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Interview: Food Series: Community Food Webs: Building Out the Parallel System with Ken Meter

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  1. Netsec.. again!? My brain still hurts from last time!
    “Existing guides and infrastructure for journalists insufficiently prepares them for digitally interacting with sources, working on sensitive stories while protecting sensitive materials offline and online, and traveling cross borders with personal and professional data.”

    AMENDED: THE TOP 10 MOST FREQUENTLY MENTIONED ADVICE IMPERATIVES IN SECURITY GUIDES FOR JOURNALISTS:

    Use multi-factor authentication.
    Use Tor.
    Use a password manager (BitWarden/VaultWarden recommended).
    Create strong passwords.
    Use Signal to transmit passwords (with self-destructing conversations)
    Back-up data from your devices regularly (with encryption & store in multiple locations).
    Don’t re-use passwords.
    Apply system and software updates regularly.
    Use passphrases.
    Configure browser to use only HTTPS or check for https:// in the browser.
    Enable full-disk encryption

    https://cltc.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Online_Security_Guides_for_Journalists.pdf

    Let’s add 11 more for the truly paranoid.

    Use a nolog VPN (Mullvad recommended). Solari’s cybersecurity guidelines do not recommend using a VPN but the key is finding a “nolog” VPN (most are not).
    Assume all Apple/Microsoft/Amazon/Google products are compromised by default
    Avoid Windows, Android, iOS, & OSX (Apple).Use Linux. (Qubes recommended for maximum security).
    Use open-source software and hardware whenever possible. Any closed-source proprietary software/hardware should be untrusted by default.
    Turn off internet when it’s not being used.Avoid all RF transmitters (WiFi, Bluetooth, ect) when possible because it can assist surveillance.
    Disable Javascript in web browser by default (NoScript addon recommended).
    Do not expose any servers behind your network. If you must serve content to the internet, setup a local VPN.
    Assume IoT devices (cameras, SMART devices, etc) are compromised and isolate them to a LAN without internet access.
    Assume any data stored “in the cloud” or data stored on internet-accessible devices is compromised.
    Use alternative DNS servers, not those provided by your ISP.
    More: https://home.solari.com/cybersecurity-what-we-do/
    Note: the above lists were enumerated but the comment system is stripping <ol> tags.

  3. Miss Catherine I so agree concentrate more power in a few hands……how many banks will survive? Ed Dowd thinks 6. He says a lot of what you have said about CBDCs. Has it all been planned? Big V, Jab, shut downs, now banking, does it all point to CBDCs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2G3MAxdZfU      Maybe Miss Catherine 10 states will band together and help stop CBCDs.

    1. Ed Dowd made an interesting comment. He said “use Cash” and he always uses cash. He said when he was going through the Dulles airport he went to buy water and the cashier said no cash accepted so he held up a $50 dollar bill and the cashier said wait… “I’ll put it on my card” and took the cash. So, they already have workarounds.

      1. I would understand the cashier reaction if he was buying $50 dollars worth of stuff, but he bought $2 water, what is the difference whether he buys with a $2 bill or a $50 bill? Cashier has to give back $48 dollars regardless.
        Is there a way to hide the transaction and now have $50 in cash that can somehow with fuzzy accounting help in other ways?

  4. Question for Catherine: At approximately 1 hour 17 minutes you discuss “brokered CDs” as a way to have FDIC insurance on deposits to $250k. I checked on a brokerage account, and indeed the option is there. The brokered CDs are offered by State, and often at banks I am unfamiliar with. Wondering how a person can go about learning enough to invest in these? Thank you for your help.

  5. So, again there is all this talk about FDIC and how it only has a quarter of a million to cover people, but credit unions do not participate in FDIC, they participate in NCUSIF.

  6. By the way, hats off to improving this WordPress platform. It used to be if I made a comment while watching money and markets that would cause a page reload, not anymore. I do not want to get into the technicals of how you did it, I am pretty sure I know what was missing, regardless, hats off, better user experience, for sure.

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