4 May 2020 (12pm - 8pm)
REACH
[11:15 am, 04/05/2020] : [Sent by Gov.sg - 4 May]
COVID-19: Safe work measures post-Circuit Breaker
Progressively open the economy; with proper safe distancing (SD) measures
👩💻 Even prior to circuit breaker, work activities on site reduced by 70%, with many telecommuting
➡ This should continue post circuit breaker
- some sectors will open up earlier than others. Govt will work with companies on SD measures
✅ Companies should implement:
- SD measures
- Safe rest areas
- Technology to track and trace
- Testing of higher risk groups
- Better cleanliness and hygiene standards, esp high touch areas
✅ Have business continuity measures
- Workers in different shifts and work sites; don’t mix and interact outside work
More: go.gov.sg/postcb-work
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Back to Workplace
What safety measures do you think should be in place as employers prepare to resume operations when the circuit breaker ends?
Working from Home
For those who can work from home, what are your views on continuing to do so beyond the circuit breaker period?
Working from home will continue to be the norm even as circuit breaker measures are eased, said Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing yesterday as he laid out Singapore's strategy for gradually reopening its economy.
"Our working assumption beyond the circuit breaker period must be this - that we need to continue to maintain our vigilance because if there's any lapse in our focus, then we might risk a relapse of the situation or a flare-up," he said. "As we progressively reopen up our economy, we need to be able to detect quickly and isolate effectively."
"We are going to encourage our companies, starting from now, to prepare ourselves for the resumption," he said.
He added that companies will also need to advise workers from different cohorts and shifts not to mix outside work so that groups can be quickly isolated if needed. The various measures also apply to companies hiring foreign workers.
"With these safe working environment measures and safe cohorting measures in place, we think we'll be able to progressively restart many of the production activities that have taken a back seat for the last two weeks," he said.
👉 https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/working-from-home-to-be-the-norm-for-some-time-chan
👉 https://www.facebook.com/175816112470380/posts/3154532304598731/
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[12:02 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/rcep-agreement-on-track-to-be-signed-by-year-end-chan-chun-sing?cx_testId=20&cx_testVariant=cx_2&cx_artPos=7#cxrecs
RCEP on track.
Good news.
[12:02 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Straits Times
4 May 2020
RCEP agreement on track to be signed by year-end: Chan Chun Sing
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement remains on track to be signed by year-end, Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said in an interview on Sunday (May 3) during which he stressed the importance of international cooperation amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr Chan told reporters during the virtual interview.
Intensive virtual meetings have been ongoing, he said, adding that no significant delays were foreseen in the signing of the agreement.
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[4:48 pm, 30/04/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Phase 3 - Revive External Economy - where Trade is 3 times our size need Government to Government collaboration (1 Jun onwards)
1. To revive our Economy, Business and Jobs - External Economy is our bulwark - for failing to focus on External Economy - it is not possible to ensure full employment.
2. The trick is - how to keep the virus at bay (while vaccine are still not ready, though treatment "Remdesvir" prove positive) -- while Government try to negotiate with other Government to resume trade and production?
3. Is it possible to trade in goods and services by going online with minimum people contact - but still ensure delivery of cargo by ships, planes, lorries, rail etc?
4. If our Government succeed to convince other Government to regain confidence and commence trading, manufacturing, logistics - then we can regain abot 3/4 of our Economy (as traveling, tourism and leisure, f&b for overseas tourists will still be in limbo).
5. Government collaboration can be in holding virtual conferencing to revive the physical activities all FTAs signed, revived the negotiation and talks on the RCEP, arrange safe trading and transporting of cargoes via ship, planes, lorries etc).
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Desmond
[12:55 pm, 03/05/2020] : i think u have to coop up at home forever, have you heard about the Smart Nation Sensor Platform (SNSP)
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[12:03 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
(1) Simple answer to your question.
(2) If a person have the mindset of building IT infrastructure or IT apps - without regard to building in IT security ---- then the person is building a dangerous platform that will cause tremendous economic, social and even physical damages to the Nation.
(3) Just rent a video Diehard 4 --- and watch the whole movie - how international hackers - destroy a whole city by exploiting the IT vulnerabilities - then it is more fruitful to start discussion here - if a person still have the notion about pushing IT initiatives with no regard to IT securities.
(4) I think a person will have very short memory, if one have forgotten the Singhealth hacking - APT - Advanced Persistent Threat conducted by State Hackers hacking into the Singhealth network - where we have just toil and completed the arduous task of plugging the IT securities loopholes in the SingHealth IT infrastructure - and now a person can talk about disregarding IT security.
