[Plura-list] Monopolies made America vulnerable to covid; The Ministry For the Future; Graffitists hit dozens of NYC subway cars

[Cory Doctorow]

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Tomorrow morning, I'm on a panel for the Open Rights Group: "After the
storm: A post-election analysis of UK-US digital trade"

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/after-the-storm-a-post-election-analysis-of-uk-us-digital-trade/

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Today's links

* Monopolies made America vulnerable to covid: Pharma, hospitals and
other health industries were weak before the pandemic.

* The Ministry For the Future: Kim Stanley Robinson's final (?) novel.

* Graffitists hit dozens of NYC subway cars: Party like it's 1984.

* Breathtaking Iphone hack: Zero-click wireless worms.

* This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019

* Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing
projects, current reading

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🌱 Monopolies made America vulnerable to covid

It's now well understood that covid is not an equal-opportunity butcher:
it kills and maims poor and racialized people at a much higher rate than
those further up the privilege gradient.

The precise reason for this is not known, but we have a general
understanding of the underlying phenomenon. Poor and racialized people
greeted the pandemic in worse shape than wealthier, whiter people.

People who lack health care and good jobs and good housing are more
likely to get chronic illnesses and less likely to be able to control
those illnesses. Inequality weakens, and covid delivers the coup de grace.

Poor and racialized people in America are a microcosm for America in the
world. For America - despite its wealth and power - has fared worse than
many other countries, large and small, populous and sparse, landlocked
and islands.

More Americans have the disease, and those who have it die more. Much of
this is down to the lack of federal coordination, chaos at the state and
local levels, and the transformation of masking and distancing into a
culture war issue.

But as Susie Cagle illustrates (literally) in her comic strip for The
Nation, America has a chronic illness that weakened it and made it
vulenerable to the virus: that illness is called "monopolies."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-healthcare-consolidation/

America's health-care system isn't just overpriced and dysfunctional -
it is also monopolized. Private equity-backed hospital chains like HCA,
Providence and Ascension have gobbled up many hospitals across the
country and converted them into wildly profitable slaughterhouses.

The pharma industry is also wildly profitable, has decreasing regard for
human life, and is massively consolidated. Pharma giant Gilead
monopolizes the distribution of the publicly funded covid treatment
Remdesivir. Monoclonal antibody treatments are likewise monopolized.

The FTC has an official policy of not applying ANY merger scrutiny when
a hospital with fewer than 100 beds is being acquired, leading to
mass-scale consolidation of small rural and regional hospitals,

Runaway, ruthless capitalism does the same thing to America as a nation
as it does to its poorest people: weakens it by sapping it of its
productive capacity and its resilience.

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🌱 The Ministry For the Future

One of the very last events I attended before the lockdown was a thing
in Silicon Valley attended by many old friends, but the best moment of
all was the chance to hang out with Kim Stanley Robinson, a friend and
inspiration.

That's when Stan told me he had just finished a book that might be his
last-ever novel, The Ministry For the Future, and that his future work
would be nonfiction, starting with his long-planned book about the Sierras.

I was stricken. Robinson's novels are a lifeline for me.

The first Robinson novel I read may just be my favorite: Pacific Edge, a
green utopian novel about a successful transition to a
post-climate-emergency, just and stable world. Re-reading it is a
vacation from all my anxieties, still.

https://memex.craphound.com/2015/01/15/pacific-edge-the-most-uplifting-novel-in-my-library/

My first novel, DOWN AND OUT IN THE MAGIC KINGDOM, wouldn't exist
without Pacific Edge. That was the book that taught me that small
disputes over beloved local treasures could be as dramatic as (and
microcosms for) global conflicts.

I have been both dreading and anticipating MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE, not
wanting to read my last KSR novel but also wanting so badly to read this
one, because it's the book in which he imagines the end of capitalism.

You've heard the phrase, "It is easier to imagine the end of the world
than the end of capitalism," variously attributed to Frederic Jameson
and Slavoj Žižek. As the author of a couple of postcapitalist novels, I
have a real appreciation for the details of that truism.

It's actually not all that hard to imagine a postcapitalist society -
but imagining the actual *end* of capitalism, the euthanasia of the
rentier, the reversal of the doctrine of virtuous selfishness, the
abandonment of the idea that some are born to rule, that is damned hard.

And while PACIFIC EDGE is my favorite KSR novel, my favorite KSR series
is the string of books that starts with 2012's 2312 - a string of books
that really leans hard into imagining the actual end of capitalism.

https://memex.craphound.com/2012/10/30/kim-stanley-robinsons-2312-a-novel-that-hints-at-what-we-might-someday-have-and-lose/

2312 is set 300 years into postcapitalism. It's a novel of
solar-system-scale civilization, riven by its own problems and
contradictions, filled with tech marvels, a tale of natural wonders that
showcase Robinson's incredible, John-Muir-grade genius for pastoral writing.

