i think it is safe to sayâŚall countries will be doing more and more hacking/intruding on other countries and their citizens .
why would they stop?
Of course they will be doing more. Comrade Coir Coif and his cadre of kleptocrats need all the help they can get.
Besides, itâs hard to loot a government efficiently when youâre based 4,857 miles away.
âI learned a lot and I think they did also.â
â Donald Drumpf
No, Pudgy Smudge, they already knew you were a complete fucking idiot.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-offers-cyber-security-173223301.html
Donald Trumpâs computer security advice: âIf you have something really important, have it delivered by courierâ
U.S. law enforcement is looking into Donald Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Pageâs meetings with high-ranking Russian officials this summer, Yahooâs Michael Isikoff reports.
Page, who Trump said was one of his five foreign policy advisors last March, is suspected of communicating with âsenior Russian officialsâ about âthe possible lifting of economic sanctionsâ if Trump becomes president, Yahoo reports, citing âmultiple sources who have been briefed on the issue.â
One of the officials Page allegedly met with, Igor Diveykin, is âbelieved by U.S. officials to have responsibility for intelligence collected by Russian agencies about the U.S. election.â Russia is widely believed to be behind high-profile computer hacks that appear timed to influence the presidential election.
The unclassified version included footnotes acknowledging that it âdoes not include the full supporting information on key elements of the influence campaign.â It said its conclusions were identical to the classified version, which was more detailed.
That this happened, and shows how vulnerable our election process really is, Jeh Johnson, head of HHS has recommended that our electoral system be treated as a crucial asset to be protected from cyber intrusions.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/elections-critical-infrastructure-homeland-security-233304
As I said, yesterday, and took some flak for it, as far as this report is concerned, the conclusions are in, they appear to be final, and they are devastating. One can speculate on what might be in the full version, but I chose to take the IC at itâs word that the conclusions would be no different. I was disappointed that neither Trump nor his lieutenants werenât exposed as âplayersâ, but I always knew that was always wishful thinking. If Trumpism is to be defeated, we, the citizens, must do it ourselves. We canât expect magic bullets. And on Jan 20, the last vestiges of a sense of security and optimism for a lot of us will end as one of our truly great presidents leaves office to be replaced with an unscrupulous poseur whoâs been given immense power and who gives every appearance of being completely unaware of the consequences of using it.
I am very frightened. Cruel men like Trump divide the world into the weak and strong, the exploited and the exploiters, as in his latest tweet wherein, as usual, he blames the victim.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/817579925771341825
God help us all.
âRussia also used state-funded propaganda and paid âtrollsâ to make nasty comments on social media servicesâ It definitely sounds more diabolical when Putin does that than whenHillaryâs campaign did the same thing to Sanders. We can quibble I as to whether the WaPo and New York Times are âstate- funded propaganda,â but the results were the same.
See what happens when a short man gets dissed by a woman.
And quite frankly the remarks SoS Clinton made in 2011 about the Russian elections seemed to me to be cloaked in the finest tradition of diplomatic speech.
And hey LOTPV there are more subtle ways to influence an election than rigging the voting machines. Every state with heavy handed voter suppression efforts is childâs play to a finely crafted smear campaign.
I believe the history books should place an asterisk behind Trumps name to signify he got an assist by a foreign substance.
Someone needs to hack Trumpâs twitter account.
They must mean comments like your remark. So subtle.
Itâs always funny seeing Putin next to Obama due to the height difference
The Russians have no need to try to hack voting machines (which are generally not connected to the internet and thus not really hackable except on a machine by machine basis). Theyâve found out that we are a country so committed to stupidity that we will vote for a reality TV star and failed real estate developer who now sells his name to people targeting the part of the population that equates gold paint with high class luxury. No surprise that so many of his new projects are in places where kleptocrats rule and his glitz appeals to the flashiest new rich. And to make their job even easier, the Russians âlendâ their money to Trump and now it appears to his son in law and his family. Accepting loans from Putinâs crowd is no different than accepting money from any other mobsters who deal with deadbeats with cement overshoes: they have you over a barrel and you will do whatever they ask you to if you want to live to see another day.
Baloney. Even Bernie doesnât believe that.
On Putinâs admiration for Trump:
âHe might have something tangible on Trump. I think itâs unlikely, but I wouldnât exclude it completely. And he believes that Trump will be⌠restricted in his actions. Second I think is most likely â Putin liked what he saw in Trump. I think Putin believed â whether he believes it or not now I donât know â that Trump could help him create more chaos globally. All of Trumpâs statements about NATO and about traditional American alliances, it was like music for Putinâs ears. Because Putin needs a weaker Europe, divided Europe, and if America decides to withdraw completely, that will help Putin to continue his aggressive foreign policy.â
â Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63), chairman of the pro-democracy Human Rights Foundation and a Putin critic.
Maybe pitch the hacking to Trump as an all purpose assault on Hillary, not so much to elect him, but to create chaos and disempower her. Once you get his considerable (golden!) dander up, he circles the wagons. It only throws him all the more in the arms of the far right.
Heâs a real person, a mere mortal. His win was as big a shock to him as it was to all of us, and the power of the office is daunting. Iâm sure he feels alone, cornered. Everyone ready to use him. I mean â who are his real friends? Ultimately, heâs all about protecting his family. Donât make him dangerous. (More dangerous.) The Republicans have shown us they are the biggest danger to democracy and world peace. They want war, they are tools of (and part of) (and fueled by) an Exxonian policy, both domestic and foreign, willing to sacrifice everything to remain in power and bring their investments to profit.
Vlad pines for Donny [and a Cold War]
Tammy (hit song by Debbie Reynolds)
"I hear the Russian Hackers whisperinâ above
âDonny! Donny! Donnyâs Vladâs love!â
The Old Orange Head tweets like a dove
Donny! Donny! Donnyâs my love!
Does my Donald know I read
When he tweets Vladimir?
My computer bleats so joyfully
Youâd think CIA could hear!
Wish weâd the Cold War Iâm dreaminâ of!
Donny! Donny! Donny, my love!
Tweet for me, Iâll lie for you, for I know
Donny! Donny! Canât let you go!
The sleeze from Hilâs files keeps all ah flow
Donny! Donny! I need him so!
At night I do harm, raise no alarm
I long for stocking arms!
Played like a violin
Would he stock arms again?
Wish I knew if he knew what Iâm dreaming of!
Donny, Donny, Donny, my love!"
Hat tip to MadCityYokal
Does anyone know what phishing scam Podesta fell for? Enquiring minds want to know.
It doesnât help that the U.S. is more concerned about a mom downloading one song for free than they are about either proper cybersecurity or training a generation of mathematicians who might be able to help.
Trump seems to deflect to the Democrats are at fault for being victimized rather than acknowledging the threat of cyberwarfare. Certainly the Russians (if not also the Chinese) have penetrated the Trump organization and the Republicans, and are holding these âassetsâ i reserves for future strategic use. No one administration is safe or secure. Trump would fare better if he humbly acknowledged such and used that knowledge to motivate a proper response.
I imagine Trump will be one of their continued targets. They had stuff on him to begin with, and they will get more so they can keep him in line.