Back of the Book

• Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 161,390,677 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 3,348,952 on Friday.
• Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 32,887,176 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 585,162 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 4,358.
• Covid~19 internationally - India with  24,046,809 cases has now surpassed Brazil as the second most Covid~19 infected country, although Brazil still has more deaths with 430,417 and opposed to India's 262,317.
• National security and cyber~crime - The Colonial Pipeline company got hit rather spectacularly with a ransomware attack this past week.
• 50 years ago - The Gay Activists Alliance rented "The Firehouse," also, the Gay Liberation Front voted to dissolve.
• Mars - Ingenuity, the only helicopter on Mars, is done being tested. There may be a couple more flights over the next few weeks.
• Our health - Pickles of the North seems to have fully recovered from the cold we both got, R. Paul is better than he had been.

We talked about this month being the 50^th anniversary of the Gay Activists Alliance renting The Firehouse.

This month is also the 50^th anniversary of the Gay Liberation Front imploding.

We talked about Ingenuity completing its flying tests on Mars.

We talked about the Colonial Pipeline Company and Ransomware-as-a-service.

Pickles of the North talked about going out to see friends after 14 months of lockdown.

We mentioned a stupid Congresscritter who either thinks he can gaslight the world or else he's delusional.

There is a Web page for this program

You can find me on Twitter.

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

• Barracuda - Heart
• Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

• 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.