Year: 2021

‘Daas Torah’ Worse Than Famous, Repeated Papal Bull!

Pope Alexander III (1159-1181) is the author of the oldest extant version of the bull. Excerpts from a translation of the bull follow:
“[The Jews] ought to suffer no prejudice… We grant them the buckler of Our protection.
…
Too, no Christian ought to presume… to injure their persons, or with violence to take their property, or to change the good customs which they have had until now in whatever region they inhabit.
[All the “treaties” and expulsions endorsed by the “Gedolim” come to mind.]
Besides, in the celebration of their own festivities, no one ought disturb them in any way, with clubs or stones, nor ought any one try to require from them or to extort from them services they do not owe, except for those they have been accustomed from times past to perform.
[Taxes, laws, etc. endorsed by the “Gedolim”.]
…We decree… that no one ought to dare mutilate or diminish a Jewish cemetery, nor, in order to get money, to exhume bodies once they have been buried.
[Isn’t that close to what happened during Gush Katif? Exhume Jewish corpses so Yeshivas will get money?!]

A ProtonMail Privacy Victory

ProtonMail Wins Appeal Over Surveillance Rules

Geneva-based Proton AG, the company behind ProtonMail and ProtonVPN, has won an appeal regarding its treatment under Swiss law governing telecommunications surveillance, a Swiss Court said Friday, Reuters reported.

On Friday, the Swiss Federal Administrative Court upheld Proton’s appeal against the Swiss Post and Telecommunications Surveillance Service (PTSS) over obligations to store data and monitor email traffic. The court confirmed that email services can’t be considered telecommunications providers in Switzerland, and therefore are not subject to data retention requirements.

Reuters also posted a quote from Proton founder and Chief Executive Andy Yen about the ruling. Andy Yen said it was an “important first step” in its campaign to advance privacy and freedom.

“We expect there to be further attempts to force tech companies to undermine privacy in both Switzerland and abroad, and we are committed to continuing to challenge this through both our encryption technology and through the courts,” Andy Yen said.

The Swiss Federal Administrative Court is the highest judicial authority in Switzerland. It rules as the final instance on all appeals against decisions of the highest cantonal courts, the Federal Criminal Court, the Federal Administrative Court and the Federal Patent Court. The court ensures that Swiss federal law is correctly applied in individual cases and the rights of citizens enshrined in the Constitution are protected.

ProtonMail’s About Page says that their founding team met at CERN and created ProtonMail, Proton Technologies AG has grown into a global leader in online security. The About Page also says: Today, we are the world’s largest secure email provider with over one million users. In addition to our headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and we have support centers in San Francisco, CA, and Skopje, Macedonia.

From Geek News, here.

Appealing a Masking Fine In Court – Reader’s Detailed Account

A reader writes in:

i think hayehudi readers will like this story and maybe learn something from it too,
I just went to the Bet Mishpat Hashalom, with all the berland fools hanging around waiting outside, maybe ready to kill for his sake again, I was helping a brother
who had a court case for not wearing a covid mask
the whole place was one big cliche
“Banality of Evil” is a good Journalistic description of the Mood
their Judge looked exactly like you expect!
we got in faster because two people had the smae claim, so they did the second one faster.
instead of considering each one in deliberate way like the tora says
he even believed everything my brother told him, but did that matter?
i tried to explain to judge all about kavanat hamchokek. so its impossible that one has to wear a mask every single second
my brother was busy with little kids, helping them ride bikes and at the crossing needs to make sure they don’t barge into the street
covid is dangerous, well so is kids running into the street OK
but the judge, a very personable person just talked and blabbed about
Averat Matzav, which really means Logic and Context out the window.
he told me himself of a jogger who got or was gonna get a ticket for standing at a traffic light, even though sporting activity is really exempt
from masks
why? because he should have jogged in place or raised up his mask
one could argue also rests need heavy breathing, but so what
in fact, the judge basically asked the Prosecutor if she was willing to let go, of course, she said no.
why should she
we pointed out the street was empty apart from the cops so the prosecuting lady said why aren’t police lives important?
except they were coming close to us and leaving the safety of their car!
altho i didn’t think to mention that, i’m sure that it would have made no difference
i started feeling bad for the judge who was just a rubber stamp for the state’s prosecutor
then i realized the slug usually did get to decide things for himself.
so the trial was a waste of time, altho i did get to see Shimon shisha from Toldos Aharon.
he tried to help.
[he helps get good kids out of the giyus to the Zionist entity] it was good to ask to be judged because it delayed the ticket (Update: without increasing the amount) and they ruthfully let us pay tashlumin (Update: without interest), even though my brother had to waste a morning in their goyish courts

hope this helps others.