2312 was followed up by Aurora, one of the best space-exploration novels
ever written, about the arrival of the first-ever generation ship at its
destination world, and the hasty retreat it is required to stage.

https://memex.craphound.com/2015/11/02/kim-stanley-robinsons-aurora-space-is-bigger-than-you-think/

The book provoked a vitriolic reaction from science fiction's great
reactionaries! I love a book that enrages the right people, and I was
delighted to publish Robinson's rebuttal to their peevish complaints.

https://boingboing.net/2015/11/16/our-generation-ships-will-sink.html

From there, we move on to New York 2140, a novel of a pivotal moment in
the transformation of capitalism and its relationship to the climate
emergency.

https://memex.craphound.com/2017/03/18/new-york-2140-kim-stanley-robinson-dreams-vivid-about-weathering-climate-crisis/

These are like an artilleryman rangfinding a mortar, first overshooting
his target and then walking his fire back, drawing closer to his
bullseye. For Robinson, bullseye is the moment at which our society is
transformed into one that can survive the coming emergencies.

It's telling that the 2312 books never got there. It is so fucking hard
to imagine the end of capitalism.

But that is what The Ministry For the Future Does.

Sort of.

It's a novel about a specialized UN agency, chartered through the Paris
Climate Agreement to represent unborn generations and the natural world
in legal proceedings related to climate devastation.

Talking about this book, Robinson has described it as a kind of
futuristic documentary, told in many voices, as a way of describing a
phenomenon as vast as this global transformation.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/final_ver2/#ksr

Like many docs, it follows a couple of main characters, but weaves in
dozens of other voices, some of whom we hear from only once or twice,
recounting pivotal moments in which a moment calves away from our
reality as we know it - moments of shear, giddy and terrifying.

Robinson is so good at this stuff. This is the book that he has been
practicing for all his life. The vignettes are superb little jewels,
mostly illuminating flashbulb moments in the lives of strangers met
fleetingly.

But some of the most powerful moments don't even have characters:
there's a transcript of the openng a fictional congress of global
climate remediation groups after the crisis that is just an alphabetical
list of countries and their associated projects.

This literally made me burst into tears of joy, bursting with hope at
the thought that we could, as a species, spawn so many evocative and
hopeful projects to save our world, our species, and our nonhuman
cohabitants.

It's a real list, as it happens: Spherical Studio's Regen Earth, a
collection of regenerative projects presented in short films, maintained
by David McConville to "to help folks see the lived, active and diverse
potential of ecological regeneration and the critical role that humans
play in these systems. They are real projects, revealed through stories."

http://regen.earth/

Robinson's versatility is on glorious display here: from long lists of
hypothetical ecological projects, he veers into closely told moments of
human endeavor in the natural world, showcasing his pastoralism with
scenes so vivid you could reach out and touch them.

But all that said, the most interesting thing about this book is the
stuff that Robinson couldn't or wouldn't put on the page. Robinson's
hypothetical scenario for the end of capitalism is a baroque scheme of
global cryptocurrency money-creation tied to carbon drawdown.

His technocrats trick capitalism into spending itself out of existence
in a plan that is by turns brainy and daffy (as all blockchainism tends
to be), with some pretty epic handwaving (especially when it comes to
the breakup of tech monopolies).

But all of that would fail were it not for acts of absolutely brutal,
ruthless terrorism. Robinson's transformation isn't merely about the
carrots of double-bluff get-rich-quick schemes, it's heavily dependent
on the stick of terror.

The aviation industry isn't (just) replaced by airships and rail because
it's better and cleaner - but also because parties unknown use drones to
bring down every private jet in the sky, and then commercial liners,
until the aviation industry seizes up and dies.

And the world doesn't abandon beef because vegans win the moral argument
or because greenies win the practical one - the decisive factor is
drones that dart an unknowable plurality of the world's cattle with
bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

There's more - pitiless, remorseless, anonymous. And while Robinson gets
up close and personal with one traumatized individual who engages in an
ecologically motivated, short-lived (and nonlethal) kidnapping, we never
meet any of the terrorists or their victims.

The terror that begets the transition is recounted in the dry language
of an encyclopedia entry, not dramatized like the pivotal moments of so
many other characters.

It's a very telling omission.

My 2019 novella "Radicalized" is about an online community of men who,
after watching their most treasured family members die slow, painful,
preventable deaths because of insurance company fuckery, become suicide
bombers who murder health execs.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/who-says-violence-doesnt-solve-anything-a-review-of-radicalized-four-tales-of-our-present-moment-by-cory-doctorow.html

Writing that story was an intensely uncomfortable experience (and,
judging from reader comments, it can be uncomfortable to read, too).

It's one thing to recognize that a systemic problem might not be solved
without grotesque, mass violence, and another to put yourself in the
shoes of either the perpetrators or the victims.

