Reality 2.0

Reality 2.0

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  • Episode 99: IdRamp and Identity Solutions

    Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Mike Vesey, CEO of IdRamp, about verifiable credentials, decentralization, and real-world identity solutions.

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  • Reality 2.0 Episode 97: ID.me Vs. The Alternatives
    • — Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kaliya Young of the Internet Identity Workshop about ID.me, our concerns about its use as a national ID, and potential alternatives.
    55 min
  • Episode 98: You Win Some, You Lose Some (Billions)

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Petros Koutoupis about how big tech navigates the ad tech landscape, for better or worse.

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    • Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals x Logic): Hwang, Tim: 9780374538651: Amazon.com: Books
    — In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising―the beating heart of the internet―is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an uncanny resemblance to the housing crisis of 2008.
  • Amazon has a $31 billion a year advertising business
    • — Amazon revealed Thursday just how big its advertising business has become. It generated $31.2 billion in revenue in 2021, with fourth-quarter sales rising 32%, according to the retailer’s fourth-quarter earnings statement.
  • Facebook and Google stocks have diverged, and the reason is Apple
    • — Facebook’s apps rely almost entirely on Apple and Google for distribution. So when Apple changed its privacy policy last year, limiting the ability of app developers to target users, Facebook was suddenly stripped of one of its most important assets.
  • A public apology - on screwing up by not questioning assumptions - my talk at #BIF10 - Ethan Zuckerman
    • — About a month ago, I wrote an article about a simple idea. I asked whether anyone really believed that advertising should be the main way we supported content and services on the internet. Given how poorly banner advertising on the web worksGiven that nobody likes banner ads, and given that the current system puts users under surveillance, which in turn seems to inure us to government surveillance, I wondered whether there might be a better way.
  • Doc Searls Weblog · Apple vs (or plus) Adtech, Part I
    • — If you haven’t seen it yet, watch Apple’s Privacy on iPhone | tracked ad. In it a guy named Felix (that’s him, above) goes from a coffee shop to a waiting room somewhere, accumulating a vast herd of hangers-on along the way. The herd represents trackers in his phone, all crowding his personal space while gathering private information about him. The sound track is “Mind Your Own Business,” by Delta 5.
  • Fighting FLoC and Fighting Monopoly Are Fully Compatible | Electronic Frontier Foundation
    • — Are tech giants really damned if they do and damned if they don’t (protect our privacy)?
  • Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will cost $10 billion this year
    • — Facebook said on Wednesday that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature would decrease the company’s 2022 sales by about $10 billion.
  • Google Drops FLoC and Introduces Topics API to Replace Tracking Cookies for Ads
    • — Google on Tuesday announced that it is abandoning its controversial plans for replacing third-party cookies in favor of a new Privacy Sandbox proposal called Topics, which categorizes users' browsing habits into approximately 350 topics.
    The new mechanism, which takes the place of FLoC (short for Federated Learning of Cohorts), slots users' browsing history for a given week into a handful of top pre-designated interests (i.e., topics), which are retained only on the device for a revolving period of three weeks.
  • GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe's consent popups are unlawful - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
    • — Google, Amazon, and the entire tracking industry relies on IAB Europe’s consent system, which has now been found to be illegal following complaints coordinated by ICCL. 
    EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.
  • Case number: DOS-2019-01377 Concerning: Complaint relating to Transparency & Consent Framework
    • 37 min
  • Episode 97: ID.me Vs. The Alternatives

    Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kaliya Young of the Internet Identity Workshop about ID.me, our concerns about its use as a national ID, and potential alternatives.

