"hacked with Predator spyware, built and sold by the previously little-known mercenary spyware developer Cytrox." Which trails back to Intellexa Founder Tal Dilian and "cyber darwinism" citizenlab.ca/2021/12/pegasu…
Which links back to the infamous "Circles" and Eric Banoun which links to Carbyne which links to Eitanium which links back to proliferation of Israeli spyware software used against political dissidents and journos. taldilian.com
Its the "same shit, different decade" business model of 8200 grads. Selling "security" software but in reality being proliferators of fuckery and insecurity. Paging Jamal Khashoggi. MBS on line one and two. calcalistech.com/ctech/articles…
When I say business model...the software has little financial value as an anti terrorism tool but is worth a lot as a profitable corporate espionage tool and a toy for dictators to kill off dissent. arstechnica.com/information-te…
Ok back to Cyber Darwinism". The constant battle between non state freelance (mercenary) opportunists vs overly cautious corporate and state actors. Guess who wins in a game of "Disrupt"? Just the adoption cycle for new cyber security programs in the government is mind boggling.
Also the idea of "hacking" is exactly what the 1/6 election fuckerists are doing without a single keystroke. Yes they hide behind gobbledegook PowerPoints but its just mental vandalism to destroy structure, democracy and peace.
Part of this silliness is an obsession with "Disruption". The 70's idea that you can move fast and break things. Overturn structure. Piss on norms. Hell even a boring cereal maker has a "Disruptive Growth Officer". Disrupting disruption is boring now. finance.yahoo.com/news/general-m…
Anyways...what could possible go wrong with a software spy program called "Predator"?
My question is... who gets your sensitive data faster? Zuck or the Predator? zdnet.com/article/egypti…
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Mercenaries out. Rwandans in. ISIS sorted and nobody is bribing or profiting from human misery. Let's hope it remains that simple when African nations needs help.
As you guessed, it's not that simple. Rwandan troops effectively dispersed ISIS and they regrouped. Rwandan and state sponsored assistance is preferred to ramshackle mercenaries but at some point outside forces will use the insurgency for leverage. allafrica.com/stories/202112…
Africa has roughly the same number of countries as we have states. Imagine if we have open wars in over a dozen states and violent insurgencies in another dozen. africacenter.org/spotlight/auto…
Been deliberately watching Bad Christmas movies (career woman goes on vacation, meets grumpy whatever, falls in love etc..) that have nothing to do with Christmas. Watched George C. Scott in Scrooge and then thought, what is the best modern Christmas film made in the last decade?
I force myself to watch Russian tank movies, 1920s westerns, mashups, Bannon films, Bollywood, YouTube cooking videos to expand my horizons. But Hollywood just can't get Christmas right anymore. refinery29.com/en-gb/why-we-l…
Dickens, like Conrad first published his novella in the papers. Major success. Reads and watches well to this day. The cautionary tale to enjoy life and those around you is timeless. Just as Conrad's Heart of Darkness did. Both are the same story. arts.gov/stories/blog/2…
Sound familiar? 2004 election: "investigators also concluded there is no reason to believe the machines used in the Republican primary race were intentionally miscalibrated to produce an erroneous count" tucson.com/news/fbi-uncov…
2004. The left cries out for justice! * At a precinct in Youngstown, Ohio, an electronic voting machine initially recorded a negative 25 million votes for Kerry." wsws.org/en/articles/20…
2000. The stolen election: "(the) 36-day presidential showdown in Florida in 2000 that was resolved not by a full recount of the votes, but by a supreme court split along partisan lines" theguardian.com/us-news/2016/o…
"PedeInspector selected only the lines of data where President Trump “rounded down” and then added all of these numbers together. PedeInspector has repeatedly tried to point out that he does not know the accuracy of the data, did not have permission to use the data"
"Subsequently (PedeInspector) looked at how those numbers evolved over time and called foul if the number for a given candidate appeared to go down, declaring that proof of fraud." leadstories.com/hoax-alert/202…
Gym Jordan is the stooge. Pence was the plant. Trump was the puppetmaster. Meadows the whipping boy. Joseph Schmitz is an entire reality show series. cnn.com/2021/12/15/pol…
The title could be "There’s Something About Schmitz". "Joseph Schmitz approached the leader of the rebel Free Syrian Army. He offered to give them 70,000 assault rifles from Ukraine and 21 million rounds of ammunition" qz.com/211603/how-ukr…
"Joseph Schmitz, Bush’s former Inspector General of the US Department of Defense, who oversaw the Pentagon’s military contracts, later took a position with the Prince Group" oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandi…