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Hey, IT Dracula.

This follows several years of warnings about the potential vulnerabilities and risks associated with direct to consumer genetic testing companies like #23andme. In 2019, for example, the Pentagon sounded the alarm over home DNA kits, citing concerns that "outside parties are exploiting the use of genetic materials for questionable purposes," including mass surveillance & unauthorized tracking.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/pentagon-tells-military-personnel-not-use-home-dna-kits-n1106761

Pentagon tells military personnel not to use at-home DNA kits

In a December 20 memo, two Pentagon officials said that DNA testing companies were targeting military personnel with discounts and other undisclosed incentives.

NBC News
All day at home to make an end of our dirty work of the plasterers, and indeed my kitchen is now so handsome that I did not repent of all the trouble that I have been put to, to have it done.
"School choice" sounds great, but it's a euphemism for defunding public schools and funneling the money to private, for-profit schools that don't have to accept all students, are not accountable for their curricula, and can use your tax dollars for religious indoctrination. #GOPDebate
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets”

The modified firmware used by BlackTech is hard to detect.

Ars Technica

And here's why they might be interested: Carlson is a master of the fake culture war propaganda the Russians invented

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/tucker-carlson-putin-orban-propaganda/675380/

Tucker Carlson, the American Face of Authoritarian Propaganda

For Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson fulfills a need.

The Atlantic