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    • Cybersecurity Company ID.me Is Becoming Government’s Digital Gatekeeper - Bloomberg
    — Military veteran Blake Hall’s cybersecurity company has become the government’s digital gatekeeper. Its unproven estimate—$400 billion in pandemic unemployment fraud—is also very good for its business.
  • ID.me CEO apologizes for misstatements on IRS facial recognition - Axios
    • — The CEO of ID.me apologized Wednesday for mischaracterizing the facial recognition system the company uses to verify people's identity.
  • Homepage - Identity Woman
    • — Shape your impact with[in]
    Digital Identity
  • Sovereign Identity Updates | Substack
  • The Domains of Identity: A Framework for Understanding Identity Systems in Contemporary Society (Anthem Impact): Young, Kaliya: 9781785274916: Amazon.com: Books
    • — The Domains of Identity” defines sixteen simple and comprehensive categories of interactions which cause personally identifiable information to be stored in databases. This research, which builds on the synthesis of over 900 academic articles, addresses the challenges of identity management that involve interactions of almost all people in almost all institutional/organizational contexts. Enumerating the sixteen domains and describing the characteristics of each domain clarifies which problems can arise and how they can be solved within each domain.
  • Anil John - Technical Director and Silicon Valley Innovation Program @ U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Crunchbase Person Profile
  • SVIP | Homeland Security
    • — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) is keeping pace with the innovation community to tackle the hardest problems faced by DHS and the Homeland Security Enterprise.
  • The Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop 2022 · Thoughtful Biometrics
    • — The Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop is creating a space to dialogue about critical emerging issues surrounding biometric and digital identity technologies.
  • European Digital Identity | European Commission
    • — The European Digital Identity will be available to EU citizens, residents, and businesses who want to identify themselves or provide confirmation of certain personal information. It can be used for both online and offline public and private services across the EU.
  • The Hymn of Acxiom - Transcription - YouTube
  • The Hymn of Acxiom - YouTube
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  • Episode 96: Absolute Privacy Through Cryptography

    Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dave Huseby about privacy, cryptography, and authentic data.

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    • Memorandum on Improving the Cybersecurity of National Security, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community Systems | The White House
    — This memorandum sets forth requirements for National Security Systems (NSS) that are equivalent to or exceed the cybersecurity requirements for Federal Information Systems set forth within Executive Order 14028 of May 12, 2021 (Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity), and establishes methods to secure exceptions for circumstances necessitated by unique mission needs. 
  • Guess which government doesn't want you to use end-to-end encryption
    • — From a privacy point of view, there is much to love about end-to-end encryption, as employed by the likes of WhatsApp. But while users may delight in the knowledge that their communication is free from surveillance, there are some groups that have a different opinion.
  • I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score. Now You Can Get Yours, Too. - The New York Times
    • — Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients. Here’s how to get a copy of what they have on you.
  • Black Teen Kicked Out Of Roller Rink Over Face Recognition | News | BET
    • — A face recognition-equipped Detroit roller rink reportedly kicked out a Black teen on June 10 after misidentifying her as a person who’d allegedly gotten into a fight there in March.
  • The principles of user sovereignty | by 𝖉𝖜𝖍 | UX Collective
    • — The first time I heard the phrase “user sovereignty” was while working at Mozilla on the Firefox web browser. Firefox ostensibly follows user sovereign design principles and respects its users. Mozilla has even baked it into their list of design principles on page 5 of the Firefox Design Values Booklet. But what does “user sovereignty” actually mean and what are the principles that define user-sovereign design?
  • A Unified Theory of Decentralization | by 𝖉𝖜𝖍 | The Startup | Medium
    • — All networks begin as only one thing; one neuron, one cell, one chip, one computer, or one user. One entity alone is not a network, but it is the starting point for understanding the unified theory of decentralization. One entity is fully sovereign, it has no connections to anything else that might influence or control it. One entity in isolation is empowered to act however it wants to strive for whatever results it seeks.
  • The Web was Never Decentralized. Redecentralize the web is a fantasy | Design Warp
    • — There are so many people today focused on “re-decentralizing the web.” They have a popular belief that when the web was invented it was a wonderfully optimistic vision of decentralization, governed by democratic principles and full of free information available through open access that all of humanity benefited from. They assume that originally all users of the web were well behaved and companies only wanted to help make the world better. Also, they think that somewhere along the line the web fell under the control of irresponsible corporations and governments and was contorted into the “broken and centralized” system that it is today.
  • The Authentic Data Economy. Universal Digital Trust at Global Scale | by 𝖉𝖜𝖍 | Medium
    • — All of us intuitively have a sense of what trust is and how to earn and maintain it as well as how to lose it. Trust never comes for free. The cost of earning trust is consistent trustworthy behavior over time. It forms our reputation in our social circles. But what happens when you have to do business outside of our personal social circles, such as with a new bank, or with a government agency far removed? How is trust established then? How is it transmitted to the distant institution to conduct business and how is it transmitted back? Over human history the solution has been to generate and keep official records about people and their activities. Some examples of official records are: Jane was born on this date, John earned his diploma from this university in this year, Judy received a license to practice medicine.
  • Achieving Absolute Privacy. Cryptography Always Works, With or… | by 𝖉𝖜𝖍 | Medium
    • — Absolute privacy on the internet is impossible, today. Why? Because nobody with the power to create it, wants it. The primary revenue model for the internet is based on surveillance making most investors aligned against privacy.
  • Zero Architecture is the Way Forward | by 𝖉𝖜𝖍 | Medium
    • — Inmy two most recent articles I discussed something called “Zero Architecture”. It is a new approach to designing decentralized systems using zero-trust security combined with business logic that operates entirely on zero-knowledge proofs — based on authentic data — and contains zero personally identifiable information. The primary motivation for this new way of thinking is building fully user-sovereign systems that automate regulatory compliance, drive out fraud, as well as eliminate surveillance capitalism and its attendant societal problems.
  • 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕿𝖍𝖊𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖔𝖋 𝕯𝖎𝖌𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖑 𝕲𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖘 | by 𝖉𝖜𝖍 | Medium
    • — In computer systems it is common to construct digital gates around a service. The most common example is a username and password login gate that does a combination of authentication (i.e. verifying who is accessing the service) and authorization (i.e. what functions of the service can be executed). This approach for gating digital access is being blindly applied — without deeper contemplation — to vaccine passports and digital gates in the physical world with the explicit goal of denying people access to resources that were considered a human right as recently as this past spring. It is time to present a theoretical model describing the oppressive characteristics of naïve pervasive digital gating of real-world access and show why identity cannot be an input available to digital gates.
    1 hr 19 min
  • Episode 95: What Was Web 2.0?

    Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Petros Koutoupis about Air Tags and the generations of the web.

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    • Byway FAQ – Customer Commons
    — The Intention Byway—or Byway for short—is a way to move messages of intent between customers and companies, buyers and sellers, demand and supply, anywhere in any value chain or among a collection of participants. Its goal is to maximize the quality and volume of economic signaling by everyone and to expand the range of economic activity that can take place in a networked marketplace.
  • Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> My first impressions of web3
    • — Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than I am the latest NFT drop.
    Also – cards on the table here – I don’t share the same generational excitement for moving all aspects of life into an instrumented economy.
    Even strictly on the technological level, though, I haven’t yet managed to become a believer. So given all of the recent attention into what is now being called web3, I decided to explore some of what has been happening in that space more thoroughly to see what I may be missing.
  • Matt Mullenweg on Twitter: "People seem to be redefining Web 2.0 as Facebook, etc, that own data, but Web 2.0 at the time was platforms like WordPress, Odeo, Six Apart, Flickr, Technorati, and https://t.co/vlhR5g6fkg that had open data and interoperated. https://t.co/PXuZBaLbP2 https://t.co/sJJT8kyaJG" / Twitter
  • What Is Web 2.0 - O'Reilly Media
    • — The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What's more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as "Web 2.0" might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.
  • Apple AirTags being used to track cars and stalk victims, police warn
    • — The Apple AirTag is a device created to help people keep track of their misplaced items. But the seemingly harmless tool is being used by some to track people and commit car thefts. As authorities investigate these incidents, the devices are raising privacy and security concerns. 
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  • Episode 94: The Fun Holiday Episode

    Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin talk about everything from microphones to roombas to pottery in our last episode of 2021.

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    • Amazon.com: Heil Sound PR 40 Dynamic Cardioid Studio Microphone Bundle with PRSM Shock Mount (Black), Two-Section Broadcast Arm and Microphone Cable : Musical Instruments
    — Doc's mic.
  • Amazon.com: Electro-Voice RE20 Microphone Kit with Shockmount, Two-Section Broadcast Arm and Microphone Cable : Musical Instruments
    • — Shawn's mic.
  • Blue - Yeti
    • — Katherine's mic.
  • The Great (TV Series 2020– ) - IMDb
  • The Repair Shop (TV Series 2017– ) - IMDb
  • The Great Pottery Throw Down (TV Series 2015– ) - IMDb
  • Spot Plushie
    • — Shawn’s furry creation.
    50 min
  • Episode 93: Quad9 and DNS

    Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Kyle Rankin talk to John Todd from Quad9 about DNS, privacy, security and their open DNS recursive service.

