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International Monetary Fund Hit By Cyber Attack
DotNM writes "CityNews and other media outlets are reporting that the International Monetary Fund has been hit by a 'cyber attack.' They are withholding most of the details; however, it is known that the World Bank has shut down a 'link' between them and the IMF." Adds reader Hugh Pickens, "A cyber security expert told Reuters the infiltration had been a targeted attack, which installed software designed to give a nation state a 'digital insider presence' at the IMF. 'The code was developed and released for this purpose,' said Tom Kellerman, who has worked for the Fund. Bloomberg quoted an unnamed security expert as saying the hackers were connected to a foreign government — however, such attacks are very difficult to trace."
Must've been Anonymous. Like usual.
Not much info is given, but it looks like someone got an email, they clicked it and then got infected.
So the hack was really just an employee doing something.
IOW, the Chinese did it, and everyone is too fucking scared to point the finger.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
According to conspiracy theories, bringing the current currencies down so that a new world order arises will be an Inside Job (TM).
Is this to be interpreted as a declaration of war on the IMF? Because that was long overdue.
IMF is the "Henry" for other nations. Take Greece for example: IMF is lending money to Greece, even though the country wont be able to pay back. Eventually, IMF has managed to infiltrate the country, without the use of weapons, and now they affect Greece's international and also national policies, laws were changed in favour of the Man, situation gets worse everyday.
What i am trying to say is that IMF has only done harm to humanity, and they will always be a justified target.
> Bloomberg quoted an unnamed security expert as saying the hackers were connected to a foreign government
So this "unnamed security expert" sees the IMF as a (world?) government or as part of some (the american?) government.
Or what does the word "foreign" mean here?
In the middle of the Bloomberg article is the statement:
A SecurID device is shaped like a key fob or a computer-memory stick and generates random-number passwords used to gain access to a computer network
Continuously changing passwords != Random
How can the hackers be foreign if we're the *international* monetary fund?
Interesting and creepy at the same time.
I like the aura of mystery your create and the menacingness. Yet at the same time you sound like a hero, almost an anti-hero, shrouded in justice and maybe a troubled past.
I can see a movie now.
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Isn't it great when real life starts playing like a cheesy B movie? We just need a real super villain to rise up out of this and it will be /popcorn time.
Speaking of the IMF scandals, what happened to the deposed chief of it that got sacked with a sex scandal in NY? What has became of that? My money from the start was it was a set up and that after he was burned out of the position, his case will vanish in legal smoke, everyone will blame lawyers and liberals or something and he will be off and running back to France. Everyone wins, except him and socialism. Did I miss something?
So who are these new players in the game? Old players just firing a shot off the IMF's bow with this new fangled warfare of cyberwarfare? Here's a question, who's to gain from all of this? Bloomberg? American politics are everything these days to watch. Bloomberg is a Republican, and the hawkish right might be making some preludes to some war. Or is it the usual suspects the Chinese and their shenanigans?
Where is Bond? Shouldn't he be in some lurid scene getting a phone call to get on the job?
This has to be the geek/mercenary wet dream for job opportunities. Perhaps espionage should become part of a good geeks resume'? Put down the bag of Cheetos, pick up some weights, walk for the beer instead of drive. We might be in for a long run at this, so might as well get with the program now.
Take the Red Pill.
Maybe the politicians will have to stop using their (our) national "credit cards" for a while. A few decades would be nice.
The purpose is to provide sufficient excuse to continue military spending. You may recall the USA hit it's debt limit and is about to default. This will persuade the dissenting politicians that they should vote for an increase in the limit.
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Nevermind, it turns out it was just Goldman Sachs trying to colocate their servers with the IMF computers...
And Americans = terrorist supporters.
e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NUDWQ0U7N8
How many countries has the USA invaded recently? Whether you are better or worse than someone else is irrelevant. This is what you are.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn != Cristiano Ronaldo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIzuY5V_YUI
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The 419 Nigerian scam who have been working for the IMF.
All cows eat grass!
One example is that the IMF stopped Malawi from stockpiling grain, and many people died of starvation as a result:
"... when in 2001 the IMF found out the Malawian government had built up large stockpiles of grain in case there was a crop failure, they ordered them to sell it off to private companies at once. They told Malawi to get their priorities straight by using the proceeds to pay off a loan from a large bank the IMF had told them to take out in the first place, at a 56 per cent annual rate of interest. The Malawian president protested and said this was dangerous. But he had little choice. The grain was sold. The banks were paid.
The next year, the crops failed. The Malawian government had almost nothing to hand out. The starving population was reduced to eating the bark off the trees, and any rats they could capture. The BBC described it as Malawiâ(TM)s âoeworst ever famine.â There had been a much worse crop failure in 1991-2, but there was no famine because then the government had grain stocks to distribute. So at least a thousand innocent people starved to death.
Extracted from http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-its-not-just-dominique-strausskahn-the-imf-itself-should-be-on-trial-2292270.html
Other examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund#Impact_on_access_to_food
I think it was Bin Laden. He realized his body was not going to last much longer, so he had it copied onto those thousands of USB drives and hidden in various files using steganography techniques. Then, when the US forces analysed them, the bits of Bin Laden's consciousness became assembled in the US government's computer networks. From there, it was trivial for Bin Laden's digital ghost to get into the IMF.
See how simple that was?
Oh my, you just scared me into realizing something.
We're going to have to all go back and study the Darmok episode of Trek TNG. Why? Because all we'll be able to get out is catalog numbers of Amazon's database containing the message we want to send.
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This is the IMF. What's a foreign government, in that context...Martians?
For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice.
It's really quite hypnotic too.
Dark Marteria with the +1 Insightful again.
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Why would a large organization always mean a country? Why not a large bank that wants to know in advance how much risk is really involved in lending money to Greece? Goldman-Sachs has been rumbeling in that area more than enough already.
They're not THAT powerful. Why are we so afraid of naming and shaming them?
The banksters themselves could be the cause and the reason. Only the banksters have reason to lose money that cannot be traced. By blaming some unknown "enemy", these banksters use the classic maneuver of mis-direction. No one would expect a den of thieves, liars and charlatans to steal from themselves and then claim not knowing their system that has been in place for hundreds of years.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
It can tell you ALL ABOUT the "IMF", & if that's NOT ENOUGH? Here's a couple documentaries you ought to be made aware of:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-money-masters/
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/america-bankrupt-banks-inside-meltdown/
They're BOTH in regards to "central banking schemes" over history!
(Yes, including the US "FED", not federal @ all, merely a consortium of banks creating an inescapable inflation via FIAT currency games & inescapable interest).
Why do you folks think Andrew Jackson (who wrote on his gravestone "I KILLED THE BANK") got rid of central banks? They were causing financial hassles & spiralling inflation!
(Once it was gone, things were set right again, only to have Woodrow Wilson reinstate them, to his own dismay & on his deathbed the man knew he made a mistake!)
Also: The US "FED"? It was signed in illegally too, when all the other members of the senate/house (congress) were on vacation too
It was NEVER LEGALLY RATIFIED as law by the majority act of Congress it needed!
This whole "central banking scheme"? Nothing but trouble & inflation... beware of it.
APK
P.S.=> KNOW YOUR HISTORY, because believ it or not? It's your friend!
I used to "blow it off" until I realized that old adage is true that if you don't know history you're bound to repeat it... Why'd I used to "blow it off"?
Well, I used to blow it off, because we constantly repeat it is why - I figured, "why bother? we'll just end up doing the same stupid shit again a generation or two later, anyhow!"
HOWEVER: NOW I KNOW WHY WE REPEAT IT: The "powers that be" (big money") use it again & again over the centuries to pull the same tricks (on different generations that forget about their games!).
They don't *think* just 1-10 yrs. ahead, they think ahead 50-100 yrs. (to keep them & theirs in control, for the next generation of their clique)
... apk
IMF, RSA, Sony - Ok, they got hacked & lost customer information.
So, what kind of computer software are all these companies using to front-end their networks? Have they heard of firewalls? Are they Windows-only IT infrastructures? Are their IT professionals really professional or typical Dilbertian corporate politicians?
All the articles I see on the Internet news sources don't bother to tell this part of the story.
Inquiring minds want to know...
William Greider's "The SECRETS OF THE TEMPLE"...
(A great book, & it "opened my eyes" to a lot of how the central banking system operates, and why it's messing us up, HUGELY!)
Yes, it's "dry as dust" IN THE BEGINNINGS, because it outlines things you need to know first, like a textbook in academia, but... once it gets "rolling"? You eat it up like candy, because it enlightens you to the games being played on ALL of us, by central bank schemes!
APK
P.S.=> IF you get the chance? DO READ IT PEOPLE, as it will "abres los ojos", it certainly did mine!
...apk
Hmmm, troll? See here http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2225174&cid=36390518 ? Perhaps because it shows you are nothing but a TROLL, & a "ne'er-do-well" that claims he has a "massive ego", but nothing to show for it (delusions of GRANDEUR there, boy?)??
You know, I tried to "extend the olive branch" to you here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2230314&cid=36414652 , but to no avail... now, you sow the wind? Here comes the whirlwind... from now on, & that's showing you are a troll by your own evasions of the 1st URL above & a simple question there...
Lets see them blame this one on Anonymous.
The IMF needs to have their top agent Ethan Hunt to knock those cyber crooks heads around.
What the fuck are you talking about? "Default" as a technicality? Printing like mad doesn't count? Intentional massive deflation is the same as defaulting in anything but name. The real value of the dollar is worth shit and the only reason it's still around as a major international currency is corruption and crime, think of the international bailouts as bribes to keep the worst hit nations quiet about how badly the US government fucked up the entire world's monetary systems through their sub-mortage crisis affecting all major banks and creating a liquidation and capital crisis.
The bailouts aren't all about "helping" companies, the biggest benefit to the US gov may well be in spreading their massive deflation as widely as possible to attempt to even things out as well as helping make it far less obvious to ordinary people and anyone not high enough up in the international food-chain.
Get your head out of the clouds the US is dying or already nearly dead both politically and economically and it won't be nice, we're already seeing some very desperate measures unlikely to make things significantly better.
Considering how many people loathe the US both on the left and the right I doubt anyone will be willing to actually help you when the shit truly hits the fan, it just won't be politically feasible and by that time you'll be busy killing each other or enslaving each other. Maybe that's deserved (I don't think so: the kids of the US of A aren't to blame for their parents sins) but even so it's incredibly sad.
You had it all and you burned it down yourselves while dancing nude around your kitsch golden calf.
U.S. has the capability to sustain itself without reliance of foreign goods. It is just the stupid laws that restrict them.
If we lower the standard of living (which we don't deserve it anyway) to the level of Vietnam and Cambodia then we will have lots of jobs.
All it have to do is just print money and immediately pay off all bonds and debt. Send the money necessary to the state and local government so they can do the same. Forget about credit rating We don't need credit. We don't buy foreign goods so we don't worry about the exchange rate of US dollar.
The only people that worry about flunking worth of the U.S. dollar are the stiff white trash that travels to Europe for leisure reasons. We "minorities" here doesn't care because we don't need to get Pounds/Euros. I have no problem going $10 = 1 Euro if it means the national debt is paid off with printed money.
As for the IMF, we all know it is part of the Jew World Order trying to plunder the the third world so to become their slaves, according to the Talmud. In fact, they are finally fed up with the pace of the enslavement and now attempting to put a Israeli in charge of IMF since the previous guy got set up and politically persecuted in New York.
Lucky we have countries such as China, loved by many of the 3rd world nations, and it is our only hope to defeat the old world lead by the white man and the Jews which brings us slavery, disease and war.
Twitter: @dainsanefh
It's about time the International Monetary Drain was hit. Time to take those vampire fuckers out - permanently. They leech the money out of countries and impose vicious SAPs on them. This toxic behaviour will soon end and so will that criminal institution which does nothing more than create debt slavery in order to redistribute wealth from the working and poor to the unworking rich.
Their own talmud backs it up in fact:
"As for the IMF, we all know it is part of the Jew World Order trying to plunder the the third world so to become their slaves, according to the Talmud" - by Dainsanefh (2009638) on Sunday June 12, @05:19PM (#36419810) Homepage
http://www.waylanderskeep.com/2009/12/jewish-talmud-quotes/ [waylanderskeep.com]
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1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Libbre David 37: "To communicate anything to a Goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly."
5. Libbre David 37: "If a Jew be called upon to explain any part of the rabbinic books, he ought to give only a false explanation. Who ever will violate this order shall be put to death."
6. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
7. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
8. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
9. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
10. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
11. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
12. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
13. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
14. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
15. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
16. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
17. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
18. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
19. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
20. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
21. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."
22. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
23. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 156: "When a Jew has a Gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so that the Gentile shall be ruined. For the property of a Gentile, according to our law, belongs to no one, and the first Jew that passes has full right to seize it."
24. Schulchan Aruch, Johre Deah, 122: "A Jew is forbidden to drink from a glass of wine which a Gentile has
they've destroyed numerous countries economies
See subject - just because drinkypoo is a cowardly little troll doesn't mean he needs his troll pals helping him does it? Apparently it does - Hilarious. Do you wipe his ass for him on the toilet as well?
Poor people/countries (e.g. countries that don't own significant shares in IMF's banking system or ones that don't take their "advice"). Fuck em' and fuck their "let the free hand reign" bullshit. All the free market means is free money for those that already have it.
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Except that the US did default in 1933 when it revalued the dollar!
The following numbers are not the exact ones, but have instead been chosen to make the example easier to follow, but they illustrate what happened. Prior to 1933 one US dollar was worth 1/20 of an ounce of gold. After 1933 one US dollar was worth 1/40 of an ounce of gold. Thus US dollars were now worth 1/2 what they used to be. US debt could previously be cashed in for either US dollars of gold. Now however you could only cash it in for the same number of US dollars. Thus, US debt was only worth half of what it was before (that is, the US did a partial default on it's debt, equivalent to half the value).
The only reason it is not listed officially as a default is that the US supreme court ruled that since the debt was still worth the same number of dollars it did not legally count (obviously the US supreme court was not likely to be the most impartial judge of this). The fact that these dollars were only worth half what they were before was not considered irrelevant.
Wikipedia lists the exact numbers where $20.67 per ounce before the 1933 Gold Reserve Act, and $35 per ounce after (actually it was free floating for a little while, but this is not important).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_dollar#The_Gold_Reserve_Act
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