Anti-DUI surveillance devices in your car

Posted on: Sun, 01/02/2022 - 11:06 By: Tom Swiss
photo of car keys and alcohol

Authoritarian progressives have plans to put surveillance devices in your car in the name of reducing drunk driving.

What if cars could stop you from driving drunk? A peek at the latest tech

The recent infrastructure law included a provision mandating that, starting in a few years, all new cars must include some sort of technology to detect and prevent drunk driving.

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Clever Coder Clogs Ohio Snitching Website
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Tom Swiss Fri, 05/08/2020 - 15:34

As Ohio reopens shuttered businesses, not every business is operating safely. The state has declared that if workers don't put their lives on the line, they will lose unemployment benefits.

But a clever coder is poisoning the data well, with a script that generates fake names:

Bloomberg Calls For Technocracy Over Democracy, Says "Defend the banks... these are my peeps."

Posted on: Mon, 02/24/2020 - 17:05 By: Tom Swiss
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One simply cannot kick Michael Bloomberg enough. On Twitter, Walker Bragman posted video from 2010 where Michael Bloomberg argues, in the most literal possible sense, against democracy and for authoritarian technocracy without checks on the executive.

Prominent Clintonist Literally Calls For Bloomberg To Buy The Election

Posted on: Sat, 02/22/2020 - 21:17 By: Tom Swiss
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Joe Lockhart was White House press secretary to impeached President and accused rapist Bill Clinton. For some reason CNN gives him a platform, which he is now using to call for racist Islamophobic authoritarian billionaire Michael Bloomberg to buy the primary election out from under frontrunner Bernie Sanders, long one of the most popular politicians in the nation.

Tesla Remotely Deactivates Features From Used Car

Posted on: Fri, 02/21/2020 - 20:42 By: Tom Swiss
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Jalopnik reports on Tesla removing software-controlled features -- valued at $8,000 -- from a used car, bought by a dealer at auction from Tesla and then sold to a customer.

1. Tesla must be destroyed. 2. Software for safety-critical systems (including vehicles) should never be updatable over-the-air. 3. The "first sale" doctrine must apply to software and software-controlled products.

The Census Helped Put Japanese-Americans In Concentration Camps

Posted on: Thu, 02/20/2020 - 00:35 By: Tom Swiss
Japanese internment instructions from WWII

February 19th is the anniversary of Executive Order 9066, FDR's order to put Japanese Americans into concentration camps. At this time when anti-immigrant sentiment is rising and we are preparing for the US Census, it is worth pausing to remember how census information was used in this state kidnapping of our fellow Americans, to consider how it could be so used again, and to resolve to answer the census only with a count of people and not with any further information, in accordance with the Constitution's provision for an "enumeration", not an interrogation.

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