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Sensitive Police, First Responder Communications Tech Used Flimsy Encryption And Suffered From Numerous Vulnerabilities For Years

2 years 2 months ago
Transparency is good, actually. For decades numerous sensitive infrastructure, military, and first responder systems in Europe and the U.S. have utilized a radio standard dubbed TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), which is used in radios made by Motorola, Damm, Hytera, and other major vendors. For 25 years secrecy surrounding the encryption algorithms used in TETRA kept researchers […]
Karl Bode

Archdiocese of St. Louis pauses 'All Things New' decrees for 7 parishes

2 years 2 months ago
The Archdiocese of St. Louis announced Monday that it would be suspending the mergers of several parishes that are appealing their closures to the Vatican. The "All Things New" restructuring plan goes into effect Tuesday, Aug. 1 and consolidates 178 parishes into 134. The plan includes merging 35 parishes into neighboring parishes and merging 15 parishes to create five new parishes. It will also reassign 158 priests. Those mergers are now being suspended for several parishes that are appealing…
Kelsi Anderson and Mercedes Mackay

Want Free Weed? Here's Your Shot to Win a Pre-Roll a Day

2 years 2 months ago
As Show-Me State stoners spend $4 million a day on weed, one lucky toker won't have to spend a dime on weed come September. Good Day Farm, a cannabis brand with dispensaries in the St. Louis area, is throwing a sweepstakes to award one lucky person 365 free, half-gram pre-rolls. The rules are simple.
Monica Obradovic

Missouri may allow meatpacker to release wastewater into already-impaired river

2 years 2 months ago

A southwest Missouri river already contaminated with E. coli could soon receive up to 350,000 gallons of wastewater daily from a meatpacking facility.  And while the facility is expected to treat the wastewater for contamination before releasing it, critics of the proposal are worried about the operators’ history of violations at the site.  “It would […]

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Allison Kite

Drug corporations sue to protect price-gouging power as Medicare turns 58

2 years 2 months ago

As we mark the anniversary of the historic passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, we celebrate that Medicare provides health coverage, including routine preventive care, hospitalization and prescription medicines, to over 65 million seniors and people with disabilities. I’m one of those seniors, and I work with many more of them in the fight […]

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Jean Busby