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Linux Security Summit 🐧 📢 🐧 The schedule for LSS-NA (Linux Security Summit North America) is published: ➡ <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-north-america/program/schedule/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-north-america/program/schedule/</a> LSS-NA is co-located with the Open Source Summit in Denver, Colorado, USA. June 27-26. Registration and general information: ➡ <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-north-america/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-north-america/</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#security</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/infosec" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#infosec</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/lss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lss</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/linuxsecuritysummit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linuxsecuritysummit</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/linuxfoundation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linuxfoundation</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/lf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lf</a> cc: <a class="u-url mention" href="https://social.lfx.dev/@linuxfoundation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@linuxfoundation</a>

bsmall2<blockquote> ... we biologically encounter radiation in two distinctly different manners... the models of medical risk from radiation established in the aftermath of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are insufficient for understanding the risks faced by people in contaminated environments like Fukushima. These models focus exclusively on levels of external radiation, while the risk faced by people in areas affected by radioactive fallout comes from internalizing fallout particles... .. The primary health risk that people in Fukushima face is from internalizing alpha-emitting or beta particles through inhalation, swallowing or abrasions. Yet predictions of their risks are almost entirely modeled on data from Hiroshima and Nagasaki where the exposures were predominantly from external gamma waves. .. models have helped to obscure the health impacts over the last 76 years of those exposed to fallout, from the people who experienced the Black Rain in Hiroshima, to the global hibakusha exposed through nuclear testing, production and accidents, and now to those living where the plumes deposited radiation in Fukushima... .. when we encounter radionuclides, individual radioactive particles that remain after nuclear detonations, either as beta particles or alpha-emitting particles. We often refer to radiation in this form as “radioactive fallout” since it usually deposits into our ecosystems by “falling out” of clouds drifting from radiological explosions or fires... ... Once the particles have dispersed into the ecosystem, they are harder to locate. These are primarily dangerous to us if we internalize them inside of our bodies. If they remain inside of our bodies, they emit their very small amounts of radiation to nearby cells 24 hours a day for however long the specific particle remains radioactive. .. Cesium-137, a particle that spread in large amounts after both Chernobyl and Fukushima, remains dangerous to living creatures for 300 years. These two forms of exposure (external whole body vs. internalized in a specific bodily organ) present distinctly different risks to human health (for a primer on these forms of radiation see here)... ... Since Geiger Counters measure the external energy that the particles radiate, we usually find them when they are present in large amounts. Now that they are widely dispersed, many have migrated far from the color-coded maps of risk we see of Fukushima. Those maps are snapshots of external readings at a specific moment that has passed... .. For those who continue to live in, or are being returned to areas of lower contamination, we still measure the external levels of gamma radiation to predict the risks they face. However, just as with the Marshallese after US thermonuclear testing, just as the Kazakhs after Soviet testing, and just as with those living in contaminated areas downwind from the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine and Belarus, the primary risk to the public health is not the external radiation, the primary risk is that one may internalize radioactive particles and retain them inside the body... ... In the early years of the Cold War, it was assumed that future wars would involve the use of nuclear weaponry and the exposure of many people to large bursts of gamma rays as were the people near the hypocenter of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But that was not what happened; instead, over 2,000 nuclear weapons were tested, and millions of people were exposed to radioactive fallout. We did not have a robust database on the health consequences that might result from these exposures—so we used the tool we did have, the LSS... .. (reformed in 1975 as the Radiation Effects Research Foundation), especially the Life Span Study (LSS) which began in 1950. This study establishes a large database, corelating radiation exposures to subsequent health outcomes and early mortality. The study is rigorous, yet its use in the years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki has frequently been careless. The LSS assesses only external radiation exposures, it explicitly excludes consideration of the health effects of internal radiation exposures from living with fallout. ... the health consequences of exposures of internalized radiation was made invisible, and the misapplication of the LSS was elemental to this cloaking. A key reason that the LSS has been weaponized to obscure the health effects of internalized radiation exposures is that since the exposures did not happen as acts of war, but rather as weapon development, those exposed should be entitled to compensation for their health problems, and the loss of value to contaminated land. ... Being cautious about our public activities in the age of COVID makes intuitive sense. We navigate our potential exposures, work to mitigate our potential contaminations, and worry endlessly about loved ones with health concerns. Each small, unrelated medical symptom a family member exhibits is met with anxiety. This is a reality for people worldwide. Those who live in areas dense with radionuclides face similar anxieties: the locations of the risk are indeterminable; who is being exposed and who is safe is unclear, even while the damage is inflicted; daily life is rife with anxiety... If a group of 10 people were to stand downwind from someone coughing out