(5) I seriously think that if a person have initiatives in pushing out any national IT projects - get the endorsement from CSA (Cyber Security Authority).
(6) CSA is reviewing and monitoring the National IT CII (Critical Information Infrastructure) - all the 12 to 13 Nation Economic sectors IT infrastructure- and Health IT Infrastructure is also under their purview - in case a person is not aware about it.
(7) A national IT project will never get passed the Security Review Committee for any Government or Nation-Wide IT infrastructure project - if a person disregard IT security.
(8) IT security must be the core of the design of any IT projects and must not be an afterthought.
(9) After completing an IT project and then start to think about its security is a patchwork.
Desmond
[1:10 pm, 04/05/2020] : Haha glad u know some of the info, my point was a technology will not be easily decided since u still said Bluetooth not secure 😊
[1:18 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
When a technology is not secured, you will always use other measures to secure it and not just let it go.
Desmond
[1:19 pm, 04/05/2020] : This is what you had assumed and is not true
[1:19 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Example?
[1:19 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Btw are you a staff of Govtech?
Desmond
[1:20 pm, 04/05/2020] : U r saying Bluetooth not secured ma... so I’m saying is good enough with appropriate measures...
Phyllis
[1:20 pm, 04/05/2020] : Boink.
[1:21 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
You say no used.
Btw are you a staff of Govtech?
Desmond
[1:26 pm, 04/05/2020] :
Q1. I was quoting u said that Bluetooth not secured.
Q2. Is it important?? But I can tell u there are only 3 Desmond in GovTech (1 is cyber security, 1 technical & 1 is data science) I might be one of them 😅
[1:26 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Ok that is good enough.
Blue and White Flag Guy
[1:26 pm, 04/05/2020] :
What a Diamond 💎 you are 🤭
Desmond
[1:26 pm, 04/05/2020] :
Haha is a healthy brown bag discussion la
[1:27 pm, 04/05/2020] :
Q1. I was quoting u said that Bluetooth not secured.
Q2. Not important 🤣
[2:48 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Billions of Bluetooth devices could get hit by this attack
More than 5 billion devices are vulnerable to a "highly infectious" malware attack. Go ahead, blame the internet of things.
https://www.cnet.com/news/bluetooth-devices-vulnerable-to-hack-blueborne-armis-labs/
[2:53 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
And Bluetooth hack will spiral into a digital covid-19 infection in all Bluetooth turn on handphones.
[2:57 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Ransomware can be planted into the handphone via the Bluetooth vulnerability.
[3:02 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
New Bluetooth Attack Affects Billions of Devices Worldwide
By Jeff Goldman,Posted September 12, 2017
https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/new-bluetooth-attack-affects-8.2-billion-devices-worldwide.html
[5:43 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Watch 3-minute footage on Singapore. You will feel proud.
16-April-2020: https://www.facebook.com/35780255703/posts/10163208178510704
[6:55 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
Managing Connected Devices
Lamar Bailey, director of security research and development at Tripwire, told eSecurity Planet by email that Bluetooth should be treated like any open port -- if you don't need it, turn it off. "That may not always be easy with Bluetooth keyboards and mice/trackpads, but in situations where non-employees are within 40 feet of systems, like banks at teller windows, it is best to use wired input devices and not rely on Bluetooth," he said.
Varonis security engineer Mike Buckbee said BlueBorne highlights how challenging it can be to secure connected devices. "We've gotten the IoT wake-up call loud and clear, and now it's up to manufacturers to heed the warning and bake security into their products before jumping in feet first with the latest connected devices," he said.
"Attackers will continue to rapidly develop exploits to crack IoT devices to spy on us, steal our information, and even put our lives in danger," Buckbee added. "As we become ever more dependent upon our mobile devices, and the world becomes increasingly automated, attacks like Blueborne which hit specific chips, components and stacks are going to become much more dangerous."
[7:00 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
"Attackers will continue to rapidly develop exploits to crack IoT devices to spy on us, steal our information, and even put our lives in danger," Buckbee added. "
As we become ever more dependent upon our mobile devices, and the world becomes increasingly automated, attacks like Blueborne which hit specific chips, components and stacks are going to become much more dangerous."
[7:21 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
The TraceTogether mobile application, which was launched on March 20, has been downloaded 1.1 million times, according to its website.
“The team is now working with Apple and Google to enhance this app and make it more effective, especially on iOS phones,” Mr Wong said.
In response, Mr Wong said that once the app has been enhanced, the team will look at how to raise its take-up rate.
