In Thursday’s Monitor there were two front-page articles that caught my attention: one was about a proposal to block future gun laws by enshrining in the New Hampshire Constitution a prohibition on the Legislature from enacting any gun law.
Constitutional amendment would ban future firearms restrictions in the state
Members of the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee met to hear bills expanding gun rights, Wednesday, Feb 10, 2021.
Published: 2/10/2021 9:27:25 PM
The New Hampshire House is considering recommending a constitutional amendment that would prevent future state laws from restricting firearm ownership, one of a series of gun rights bills proposed this year.
The proposal, officially called Constitutional Amendment Concurrent Resolution 8 would prevent the Legislature from passing any law “restricting the right to own, carry, or use firearms or firearm accessories.”
But some gun rights groups say that the amendment needs to be workshopped, and could have unintended consequences for firearms use in the state.
Hospitals Suffer New Wave of Hacking Attempts
News Highlights: Hospitals Suffer New Wave of Hacking Attempts.
Hackers are increasingly attempting to break into healthcare companies, putting extra pressure on an industry that is already struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Persistent threats come from ransomware gangs, financial scammers and hackers backed by nation-states, current and former hospital security chiefs say.
“The logs and the graphs show, oh man, these have increased, that’s hard to deny,” said Christopher Stroud, technology manager at Great Plains Health, a hospital in North Platte, Neb., Serving approximately 183,000 patients. one month.
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Great Plains Health normally blocks about 10,000 attempts every day to access its servers, said Mr. Stroud. After it began its first antibody studies against the coronavirus in November, it saw that number triple on average, he said. Some days 70,000 attempts have been made.
Parler’s Rise Was Also Its Downfall Kaitlyn Tiffany
On the last day of Parler, the vibe was electric.
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It was the weekend after supporters of President Donald Trump had stormed the Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the certification of the election. With just more than a 24-hour warning, the “free speech social network” and aspiring Twitter alternative was being cut off by its cloud-hosting provider, Amazon Web Services. There were all-caps claims that “antifa” was actively taking over New York City, dressed in riot gear. There was rampant speculation about whether Trump had invoked the Insurrection Act, for reasons unclear. There was discussion of how Parler’s removal from the internet might be an event proving the validity of the QAnon conspiracy theory, the beginning of a mythical “10 days of darkness,” to precede the violent denouement of a global satanic plot. The company’s CEO, John Matze, posted frenzied promises: “I beli