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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Every document copy stored on used digital photocopiers

CBS News picked up four used photocopiers and looked at the hard drives. There was a lot of private information stored in them:

Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive – like the one on your personal computer – storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.

In the process, it’s turned an office staple into a digital time-bomb packed with highly-personal or sensitive data.

If you’re in the identity theft business it seems this would be a pot of gold.

“The type of information we see on these machines with the social security numbers, birth certificates, bank records, income tax forms,” John Juntunen said, “that information would be very valuable.”

Okay, save the dramatics, it’s still disconcerting.

Not every photocopier makes it so easy to access copied documents, but it’s surprising that it’s still so straightforward with some machines these days. Then again, part of the responsibility belongs to the previous owners. As the Federal Trade Commission instructs, it’s like getting rid of a computer.

Tags: photocopier, privacy

غزة تعود من أجل القدس Gaza is Returning for Jerusalem

نادية حرحش

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غزة تعود من أجل القدس

بينما يعم الحداد سماء القدس , تنتفض أرض غزة وتملأ الأجواء بعوادم الحقيقة المدوية من سواد.

ربما تكون مسيرات العودة رمزية بما حملته من شعارات وتوقعات , فمن أراد العودة لا يحمل معه خطة للحظة اللاحقة لعودة لم نعد نعرف منها الا اسمها ومفتاح قديم لباب لم يعد موجود.

الا ان فعل الاحتلال الامبريالي دائما يأتي ليمنح شعاراتنا معنى اكبر . لتصبح هذه العودة من اجل ما يجري من اغتصاب للقدس حقيقة.

مرة اخرى يخترق الفلسطينيون اسلاك الرعب والفصل والقتل والظلم , ويقدموا الاغلى من اجل وطن يراد له من أبنائه المخلصين الحياة.

مرة اخرى يخرج الفلسطينيون بأجسادهم المليئة بحلم الحرية , الخالية من السلاح الا ذلك المؤمن بأن الحق سلاح اكبر من كل عتاد القهر والقتل والعنف الممارس ضدهم.

في هذه اللحظة التاريخية التي كشفت فيها نوايا الاحتلال وخطط الامبريالية ومآرب الصهيونية العربية المتأسلمة, تسطر غزة من جديد ما تخطه العناوين …

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52 martyrs Returning to God

Did the British claim Gandhi’s march to the sea was an act o terror, King’s March in Selma?

نادية حرحش

These are not mere men… youth … photos … these are heroes who were shot to death in a march dreaming return …

While Zionist fascist Israeli American governments celebrating the rape of Jerusalem …. and then they call us terrorists… and the world continues to watch shamelessly..

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Puerto Rico: The Teacher Uprising the Media Is Ignoring


May 14, 2018 / Meghan Brophy, Jonah Furman
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You’ve read about the teacher strikes in West Virginia, Arizona, Oklahoma, Colorado… but what about Puerto Rico? Fighting to keep the island’s public schools open in the wake of Hurricane Maria, teachers there are boycotting standardized tests and even teaming up with parents to occupy their schools.

The Guardian view on Gaza shootings: stop killing unarmed civilians | Editorial

Channelling a reckless Donald Trump, Israeli ministers appear to have adopted a dangerous mindset: to destroy the national aspirations of the Palestinians by military force

It is inexcusable for soldiers of a military, especially those under democratic civilian control, to shoot and kill protesters, almost all of whom were unarmed, and who pose no credible threat. Yet at the boundary between Gaza and Israel today Israeli soldiers seem to have done just that. It should make Israelis quail that demonstrators were sprayed with live ammunition with apparent impunity. There were dozens of deaths and hundreds of maimings among the Palestinians who had marched to the border to make a point about their right to return to their ancestral homes. Israel’s army evinced no shame in committing what looks like a war crime. These are serious accusations. Yet they were greeted with little more than a shrug. By blockading Gaza, Israel imprisoned 2 million people behind barbed wire and military towers. Israel treated the violence as a jailer might a prison riot: a tragic fault of the inmates.

This is a dangerous mindset for Israelis to embrace. Yet they have done so because the extreme right in Israel, and most of the present government ministers, nurture the idea that Israel can, through its vastly superior military force, end the national aspirations of the Palestinians. These politicians take succour from US president Donald Trump, who has made good on his promise to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Today Mr Trump’s ambassador, who gave money to Jewish far-right groups in Israel, opened his nation’s new embassy in Jerusalem. This is a reckless and provocative step that will harm the prospects for peace. Like the issue of refugees, settlements and borders, the status of Jerusalem is unfinished business. No state is internationally recognised as having sovereignty over Jerusalem. Its status was meant to be determined through negotiations.

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Aching… but hopeful in a generation of believers

I pray for a future for them that is humane and free!

نادية حرحش

Jerusalem is bleeding tears… I do t think there is worse of a scene to ever capture this city as the ongoing violation and forging of history .

A world that is watching quietly and maybe with excitement enjoying the Israeli crowning of a land that is occupied and distorted with injustice and racism .

However, at the very same timing , a new generation of high school graduates is paving its way to the future.. I was watching the graduation of the Frere college in Jerusalem yesterday and I could not but believe strongly , that as long as we are having such young men and women paving their way ahead , we have hope.

There is so much to describe and to relate to , within such a crowd of a generation that is taking their life seriously. They know what they want and have clear ideas of…

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Israeli settlers, police, brutally attack Palestinian worshipers in Al-Aqsa

PNN/ Jerusalem/

Israeli settlers and special forces on Sunday morning violently attacked Palestinian worshipers and guards of Al-Aqsa mosque, after over 1000 settlers broke into the yards of the mosque.

Videos from PNN reporter showed Israeli special forces violently attack Palestinians in the mosque, in midst of Israeli settlers chanting pro-Israeli slogans.

IOF arrested a Palestinian child after brutally beating him inside the gates of the mosque compound. Shortly after, IOF arrested guard Mohammad Al-Salhi after brutal beating as well.

PNN reporter said that the Magharba gate after 1042 extremist settlers broke  into the mosque compound.

Clashes are still taking place at the moment