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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."
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
How can the hackers be foreign if we're the *international* monetary fund?
You already lost the game, when you accepted belief instead of facts.
I, as a social engineer, would thrive on you, if I weren't on your side here.
Basically, you already did my job. All I would have to do, is feed you "news" about whatever reality I want you to believe in. Causing you to act, based upon that "reality". Resulting in whatever I want you to do. You'd even defend me against others, because your beliefs would be me.
Yes, "evil" just doesn't describe it anymore. And yes, that's why it's only acceptable for me, to do something good with it. (Like educate people about it.)
If you want to know what to think, look at this: Pierce’s cycle of scientific knowledge development.
Notice how it says "observation". Personal observation. And even that can deceive you. (Hence there are optical illusions and "magicans".)
But it's the best you've got. And rational thinking (logic is good, but they can't free you from emotions) does the rest.
Everything else, news, friends, books, me... are just external sources, and hence inherently can't give you any guarantees. You can choose to trust them. But then you also trust their agenda. As all they say, is for the purpose of that agenda. (That's not evil. It's just natural. Their agenda can also be something good to you.)
So make wise choices, and when in doubt, never ever "believe". :)
I actually laughed out.
The most secure computer is one that is not on the internet or networked to other computers. I am surprised BSG preaches that to the mainstream. Or that never sleep with robots.
A BSG ship must be one that must be managed by a team of sysadmins. If you can't network you must have one physical computer per subsystem.
sudo /etc/init.d/hyperdrive restart /etc/hyperdrive.conf
Password:
Core dump: Failed to restart, not aligned
Hint: Is antimatter callibrator powered and within frequency range?
vim
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Nevermind, it turns out it was just Goldman Sachs trying to colocate their servers with the IMF computers...
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
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
So it was all the elites who were dancing in the streets last month when the US executed Osama Bin Laden? You guys just don't get it. Pulling that kind of crap is exactly why everyone else in the world detests US foreign policy.
If you still can't see it, consider the arrest of Ratko Mladic the other day. Almost identical situation, except Mladic personally helped to execute at least twice as many people as died in the attack on the World Trade Centre, so you could say he is more evil than OBL. And he was arrested and taken to the ICC. He wasn't shot in the head and dumped in the ocean, because that is not how civilised societies deal with criminals.
The way the US public cheers the fact that their government can and does execute anyone in the world with no due process, and is perfectly entitled to invade any country they don't like makes me feel physically ill.
First of all, if its on youtube it must be the truth.
6 vets, one now a professor of law. All named, so you can google them and find references in any number of news agencies. You can't just shrug it off as "it's on youtube".
Third, it is possible this kind of thing happens, just like when terrorists use human shields to protect themselves, planting evidence to make it look like a civilian, and other such events.
So if named vets are saying it happens, and you are admitting it may well happen, what's your point? And why are you calling the OP a troll? Because you don't want to hear stuff about the US army that makes you uncomfortable?