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John McAfee Thinks North Korea Hacked Dyn, and Iran Hacked the DNC (csoonline.com)
"The Dark Web is rife with speculation that North Korea is responsible for the Dyn hack" says John McAfee, according to a new article on CSO:
McAfee said they certainly have the capability and if it's true...then forensic analysis will point to either Russia, China, or some group within the U.S. [And] who hacked the Democratic National Committee? McAfee -- in an email exchange and follow up phone call -- said sources within the Dark Web suggest it was Iran, and he absolutely agrees. While Russian hackers get more media attention nowadays, Iranian hackers have had their share... "The Iranians view Trump as a destabilizing force within America," said McAfee. "They would like nothing more than to have Trump as President....
"If all evidence points to the Russians, then, with 100% certainty, it is not the Russians. Anyone who is capable of carrying out a hack of such sophistication is also capable, with far less effort than that involved in the hack, of hiding their tracks or making it appear that the hack came from some other quarter..."
Bruce Schneier writes that "we don't know anything much of anything" about yesterday's massive DDOS attacks. "If I had to guess, though, I don't think it's China. I think it's more likely related to the DDoS attacks against Brian Krebs than the probing attacks against the Internet infrastructure..." Earlier this month Krebs had warned that source code had been released for the massive DDOS attacks he endured in September, "virtually guaranteeing that the Internet will soon be flooded with attacks from many new botnets powered by insecure routers, IP cameras, digital video recorders and other easily hackable devices."
"If all evidence points to the Russians, then, with 100% certainty, it is not the Russians. Anyone who is capable of carrying out a hack of such sophistication is also capable, with far less effort than that involved in the hack, of hiding their tracks or making it appear that the hack came from some other quarter..."
Bruce Schneier writes that "we don't know anything much of anything" about yesterday's massive DDOS attacks. "If I had to guess, though, I don't think it's China. I think it's more likely related to the DDoS attacks against Brian Krebs than the probing attacks against the Internet infrastructure..." Earlier this month Krebs had warned that source code had been released for the massive DDOS attacks he endured in September, "virtually guaranteeing that the Internet will soon be flooded with attacks from many new botnets powered by insecure routers, IP cameras, digital video recorders and other easily hackable devices."
John McAfee Thinks People Care What John McAfee Thinks
Russia is perfectly capable of covering up their tracks. However, to assume that they would want to do that is to miss about 90% of what that country is about right now. Their Ministry of Defence has issued and awarded medals in commemoration of the close overflight of USS Cook, and the "stupid Americans shit themselves and deserted in droves when they saw what our planes could do to their rustbuckets" is not even a meme anymore - it's an established fact.
Oh, and McAfee is a fool.
Otherwise, there would be nothing for him to say
Wild speculation from a crazy guy? Thanks Slashdot.
Repeat the party line that THE GODDAM RUSSKIES ARE CONTROLLING TRUMP'S BRAIN or GTFO McAfee!
I'm tired of all these idiotic conspiracy theories that are not properly disseminated by the Ministry of Truth when Hillary Clinton has graciously decided to give us perfectly true and well formed conspiracy theories against Russia because Trump.
Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
But isn't McAfee that guy who bragged about hiring a hooker to do his taxes while he screwed his accountant?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
There's lots of senseless finger-pointing going around. Anonymous doesn't get anything by shutting down Netflix (Americans aren't going to pressure the State Dept. over it to restore Julian's internet). So, who benefits by shutting down Twitter while Wikileaks is rolling out anti-Clinton hits and the Twitterverse is trying to work out what the leaks mean? North Korea? Only if they're doing it for the lulz. Or promises of favorable treatment under a Clinton administration.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
If it really is state-level actors, then why is Stuxnet the only US-sponsored or US-led attack on others? I don't see any stories about the NSA being suspected about taking out all of Russia or Iran or China's internet in retaliation. It'd be simple eye-for-an-eye between states and it's not as if the NSA is too moral to retaliate. The NSA is also the world's most powerful IT weapon.
The hooker was a CPA and just earns on the side during the off-tax part of the year.
Ahh to be working through college again!
NSA whistleblower says DNC hack was not done by Russia, but by U.S. intelligence
That's what I saw on FB
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What that narcissist fugitive murderer thinks
Other than he likes to get his name in the press
Stop posting all the crap this guy talks. It's like old rancid meme, no one wants to hear about it anymore.
