My Question to DHS/CISA Is CDC guidance sufficient to meet U.S. treaty obligations in reference to, International Health Regulations (2005), IHR specifically with respect to Air Travel? Their Response... Yes, CDC’s guidance meets the international obligations under the IHR (2005), subject to the reservation that implementation of the IHR would be accomplished in a manner consistent with our “fundamental principles of federalism”. The United States relies on an important network of state and federal partners who are part of the comprehensive system that supports the public health work of the U.S. Quarantine Stations and IHR core capacities at ports of entry (POE). This comprehensive system includes emergency medical service providers, local and state public health departments, state public health laboratories, state and territorial epidemiologists, hospitals and health care providers, as well as the Department of Homeland Security. Emergency medical providers are located at each PoE and provide on-site emergency medical care and transportation to a medical facility. CDC has a communicable disease response plan for every point for entry co-located with a Quarantine Station, and has been working for several years to expand these plans to priority sub-ports. These plans are all-hazards in nature and rely on close coordination with partners at the points of entry. But, I guess that isn't good enough (because we are currently a hot mess). The BAN is on the OTHER FOOT now...

I've noticed that several agencies have stopped sharing RAW data because people can do their own modeling, often times faster than the agencies. I think it was AZ that pulled back their dataset because they didn't like the numbers that were being generated. It's really unnecessary, but a tragic consequence of politics driving the narrative. We are going to kill a lot more people than necessary if we don't have accurate location, testing, and mortality data. (regardless of political cost). The really interesting data comes with the combination of Demographics and Social Economic sets on top of COVID-19 pandemic data. Answering questions like: How many people without health insurance, tested positive, and died after a 7 day ICU stay? (then start adding attributes, Race, Income, ZipCode, Sex, Diabetes, Obesity, Age, and Others????).

I've worked as a DBA for too many years. It appears that the data collection efforts have purposely been frigged. If you want good numbers, have an agreed upon format and practice for collection. (ie., mixing AntiBody tests results with Virus tests results, which Positive is Positive? ). Along with suspect numbers from tests that didn't perform at the expected level of accuracy. Hopefully, they kept the records as to which test provided the results that are recorded. We now have people that don't want accurate results because of the liability associated with the analysis(real or imaginary). I've rebuilt data from disparate sources and extrapolated to fill in the gaps so many times... It will take longer, but in the end it will only take a relatively small "VALID" sample to find the erroneous data elements... flag them.. and give them the special "file thirteen" label they deserve.

So, you don't want the unwashed masses to know that they are being tracked/sliced/diced/collated/sorted/grep/pipe/filtered? "There can be only one!" applies to identities as well as immortals. We already fingerprint, and DNA match voluntarily. I love the "anonymized" cell phone tracking maps that are showing up on the news to track the COVID-19 spread. I wonder how many layers they aren't including?

What if we had full repudiation, a single traceable account per person? Make IPv6 with machine credentials, along with a block chain based identity and audit trail mandatory. It may put 99% of existing internet out of business, but I would make that trade.

Neck deep in adding GDPR to our ISO 27001 and that really helped lighten the mood. Not sure where it will end up, but I'm sure a remediation for generational disagreements on proper social media etiquette will make the final draft of our security policy.

GREAT reminder that supply chain exploits are here to stay. Some of the features/effects that modern websites incorporate are fantastic, but they come with a cost. If you have to code and maintain that widget for every possible combination of browser and operating system the short cut to quick and dirty is appealing. When you use somebody's code without vetting it can be problematic. (that's why they worked on cloning a legitimate site to sell the illusion). I don't trust code/objects/services that can be dynamically substituted outside my control. It will suck to cache and hash everything just to avoid this style of attack.

If the WHO accidentally includes the numbers from the United States... they should include an *** footnote pointing out the number of deaths per 1000 where the underlying health condition was known, but untreated. Those millions of people without health care are doing their part to "decrease the surplus population" as Ebenezer Scrooge had been attributed.

