Religious leaders of various faiths are urging the federal government to let those stuck in U.S. airports into Canada, following President Donald Trump’s immigration ban.
Members of the group, Concerned Clergy for Refugees, held a news conference at Jack Poole Plaza in Vancouver on Sunday, calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to act.
“These are refugees that are fleeing war-torn countries, these are immigrants holding valid U.S. visas for travel, these are our brothers and sisters,” Rabbi Dan Moskovitz of Temple Sholom in Vancouver told reporters.
Trump issued an executive order Friday that bans entry into the U.S. by citizens and dual-citizens from the Muslim-majourity countries of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen for the next 90 days.
In a letter signed by 75 faith leaders, the group is asking Canada to extent temporary resident visas or permits to those who hold American visas, have passed American security clearance, and who are stranded at American ports of entry.
Doing a little online research I discover the bridge:
“…is among the oldest metal truss bridges remaining in Canada. Constructed in 1886 by the Hamilton Bridge Company, which at the time was known as the Hamilton Bridge and Tool Company…”
We were driving in North Waterloo when my husband pointed out a little side road he told me led to a bridge that would scare the daylights out of me (an acrophobe) in Conestoga. I was immediately all ears: he had to be talking about the bridge where so many of my Mom’s young photos were taken. I’d just assumed a single car bridge would be long gone by now, but it’s not.
Rob Joyce runs the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations group, the spies who figure out how to hack systems, publishing a spook’s version of the Skymall catalog, filled with software and hardware that other spies can order for use.
TAO’s existence was only revealed in 2013 when leaked documents confirmed its existence. Joyce gave a presentation yesterday at the Enigma conference, a new security conference in San Francisco, explaining how TAO operates, and advising the attendees on how to prevent state-level actors from infiltrating and exploiting their networks and IT systems.
One revelation was that TAO is very patient: they will monitor adversaries’ systems as a matter of course, waiting for an opportunity – such as when a system malfunctions and the vendor asks the administrators to temporarily turn off password protection for a few moments.
Another favored mode of access is devices shared with workers’ children – the agency uses games on tablets that are brought between home and the office as a vector to penetrate the office networks. Joyce singled out Steam games as a favored vector for penetration.
Joyce did not talk about traffic injection, a tactic revealed in a separate Snowden leak: the agency and its Five Eyes allies have infiltrated fiber backbones, and are able to interrupt connections between sensitive systems and the public Internet and inject attack-code in those sessions.
Orange County has many claims to fame: Richard Nixon, the S&L scandal, subprime boiler-rooms, Disneyland, an airport honoring a cowboy named Marion, and now, the revelation that its police force secretly uses low-flying surveillance aircraft to break the encryption of thousands of cellphone users, track their movements, and intercept their communications.
The ACLU made the discovery after winning a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Anaheim police, forcing the force to disclose its use of “Dirtboxes” – DRTs, or Digital Receiver Technologies, are Boeing’s aircraft-mounted “Stingrays on steroids,” used to break the weak crypto on cellphones to listen in on their traffic and track their owners.
It’s not clear how or when or if the Anaheim PD uses the Dirtboxes. A 2014 memo complained that the equipment hadn’t been updated by Boeing. The department has a Cessna it uses for surveillance.