Robinson's end of capitalism is, superficially, a story of a transition,
not a spasm, not a capital-T Terror. The lives we inhabit in this novel
are people who are engaged in struggle, but not mass-murder.

But right there on the page is Robinson's uncomfortable and only
partially elided conviction that we're not in for a transition, but
rather a bloodletting, a reckoning commensurate with the ecocidal crimes
that led up to this moment.

MINISTRY is a book that, on first consideration, feels like a utopia -
not merely for the beautiful descriptions of people, animals and
environments finding a way through the emergencies, but for the
emergencies resolution.

But on closer examination, MINISTRY represents the dark fears of one of
our brightest, most hopeful writers, that the world can only be saved by
means that are literally too terrible to contemplate up close.

It's an uncomfortable read. It's a brilliant book. If it indeed turns
out to be Stan's last novel (oh please don't let it be Stan's last
novel), it will be a fitting capstone. But the subtext of this book is
that we are past the point of no return.

Not only will rescuing our planet entail sacrifices of species,
habitats, and coastlines - it will also entail sacrifices of the moral
convictions that make vast spectacles of bloodletting unthinkable.

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🌱 Graffitists hit dozens of NYC subway cars

New York's subway trains were once highly contested, moving art
galleries, completely skinned with overlapping coats of graffiti (think
of the opening credits of Welcome Back, Kotter).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mmm3KTa601s

NYC declared war on graffiti in 1972, but it wasn't until 1984 that the
Clean Trains movement took hold (previous attempts to erase graffiti
with acid solutions literally started to dissolve the cars). Graffiti
all but disappeared from the New York Subway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City_Subway#Graffiti

Until last night. Graffiti crews covered two dozen MTA cars with
top-to-bottom "burner" murals not seen since graffiti's glory days,
spanning multiple, adjacent cars.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/12/2/22149612/two-dozen-subway-cars-struck-in-overnight-graffiti-storm

Writing in The City, Jose Martinez offers tantalyzing details of the
feat - executed between 1 and 5AM in tunnels and out-of-service storage
tracks, in areas that the NYPD nominally patrols.

The burners decorate cars on the 1, 6, M, G, Q and 42nd Shuttle. The
scope really comes out in this video posted to the nycgraff.head
Instagram account.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CIN8iJvpLMy/

Martinez's descriptions give a sense of the pieces: "...Its first five
cars covered in spray-painted flames, mushrooms, tags and a
bare-breasted pot-smoking character with a resemblance to Betty Boop."

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🌱 Breathtaking Iphone hack

AWDL is Apple's mesh networking protocol, a low-level, device-to-device
wireless system that underpins tools like Airdrop. It is implemented in
the Ios kernel, a high-privilege, high-risk zone in Iphone and Ipad
internals.

A researcher at Google's Project Zero, Ian Beer, found a vulnerability
in AWDL that allowed him to wirelessly infect Ios devices, then have
them go on to spread the virus wirelessly to any Ios devices they came
into contact with.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-click-radio-proximity.html

The proof-of-concept attack undetectably grants  "full access to the
user's personal data, including emails, photos, messages, and passwords
and crypto keys stored in the keychain."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/iphone-zero-click-wi-fi-exploit-is-one-of-the-most-breathtaking-hacks-ever/

Beer developed the exploit virtually single-handedly over six months and
confidentially disclosed its details to Apple, which issued patches for
it earlier this year. Now that the patch has had time to propagate, Beer
has released a detailed, formal account of his work.

The 30,000 word technical paper is heavy reading, but if you want
inspiration to delve into it, try the accompanying 14-second video,
which is one of the most remarkable (and alarming) infosec clips I've
ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZTNSmbh00

As far as can be known, this was never exploited in the wild. In his Ars
Technica coverage of the exploit, Dan Goodin drops the other shoe: "If a
single person could do all of this in six months, just think what a
better-resourced hacking team is capable of."

It's a theme that Beer himself explores in a Twitter thread, in which he
describes the tradeoffs in protocols like AWDL, whose ease of use was
critical in private messaging by Hong Kong protesters last hear.

https://twitter.com/i41nbeer/status/1333884906515161089

But whose "large and complex attack surface [exposed] to everyone in
radio proximity" creates a security nightmare if there are any bugs at
all in the code...and unfortunately the quality of the AWDL code was at
times fairly poor and seemingly untested."

It's a sobering reminder that companies can't fully audit their own
products. Even companies with sterling security track-records like Apple
slip up and miss really, really, REALLY important stuff.

It's really at the heart of understanding why independent security
research must be protected - at a moment in which it is under assault,
as out-dated laws like the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act are used to
punish researchers who go public with their work.

Dominant companies - including Google and Apple - have taken the
position that security disclosures should be subject to a corporate veto
(in other words, that companies should be able to decide when their
critics can make truthful disclosures about their mistakes).

