What Happens When Cities Make Homelessness a Crime: Hiding The Homeless

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A growing number of American cities are ticketing or arresting homeless people for essentially being homeless. The new laws ban behavior commonly associated with homelessness like reclining in public, sharing food or sitting on a sidewalk.

Supporters argue these measures are necessary to push homeless people into the shelter system and maintain public safety. Critics say the laws violate the rights of homeless people and ignore the more complicated drivers of homelessness like mental illness.

We found homeless people camping in the woods to escape police harassment, a homelessness consultant opposed to feeding homeless people and a city that uses solitary confinement to force homeless people into shelters.

VICE News began its investigation in Boise, ID, where a group of homeless people have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of these laws. Their case could change the way homeless people are treated across the country.

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Wikileaks Vault 7 Releases Another CIA Hacking Tool

Brutal Kangaroo

22 June, 2017

Today, June 22nd 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the Brutal Kangaroo project of the CIA. Brutal Kangaroo is a tool suite for Microsoft Windows that targets closed networks by air gap jumping using thumbdrives.

Source: https://wikileaks.org/vault7

Brutal Kangaroo components create a custom covert network within the target closed network and providing functionality for executing surveys, directory listings, and arbitrary executables.

The documents describe how a CIA operation can infiltrate a closed network (or a single air-gapped computer) within an organization or enterprise without direct access. It first infects a Internet-connected computer within the organization (referred to as "primary host") and installs the BrutalKangaroo malware on it.

When a user is using the primary host and inserts a USB stick into it, the thumbdrive itself is infected with a separate malware. If this thumbdrive is used to copy data between the closed network and the LAN/WAN, the user will sooner or later plug the USB disk into a computer on the closed network. By browsing the USB drive with Windows Explorer on such a protected computer, it also gets infected with exfiltration/survey malware.

If multiple computers on the closed network are under CIA control, they form a covert network to coordinate tasks and data exchange. Although not explicitly stated in the documents, this method of compromising closed networks is very similar to how Stuxnet worked.

The Brutal Kangaroo project consists of the following components:

• Drifting Deadline is the thumbdrive infection tool,
• Shattered Assurance is a server tool that handles automated infection of thumbdrives (as the primary mode of propagation for the Brutal Kangaroo suite),
• Broken Promise is the Brutal Kangaroo postprocessor (to evaluate collected information)
• Shadow is the primary persistence mechanism (a stage 2 tool that is distributed across a closed network and acts as a covert command-and-control network; once multiple Shadow instances are installed and share drives, tasking and payloads can be sent back-and-forth).

The primary execution vector used by infected thumbdrives is a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system that can be exploited by hand-crafted link files that load and execute programs (DLLs) without user interaction. Older versions of the tool suite used a mechanism called EZCheese that was a 0-day exploit until March 2015; newer versions seem use a similar, but yet unknown link file vulnerability (Lachesis/RiverJack) related to the library-ms functionality of the operating system.
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We Are Living In A Disruptive Era: Is Your Job Secure?

Let's get right to the point with some excerpts and an inforgraphic insert from this

Is Your Job About To Disappear?:

Bloomberg.com

. . . some economists believe that the world is on the cusp of much bigger change, on the scale of the revolution brought about by industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Researchers at the University of Oxford estimate that nearly half of all U.S. jobs may be at risk in the coming decades, with lower-paid occupations among the most vulnerable.

Top 10 Job-Losing Subsectors in the U.S. ¹

Goods

Services

The effect on labor markets of free-trade agreements and increased immigration has already caused significant political upheaval, as the resurgence of populism in the U.S. and Europe demonstrates. But some economists believe that the world is on the cusp of much bigger change, on the scale of the revolution brought about by industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries. Researchers at the University of Oxford estimate that nearly half of all U.S. jobs may be at risk in the coming decades, with lower-paid occupations among the most vulnerable.

Top Job-Losing Subsectors as of April 2017

Goods

Services

Retail

Wired telecommunications carriers

–27.2K

Department stores

–26.8K

Sporting goods and musical instrument stores

–15.5K

Electronics stores

–15.0K

Clothing stores

–14.4K

The retail industry alone accounted for four of the ten subsectors with the biggest losses in the first four months of 2017, compared with the same period a year earlier

Newspaper, book and directory publishers

–14.0K

Semiconductors and electronic components

–10.9K

Spectator sports

–10.7K

Aerospace products and parts

–10.4K

Printing and related support activities

–10.2K

Wired telecommunications carriers

–27.2K

Department stores

–26.8K

Sporting goods and musical instrument stores

–15.5K

Electronics stores

–15.0K

Clothing stores

–14.4K

The retail industry alone accounted for four of the ten subsectors with the biggest losses in the first four months of 2017, compared with the same period a year earlier

Newspaper, book, & directory publishers

–14.0K

Semiconductors & elec. comp.

–10.9K

Spectator sports

–10.7K

Aerospace products and parts

–10.4K

Printing & related activities

–10.2K

Wired telecommunications carriers

–27.2K

Department stores

–26.8K

Sporting goods and musical instrument stores

–15.5K

The retail industry alone accounted for four of the ten subsectors with the biggest losses in the first four months of 2017, compared with the same period a year earlier

Electronics stores

–15.0K

Clothing stores

–14.4K

Newspaper, book and directory publishers

–14.0K

Semiconductors and electronic components

–10.9K

Spectator sports

–10.7K

Aerospace products and parts

–10.4K

Printing and related support activities

–10.2K

Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Is Your Job At Risk? ²

• 
  
  Doctoral or Professional Degree
• 
  
  Master’s
• 
  
  Bachelor’s
• 
  
  Associate’s
• 
  
  Postsecondary Nondegree Award
• 
  
  Some College
• 
  
  High School Diploma or Equivalent
• 
  
  No Formal Education Credential
 

 

 

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