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The vaccine passports that I've seen have ECDSA signatures but no public key in them. That means a central authority has to verify the signature.

In other words, every time someone scans your passport, the central authority knows where you were at that time.
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DNA pulled from thin air identifies nearby animals | Science | AAAS
sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/dn

So how long until this gets used to track people?

Highways England may have to reverse act of ‘cultural vandalism’ | Heritage | The Guardian
theguardian.com/culture/2021/j

Gotta agree with the headline. Holy hell the infill looks ugly.

"It is pushing alongside HE’s stifling culture of risk aversion and lack of understanding of historical railway structures."

Risk aversion may actually be a really good explanation for how this happens. And probably related to the insanity we've seen around covid.

@orangepillme ...but the dinosaur was wearing a mask! That means they're super protected!!!

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When WaPo Admits that Rand Paul is correct and Fauci is wrong, then you know the temperature of Hell is dropping as I type this post.

foxnews.com/media/wapo-columni

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"U.S. border restrictions for Canada, Mexico renewed until Aug. 21"

Remember that these restrictions _only_ apply to the land borders. Air travel has been exempt from the essential travel restrictions the whole time; COVID-19 knows not to infect people rich enough to fly in.

It's just science.

Canadian veterans pay out of pocket to rescue their Afghan comrades ‘stranded’ in war zone: ‘It’s the right thing to do’ | The Star
thestar.com/news/canada/2021/0

"Due to the daily limits put on the amount each person can transfer, Rickards said the veterans had to solicit help from their families and friends to wire money."

I think we all know what fixes this...

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@privacyint The time to oppose those measures is now. A pandemic is no excuse; if it is, you'll find out you're in a pandemic all the time.

Which is scientifically true: the flu is a yearly pandemic.

@privacyint The time to oppose those measures is now. A pandemic is no excuse; if it is, you'll find out you're in a pandemic all the time.

Which is scientifically true: the flu is a yearly pandemic.

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"You don't build all that tech to then easily shut it down the moment the WHO says it's no longer a pandemic."

Take a look at @AJEnglish 'Under the Cover of Covid' to hear from our Executive Director and others in the sector about the COVID-19 power grab

youtube.com/watch?v=aWolao4UX-

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coindesk.com/el-salvador-may-i

The Colon dollar?! It feels like there's a joke to be made about what kind of coin it will be...

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@alan8325 People like her are probably happy that these vaccines aren't working as well as hoped. Gives them excuses to harass people for attention.

@alan8325 I wouldn't be surprised if that was her point actually... I doubt she would have liked to have it pointed out that being twice my weight, she was at something like 100x more risk.

(fwiw I just ignored her and didn't respond or try to take a photo - I was in a small business that just reopened so no reason to make trouble for them)

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LoL, just got harassed by a morbidly obese women wearing a "I'M FULLY VACCINATED" lanyard around her neck for not wearing a medical mask (I _was_ wearing a bandana, 100% legally).

I've had almost no mask-related harassment this whole pandemic. I wonder if covid fading into a non-issue will make nutters like her resort to more ridiculous stunts for attention?

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