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Bella Vista Garden Club makes donations

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Letter Writers

The Northwest Arkansas Letter Writing group will meet at 4 p.m. July 12 in the conference room of the Bella Vista Public Library. All are welcome to attend this group, promoting the love of letter writing and mail art.

Information: Email Pat at [email protected]

Brainteasers

Bella Vista Brainteasers meets every month in the community room of the Bella Vista Public Library. Due to a scheduling conflict, this month only, the group will meet at 3 p.m. July 13. All are welcome to attend. The group wishes to thank the Bella Vista Recycling for running the monthly packet.

Information: Email Pat at [email protected]

Rotary

The Rotary Club of Fayetteville will meet at 11:45 a.m. July 14 at Mermaids restaurant in Fayetteville. Jessica Phillips and Erin Farrah will talk about Ronald McDonald House. Lunch is $15. There is still a Zoom option for the meeting. Email the club for a link.

Information: Email [email protected]

Computer Club

The Bella Vista Computer Club has announced the following scheduled meetings:

• July 11, 7 p.m. The speaker will be Ginny Vance, speaking on “Buying on the Internet.”

• July 20, 1-4 p.m. The speaker will be Joel Ewing, speaking on “Why, When and How to Backup Your C Drive.”

• July 27, 4-6 p.m. The speaker will be Justin Sell, speaking on “Computer Security for Regular People, Part 2.”

The club is also offering help clinics from 9 a.m. to noon on July 20 and Aug. 6.

Information: bvcomputerclub.org.

Artisan Alliance

The Artisan Alliance of Wishing Spring is accepting new members to the art club. The club meets every three months for art and craft demos and member news (covid and weather permitting). The next meeting will be posted on the website at www.artisanalliance.net.

Wishing Spring Gallery is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m Thursday through Saturday in south Bella Vista, behind Walgreens.

Information: wishingspringgallery.net or (479) 273-1798.

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Why Scotland Buying Israeli Phone-Hacking Kit is Dangerous – Bella Caledonia

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THE expulsion of democratically elected members of the Hong Kong Legislative Assembly exposes once again the intolerance of dissent under Beijing’s authoritarian state capitalism.  China is now a model for the 21st surveillance state with its citizenry increasingly subject to electronic monitoring of a sort even George Orwell’s Big Brother could not dream of.  Meanwhile, in totalitarian Belarus, the state is using exactly the same phone hacking and data technology as in China to monitor opponents of the regime.  Ditto Saudi Arabia, which used related phone tech to follow the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the lead-up to his assassination and dismemberment by Saudi agents, in Istanbul in October 2018.

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But what has this got to do with social democratic Scotland, you will ask?  The answer is that Police Scotland has acquired its own phone hacking equipment – in this case, specifically to bypass passcode locks on mobile handsets – from the very same company as supplies Beijing, Minsk and Riyadh with their repressive surveillance equipment.  That company is called Cellebrite, an Israeli digital intelligence supplier, headquartered in the Petah Tikva district of Tel Aviv.

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According to company figures, in mid-2019 Cellebrite had 45% of the global mobile telephone forensics market.  Its managers claim that Cellebrite products are the first work tool in 75% of police investigations everywhere.  Even if this is an exaggeration, Cellebrite is the go-to digital technology for police forces everywhere. It is also bought in volume by private sector companies for internal security, snooping on employees and industrial espionage.

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CELLEBRITE AND SCOTLAND

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Cellebrite is one of the leading Israeli security tech companies.  It specialises in so-called “mobile forensics” – the software and gizmos to break into your mobile phone.  Cellebrite claims to have sold its products to over 150 foreign law enforcement agencies.  Forget all that guff you hear about the cops begging Apple to unlock a suspect’s phone and being told that would break privacy conventions. You simply buy some kit from Cellebrite, plug it in and hey presto all your phone secrets are…

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