Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with Google Play services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56544079

European police agencies said on Friday that 22 people had been identified as being part of attacks involving a series of exploding parcels in ‌Europe in 2024, which the Russian military intelligence service was suspected of being behind.

Explosions occurred in courier depots in Britain, Germany and Poland with security officials suggesting they were part of a test run for a Russian plot to trigger explosions on cargo flights to the United States.

Moscow has always denied allegations it was involved in any such operation, or other accusations of a wider sabotage campaign involving arson attacks aimed at destabilising allies of Ukraine.

'VULNERABLE' SUSPECTS Eurojust, the European Union's justice cooperation agency, ⁠said on Friday that a joint investigation by German, Polish, Dutch, British and Lithuanian detectives had identified 22 suspects in Lithuania and Poland who were suspected of working on behalf of Russia's GRU intelligence agency.

"The suspected perpetrators were recruited from Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Ukraine and were often in a vulnerable socio-economic situation," the Eurojust statement said. "It is suspected that the acts carried out by these suspects were executed on behalf of the military-intelligence service of the Russian Federation."

What the title says. Well intentioned, often other "neurodivergent" people look at your life, your autism, and say: "you should mask harder."

For example, I accidentally said something that offended a friend. Won't go into detail, but it was me unintentionally coming off as arrogant, not something bad like a slur or hate speech.

I asked for advice (elsewhere) and the advice was universally, "you see, NT avoid this topic at all costs. Going forwards, know it is best to avoid this topic."

But isn't this just saying "mask harder and be more palatable for everyone else"?

Every piece of "autism advice" I see even in "neurodivergent friendly" communities is basically "how to be less autistic."

Maxwell Frost, the first Gen Z member of Congress, is one of the Democrats making it his business to understand the depth of the coverup happening in regard to the Epstein files, the ongoing preferential redactions of names of doers while exposing victims, and the dog and pony show he has to go through once he gets behind closed doors at the DoJ to actually view the unredacted files -- which, unsurprisingly, are still redacted.

Here Rep. Frost is interviewed by Heather Cox Richardson, a historian in her own right, and like all of her interviews it is incisive and deeply informative.

Being Gen Z, Rep. Frost went in to the special DoJ facility to see the unredacted-but-actually-still-redacted files with a better grasp of technology than many of his older peers, and thus was readily able to navigate the bizarre technological obstructions that had been put in Congress' way before the first member ever showed up to see the files.

Rep. Frost describes this at length, and the patterns he sees in the redactions, and the length to which the DoJ has tried to prevent anyone from being able to "connect the dots" and get the larger picture of the entire ring, not only of pedophilia but of influence peddling and criminal conspiracy to evade any kind of justice.

I will try to attach a cleaned transcript later this evening (for those of us who prefer to read) but in the meantime you should know that pretty much everything that he describes are illegal acts in and of themselves, even before you get to specific violations of EFTA, perjury under oath, etc.

Congress, the legislative branch of government, is co-equal with the judicial and the executive, and wherever he and his fellow legislators are being denied full access to anything they request, and whatever lies/distractions/untruths they are being served in furtherance of that denial of access, are already unconstitutional and illegal from the outset.

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