"This study provided in vivo evidence that inadvertent intravenous injection of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines may induce myopericarditis. Brief withdrawal of syringe plunger to exclude blood aspiration may be one possible way to reduce such risk."
Is this really a problem? To extract blood the nurse must aim for a vein, and it's a long process with many steps, and sometimes they must retry a few times before success.
And I think for the vaccine they use a part of the arm without major veins, to avoid complications, bleeding and bruises.
It's a potential problem. The odds are slim that they would hit a vein in the arm, but if they did, that would not be good.
I for one am confused as to why they wouldn't aspirate as standard procedure. I had to take some training on intramuscular injections a while back to help a family member, and checking for blood before proceeding with the injection was one of the major points.
In fact the doctor advocates taking the vaccine. Also, the method the doctor is advocating for is what the drug makers recommend. It just isn't what the CDC and WHO recommend.
Of course they're interested in my welfare; even a pawn has value to the state. Moreover, the five eyes are all representative democracies; China is not.
A pawn has value to the state as a tool. One such example is to be used as cannon fodder.
The US democracy is fake. Entrenched interests hold
virtually all power.
You have 6 trillion dollars and thousands of lives lost over fake wars. Where are those WMDs? Why didn't we pull out after getting bin Laden in Pakistan?
Go back a generation to the Vietnam War. 50k American lives lost.
History keeps on repeating itself and people are oblivious.
Even tools have value; better to be a tool of the state than an obstacle of an adversary.
I'm not American, and I'm rather proud that my elected representatives voted against joining the USA in the Iraq invasion. Americans voted for the Iraq invasion. It was popular[0]. It still remains reasonably popular, with slightly more Americans opposing it than supporting it in 2018[1]. Despite two decades of expenditure, pain and suffering.
"A superglue story also jacks up the Us > Them values. The story needs to be all about good guys and bad guys, with a crisp, clear distinction between the two. The good guys must be good in every way—in knowledge, talent, motivation, and virtue. They’re good now, they were always good in the past, and they’ll continue to be good in the future. The bad guys are the opposite—they are and always have been stupid, ignorant, malicious, and morally backwards. Strife between the good guys and bad guys is always the fault of the bad guys"
There's nothing shocking about that many representatives voting in favor of something that had over two thirds public support. In fact, it looks appropriate.
As for the media, the foreign and public press weren't so in favor. But I'll be the last to suggest that American media isn't terrible. It is.
And all the protests accomplished jackshit. Can't you see that that is the point? Your opinion and protests have no effect. Your protests are just plausible deniability.
The protests failed to invigorate change, not unlike anti mask protests today, because the message wasn't persuasive enough to sufficiently many people.
That's democracy. It's not great, but it's better than the alternatives.
How do you think the US government gets access to Internet and phone traffic? The exchanges give the US government direct access including letting the government install their own equipment.
The parent comment is quite obviously correct. The US Internet isn't just some large exchanges. It consists of many tens of thousands of services/companies/sites with private data exchanged over TLS. The US Government does not control those services/sites; in China it directly controls all of it, top to bottom and without exception.
Does the US Government control GitHub? Imgur? Do they have monitors implanted at the organizations to control them?
Do you know why there was so much anti-Trump content on services like Imgur, Reddit or Twitter, during those administration years? It's precisely because the US Government does not control such services, and fortunately it's an area of real freedom that the US still largely excels at.
In the US I can set up a file/media hosting service tomorrow morning, with zero oversight by the US Government. I can make it a politically focused service for the left or right as I see fit. I can blast Biden 24/7 via the service, hosting media that is anti his administration, or focus that against Republicans instead.
Or I can set up an encrypted data service, where you can post encrypted files, text notes, whatever. I can do that any time I see fit, the US Government has nothing to do with it. Try that in China and see what happens to you.
Those are intentionally simple examples to make a point. You can do none of that in China, starting from step one of just setting up an open file hosting service that can take in almost any content you want it to (outside of things like CP).
The US Government does not control the US Internet other than with some quite basic regulations. In China, the CCP now directly controls all relevant corporations, all Internet services, anything that matters whatsoever.
The US is a set of entrenched interests that are now working in concert with the government. The government doesn't have to do things directly. They just have the companies do it.
Stop focusing on the government and look at how the whole system works. Post something critical of a government official and it gets censored. It happens on Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Hacker News, Nextdoor, YouTube, etc... We aren't talking Trump or antivaxxers either.
So what? The government of China also maintains a network of roads, just like the US. By narrowing your focus you can always find ways that the US is "just like China."