When the W3C introduced EME, it created the first-ever standardized
browser component whose security defects could be suppressed under laws
like the CFAA and Sec 1201 of the DMCA.

W3C corporate members opposed measures to require participants to
promise NOT to punish security researchers who warned browser users of
ways they could be attacked through defects in EME.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership

And Google is presently using the DMCA to suppress code that reveals
defects in its own EME implementation, Widevine, which has become the
industry standard.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/10/google-mending-another-crack-in-widevine/

In his thread, Beer rightfully praises both Apple and Google for having
a bug bounty program that serves as a carrot to entice security
researchers into disclosing to the company first and giving it time to
patch before going public.

(And he calls on Apple to award him a bounty that he can donate to
charity, which, with corporate charitable matching, would come out to
$500K. This is a no-brainer that Apple should totally do).

But as laudable as the Bug Bounty carrot is, let us not forget that the
companies still jealously guard the stick: the right to seek fines and
even prison time for security researchers who decide that they don't
trust the companies to act on disclosures.

That may sound reasonable to you - after all, it's reckless to just
blurt out the truth about an exploitable bug before it's been patched.
But companies are really good at convincing themselves that serious bugs
aren't serious and just sitting on them.

When that happens, security researchers have to make a tough call: do
they keep mum and hope that no one else replicates their findings and
starts to attack users, or do they go public so that people can stop
using dangerously defective products?

It's a call that Google's Project Zero has made repeatedly. In 2015,
they went public with a serious, unpatched, widespread Windows bug when
they got tired of waiting for Microsoft to fix it:

https://www.engadget.com/2015-01-02-google-posts-unpatched-microsoft-bug.html

And in October, Google disclosed another Windows 0-day that was being
exploited in the wild, presumably reasoning that it was better to tell
users they were at risk, even if it meant giving ammo to new waves of
hackers.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/googles-project-zero-discloses-windows-0day-thats-been-under-active-exploit/

Bug Bounties are great - essential, even. But for so long as companies
get to decide who can tell the truth about the defects in their
products, bug bounties won't be enough. The best, most diligent security
teams can make dumb mistakes that create real risk.

Your right to know whether you are at risk should not be subject to a
corporate whim. The First Amendment - and free speech protections
encoded in many other legal systems - provides a high degree of
protection for truthful utterances.

The novel and dangerous idea that corporations should have a veto over
the truth about their mistakes is completely irreconcilable with these
free speech norms and laws.

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🌱 This day in history

#10yrsago Bunnie explains the technical intricacies and legalities of
Xbox hacking https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=1472

#5yrsago Wikileaks cables reveal that the US wrote Spain’s proposed
copyright
lawhttps://web.archive.org/web/20101211043008/https://elpais.com/articulo/espana/EE/UU/ejecuto/plan/conseguir/ley/antidescargas/elpepuesp/20101203elpepunac_52/Tes/

#5yrsago Urban Transport Without the Hot Air: confusing the issue with
relevant facts!
https://memex.craphound.com/2015/12/03/urban-transport-without-the-hot-air-confusing-the-issue-with-relevant-facts/

#1yrago White nationalists who got a $2.5m payout from UNC abuse the
DMCA to censor lawyer’s trove of documents about it
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1201635924158881792

#1yrago Reading the “victory letter” a white nationalist sent to his
followers after getting $2.5m from UNC, it’s obvious why he tried to
censor it https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1201551612382195712

#1yrago Harry Shearer interviews Uber’s smartest critic: Hubert “Bezzle”
Horan https://harryshearer.com/le-shows/december-01-2019/

#1yrago A sweeping new tech bill from Silicon Valley Democrats promises
privacy, interoperability, and protection from algorithmic
discrimination and
manipulationhttps://web.archive.org/web/20191105215639/https://eshoo.house.gov/news-stories/press-releases/eshoo-lofgren-introduce-the-online-privacy-act/

#1yrago MMT: when does government deficit spending improve debt-to-GDP
ratios? https://carnegieendowment.org/chinafinancialmarkets/80054

#1yrago UK Apostrophe Protection Society surrender’s, saying “ignorance
and lazines’s have won”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/apostrophe-society-shuts-down-because-ignorance-has-won-a4301391.html

#1yrago The Supreme Court just heard the State of Georgia’s argument for
copyrighting the law and charging for access to it
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/justices-debate-allowing-state-law-to-be-hidden-behind-a-pay-wall/

#1yrago McKinsey designed ICE’s gulags, recommending minimal food,
medical care and supervision
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-mckinsey-helped-the-trump-administration-implement-its-immigration-policies

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about truth and reconciliation. Yesterday's progress: 525 words (89981
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Currently reading: The City We Became, NK Jemisin

Latest podcast: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 24)
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