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Outcry over ExpressVPN ownership: What the Israeli connection means for user privacy Outcry over ExpressVPN ownership: What the Israeli connection means for user privacy Social media users are calling for the mass cancellation of ExpressVPN subscriptions after it was revealed that a cybersecurity firm with  Israeli  ties owns the popular privacy service. In 2021, The Times of Israel  reported  that Kape Technologies, a British-Israeli digital security company, acquired ExpressVPN, one of the world’s largest virtual private network (VPN) providers, for nearly $1bn. The calls for cancellation intensified after social media  users  began  circulating  information about Teddy Sagi, the Israeli billionaire and owner of Kape Technologies. Many shared that in 2023, as reported by The Jerusalem Post, Sagi donated $1m to transport soldiers during the Israeli war on  Gaza . This is not the first time the calls have been made since the acquisition, but they are more widespread now, given Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. A VPN is a tool that encrypts internet traffic and masks identities by routing connections through secure servers. VPNs are widely used for privacy, anonymity, and bypassing censorship. Ownership of such services is considered highly sensitive by privacy advocates. Read more:  Outcry over ExpressVPN ownership: What the Israeli connection means for user privacy

Outcry over ExpressVPN ownership: What the Israeli connection means for user privacy

Indeed. Earlier this summer, the White House did this to me, as a scientific expert source in media, and issued a formal statement regarding my personal campaign contribution history in an attempt to discredit my commentary on wildfire, climate, and federal policy. Yet more alarm bells ringing...

A post on the importance of sending letters

A post with Disney's address

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

People who come to DC to serve are the most likely to have multiple principal residences (that's the terminology, not primary) & it is perfectly legal for them to do so. It's just as legal for Lisa Cook to have a principal residence during the school year & one for the summer.

US imposes sanctions on Palestinians who asked for Israel war crimes probe

Israeli government official arrested in Nevada sex crimes operation Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied the employee was arrested and said he returned to the country ‘as scheduled’

The acting head of Data & AI for the Israel national #Cybersecurity Directorate was arrested in a Nevada operation targeting child sex predators. He was in Las Vegas for Black Hat and was caught trying to lure a child for a sex act. Released and returned.

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ICE detained a teen with disabilities outside a Los Angeles school "The trauma will linger."

ICE arrested a disabled 15-year-old AT GUNPOINT outside Arleta High School. Superintendent Carvahlo says that agents left behind bullets on the ground. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Israel Reportedly Discussing Expelling Palestinians to War-Torn South Sudan South Sudan’s government refuted reports of the talks, though they shine a light on Israel’s approach.

Israeli authorities are reportedly in discussions to resettle Palestinians to war-torn and hunger-stricken South Sudan, as Israel seeks to advance its plans for the forcible expulsion of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

It appears that PACER has been compromised by a Russian threat actor for some time. This is a very big deal for people who have submitted sealed documents in federal court whose threat model includes RU.

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This is fine. Go about your business. Nothing to see here. If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about...

Which means "yes, it did."

What could go wrong? What could possibly go wrong?

Good morning from my garden...

I keep hitting these with cal-mag, but keep getting blossom-end rot.

Recent garden progress.

Really? Really? And then these are the people pleading for government assistance when a "surprise" mega-storm rips through their trailer park.
This is what you get when public education is underfunded and replaced by AM talk-radio and 4chan.

The problem with AI is you can't carve a swastika on its forehead.

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A federal appeals court blocked the rule, which would have required companies to make it easier to end subscriptions.

Oh, yeah, that'll go over well.

Rich people are always ruining life for the rest of us...

Opinion | Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify officers masking their identities.

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument.
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PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015.

THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

Shameful.

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This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

I forget... what does CFPB stand for? It's "Consumer something something Bureau," right?