We could diagnose it for you… Or you could ask the same question of an LLM and get a more interactive answer.

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Even though its data would be stored in Google and Amazon’s newly built Israel-based datacentres, Israeli officials feared developments in US and European laws could create more direct routes for law enforcement agencies to obtain it via direct requests or court-issued subpoenas.

An aerial view of a five very long, two-story buildings alongside what looks like a human-made lake.

With this threat in mind, Israeli officials inserted into the Nimbus deal a requirement for the companies to a send coded message – a “wink” – to its government, revealing the identity of the country they had been compelled to hand over Israeli data to, but were gagged from saying so.

Leaked documents from Israel’s finance ministry, which include a finalised version of the Nimbus agreement, suggest the secret code would take the form of payments – referred to as “special compensation” – made by the companies to the Israeli government.

According to the documents, the payments must be made “within 24 hours of the information being transferred” and correspond to the telephone dialing code of the foreign country, amounting to sums between 1,000 and 9,999 shekels.

Under the terms of the deal, the mechanism works like this:

If either Google or Amazon provides information to authorities in the US, where the dialing code is +1, and they are prevented from disclosing their cooperation, they must send the Israeli government 1,000 shekels.

If, for example, the companies receive a request for Israeli data from authorities in Italy, where the dialing code is +39, they must send 3,900 shekels.

If the companies conclude the terms of a gag order prevent them from even signaling which country has received the data, there is a backstop: the companies must pay 100,000 shekels ($30,000) to the Israeli government.

The Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet (CUII) is a private group formed by ISPs and copyright holders. They decided what websites to block, and ISPs followed, without any court ruling. No judge was involved, no legal process.

The members: The four largest ISPs in Germany and a bunch of copyright holders (the Motion Picture Association, Sky, …). If they decided that a site should be blocked, the ISPs just blocked the domains from being resolved. This ran completely outside the courts, a private system made by corporations for censorship. Blocked sites included streaming services, but also sites like Sci-Hub or game piracy sites.

In a previous blog post, I went into detail on how we trolled them:

• We leaked their secret blocklists (the list of domains was kept secret!)
• We exposed dozens of wrongful and outdated blocks.
• We made them unblock a lot of domains, including some that were blocked for years.
• … and so much more. We just made a lot of bad press for them.

The CUII now only coordinates blocks between ISPs after a court order. That’s it. No more secret votes. No more corporate censorship. The new version of their website says: “The CUII coordinates the conduct of judicial blocking proceedings and the implementation of judicial blocking orders.”

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The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations relevant to their system(s) and intended workloads

Title makes more sense in context of the first couple paragraphs.

Yes I do!

They are working towards requiring it for all travelers.

Why: Think of this as a trial working towards full automation. They aren’t there yet and are not probably legally allowed to do so, but the idea is that you can be fully tracked like the British, Chinese, and other biometric adopted countries.

Prevention: Reliability and legality. As I mentioned I don’t think they can force it in the US for travel yet as it’s not legally allowed, nor is biometrics entirely reliable as is apparent when facial recognition fails.