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<h5><a href="https://www.databreaches.net/mhmr-authority-of-brazos-valley-provides-notice-of-ransomware-attack-last-november/">MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley provides notice of ransomware attack last November</a></h5>

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But it wasn’t until July 28 of 2023 that MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley issued any press release. Based on their statement, on May 30, they learned that personal and protected health information of some employees and current and former patients may have been involved. They do not explain why it took them so many months to determine that. If Hive had been true to form, they would

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have emailed MHMR Authority of Brazos Valley at least several times and told them in the emails what kinds of data they had acquired. In a number of ransom emails DataBreaches had seen that were sent to other Hive victims, Hive would also indicate how many files or GB of data they had acquired. Was such info sent to this victim, and if so, did it help them determine what had been accessed or not?

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<DaemonFC> https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2023/07/30/wordpress-in-seamonkey-firefox-troubles-in-fedora-googleweb-american-decline-and-matthew-garrett-collaborator-and-conference-pervert/

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<schestowitz[TR]> checking

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<DaemonFC> Hmm, just spotted an inconsistency.

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<schestowitz[TR]> refreshing

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<DaemonFC> Highlighted all instances of Matthew Garrett.

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<DaemonFC> What a worm.

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<DaemonFC> He's a very unpleasant person.

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<DaemonFC> Okay, I think I'm done now.

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<DaemonFC> I think the issue of the government finding young girls and women who had an abortion using proprietary software and apps and "Social Networking" like Facebook, and Garrett's former employer Google, should resonate.

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<DaemonFC> I think it should make people go from being mildly uncomfortable that the government might be watching everything to rightly alarmed that they are in immediate danger if they type the wrong thing into the wrong thing. This is not how the Web works in a Free country.

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"Dear Max Drei, You have put the finger on the sore point. The boards of appeal are, in spite of the reform of 2016, and even less since this reform, not at all independent. Re-appointment is now subjected to an assessment of performance, but the criteria for re-appointment are not public. As long as the budget of the boards will have to go through the president of the office before it is submitted to the AC,

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the boards will never be independent. Decisions of the EBA have become rather political and "dynamic interpretations" of the questions referred to it, or of the EPC, allow to tailor decisions of the EBA to the desiderata of the upper management of the EPO. I very much doubt that “those administrators at the top of the EPO Ivory Tower have, even since the debacle about the independence of the Boards

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of Appeal, reached a consensus that they, rather than the national courts, are the ones best equipped to handle patent litigation, infringement and validity”. It is doing them too much honour to believe that they are capable of having such ideas. They are interested in the money they can earn, and by insisting upon an academic adaptation of the description, they can claim that they care for quality. "

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