#confidentiality — Public Fediverse posts
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I manage a #sonasystems service and I am also the "brand administrator" for #qualtrics in my department. There's an issue with confidentiality; I wonder if some #research or #survey person knows a way around it:
SONA's "Qualtrics integration" instructions describe how to set things up so research participants can click the entry for a study on the SONA page and be taken to the corresponding Qualtrics survey, then--when finished with the survey--be redirected back to SONA with an anonymous record of their participation in Qualtrics.
The problem is that it's not anonymous. Not even a little. Not if you're both the SONA person and the Qualtrics person, which is probably the case in many institutions.
SONA does indeed replace the research participant's name in the URL info string with an "anonymous" ID number. That number is sent back to SONA for purposes of giving the research participant credit in SONA.
This process is only anonymous if you don't have access to both SONA and the Qualtrics survey: SONA gives a random (?) 5-digit ID number to each participant and send that to Qualtrics, which uses it to populate an embedded data field called id. Then at the end of the survey Qualtrics sends the same ID number back to SONA.
I'm looking at SONA and Qualtrics. Qualtrics gives me the "anonymous" ID number of every participant sent from SONA. SONA has the ID number paired with names in a fairly easy-to-access dashboard view for users with the roles "PI", "administrator," or (I think) "researcher".
So every student researcher doing "anonymous" survey projects can see the exact responses on surveys for each student participant, by name. It's not hard. I don't think any of my students is savvy enough to see this and pair the two values, or that they care, but this is Very Not Anonymous.
Is there some way around this where SONA-Qualtrics integration works, and is also actually anonymous, even if someone (e.g., me, the SONA administrator) has access to both the Qualtrics data and the SONA system?
[edit: Since finding this, I've been just deleting the ID data from the Qualtrics data when downloading. However, it's not an option to delete the embedded data variable until all data collection is finished ForEver, so the possibility of identifying participants who were promised anonymity remains until then; I can manage this for my students, but not for other faculty, and of course this all depends on my honesty. I do not want anything like this to depend on my honesty.]
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I'm torn, should we file this under - You can't Fix Stupid, or is this just the latest turn in DoJ Bizzaro World?
Interim U.S. attorney Halligan reaches out to reporter and mentioned grand jury matters - which are supposed to be completely confidential under federal law. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here #DoJ #FederalProsecutors #JamesIndicment #Indictment #Prosecution #Confidentiality #GrandJury
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Файл .DS_Store: Подарок для исследователя и головная боль для владельца сайта
.DS_Store (Desktop Services Store) — это скрытый файл, создаваемый операционной системой macOS для хранения метаданных о папке. Он используется Finder для записи таких параметров, как расположение значков, порядок сортировки, выбранный вид (иконки, список и т.д.), фон папки и другие настройки интерфейса.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/877340/
#сайт #bugbounty #ds_store #dsstore #macos #missconfiguration #confidentiality #tool #hacking #взлом_сайтов
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SACR and its members harp on the idea that America is in a fatal stage of rot, and that they are an oppressed people waiting to rise up on behalf of a silent majority.
The SACR website speaks to the deeply held grievance and sense of a lack of masculine purpose which animates the group.
SACR exists, the website says, because “a man is no longer encouraged to fly to the stars,”
because “those who rule today spit on such ambitions;
they corrupt the sinews of America.”“They have alienated men from family, community, and God.
We counter and conquer this poison, rebuilding a society where a man can find genuine fulfilment,
true to his nature and calling,
rejoicing in virtue and vitality,” the website says,
before offering a Google docs link where men can apply.At the end of the day, SACR’s members are not oppressed.
Claremont is free to publish whatever it likes
— it’s widely seen as tremendously influential on the right generally and in MAGA circles specifically.SACR chapters can meet; Haywood can blog
— in fact, on Tuesday he wrote an encomium to The Camp of the Saints, a 1970s French novel in which a horde of Indian immigrants overwhelms, degrades, and exterminates the white West.“The goal of the Left was always total expropriation of white people and then, if at all possible, their extermination,
a goal made explicit by many powerful people in 2020,” Haywood wrote.“How, given this history, should white Americans respond?”