Of course, right now, in the 21st century, the government of China is using its various powers to, among other things, send its citizens who members of a particular minority ethnic group to concentration camps. Criticize the US all you want, but the US government are not rounding people up, torturing them, and then forcing them to work in jobs the government picked out for them. The US does plenty of awful things, sometimes as part of its official policies, but it is still a far cry for the sort of things that the CCP is doing.
The US government did round people up, torture them, and put them in concentration camps. How do you think the WHOLE country was built? We living in this country benefited and are CONTINUING to benefit from it.
Ever hear of the Indian reservation system? The US government rounded people up, took their land, and forced them into concentration camps. If they left the reservation, they were hunted by the US cavalry.
It is so rich to conquer a people and then show remorse while continuing to occupy the land.
How would you compare that part of American history to the Nazis? Or how about comparing that to the Japanese in WW2? Is the US really any better?
Given how the US is allies with Saudi Arabia, has conducted wars killing over a million people the last 30 years, do you actually think the US changed its ways?
I am sorry that you got downvoted. In 6th grade civics class (in California) we learned about the wide scale killing of the native populations. I live in Arizona, and we have a landmark nearby called Bloody Gulch where a US general who was supposed to march a tribe a few hundred miles to a new reservation, after about a few dozen miles decided it was simpler to just gun the whole large tribe, babies, children, and adults.
I am glad to be a US citizen, but for us to not acknowledge bad mistakes that we have made in the past (and including the recent past) is wrong, and diminishes our chances to do better morally and to improve our future chances of continued prosperity.
Don’t update your apps till after Apple releases a patch. The first two are API calls that apps can make.
An exploit wishing to exploit these vulnerabilities has to be coded to make these calls. Most apps don’t dynamically construct arbitrary API calls. In fact, you can’t do that in Swift AFAIK. You have to drop to Objective-C or C to do that.
So most apps need to be updated to exploit the vulnerability. The only exceptions would be apps that are intentionally constructed to call arbitrary APIs or at least with arbitrary parameters. The first would be a violation of developer agreements but that hasn’t stopped people in the past. Also, these aren’t even private APIs. These are public APIs that got exploited due to not properly checking parameters/entitlements.
I wonder if Apple isn’t running static analysis tools right now to look for these vulnerabilities against all apps.
> I wonder if Apple isn’t running static analysis tools right now to look for these vulnerabilities against all apps.
On a side note, this is one more reason Apple can cite for their App Store exclusivity. If there is a vulnerability in the OS exploitable by apps, and they can’t get a patch out in time, they can screen and prevent the download of such dangerous apps.
Not a popular position here I know. But I’m correct no?
You're not correct - Apple can still scan apps installed from elsewhere. With a user opt-in, Android can verify side-loaded apps - no App-store exclusivity required.
I speculate that GameKit is basically abandonware by Apple. They even got rid of the app a few years ago.
There probably hasn't been hardening of it in years and the initial work was probably developed in haste.
This is systemic. Apple has a bad habit of abandoning software that isn't a priority. So, one shouldn't be surprised that Apple hasn't fixed these exploits. And I wonder if the author has fully mined GameKit for exploits yet. Perhaps there are more to be found.
The architecture of iOS and OSX isn't conducive to security AFAIK. It is more of an add-on as one can see instead of being architected in.
I haven't checked further, maybe authentication token can be used to gain access to Apple account and more data. Also one other method could used to write arbitrary data outside of an app sandbox, that might be useful for further exploitation.
This is without downloading additional code. Reuse attacks such as ROP, or you could just embed an interpreter with the ability to alter native register state. It’s not hard to get Turing completeness into your app in a way that lets it call whatever it wants.
It isn't just big tech. It is that big tech decided to join fully with the rest of the power structure of the country: government, military, military industrial complex, media, law, health, education, etc... Those are the groups that actually run the country.
Now you have censorship by tech instead of just by government, propaganda by tech in addition to media, mandates by corporations and by government.
Before, tech just told government to compel them via law. Now, government works with tech and corporations to achieve governmental aims without writing laws. It is extrajudicial.
I don't think the USA is a democracy or it is less and less of a democracy.
Centralized organizational structures (governments, corps and ngos) in the US and abroad must be treated with extreme prejudice and avoided for decentralized/federated and open alternatives if available.
For those orgs above (or those who work apart of them) who will actively fight those from pursing decentralized/federated and open alternatives for all aspects of ones life: there is subversion, exfiltration, exploitation and demolition. The best of those orgs will help people bridge the gap to future where power isn't nearly as centralized to the degree it is now.
