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Oh look, another riveting #drama where your #invoice moonlights as a starving actor, desperately seeking #payment 🎭💸! Meanwhile, #Cloudflare is the overzealous bouncer blocking access to this fascinating tale with the enthusiasm of a wet noodle 🥳🔒. For a small fee, you might someday resolve the world's most thrilling cliffhanger: why you were blocked 🌐🤷‍♂️.
10xbetterai.beehiiv.com/p/your #cybersecurity #cliffhanger #HackerNews #ngated

Conceptualising the Rise of Agentic Business Objects (ABOs)
10x better with AIYour Invoice is an Actor that Wants to Get PaidConceptualising the Rise of Agentic Business Objects (ABOs)

The End Game 4 #musk Musk's #socialmedia platform #X poised to launch #digitalwallet & #peertopeer #payment services [partnering w #Visa], Musk's associates have been granted access 2 confidential information about X's competitors via official at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau #CFPB. Staffers at US Department of Government #Efficiency Service or #DOGE [#fake] #WhiteHouse body led by Musk, embedded themselves at CFPB late last week. #liars #corruption #billionaire muskwatch.com/p/musk-associate

Musk Watch · Musk associates granted access to confidential info about X's competitorsBy Caleb Ecarma

#Trump #Musk Deadly Interference They’ll profit from ripping wires from walls. Musk’s role “move fast break things.” Treasury #payment system recently seized by DOGE has built in redundancies which R premise of mission-critical #IT systems, In matters of state, inefficiency is price we pay 4 consistency for #failsafes predictability. If Treasury system goes haywire because Doge messes w code, Social Security, disability checks interrupted, veterans deprived of health care nymag.com/intelligencer/articl

Intelligencer · Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Deadly InterferenceBy Sam Adler-Bell

i have a question, related to international transactions / donations / mutual aid

particularly, when exchange rates are disfavorable (that is, the purchasing power is bigger at the sender's location than at the recipient's)

my question is, is there a way to somehow work around this, perhaps with the aid of cryptocurrency?

A top-ranking official in the U.S. Department of the Treasury is resigning
after a fight with Elon Musk over a sensitive payment system.

The Washington Post reports that David Lebryk,
who has worked in the department for decades and is its longest-serving career official,
will depart soon, after conflicting with Musk’s deputies over access to the government’s #payment #system used to distribute trillions of dollars every year.

Until Scott Bessent’s confirmation as treasury secretary on Monday, Lebryk served as acting head of the department.

Musk’s people at his “Department of Government Efficiency” have sought access to the system since the election, the Post reports,
and their requests continued after Donald Trump’s inauguration.

However, the Treasury’s payment systems have usually only been accessed by a small number of career officials.

The Bureau of Fiscal Service operates the systems,
⭐️controlling $6 trillion of money disbursement around the country.

💥Tens, and possibly hundreds, of millions of people rely on the systems,
which distribute Social Security and Medicare benefits,
federal salaries,
payments to government contractors,
grants, and tax refunds,
as well as thousands of other things.

Lebryk joined the department in 1989 as an intern,
and has worked for three decades under 11 different treasury secretaries.

His departure at this time doesn’t bode well,
especially since he served in the previous Trump administration and was praised by Trump’s current deputy treasury secretary, Michael Faulkender, in 2023.

“I could not, to this day, tell you his politics,”
said Faulkender,
who worked with Lebryk in sending out stimulus payments during the Covid-19 pandemic,
an effort Lebryk led.

“He always seemed to be relaxed and under control.”

It appears that #Musk, while upending the lives of federal workers,
is now causing chaos with the U.S. government’s money flow.

If federal officials who have served for decades under different presidents, including Trump,
see a need to quit,
that’s not a good sign for the country.
newrepublic.com/post/190983/to

The New Republic · Top Official to Quit as Musk Tries to Get Hands on Key Payment SystemA top Treasury official plans to resign after a fight with Elon Musk’s allies over access to a sensitive payment system.

A long, bitter summary of how #traveling and #privacy have become mutually exclusive:

»#PNR records are sent by most commercial #airlines to the destination country some 48 to 72 hours before departure. […] the traveler’s #address, cell #phone number, date of flight #booking, where the ticket was purchased, credit card and other #payment information, billing address, #baggage information, frequent flyer information, general remarks related to the passenger, date of intended travel, complete travel #itinerary, names of accompanying travelers, travel agency information […]

[on face scanning:] “Everybody should be able to go out of his own country and into any country and come back without having to queue in line and being able to use only his #face,” […]

[on "AI":] “They're kind of black boxes, so they will tell you that this person is potentially risky and this person kind of looks different, but how it makes this decision is kind of a mystery.” […]

[on gray surveillance:] the company’s “risk assessment capability enables a government to export its border to every single point on the globe where passengers can board flights, ships or trains bound for their territory.”«

wired.com/story/inside-the-bla

WIRED · Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel SurveillanceBy Caitlin Chandler

@nitrokey@social.nitrokey.com

Hallo Nitrokey Team,

mit großer Verwunderung nehme ich zur Kenntnis, dass Euch offenbar nicht wirlichlich so viel an der Sicherheit und Vertraulichkeit meiner Daten und der aller anderen Kunden liegt, wie ich eigentlich erwartet hatte.

Gerade bei einem Unternehmen, welches sich dem Schutze der Privatsphäre verschrieben hat. Zumindest lese ich Eure Produktvermarktung so, als Beispiel wahllos herausgegriffen: "NitroPhone 5 Pro XL" - "Das sicherste Android auf dem Planeten. Das NitroPhone kombiniert Sicherheit, Privatsphäre und einfache Bedienung mit moderner Hardware und langjährigen Softwareaktualisierungen."

Was hat Euch denn dazu bewogen Stripe (510 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA) zu verwenden, statt z.B. VR Bank Payment (
https://www.vr-payment.de/) oder bei der GLS Bank (https://www.gls.de/konten-karten/zahlungsverkehr/beratung-zahlungsverkehr/), um nur mal zwei Beispiele heraus zu greifen, welche deutlich besser wären als Stripe?. Zusätzlich möchte ich hier kurz Mike Kuketz zitieren: "Neben diesen drei weit verbreiteten Arbeitern gibt es natürlich noch zig weitere Beizahldienstleister wie Stripe, Adyen, Amazon Pay, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Skrill usw. Allerdings haben all diese Dienstleister eine Gemeinsamkeit: Aus Datenschutzsicht sind sie nicht zu gebrauchen. Stattdessen sollte man lieber datenschutzfreundliche Bezahlmethoden wie Lastschrift (manchmal mit Bonitätsprüfung, daher genau in AGB des Webshops lesen) oder Vorkasse verwenden – aber auch paydirekt oder Giropay sollten erwähnt werden." (https://www.kuketz-blog.de/online-bezahlmethoden-in-webshops-oftmals-datenschutzalptraum/)

Bitte seit so doch nett und befasst Euch doch nochmal auch mit diesem Thema. Es würde mein Vertrauen in Eure Produkte / Lösungen deutlich verbessern, wenn ihr auch den Datenschutz wirklich ernst nehmen würdet. So wie es aktuell ist sind Bestellungen bei Euch praktisch nicht möglich, mit Ausnahme der Banküberweisung, ohne mich einem fragwürdigen Dienstleister gegenüber "nackig" zu machen.

Danke Euch.

#Privacy #Datenschutz #Payment #WebShop

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