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AOC grills pharma exec about why the HIV-prevention drug Prep costs $8 in Australia costs $1,780 in the USA NSA

AOC grills pharma exec about why the HIV-prevention drug Prep costs $8 in Australia costs $1,780 in the USA

Gilead makes a drug called Truvada -- AKA Prep -- that was developed at US taxpayer expense, whose patents are held by the US government; Truvada is on track to eliminating the spread of HIV forever (people who are HIV positive but take Truvada are seemingly …
bubmag
May 18, 2019
AI and 5G will create an explosion in cybersecurity risks, says FBI agent and general counsel at $50 billion firm NSA

AI and 5G will create an explosion in cybersecurity risks, says FBI agent and general counsel at $50 billion firm

Ari Mahairas, a special cybersecurity agent at the FBI's New York office, and Peter Beshar, the general counsel of $50 billion professional services firm Marsh & McLennan, have an unusual relationship. Over the years they have forged an unlikely public…
bubmag
May 18, 2019
Grifty “information security” companies promised they could decrypt ransomware-locked computers, but they were just quietly paying the ransoms NSA

Grifty “information security” companies promised they could decrypt ransomware-locked computers, but they were just quietly paying the ransoms

Ransomware has been around since the late 1980s, but it got a massive shot in the arm when leaked NSA cyberweapons were merged with existing strains of ransomware, with new payment mechanisms that used cryptocurrencies, leading to multiple ransomware epidemic…
bubmag
May 16, 2019