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    • Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
    — Quad9 is a free service that replaces your default ISP or enterprise Domain Name Server (DNS) configuration. When your computer performs any Internet transaction that uses the DNS (and most transactions do), Quad9 blocks lookups of malicious host names from an up-to-the-minute list of threats. This blocking action protects your computer, mobile device, or IoT systems against a wide range of threats such as malware, phishing, spyware, and botnets, and it can improve performance in addition to guaranteeing privacy. The Quad9 DNS service is operated by the Swiss-based Quad9 Foundation, whose mission is to provide a safer and more robust Internet for everyone.
  • Pi-hole – Network-wide protection
    • — Instead of browser plugins or other software on each computer, install Pi-hole in one place and your entire network is protected.
    56 min
  • Episode 92: The DIY Episode

    Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin talk right to repair Apple devices, cocktails, and our nerdy hobbies.

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    • Everyone Is a Genius: Apple Will Offer Parts and Tools for DIY Repairs | iFixit News
    — Early next year, a previously impossible repair will be possible: you can buy an iPhone screen directly from Apple, use Apple’s repair guide (and tools, if you want) to install it, and have it fully work as intended, using Apple’s diagnostic software. And you won’t have to own an authorized repair shop to do it.
  • Apple Self Service Repair Program | Right to Repair - Consumer Reports
    • — In a major win for advocates, device owners and independent repair shops will soon have access to dozens of Apple parts, tools, and manuals—at the same price as authorized shops
  • Apple (AAPL) Aims for Fully Autonomous Car - Bloomberg
    • — Apple Inc. is pushing to accelerate development of its electric car and is refocusing the project around full self-driving capabilities, according to people familiar with the matter, aiming to solve a technical challenge that has bedeviled the auto industry. 
  • DIY Cocktails: A Simple Guide to Creating Your Own Signature Drinks: Marcia Simmons, Jonas Halpren: Amazon.com: Books
    • — Black Rose, Blood Orange Tequila & Soda, Kentucky Apple Sour: the newest trend in cocktails is creating your own! Now, the editors of DrinkoftheWeek.com have concocted the only guide that teaches you to create your own infallible thirst-quenchers. Using a simple system of basic ratios, you will learn to:
    Mix new flavor combinations for the perfect new blend using the Flavor Profile Chart as a guide
    Master advanced mixology techniques from infusing liquors at home to creating custom-flavored syrups
    Serve the perfect drink every time, whether it kicks off a rowdy party or winds down a romantic evening!
    With only nine ratios to master, you'll shake, stir, roll, and build literally thousands of unique and exceptional cocktails. All you need is a good thirst, an active imagination--and this guide!
  • Amazon.com: Mixology Dice® (tumbler) // Laser Engraved Wood Dice for Craft cocktail inspiration - Christmas gift, boyfriend gift, gift for him, gift for guys : Handmade Products
    • — Whether you’re a newbie or a pro behind the bar, Mixology Dice will take your cocktail game to the next level. Along with providing seemingly endless inspiration (over 1.5 million combos!), this set of dice is actually a clever system for actually learning the art of mixology.
  • Redwood Empire Whiskey - Our Whiskeys
    • — The Northern California Coast is a unique place, one of the few in the world where giant redwood trees grow. A place of inspiration and renewal. This same cool climate makes it a perfect place to produce sublime whiskey. Aging barrels here allows for a slow and even extraction of flavor, producing a whiskey of exceptional balance and complexity. Taste what our Redwood Empire inspires.
  • Gulden Draak, tremendous beer for titans | Gulden Draak
    • — With its Gulden Draak, the Van Steenberge Brewery has brewed a beer that is as robust as the symbol of the dragon itself. It is a specialty beer with a fiery colour and unparalleled flavour and aroma. Gulden Draak has devoted fans throughout the world.
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  • Episode 91: The Metaverse

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin about the metaverse of Facebook and beyond, how it may intersect with Web 3 and blockchain, as well as Second Life and the verses that came before.

