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Steve Martin's avatar

Meanwhile, under the cover of a Halloween Kabuki-show of politics as usual here in Japan ... the corporate nation state will achieve the same ends by stealthier means — https://alpha.japantimes.co.jp/article/national_news/202210/99629/

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

Health and wealth are the critical attack vectors.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Indeed 2nd Smartest. I am watching the 7:00pm government-run NHK 'news' as I type this. The government just announced an increase in the number of ransome-ware cyber attacks on the medical system.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20221101_07/

Coincidence? Or are they just laying out more scaffolding to the narrative to justify a 'safer and more robust' centrally controlled digital health system?

Of course the government's top priority, according to the government, is to protect us from nasty digital pirates.

'Aye'.

Or should that be 'in a pig's eye'?

If I live that long, I've still got four years to find a way to not comply.

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