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I wonder if these patients have been checked for Alpha wave issues. It sounds like a problem that could be caused by sync issues within the brain.

Here's a different view:

In the past several months, a private investigative firm has been shopping around to Washington reporters a 100-plus-page dossier raising the specter of corruption on the part of senior Defense Department and private company officials in the competition for the JEDI cloud contract. But at least some of the dossier's conclusions do not stand up to close scrutiny.

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Recall, from another Defense One article, the Russians are using every trick possible to gain ground in cyber warfare. One of their biggest fronts is finding and not disclosing software vulnerabilities. This means that you don't even have to actively install Russian software for them to potentially be able to get into your computer.

I am a security analyst and recently took a trip to Russia. There are a lot of jobs out there. And they pay well. The Russians are looking for every way to "hook" into American systems through social engineering. And they pay REALLY well once you have been working for them for a few years, you gain their trust, and they put you on "assignments" frequently involving US government contracts. I had a few offers when I was in Vladivostok. They knew who I was and still tried even though they knew I wouldn't budge.

We let the Chinese steal the plans so they could waste their military budget trying to make copies of fundamentally flawed aircraft.

I'm sure one thing China would want to avoid is massive amounts of nuclear fallout raining down on their nation and radiation soaked refugees flooding their borders.

Three words: tactical nuclear weapons. From here:

The Air Force currently has gravity bombs that either have or can be set to low yields: less than 20 kilotons. Such a bomb dropped in the center of Washington, D.C., wouldn't even directly affect Georgetown or Foggy Bottom.

A tactical nuke centered on the residence of Mr. Un would not cause massive amounts of anything.

The capability doesn't seem to be beyond the Russians either, as they seem to have been rolling out this kind of electronic warfare tech in recent years:
Borisoglebsk 2
Drone and UAV defense in Ukraine

That was two years ago.
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It will just up the hypervelocity arms race.

“The US may not be planning to use hypersonics for nuclear delivery, but US statements allege that Russia and China do intend to do so, and the technical possibility is clear,” he says. “More importantly, even non-nuclear hypersonic weapons would be mainly intended to attack strategic targets including nuclear weapons and the infrastructure of nuclear war. The best way to prevent this needless uptick in the nuclear arms race would be to initiate a moratorium on hypersonic missile testing (both glide vehicles and cruise missiles) and challenge Russia and China to reciprocate and to negotiate a permanent ban.”

Obama is deeply conservative. Hell will freeze over before he would pardon Snowden.

It goes deeper than that. Wikileaks has basically become Russia's proxy in backing Trump this election. Trump is of course the candidate of the other party.

Not only does Wikileaks know damn well where their info is coming from, and why, but they seem on board with the agenda. They've been tweeting material from their official twitter account mocking the Democratic candidate, and no such material mocking the Republican one. The Republican of course has been consistently hiding more information this election. No medical records, no financial records, ... (Shame there's no anonymous source those could be leaked to and published from, huh?)

So what did Snowden do again? Oh yeah, he gave classified info to this group that is right now collaborating with Russia to weaken America by interfering in our election to elect a pro-Putin anti-NATO candidate. Also, (arguably) helping the other political party too. Where's Snowden been all this time? In Russia.

So a pardon for that guy? Yeah...that's not gonna happen.

I'm afraid you're mistaken. The first set of regulations were lifted s a violation of First Amendment rights, but they were effectively transferred the US Commerce department. They are still restrictive, and still prevent the activation of ubiquitous encryption at the NIC level.

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Permission to sell network equipment overseas often relies on the installation of backdoors for government access. These keys have even been published wolrwide for various network hardware.

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I'm afraid to believe that network hardware and software vendors do _not_ install backdoors at government insistence is to ignore the long history of the major network vendors.

Is security really an issue in China? I mean, not counting what the government probably requires companies to open up for their data gathering purposes like
predictive policing efforts . If they build and entirely national technology ecosystem, the only enemy they have would be from within.

