and security problems exploited by cell-site simulators.
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A caveat to this otherwise exciting news: traditionally IMSI catchers would utilize 2G signals to intercept communications after downgrading the connection from 3G or 4G. That downgrading was the way that IMSI catchers detection apps would identify malicious GSM nodes, otherwise known as stingrays.
The newest generation of IMSI catchers are able to utilize 4G by spoofing the key exchange process between the device and the tower. This allows the operators of the stingray to listen into otherwise encrypted 4G calls. This is why Signal is so important; it is a data protocol, not a cellular GDM protocol, and has its own encryption stack that is not able to be compromised in this process, which only applies to cellular 4G communications over GSM.
It is also important to note that the most common use of stingray type devices is not the interception of communications or the cutting off of communications. Rather, it is the triangulation of location or the logging of the presence of people at a location, like a protest. This operates through "pings" from the device to the IMSI catcher, which is pretending to be a tower. That process still functions regardless of the cellular protocol being used.
So, this is great news, and it renders millions and millions of dollars of police surveillance gear obsolete. But, they have been rolling over to these new machines for years, so it is very much something we should still be concerned about.
The EFF has done some excellent research on these new generation IMSI catchers, and even released a detection tool called Crocodile Hunter. See links below for some basic information, research that has been conducted and to the code for the detection tooling.
https://www.eff.org/wp/gotta-catch-em-all-understanding-how-imsi-catchers-exploit-cell-networks
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/05/crocodile-hunter-4g-stingray-cell/
https://github.com/EFForg/crocodilehunter
The newest generation of IMSI catchers are able to utilize 4G by spoofing the key exchange process between the device and the tower. This allows the operators of the stingray to listen into otherwise encrypted 4G calls. This is why Signal is so important; it is a data protocol, not a cellular GDM protocol, and has its own encryption stack that is not able to be compromised in this process, which only applies to cellular 4G communications over GSM.
It is also important to note that the most common use of stingray type devices is not the interception of communications or the cutting off of communications. Rather, it is the triangulation of location or the logging of the presence of people at a location, like a protest. This operates through "pings" from the device to the IMSI catcher, which is pretending to be a tower. That process still functions regardless of the cellular protocol being used.
So, this is great news, and it renders millions and millions of dollars of police surveillance gear obsolete. But, they have been rolling over to these new machines for years, so it is very much something we should still be concerned about.
The EFF has done some excellent research on these new generation IMSI catchers, and even released a detection tool called Crocodile Hunter. See links below for some basic information, research that has been conducted and to the code for the detection tooling.
https://www.eff.org/wp/gotta-catch-em-all-understanding-how-imsi-catchers-exploit-cell-networks
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/05/crocodile-hunter-4g-stingray-cell/
https://github.com/EFForg/crocodilehunter
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Gotta Catch 'Em All: Understanding How IMSI-Catchers Exploit Cell
Table of ContentsSection 1: Introduction Section 2: Necessary background info Section 3: Overview of attacks Section 3.1: Basic IMSI-catcher Section 3.2: Communication interception Section 3.2.1:
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Strike at Rikers
200 detainees at the Robert N Davoren Center on Rikers Island in NYC have been on a hunger strike for 7 days. Conditions at the facility have been deteriorating for years, and the recent Covid-19 surge has brought conditions to a breaking point. An ineffectual "quarantine" means that detainees have no access to recreation and spend much of their time locked in their cells. A major staffing crisis and ongoing sickout among COs (up to 1/3 of the whole staff calls in sick on some days) have led to more service cuts. Some units reported having their commissary visits cut. The heating system in many units is also failing and violence (both between detainees and from COs) has skyrocketed.
In this article, David Campbell, a former political prisoner at Rikers, reflects on how challenging it is to organize collective action at Rikers, and why the current strike is a huge deal.
https://www.nysfocus.com/2022/01/14/rikers-strike-david-campbell/
200 detainees at the Robert N Davoren Center on Rikers Island in NYC have been on a hunger strike for 7 days. Conditions at the facility have been deteriorating for years, and the recent Covid-19 surge has brought conditions to a breaking point. An ineffectual "quarantine" means that detainees have no access to recreation and spend much of their time locked in their cells. A major staffing crisis and ongoing sickout among COs (up to 1/3 of the whole staff calls in sick on some days) have led to more service cuts. Some units reported having their commissary visits cut. The heating system in many units is also failing and violence (both between detainees and from COs) has skyrocketed.
In this article, David Campbell, a former political prisoner at Rikers, reflects on how challenging it is to organize collective action at Rikers, and why the current strike is a huge deal.
https://www.nysfocus.com/2022/01/14/rikers-strike-david-campbell/
New York Focus
I Know What It Means to Strike at Rikers
I helped organize a strike at Rikers during the first wave. Those striking now are not to be ignored.
Forwarded from Inhabit
"Mass student walkout at Kenwood Academy in Hyde Park, Chicago, over unsafe conditions" https://fxtwitter.com/chicago_commune/status/1482060819873636355
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Forwarded from Florida Youth Liberation Front
Thousands of students gather in front of Chicago Public Schools denouncing lack of PPE and safety for students in schools amid Omicron spike
https://fxtwitter.com/chifreemedia/status/1482081863665598476?s=20
https://fxtwitter.com/chifreemedia/status/1482081863665598476?s=20
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