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Open thread May 22, 2018

Dan Crawford | May 22, 2018 2:18 pm

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  • Denis Drew says:
    May 22, 2018 at 4:32 pm

    https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-locationsmart-scandal-is-bigger-than-cambridge-analytica-heres-why-no-one-is-talking-about-it.html

    The Privacy Scandal That Should Be Bigger Than Cambridge Analytica
    By Will Oremus May 21, 201812:51 PM
    Wireless carriers are sharing your real-time location with shady third parties—and a bug lets anyone use that data to track you.
    * * * * * *

    “It seems no one can opt out of this form of tracking, because the carriers rely on it to provide their service.

    “It gets worse. A Carnegie Mellon researcher poking around on LocationSmart’s website found that he could use a free trial service to instantly pinpoint the location of, well, just about anyone with a mobile phone and wireless service from one of those major carriers. He did this without any permission or credentials, let alone a warrant.”

  • EMichael says:
    May 23, 2018 at 9:22 am

    I never thought it could get this bad.

    “In the past four days alone, two new items were added to President Trump’s list of impeachable offenses. He was already a sitting duck for a charge of obstruction of justice, which as an impeachable offense doesn’t require the standard of proof—intent—that a criminal charge does. He was also already vulnerable to a charge of accepting foreign emoluments—at the least for the profits his hotel just down Pennsylvania Avenue has been raking in from foreign governments, but also for some questionable business dealings by his sons in foreign countries and for flagrant ethics violations stemming from his refusal to detach himself from his private business interests. (Shortly before Trump took office, his “ethics lawyer,” in Trump’s presence, announced that his private company, now to be run by his sons, “will not enter into any new overseas deals while Trump is president.” This was the press conference that featured stacks of empty envelopes piled on a table.)

    And now Trump has chalked up two more reasons to impeach him (or some kind of reckoning): abusing his office by ordering an investigation of the FBI’s investigation into whether his 2016 campaign conspired with Russia, and attempting to punish a specific individual by damaging that person’s business.

    The actual likelihood of impeachment isn’t the important point. What matters is whether Trump—or any president—is held to account for alleged transgressions in gaining office, and then, once in it, abuse of its powers. If Trump gets away with these things unscathed, dangerous precedents will have been set.”

    https://newrepublic.com/article/148499/number-trumps-impeachable-offenses-keeps-growing

    Some day I need to go to Cal and actually meet someone or two who actually voted for Devin Nunes. Nah, I have met plenty who voted for trump, same, same.

  • Denis Drew says:
    May 23, 2018 at 10:29 am

    https://www.mediaite.com/tv/harvard-law-professor-laurence-tribe-warns-dems-pushing-trump-impeachment-you-have-to-shoot-to-kill/

    Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe Warns Dems Pushing Trump Impeachment: ‘You Have to Shoot to Kill’
    by Aidan McLaughlin | 9:00 am, May 22nd, 2018

    “But it will be available only if we don’t use it loosely, and ring the bell every time something looks amiss,” Tribe said. “You can’t be the boy who cried wolf and have a viable impeachment power. You can’t use it over and over again against the same president.”

  • EMichael says:
    May 23, 2018 at 12:16 pm

    Well, since it at least 8 months until there is any chance of that happening(and it might not happen then, the professor’s advice can be noticed then.

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