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UN wants a universal digital ID for your data (cnet)
CNET ^ | 06/20/2017 | Alfred Ng

Posted on 06/22/2017 10:51:36 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009

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To: MarchonDC09122009
but experts at the summit believe that blockchain technology, a way of using databases to encrypt data that's also used for bitcoin, can protect users.

Blockchain is not "a way of using databases to encrypt data", far from it. If the blockchain encrypted transaction data, it would not work because it has to be readable by every node. The (mostly personally owned) private keys are used in blockchain to sign transactions. Those can be to transfer value, but also to vouch for authenticity of any sort.

For example an authority can vouch for an individual by signing a transaction and placing it on the blockchain. That data cannot be altered, the data is universally available, but it is not encrypted. That would require an extra layer on top of blockchain. Users will not be "protected" by blockchain, they will be protected (or not) by whatever kludge someone adds to the blockchain client software.

On the broader issue of whether ID information should be stored in any kind of respository, the answer is hell no. It is never possible to secure it. Storing biometrics would be especially bad.

21 posted on 06/22/2017 12:12:30 PM PDT by palmer (turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure)
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To: apillar
Take that a step farther, her descendants 500 years from now will STILL be able to easily discover that same information. Basically anything you post on the internet will be there until the end of humanity, be that in a century or a billion years....

And most of it will not be true.

22 posted on 06/22/2017 1:21:06 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: apillar

Ah but not the newpapers and more of a hundred years ago arr also being scanned and posted as searchable content online. So much info for the sake of info.


23 posted on 06/22/2017 2:10:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Didn’t it just come out that GOP data stored on amazon’s server got hacked/stolen? Why isn’t that a part of the same govt investigation into medfling in the US elections?


24 posted on 06/22/2017 2:12:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Didn’t it just come out that GOP data stored on amazon’s server got hacked/stolen? Why isn’t that a part of the same govt investigation into medfling in the US elections?


25 posted on 06/22/2017 2:15:03 PM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: dayglored; Swordmaker

What could possibly go wrong with this brainfart?


26 posted on 06/22/2017 2:28:31 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (I'm tired of the Cult of Clinton. Wish she would just pass out the Koolaide)
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To: 2harddrive; Fitzy_888; maine-iac7; RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; CynicalBear; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; ..
Eliminate physical cash - make all transactions electronic - what could possibly go wrong? The first image looks like Obama rallies of years gone by. I'm sure some still have the images.






27 posted on 06/22/2017 2:48:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin; Swordmaker
> What could possibly go wrong with this brainfart?

"You needn't worry, Citizen, as long as you aren't doing anything wrong. You aren't doing anything WRONG, are you, Citizen???"

28 posted on 06/22/2017 2:55:39 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: mitch5501
And a ping to Mitch

FYI only



End Times in the Words of Jesus DVD
29 posted on 06/22/2017 2:57:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

The mark of the beast.


30 posted on 06/22/2017 4:59:30 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: SaveFerris
Good pictures. They tell the story of what is here, and what is to come.


31 posted on 06/22/2017 7:50:20 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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32 posted on 06/22/2017 7:51:05 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot; Maudeen; matt04; Yosemitest
Pinging a couple others to the thread and above.






33 posted on 06/22/2017 11:19:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: All

“I left alone my mind was blank
I needed time to think to get the memories from my mind....”


34 posted on 06/23/2017 5:48:04 AM PDT by Maverick68 (T)
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To: SaveFerris

Thanks! I just ordered the DVD Revelation in the Words of Jesus and copied a photo for my Sunday School Class lesson for powerpoint after your alerting me to this post.


35 posted on 06/23/2017 9:26:46 AM PDT by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Maudeen

Great! I wish they had included the Two Witnesses but otherwise it’s pretty good.

BTW, I’ve met and spoke with Dr. Ed Hindson a couple of times. Great guy. You’ll see him in the video. Ed was just on the John Ankerberg show (taped broadcast) this past Sunday.


36 posted on 06/23/2017 11:10:36 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: SaveFerris

I have his revelation DVD with handouts I have used at church for a quick overview. If you have ever read the Wilkerson “The Vision” that a lot of people poo-pooed. . . his vision revealed things/events that are coming to pass that in my wildest dreams I wouldn’t have thought would be happening in this country. We have lost our way. . .minds given over to a reprobate mindset where there is no reasoning with some people, etc. etc. etc. and churches just sitting on the sidelines. Lukewarm and you know what that will get them.


37 posted on 06/23/2017 12:42:53 PM PDT by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Maudeen

Definitely a rude awakening. I worked for a Christian publishing organization. They started going all liberal and the ridiculous preterist and partial-preterist nonsense.

Then, they couldn’t figure out why no one was buying their stuff. Sales were way down. Then, they made a disastrous decision that cost them their home office building. They had to sell it and move out. I don’t name them public or private. It was the fault of less than 1/2 dozen or so in management.

I’ll send ya FReepmail about the video in a minute or two.


38 posted on 06/23/2017 12:57:51 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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