Back of the Book

Sat, Apr 24, 2021 05:00 AM

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Hosts: R. Paul Martin & Pickles of the North

Topics:

Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 145,202,877 on Friday.
Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 3,077,900 on Friday.
Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 31,985,005 on Friday.
Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 571,091 on Friday.
Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 5,091.
Covid~19 targets - More places are opening up, many without mask mandates.
Planet Earth - Scientific American is now saying we should stop referring to "climate change" and now call it the "climate emergency."
Ingenuity helocipter on Mars - We watched the first controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.
Cyver security - We talked about recommendations from the National Cyber Security Centre regarding better passwords.

Synopsis:

Ingenuity on Mars, the pandemic, and where'd that flower come from?

We spent a good portion of the program talking about the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars and the first controlled flight on another planet.

We talked about the head of the national disease control agency in the so-called People's Republic of China saying that their official vaccine "don’t have very high protection rates."

We talked about cyber security and the risks people take with weak passwords and passwords that can be guessed by anyone looking closely at their social media postings.

Guests:

Guests? Guests? We don't got no guests. We don't need no stinkin' guests! -

Playlist:

Barracuda - Heart
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

Info / Links:

I have a Web site.
R. Paul is on Twitter
WBAI LSB Treasurer's Reports are here.
If you want to do something to protect your privacy while using regular browsers, like Firefox, you can check out NOSCRIPT which gives you more control over what Web sites can learn about you.
Search engines help us to find things on the World Wide Web. Most search engines exist not to help you find things but to allow the companies that provide the search service to data mine your searches and then sell your search history to clients so they can spam you. An alternative to getting your privacy compromised is to use the DuckDuckGo search engine.
If you'd like to keep your browsing history private you can get yourself the Tor Browser. Using the DuckDuckGo search engine is automatic with the Tor Browser, and by accessing the DuckDuckGo search engine from the Tor Browser you are pretty much guaranteed that no one can trace searches back to you.
Gnu Privacy Guard can help you to encrypt your data and preserve your privacy.
For those who need some help getting started with Gnu Privacy Guard there is Gentle GPG which does a lot of the work for you.
For the somewhat more advanced user who wants to protect his or her privacy there is the Tails OS. Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a USB flash drive or a DVD. It allows you to use any computer that will allow you to boot up off a USB flash drive or a DVD and it provides a lot of good security for your on-line activities. You can get the Tails OS here.

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