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    • Snow Crash: Stephenson, Neal: 2015553380958: Amazon.com: Books
  • Building a Multibillion-Dollar Company in 18 Months (with Hopin’s Johnny Boufarhat)
    • — Hopin is one of the fastest-growing startups in history. Founder and CEO Johnny Boufarhat joins Azeem Azhar to talk about how he grew the virtual events company from six employees in February 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, to more than eight hundred, and a valuation of almost $8 billion, a year and a half later.
    Johnny explains how he seized the opportunity presented by the pandemic, what it was like learning to lead at one of the fastest-growing startups in history, and why he dreams of a future in which a founder’s location is no impediment to success.
  • Nilay Patel on Facebook’s Reckoning With Reality—And the Metaverse-Size Problems Yet to Come | Vanity Fair
    • — After a decade covering the Zucks, Googles, and Ubers of the scene, the Verge editor in chief reflects on tech’s troublesome relationship with the rest of the world.
  • Facebook’s fatal flaws. Facebook is doomed. | by Doc Searls | Medium
    • — Nobody can fix this.
    Facebook is doomed.
    True, all companies are mortal. (Geoffrey West has been telling us how and why for years.) But Facebook is actually designed to fail in a world that stops tolerating the way Facebook works, and can’t quit working.
  • The Metaverse Was Lame Even Before Facebook - The Atlantic
    • — It was terrible then, and it’s terrible now.
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  • Episode 90: Can Facebook Be the Good Guy?

    Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers and Petros Koutoupis about Facebook’s metaverse focus and whistleblower problems.

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    • Exclusive: Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen warns company's encryption will aid espionage by hostile nations
    — A Facebook spokesman said: “The reason we believe in end-to-end encryption is precisely so that we can keep people safe, including from foreign interference and surveillance as well as hackers and criminals.
  • Scripting News: Facebook is us
    • — The bullshit about Facebook keeps coming. It's not a fucking autocracy, it's a carrier. You could say everything you say about FB about a city like NY.
  • (15) Post | LinkedIn
    • — I've got a big Twitter thread with tons of screenshots from the unredacted docs between Facebook and Google
  • Before the “Whistleblowers” there were “Goodbye” posts: leaving #Facebook Engineering in 2016 because of #China, User Content, and #EndToEndEncryption – dropsafe
    • — Before the “Whistleblowers” there were “Goodbye” posts: leaving #Facebook Engineering in 2016 because of #China, User Content, and #EndToEndEncryption
    In 2016 I quit the best job I ever had: the most impactful, the most challenging, and (yes) the best paid. I did so in part because of explicable burnout from shipping a radical product, but also and primarily because of a shift in Facebook’s company goals towards degrading user-experience for profit, and for experimentally building message-censorship infrastructure to offer-up as a gift and to show willing, for entry into the Chinese market.
  • Eva on Twitter: "It is still a bad idea to idolize whistleblowers instead of focusing on the revelations the whistleblowers bring forward, but Frances Haugen says that her opinions on end-to-end encrypted messaging were misinterpreted and mischaracterized and e2e messaging is good, ok?" / Twitter
    • — It is still a bad idea to idolize whistleblowers instead of focusing on the revelations the whistleblowers bring forward, but Frances Haugen says that her opinions on end-to-end encrypted messaging were misinterpreted and mischaracterized and e2e messaging is good, ok?
  • My interview with Steven Levy of Wired re: Frances Haugen leaking my Facebook Engineering “Goodbye Post” – dropsafe
    • — My interview with Steven Levy of Wired re: Frances Haugen leaking my Facebook Engineering “Goodbye Post”
  • Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network ONN - YouTube
  • So...what now? - by Charlie Warzel - Galaxy Brain
    • — There’s so much reporting out there from the consortium of news outlets on ‘The Facebook Papers’ that I don’t really know what to do or where to start. Over at Protocol they’ve collected a running list of stories published and I count 50 pieces (as of Monday evening), many of them thousands of words long. Apparently, (according to Casey Newton and Kara Swisher) there are like six week’s worth of stories like this coming.
  • FTC Study Confirms ISPs Collect a Scary Amount of Your Personal Data - ExtremeTech
    • — Frustration with Big Tech is reaching a crescendo, and we could be headed for legislative efforts to reduce the influence of companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, but another technology heavyweight has managed to fly under the radar: your Internet Service Provider (ISP). A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report examines what ISPs are doing with your data, and it’s not good news. Even when they promise not to sell your information, it often ends up in the hands of advertisers and other third parties. 
  • The Facebook Papers Are a Big Fat Nothingburger - Reason.com
    • — More than a dozen mainstream media organizations published reports today on the so-called Facebook Papers, a trove of internal company documents obtained and released by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen. The headlines promised dramatic revelations and damning indictments.
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