Of course, the WHO is running with reported numbers.... so, the United States is #1 and... the fatalities we are reporting are disproportionately being reported in minority communities.. The missing link? The number of people with "UNTREATED" underlying health conditions. We already know that the week and vulnerable are more susceptible. The difference being in the great old us of a, we have tens of millions of people without access to healthcare... so, not only are we unhealthy, fat, and lazy. we get the added bonus of disproportionate numbers of similar cases... some get treatment for their underlying health conditions, and survive covid-19. the others, have the same co-morbidities without the benefit of medical care for these underlying conditions and they die.

Since coronavirus is the basis for most common colds... maybe? (which would totally kill that cliche)

We flattened the curve initially: things being delayed, postponed, or canceled. It takes time to roll out the end points (my counties schools just handed out thousands of laptops this week 1 per household, and they were looking for 3000 more if anybody has a closet of salvage ready equipment). 5th largest population in US (Florida) is getting closer to mandatory stay at home, so that should cause another blip on the larger front. I have been a work from home employee / business owner for 25 years. 1995 I was using ISDN to jump onto the Xerox network (and falling back to 9600 dial up) when my digital line acted up. Things have changed, but there are larger risks as well. I advise clients to double and triple check their role based policies and ACL assumptions when adding new remote workers. Unfortunately we can't model every interaction, so it ofter boils down to "turn it on, observe behavior, panic... turn it off, fix the "Panic", turn it on, repeat..." You just have to hope that the "Panic" didn't get outside the sandbox that was built over the past month. Unfortunately malware and ransomware doesn't take time off because of a human pandemic, it can sit dormant until a juicy network attached device comes online and then be triggered into action. Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) can be an attractive quick fix, but they often don't have even the most fundamental of security policies. (everyone is an Administrative User is #1 sin) So, will the internet break because of the shift in workforce? I still believe the answer is YES. How will it break? My feeling is leaning towards, "DEATH BY 1000 CUTS". No, single big event... (unless one of the big players, has an ooops...). Lately... too much sun/warm ... and no Public access to the BEACH

There is a super secret source of tracking data that is widely missed. I don't know if it would be correct to share? Data Points: Movement/Motion, Time of day, Pattern of movement, Home, and/or frequent locations, Demographic, and Household demographics, Some income/wealth, Tons of related keys... But, do I share? Or, do I file suit for privacy issues before?

1st of many in my inbox... "Due to a malware incident, several of the Town’s online systems are currently unavailable, including email. The Town has a response and recovery plan in place, and is working diligently to bring systems back online. The Town will continue to address service requests and urgent issues via phone, and its website is operational. Residents and customers who have urgent needs may contact one of the following numbers to get assistance" The rush to "virtual" a.k.a. work from home is a gold rush for the bad guys... Who wouldn't code their ransomware to wait until a network disk is attached... A single infected, but waiting to be triggered ransomware owned PC can launch against a corporate network on first use. NOTE: if you failed to review your role based security model before adding "Remote" and/or "VPN" to your user base list of grants.... oops! ...I'm assuming it's sunny and warm at the Beach (closed for #socialdistancing).

There are bigger forces at work in california than just the local politicing... I almost got legislation into law, to "pass through" a shipping container fee for the ports in California. Each of those big metal boxes has stuff destined for California, and at least 47 other entities that get to transit the infrastructure that CA maintains. If you don't think the maintenance $$$ are necessary, just drive highway 99, I-80, I-10, etc.. That proposed fee would have been paid for by companies outside CA (because it still would be cheaper to import from offshore, and pay the fee) vs. ship to one of the other significant sea ports on the west coast. Long story... still upset that the Governator veto'd that free money

I'll add 2 cents... I wonder why "Republicans" have no "spending" issues while being the party in power, but as soon as they are the opposition party they find religion and can't see a solution other the "spending cuts". You did notice that all of the COVID-19 legislation comes without funding sources.. "it's a war", we don't worry about spending durring a war... I think they see the writing on the wall, and $1,200 per person isn't going to keep the DEPRESSION away. This is a last gasp to pay the donor class and get away with as much treasure as can be pocketed. The Tax and Spend refrain is already echoing in the halls of congress in preparation for the outcome when "people vote their pocketbooks in November". so, if you are in position to make a grab at the gold ring ... do it now.. the party coming into power is going to get stuck with the TAB.