Canuck & Yankee Show 9/12/21

The Show Is Streaming Live At The Following Platforms (Show Will Be Archived For A Few Days):

Variant News At dlive.tv: https://dlive.tv/variant_news
Variant News On Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/variant_news
Variant News On Trovo.live: https://trovo.live/variant_news

Topics For The Show:

Water Scarcity:

This week focuses on Water Scarcity: regional droughts and how they effect safe drinking water for humans and agriculture.
- https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/water-scarcity
- https://www.cheknews.ca/weve-never-seen-it-this-dry-emergency-measures-planned-to-save-island-rivers-from-going-dry-878252/
Farming
- https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/arizona-farmers-face-dire-reality-after-water-shortage-declared/75-8b8a1b50-3c6f-4e81-92da-2c90a91892a0
California Drought
Drinking
- https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/water
- https://www.dw.com/en/water-scarcity-whats-the-big-deal/a-5884037 (404 error, check – check internet archives for cached version?)
- First Nations (Canada)
  - https://globalnews.ca/news/5887716/first-nations-boil-water-advisories/
- Flint, Michigan
  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUSiLOwkrIw

Current Events and Bizarro News:

Internet Infrastructure (cables under ocean, Starlink, what other technologies are maintaining internet stability and security)
- https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/this-map-shows-how-undersea-cables-move-internet-traffic-around-the-world/
- https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60150/10-facts-about-internets-undersea-cables
- https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/asia/internet-undersea-cables-intl-hnk/index.html
- https://www.wired.com/story/russia-undersea-internet-cables/
- Satellite Internet – competing technologies with Starlink (including Amazon’s Project Kuiper)
  - https://medium.com/swlh/elon-musks-starlink-vs-its-competitors-a-race-for-broader-internet-818b034ef14c
- Russia Creates Offline Network
  - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50902496
- Biggest Data Breaches and Ransomware Attacks
  - CCP (China) / North Korea / US / Israel / Iran / Russia hacking
  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_security_hacking_incidents
  - https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130877/the-biggest-data-breaches-of-the-21st-century.html
  - Stuxnet – Israel (US?) Hacks On Iranian Nuclear Facilities and Middle East (Iraq, Syria)
    - https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/here-s-how-israel-hacked-iran-s-nuclear-facility-45838
    - Richard Clarke States US Was Behind Stuxnet
    - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/richard-clarke-on-who-was-behind-the-stuxnet-attack-160630516/
    - https://theintercept.com/2021/04/13/iran-nuclear-natanz-israel/
  - Colonial Pipeline Attack In US (Ransomware)
    - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/us-seizes-2-3-million-colonial-pipeline-paid-to-ransomware-attackers/
    - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/colonial-pipeline-resumes-operations-after-ransomware-prompted-closure/
    - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/pipeline-attacker-darkside-suddenly-goes-dark-heres-what-we-know/
  - WannaCry Ransomware (Worldwide – IoT)
    - Unpatched Windows Systems Were Vulnerable
      - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/an-nsa-derived-ransomware-worm-is-shutting-down-computers-worldwide/
    - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/us-indicts-north-korean-agents-for-wannacry-sony-attacks/
    - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/wannacry-slayer-malware-author-marcus-hutchins-sentenced-to-time-served/
    - WannaCry operator empties Bitcoin wallets connected to ransomware (BTC
      - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/wannacry-operator-empties-bitcoin-wallets-connected-to-ransomware/
  - Jacob Appelbaum Exposes NSA Tools (Hacking & Malware – many of the exploits have been distributed among hacking groups and State sponsored entities)
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy3-QZLTpbQ
    - https://newrepublic.com/article/154167/government-nsa-inept-protecting-cyber-data-whatsapp
Bizarro News

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