[7:27 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
BlueBorne can be used to launch remote code execution and Man-in-the-Middle attacks, and the researchers suggest it could be used for a wide variety of malicious objectives, including cyber espionage, data theft, ransomware, and even the creation of IoT botnets.
"We are concerned that the vulnerabilities we found are only the tip of the iceberg, and that the distinct implementations of the protocol on other platforms may contain additional vulnerabilities," the researchers wrote.
Armis notified Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung and Linux of the vulnerabilities prior to disclosure. A technical white paper on BlueBorne can be viewed here [PDF].
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Rama
[7:40 pm, 04/05/2020] :
Parliament: Govt response to coronavirus outbreak will be reviewed after the crisis, says Lawrence Wong
https://www.straitstimes.com/politics/parliament-how-govt-responded-to-coronavirus-outbreak-will-be-reviewed-after-the-crisis?utm_source=emarsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ST_Newsletter_PM&utm_term=Parliament%3A+Govt+response+to+coronavirus+outbreak+will+be+reviewed+after+the+crisis%2C+says+Lawrence+Wong&utm_content=04%2F05%2F2020&utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=addtoany
[7:49 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
At least this is a humble and transparent Government.
Rama
[7:53 pm, 04/05/2020] : Details will tell any short fall and how things were improvised to deal with the situation
[7:54 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
No one is perfect.
As long as anyone is humble and transparent and learn from shortfall and improve, then they are a noble person.
Rama
[7:55 pm, 04/05/2020] : There should be no unfair criticism of the government unfairly as this is a unique circumstances. We all learn and adapt as we move forward
[7:55 pm, 04/05/2020] : Agree
[7:57 pm, 04/05/2020] : We were the darling of the world in the beginning. We had a set back in between but we will emerge stronger
REACH
[8:07 pm, 04/05/2020] : Dear Contributors,
We would love to hear more from you! ❤️
We will be extending the chat to 9PM today.
Thank you!
- Megan
Ben
[8:31 pm, 04/05/2020] : Yes, and a good thing we didnt let that flattery go to our heads. I appreciate this government's openness and focus on problem solving, rather than trying to seek favourable news reports.
REACH
[8:50 pm, 04/05/2020] : Hello REACH Contributors!
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[8:51 pm, 04/05/2020] ☸️ Danny 心:
My close friend comments - something we can improve upon:-
(1) Singapore (not just gov, but everyone else) needs to ask itself if we were too box up on the learning points from SARs (2003) and H1N1 (2009)?
Eg. When an infected person travels on a flight. Only passengers 2 rows in front and 2 rows behind are at risks? From diamond princess cruise case, we already can infer covid us different.This I remembered vividly was said during SARs period.
2. Masks position. We were new to a product called N95 in 2003. We learned that the virus is too small and other than N95, it is futile to try to cover ourselves. But why blame gov's position? Many of us still hang on to the old idea until the new cases gaps widen between us and likes of HK, Taiwan who are advocates of masks.
3. We were highly praised by WHO for our exhaustive contact tracing in the beginning. But this works well for small number of cases like SARs period. We only had 200+ cases in total? Were we basking in pride that we were internationally recognised that time? At about the same time, in some other lesser known publication, authors already questioned SG approach that it is not sustainable when the cases were big. There was no mention of possibility of asymptomatic patients. Thrown this in, the initial model of contact tracing will not be able to cope.
4. The number of unlinked cases rose steadily in the month of Mar. On the ground, many whisperings but news only published MOH points out unlinked cases in the rise 1 month later to the dismay of many people in the ground. Is the gov slow in realising and reacting? We are many years away from SARs and H1N1. Those days there were no social media. Today, we see info/news almost the same time as the "experts". Our expectations are much higher and critical.
5. The most hideous part of this pandemic is that there are asymptomatic patients who may go around and pass the virus quietly. The gov evidence-based approach then become a reactive. Remember, how many times we were briefed that "there is no evidence that..."
6. SKorea went thru MERS. They improved on their playbook. They considered technology as 2015 already had 4G and widespread use of social media. They are more cautious of assumptions.
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7. HK went thru almost a year of protests and riots. Quite a lot of them kept some stock of face masks. Because their trust with gov is low. They decided for themselves to wear masks.
8. Taiwan, I heard, before CNY, recorded 56 deaths from flu. With covid around the corner, they took super cautious approach to shut borders, delay citizens from coming home etc.
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9. I still think is it very impt we don't lose lessons and learning points, but we have to ask ourselves if we were too box in and lose sight that virus is new.
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REACH
[8:59 pm, 04/05/2020] : Hi REACH Contributors,
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