SACR may be his answer.
In emails from November 2020, Yenor wrote to Skyler Kressin, the head of the SACR chapter in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and on the group’s national board.
Yenor sent a screenshot of an Amazon link to
“The Super Afrikaners,”
a 1979 nonfiction account of the #Afrikaner #Broederbond,
a semi-secret society which ruled South Africa under apartheid.“That good?” Yenor titled the subject line, highlighting the book — long out of print — and its $95.62 price.
“That’s the one,” Kressin replied.
South Africa, with its visions of white settlers driven away from status and wealth, appear consistently in Haywood’s writings, and in Fischer’s as well.
The Broederbond, an Afrikaner-only, Calvinist-only group of elites which functioned as a series of hundreds of independent “cells” across the country, offers an eerie reflection of SACR’s structure.
Williams told TPM that the Afrikaner Broederbond came up in conversations over what SACR would be, but denied that it served as a model for the group.
The grievance, perceived loss of status, and lack of metaphysical meaning that these men feel are very real, to them.
But there’s enough in America’s own history to understand the aims and tradition in which SACR is operating.
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Perhaps the most startling element of SACR is one of its long-term objectives.
Per the mission statement obtained by TPM, SACR aims to have its members form the government of an “aligned future regime.”
“They would be next generation
—not founding participants, but those who joined as the project of civic renewal grows deep roots,” the document reads.“That is, men who ‘grow up in the system.’”
Other goals include providing “preferential treatment for members, especially in business,”
and to both “coordinate allied fraternal networks”
and “defend fraternal networks … against attacks by those opposed to civic renewal, and strongly deter such attacks.”In Yenor’s Boise chapter, SACR members attempted to craft a “#Statement on #Marriage” in which local church leaders would proclaim an “intentional effort to celebrate the benefits of family life” because the “culture is hostile to Christian marriage.”
To do that, the group would “promote marriage publicly through a pro-marriage sticker” to be spread around the Boise region.
The same group held events with speakers, including writer and policy researcher #Aaron #Renn.
At one point, emails show, Yenor pitched an Idaho news website to Claremont funders called Action Idaho, saying that SACR would take care of back-end work for the venture.
Other public remarks from members point towards the group’s activities.
After The Guardian published its initial story on the group over the summer, a small controversy erupted among evangelicals who regarded Haywood’s views as dangerous and the prospect of a certain strain of Christianity taking control of the government as troubling.
Fischer hit back in a podcast appearance, describing SACR as a “big-tent thing where men get together.”
“So the local chapters or lodges will have a meeting and maybe 15 guys get together and a speaker comes in and talks about something political, sometimes it’s a political candidate or whatever.
And then we learn and sometimes we just hang out,” he said.“There’s no sort of great #secrecy associated with it. There’s a little degree of #confidentiality because there’s guys there who are at companies where even being associated with a group that is all men would be seen as suspicious.”
#faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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CW: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Response - "FEMBOY" Bomb
Dear Mr Putin,
This letter is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request dated 30 June 2013, seeking information on the development and use of a weapon referred to as the "FEMBOY" bomb against the Russians.
After a thorough search of our records, we can confirm the existence of documents related to the "FEMBOY" bomb within our agency. However, as per our standard policy, we cannot confirm or deny the operational status, development, or deployment of any specific weapons systems.
It is essential to understand that the Central Intelligence Agency's activities and operations are subject to national security concerns and secrecy obligations. To protect the integrity of our operations and to safeguard sensitive information, certain matters cannot be disclosed, including those pertaining to classified weapons programs.
Our response adheres to the provisions of the FOIA, which allows for the withholding of information that is exempt from public release, such as information related to national defense and intelligence sources.
We appreciate your understanding of the need for confidentiality and security in such matters. If you have any further questions or require assistance with other FOIA requests, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
[REDACTED]
Freedom of Information Act Officer
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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