Evidence is mounting that the bulk of the US pharmacopoeia full of quick fixes imposes an increased dementia risk with chronic use of the drugs (archived). At issue is the anti-cholinergic action where the problematic quick fix drugs antagonize the cholinergic nervous system. The problem spans from the seemingly innocuous over the counter antihistamines recommended for everything from allergies to a quick fix for sleep all the way to the US psycho-pharmacopoeia where nearly every drug in use carries substantial anti-cholinergic effects. Anything with a label indicating "dry mouth" as a side effect is usually going to have an anti-cholinergic effect. The association between regular use of anti-cholinergics and dementia is especially pronounced in cases where the patient with dementia is under 80 years of age.
Category Archives: Shitware
FedEx Sues FedGov Over Export Control Burdens
FedEx has sued the US Department of Commerce and Madame Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross over the impossibility of complying with the full extent of USG export control regulations. In the filing FedEx swears that they have a sophisticated system for checking sender and recipient identities against the USG's restricted entity list, but that determining whether any particular item entrusted to them as a common carrier is export controlled presents an excessive burden such that effective checks would require them to discard any pretense of customer privacy while forcing them to violate other laws in the process.
FedEx further laments that in other contexts common carriers enjoy protection from liability with respect to the contents of the package they are conveying, but not in this case. Either FedEx implements a regime of intensive package inspection trying to comply with US export controls and in the process breaks numerous other laws in their global area of operations, or they perpetually sit exposed to liability if the USG catches something going through under their care in violation of US export controls. Thusly, FedEx seeks relief under the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, because these burdens were placed upon them without due process. The full filing is below: Continue reading
Verizon BGP Fuckup Disrupted US Internet Service Yesterday
Yesterday US internet service was plunged into chaos after major local carrier Verizon ate some bad BGP records allegedly pushed by a small Pennsylvania ISP (archived). USG affiliated surveillance firm Cloudflare is claiming 15 percent of their traffic was lost during the incident.
Monitor's Report In QuadraCX Bankruptcy Reveals A Clusterfuck
As Canadian fiat/Bitcoin interface QuadrigaCX seeks bankruptcy relief in the wake of its founder dying with most of the keys, the monitor's latest report tells an almost Shaversesque tale of your loss. The monitor tells the tale of the late Mr. Cotten moving fiat and Bitcoin denominated funds freely from his platform and to other fiat/Bitcoin interfaces while using an accounting system completley opaque to the rest of his Quadrigans. The full report is presented in its entirety below: Continue reading
Rubio Files Amendment To End US Patent Recourse For Firms On USG Badlists
As Huawei seeks ~1 billion US in compensation from Verizon for use of their patents, Florida Senator Marco Rubio has filed an amendment to the US National Defense Authorization Act which would keep firms on certain USG bad lists from seeking recourse in US Courts on patent matters (archived).
UK "Human Rights" Activist Owns Israeli Spyware Firm
Yana Peel, who runs art galleries and makes noise about advancing human rights, is also a part owner of Israeli spyware company selling surveillance products to fiat governments (archived). She counts many time failed US presidential candidate and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg as a close friend, mentor, and chair of her Serpentine art gallery.
Cloudflare Shitgnomes Hyping "Randomness Beacons"
Notorious USG surveillance firm Cloudflare is hyping a network of "randomness beacons" and encouraging folks to use the output of these beacons in places where numbers generated under the watch of others do not belong (archived). The pernicious shitgnomes caution against using the public output of their beacons for private keys in order to imply their "private" entropy offerings are suitable for private keys. They are not. The proposition that a known NSA and CIA surveillance partner offers any private thing is incredible in its insanity.
Hygienic random numbers suitable for battlefield use come from auditable processes and instruments in the hands of the user whose life depends on them.
Yubikey FIPS Products Suffer Reduced Randomness
Yubico has published an advisory warning that their Yubikey FIPS products offer reduced randomness under a wide variety of conditions. While Yubikey is offering a replacement program, this does nothing to alleviate the damage rendered to those who fired their devices in anger. No Such lAbs has produced a dedicated, auditable random number generator which has strangely seen no competition in the market.
British Home Secretary Sajid Javid Signs Order To Extradite Julian Assange To United States
British Home Secretary Sajid Javid has signed an order requesting Julian Assange's extradition to the United States for Julian's attempts to do journalism in violation of the US Espionage Act (archived). The extradition order will be weighed in the UK's courts Friday. Sweden withdrew their competing extradition claim earlier this month.
ROWHAMMER Being Used To Read From Vulnerable RAM
The ROWHAMMER vulnerability in DRAM which allows running processes to fuck with memory allocated to other processes is being developed into reliable side channel leaks reading from memory (archived). The importance of computing hygiene continues to be supported by the unforgiving march of time.
The full text of the academic paper is presented below: Continue reading