Human folly for 02017-03-03

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• Uber Greyball program evade authorities (nytimes.com):

  #Uber invaded users’ #privacy to guess whether they were city enforcement officials or not, feeding city officials fake data, with a program called "Greyball".

• Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platforms (decentralize.today):

  #decentralization #hardware #security: Intel Management Engine (#Intel-ME) and AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP). By Timothy Pearson of Raptor Engineering (?)

• Me (io.netgarage.org):

  #Intel-ME #hardware firmware #reverse-engineering: a huffman decompressor.

• Irene clennell deported UK terrorist (theguardian.com):

  “Woman deported from #England despite being married to Briton for 27 years” #immigration #human-rights

• If plastic replaces cash much that is good will be lost (aeon.co):

  cash protects #human-rights

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of how cash doesn’t actually protect #human-rights