COVID microbes, some may get sick and some may not. Who has inhaled a microbe and who hasn’t will not be visible until the disease presents. This is what it is like to live in an ecosystem with migrating radionuclides. Even if their presence is not significant enough to make a Geiger counter ping, caution is rational... in radiologically contaminated communities it is not conspiracy theorists on social media dismissing them as irrational, it is state health officials. They draw maps, based entirely on externally measured levels of radiation, and use those maps to tell people to move back to villages where the levels of contamination are “acceptable,” to send their children to schools and move back to towns where the presence of radioactive particles is not dense enough to register on Geiger counters placed high above the ground. ... Speaking to an IPPNW symposium on the 10th anniversary of Fukushima, Mousseau examined the top 500 articles in the Web of Science database. He found that only 10 out of the top 500 papers (2%) were based on actual biological fieldwork assessing the impacts of radiation on living organisms. Almost all of the other 98% were studies of “calculated doses and the possible link to health impairments rather than any sort of directly measured biological consequences” (Mousseau, 2021). ... This model of utilizing measurements of external radiation and statistical databases of disease probabilities has been a critical component of how the global hibakusha have been ignored since the advent of nuclear weaponry. As radioactive fallout blanketed communities downwind from the Nevada Test Site, and other nuclear test sites around the world, such assessments were routinely used to dismiss the health concerns of downwinders... Nuclear power plants are not sited inside of the urban areas where their electricity is consumed, but in the rural areas at a distance so that if there is a radiological release it exposes less people, but also less politically powerful people. Kate Brown has cited how the Soviet government purposefully seeded clouds from Chernobyl to rainout their particles in Belarus rather than over the large Russian cities they were drifting towards... ... nuclear test sites are not chosen because of their scientific properties, rather, communities are selected to be irradiated because of their political inability to resist such treatment. Nuclear test sites are built upwind of these communities. Hence, most of the exposures of global hibakusha were in colonial or postcolonial spaces, or were citizens of poor or developing nations and have not been recognized or awarded compensation for their suffering. ... Fukushima is part of a continuum of the dismissal of the harm endured by those who suffer from internal exposures to radioactive particles from nuclear tests, nuclear accidents and nuclear production worldwide. Looking at the broken maps works to obscure the real risks in Fukushima. ... The theatrical aspect is in pretending that by removing the radioactive particles from the towns they are now “clean.” Since the towns are themselves situated in larger ecosystems full of radionuclides, this “decontamination” cannot last: wind, rain, typhoons will all strip particles down from the forests and mountains surrounding the towns and re-contaminate them. ... the models of medical risk from radiation established in the aftermath of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are insufficient for understanding the risks faced by people in contaminated environments like Fukushima. These models focus exclusively on levels of external radiation, while the risk faced by people in areas affected by radioactive fallout comes from internalizing fallout particles. </blockquote> #^<a class="" href="https://apjjf.org/2021/17/Jacobs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://apjjf.org/2021/17/Jacobs</a> <ul><li>https://apjjf.org/2021/17/Jacobs #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=DownWinders" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DownWinders</a> #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=NuclearTheatre" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NuclearTheatre</a> #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=NuclearAttacks" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NuclearAttacks</a> #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=MedicalModeling" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MedicalModeling</a> #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=RiskModels" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">RiskModels</a> #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=GlobalHIbakusha" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GlobalHIbakusha</a>  #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=LSS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LSS</a> #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=LifeSpanStudy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LifeSpanStudy</a> #<a class="" href="https://zotum.net/search?tag=TimothyMousseau" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TimothyMousseau</a> /HT @<a href="https://hcommons.social/@bojacobs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bo Jacobs</a></li></ul>

Linux Security Summit 🐧 🇪🇺 📢 The CfP for the Linux Security Summit EUROPE (LSS-EU) 2025 is also now open! LSS-EU will be co-located with OSS-EU in Amsterdam, NL. 🕸 <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-europe/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://events.linuxfoundation.org/linux-security-summit-europe/</a> CfP close: Tues 8th May. Speaker notifications: Thursday, 29 May. Event: August 28-29. 2025. <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/linuxsecuritysummit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linuxsecuritysummit</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/linuxfoundation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linuxfoundation</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/opensource" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#security</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/lss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lss</a>-eu <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/lss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lss</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/amsterdam" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amsterdam</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/netherlands" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#netherlands</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.kernel.org/tag/cybersecurity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a>

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