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Earlier this year, at the height of a very public battle between the FBI and Apple over whether the computer maker would help decrypt a mass murderer’s locked iPhone, it appeared that a little-known, 17-year-old Israeli firm named Cellebrite Mobile Synchronization might finally get its moment in the spotlight. After weeks of insisting that only Apple could help the feds unlock the phone of San Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook, the Justice Department suddenly revealed that a third party had provided a way to get into the device. Speculation swirled around the identity of that party until an Israeli newspaper reported it was Cellebrite. It turns out the company was not the third party that helped the FBI. A Cellebrite representative said as much during a panel discussion at a high-tech crimes conference in Minnesota this past April, according to a conference attendee who spoke with The Intercept. And sources who spoke with the Washington Post earlier this y

by system failure Adam Curtis gave recently an interesting interview to Jarvis Cocker on the occasion of his new film 'HyperNormalisation'. Curtis makes some interesting points about the nature of cybernetic world. He describes the dream of the Internet Utopians who wanted to create a parallel world that could achieve self-stability without political interference or any other type of authority. Curtis explains that we have confused our dream of the internet. We have confused an engineering system with the dream of the future. As an engineering system, the internet is based on feedback. What it does very efficiently and brilliantly, is constantly reading the past and feeding back staff to the receiver. Therefore, as he also explains, if you have a system that it constantly tries to manage the world by reading data from your behavior in the past, what it can't imagine, is a kind of future that never existed before. It's always reinforcing y

CETA is definitely another huge nail in the coffin of European democracy. This has been a deal written by, and with, big business. You can see it in who’s coming out. SMEs [small and medium-sized enterprises] have said, “We’re not in favor of CETA or TTIP.” Those who are cheerleading it are those very same big businesses so you have more rights being handed over to big business, you have their investors being protected, and ultimately what we’re seeing is the profits of the biggest businesses being put before the interests of European citizens and those across Europe who actually want to have a decent quality of life. The Comprehensive Economic & Trade Agreement (CETA) will allow the economy to be run by big corporations. And the protesters of the deal - who have solid arguments - have not been heard, says Lode Vanoost, a former Deputy Speaker of the Belgian Parliament. Protesters have attempted to storm the EU headquarters in Brussels in a bid to stop the

Almost half of all respondents in a recent Russian opinion poll said they feared that the aggravation of relations between Russia and the West caused by the ongoing crisis in Syria could develop into a global military conflict. The share of those who see the probability of World War Three in the near future as high or very high is now at 48 percent and those who appraise it as low or very low comprise 42 percent of society, the privately-owned public opinion research center Levada reported on Monday. The remaining 10 percent of respondents said they couldn’t give a simple answer to the question. When researchers asked citizens if they considered it possible that Russia and the West would eventually find a mutually acceptable solution to the crisis, 35 percent answered that this scenario was likely or very likely. Thirty-nine percent evaluate the probability of such an outcome as low or very low and 26 percent said that they couldn’t answer the question. Ju

Την επίθεση που δέχθηκε η ομάδα των μελών του ΚΚΕ από τους χρυσαυγίτες στο Πέραμα περιέγραψε ο Σωτήρης Πουλικόγιαννης πρόεδρος του συνδικάτου μετάλλου Αττικής, καταθέτοντας στη δίκη της Χρυσής Αυγής. Υπενθυμίζεται πως ο κ. Πουλικόγιαννης είχε χτυπηθεί σοβαρά στο κεφάλι από τα μέλη της νεοναζιστικής οργάνωσης. Ο Σωτήρης Πουλικόγιαννης κατήγγειλε μεγαλοεργολάβους στη Ζώνη του Περάματος, οι οποίοι έδωσαν εντολή στους χρυσαυγίτες για την επίθεση. «Υπάρχει μια ομάδα μεγαλοεργολάβων οι οποίοι εδώ και χρόνια προσπαθούν να λειτουργήσουν μονοπωλιακά στη ζώνη για να ρίξουν το κόστος εργασίας, να μην υπάρχει συνδικαλιστή δράση», είπε και τους κατονόμασε: Αθανάσιος Πυρινής, Αντώνης Αθανασόπουλος, Παναγιώτης Δελλής, Δημήτρης Μεταξάς, Βαγγέλης Βουδούρης. Υπενθυμίζεται πως ο βουλευτής των νεοναζί Γιάννης Λαγός είχε προαναγγείλει εκκαθάριση των συνδικαλιστών στη Ζώνη του Πέραματος, ενώ από μηνύματα sms προκύπτει πως η επίθεση έγινε κατ΄εντολή του. «Θα φάνε γερό πέσιμο τα κομμ