I just can't believe a company who used to be part of Anonymous (Ghost Security Group) would EVER troll anyone ever! Now their backtracking on it, and GSG blames it on the media "Clearly, other organizations were interested in breaking news about another app that may have been developed by IS to reduce the group's reliance in popular apps like Telegram, whose creators may be able to disrupt IS's exploitations of their tech". I love how they said this via a PDF who's link is embedded in a tweet. Not on their front page, or even on any pages that I can see. Talk about obfuscation. Did their new paymasters inspire this fubar? Or is this just another "we have no real leader, each member does whatever" style project operating in the same way Anonymous acts?

ISIS has just release a new Android encryption App:

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There is no prohibition in this law against using encryption applications. ISIS will help you get around California's encryption laws.

I read that link http://www.defenseone.com/tech... and noticed that the word 'terrorists' kept cropping up

Call me a paranoid if you must but I am very worried about the future ...

If the American government turns rogue and the American people rise up against that rogue government smart bots like this will become very handy

Since the bots knows us better than we know ourselves, their 'confirmed kill rate' will be sky high and the ultimate consequence is that there is no way to hide

A different algorithm developed by yep University of Illinois researchers, also outdo humans in the sense that bots running that algorithm can predict human's next move ...

http://www.defenseone.com/tech...

I am not the chicken little type, but with bots which know human better than human know themselves, this could be the start of some very troubling time for the genus Homo sapien Sapien

This is how "The Rise Of The Machines" started... Now we are developing our future overlords who will accelerate our own demise....

"Be kind to machines - for one day we shall work for one.."

A different algorithm developed by yep University of Illinois researchers, also outdo humans in the sense that bots running that algorithm can predict human's next move ...

http://www.defenseone.com/tech...

I am not the chicken little type, but with bots which know human better than human know themselves, this could be the start of some very troubling time for the genus Homo sapien Sapien

And two former DIRNSAs agree.

So does ADM Rogers -- except that every interpretation of various US officials' arguments on encryption wildly conflate multiple issues (such as domestic law enforcement, which can and does sometimes have a foreign intelligence connection, and foreign signals intelligence purposes), or utterly misunderstand the purpose, function, and targets of foreign intelligence.

Yes, I know you (not OP, the "royal you") think you know it all, because you have taken things you think of as "proof" utterly out-of-context with zero understanding about things like foreign SIGINT actually works, and have seen 3-4 unrelated pieces of a 1000 piece puzzle, with some of those pieces actually parts of different puzzles, and believe you have the full picture.

People continually and willfully seem to want to forget or ignore that actual, no-shit foreign intelligence targets also -- gasp! -- use things like iPhones, Gmail, Hotmail, WhatsApp, and so on. And, when foreign intelligence targets use these modes of communication, amazingly, we actually want to target them.

If you're an American (or frankly, any innocent person) anywhere in the world who isn't an active member of a foreign terrorist organization or an agent of a foreign power, the Intelligence Community DOES NOT CARE ABOUT and actually DOES NOT WANT your data. Sounds crazy and bizarre for foreign intelligence agencies to care about things like foreign intelligence, I know, but it's true. Weird!

I guess it's easier to believe that functioning democracies* all are constantly looking for ways to illegally spy on their own citizens who have done nothing wrong, rather than to believe that intelligence work in the digital age where the only distinction is no longer the physical location or even the technology used, but simply the target -- the person at the other end, is actually extremely complicated, and not fun.

* If you don't think the Western liberal democracies of the world are worth a shit, or laugh at the term "functioning democracies" when used in reference to the US, warts and all, that simply means you have lost all perspective of reality, and are part of the problem. And it will be to our peril, because there actually are governments in the world who do spy on their own citizens, and wherein the people don't have anywhere NEAR the level of freedoms we have, no matter how terrible you think we are. And guess what? It's our national security and intelligence apparatus that we use to defend ourselves. If you're now so jaded that you don't actually believe the US and its allies, and their principles, are something worth defending and fighting for, then everything I have said here means nothing to you anyway. Just be advised that your perception of history and reality is fatally skewed.

