Gov Threatens Jail for Dangerously Diseased Americans Refusing Treatment

Everyone probably knows what happens if you don’t quarantine tuberculosis, which is why a long time ago (way back in 1802 or even 1777, when you look at real American history) laws were written to detain it.

…over the past year, the health department has repeatedly sought and been granted court orders compelling the woman to isolate and get treated for tuberculosis. According to the Tribune, legal petitions from the department said the patient had not abided by previous orders, and had at one point started but discontinued medication. […] Under Washington state law, public health officials have the legal authority to seek a court order when a person’s refusal to take medication poses a threat to the public. Tuberculosis can rise to that level because it can be deadly if left untreated, and infectious people risk spreading the disease further. The bacteria that causes tuberculosis can spread through the air when a person with an active case coughs, sneezes or speaks.

If you think tuberculosis is bad, you should read about seditious conspiracy, which spreads like weeds with intention to undermine democracy.

Source: Palantir CEO Alexander Caedmon Karp

So I have to ask the obvious questions again: Why does Peter Thiel leave Nazism untreated, and did he create Palantir to spread it?

Tesla Asleep at the Wheel

Tesla has been charged multiple times with engineering design failures related to their driver alertness system.

These failures are implicated in sky rocketing Tesla deaths.

Source: tesladeaths.com

And so in 2023 here’s yet more proof that the company, some would argue by design, failed to develop a safe vehicle.

Asleep at the wheel. Literally: Woman driver is filmed snoozing in her Tesla for FIFTEEN MINUTES at 70mph…

In related news, Tesla couldn’t even see a giant cow or stop in time and crashed.

Source: Pleasanton Police

CVE-2023-23504: Apple Just Patched 19-Year-Old Kernel Vulnerability

This professor at Arizona State University maybe sounds a little too excited in their January 23rd research announcement:

[Found a] heap underwrite vulnerability in XNU’s dlil.c (which handles network interfaces) caused by an (uint16_t) integer overflow in if.c. This can be triggered by a root user creating 65536 total network interfaces.

[…]

From what I can tell, it seems the vulnerable code was introduced in XNU 517.3.7, Mac OSX 10.3.2, released on December 17th, 2003, making it a 19-year-old bug!

[…]

Ultimately I gave up, sent what I had to Apple, and moved on to the next bug (but I did learn a lot in the process).

That’s the unmistakable voice of a pure academic.

XNU is used in Apple’s laptops, phones, tablets, watches, TV… and the company quickly rolled the trivial fix into a January 23rd release of iOS 16.3 and iPadOS 16.3 including a rather important impact detail.

Kernel

Available for: iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 5th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later

Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges

Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2023-23504

Execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.