Wrong timing for it, though. While our nation is under attack by Isis and Syria, this increase would be better spent on improving our dwindling military capabilities..

Dwindling? CITATION NEEDED.

CITATION PROVIDED

Budget cuts to slash U.S. Army to smallest since before World War Two
A New Army Drawdown: This Time Is Far Worse
General: With cuts, Marine Corps will 'cut into bone'
AIR FORCE PREPARES TO SEPARATE 25,000 IN SERVICE'S LARGEST DRAWDOWN

"Over the next five years, about 550 aircraft and about 25,000 Airmen will be gone from the Air Force.

Mind the elephant, sir, it has been known to bite people in the ass.

If society thinks I should pay more, then it would be rather hypocritical to disagree.

It is only hypocritical for those, who proclaim their trust in government determining the amount for other people...

But, hypocritical or not, you pay more than you believe is fair because you can not avoid it — on pain of having armed men come in and evict you from your house (though I doubt you have one, if you aren't American).

If you made an offer of $100 to buy an item from me and I said "No! It's only worth $50" are you going to haggle over the price and insist on paying the extra?

People disagreeing about a price are welcome to not commence the transaction. There is no such freedom with taxes — and the taxpayers are forced into paying. All taxes are collected like that world-wide, that's a given. What it means, however, is that these monies can only be spent on things, only government can provide — such as military and law-enforcement — not transport, not health care, not food... It is simply immoral to force Peter to pay for a bus line, which will help Paul get to work... And it is outright outrageous to force Peter to pay for Paul's food and housing.

We have an efficient public transport system throughout the country, affordable health care, a safety net if I lose my job, and mandatory paid vacation

You may have been brainwashed into believing, that's the only way to live — and that those "elected administrators", in their omniwisdom and benevolence are the best at deciding, how to spend other people's money. Better even than the people themselves are. You have the excuse, that those ruling you have a (very) vested interest in perpetuating your belief. But you should've recognized the truth, when it slapped you...

Clearly there's a problem in the US where apparently there's a ruling class that you have no say about

Having visited Europe many times, I can "clearly" see, you live in poverty. Your cars are too small for comfort, as are your showers. Your food is expensive — and so are most other goods and services. And, despite all those taxes upping the every-day prices, you are still too poor to maintain a military, that can credibly discourage Russian... Shrugs...

You talk as if there was some difference between the corporations and the US government.

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but they are trying.

It's taking a bigger bite than just the customer service type jobs. Of course in any budget dispute the more visible jobs and services are cut first. But even the Defense Department and intelligence agencies are taking a hit.

NSA, intelligence workers 'stretched to limit' by shutdown, official says
400,000 DOD Civilians to Get Shutdown Furloughs
US shutdown: Bad for Pentagon workers, not so much for defense firms

Don't ANY of us know how to read a news story and think for ourselves, anymore?

There's a methodology used to substantiate this kind of BULLSHIT claim. It can be described as shooting an arrow towards a wall, then drawing a bulls-eye around it, after the fact.

For another metaphor? Here's the word you get to drive your Mack truck through:

"Affiliated"

When you have the NYPD secretly assign all Mosques the "Terrorist Organization" label, and you have the CIA recruiting for record numbers of native Arabic speakers, for translation?

Call it "Psyop Ju-Jitsu". This is an all-star set up, to make a positive scare-tactic out of the negative public relations resulting from Snowden's revelations.

By-the-fucking-way, what else do you expect, when you let this kind of shit go down? Objective and agenda-less reporting of fact?

USA. It's like a police-state with Tesla Model S and overnight shipping, instead of Bread and Circuses.