This is a country with virtually no internet, comparatively few computers (per capita) and, as such, minimal infrastructure to nurture and support high-level programmers.
How then, would North Korea be responsible for major hacking when other countries with vast numbers of programmers could be responsible? China, India, Pakistan, Russia and any number of underground American anarchistic groups are vastly more equipped to do so.
Let's say, for a moment, that North Korea DID hack DYN. Where would they get the expertise? Well, who's their neighbour? China. Why does their neighbour tolerate North Korea rather that simply rolling over it? So they can use North Korea as a pawn/puppet to launch clandestine attacks.
I'm not suggesting China did it, I am just suggesting that it is highly unlikely that North Korea did it.
*** Don't be dull.***
Why do people give this guy attention?
He will say anything to get it.
How have you not learned yet?
His "dark web sources" are just fellow meth heads on AlphaBay.
Iran has no reason to hack the DNC. The Democrats have given them all that they could have ever hoped for and more.
> she just happens to be the only sane one running for President.
Howard Stern, Donald Trump, and Lady Gaga have quite a flair for being outrageous,a natural showmanship. In other words, they are clowns. None are good choices for president, IMHO.
On the other hand, we have Hillary. Here's how WebMD describes Antisocial Personality Disorder, also known as sociopathy:
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Symptoms usually include antisocial behavior in which there is little concern for the rights of others such as indifference to the moral or legal standards of the region or community. A key to the disorder is long lasting, persistent, manipulative, exploitive actions and manners that determinedly ignore others
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"little concern for the rights of others such as indifference to the moral or legal standards", " long lasting, persistent, manipulative, exploitive actions" - that sure seems to describe what Hillary has been manifesting since at least 1977. While Trump is most assuredly a clown, Hillary is very likely a sociopath, so "the only sane one" would have to go to the clown, Trump.
http://www.recode.net/2015/9/2...
Who?
The United States has traditionally been on the side of Saudis and friends in the Middle East. The Saudis want Assad gone. Iran wants Assad to stay. Israel wants its enemy, Syria, to be as damaged as possible. Syria has fought several wars with Israel, and has no peace agreement.
When I was younger, I always wondered why the Saudis donated money to the Bush sr., and Clinton presidential libraries. I think Syria shows why.
The problem is al qaeda is on the side of the Saudis. Hezbollah merely threatens Israel. Trump would effectively ditch the Saudis, unless they pay America for mercenary work.
The odd place is Afghanistan. Iran hates America. Iran also doesn't like the Taliban.
Let alone the brain damage, I don't find snorting coke all that respectable at all. That's just a giant waste of money, earth and human lives. What's wrong with you. Always pissing away a few days worth of grocery for what exactly? Can't you just get wasted like everyone, and not fund murders with your "hard won" monies.
I also like tea. Costs like 2 or 3 cents a gram and you can even brew the motherfucker twice if so inclined. Chicory coffee mix is cheaper.
Now what about making most drugs legal, I'm sure the cost of amphetamines and stuff would plummet and you could get so high quality low dose of some mix for cheap. But fuck cocaine still. Go sniff some sweaty ass crack or have sex with your dogs for the thrill.
McAfee is fucking nuts. Remember this is the man that moved halfway across the world to take viagra and cocaine non-stop and killed his neighbor's dog.
Sure he had some credibility decades ago, but now he's like Tommy Chong -- a shambling incoherent mess from years of heavy drug abuse who makes little to no sense. Why report on anything he says?
The problem with your attempt to define Hillary as a psychopath / sociopath (both deprecated terms, they're not long enough) is context. In the setting of politics, media and business those traits are actually highly functional. That's how you get ahead in those fields. Then you run into the Peter Principle but that is another problem.
You missed the preamble to the personality disorders. They are spectrums and they can only be really defined as a disorder when they cause harm. As far as politicians are concerns both Hillary and Donald are at the top of their respective fields. For the rest of us, not so much.
Hillary is certainly sociopathic as it relates to the vast majority of humans - but that's why she is where she is. Donald is most assuredly a narcissist and again, it's gotten him to the Republican candidate for the President of the United States, something hundreds if not thousands of other people are actively aspiring to. The line between all of the personality disorders is a pretty soft one, there is often a lot of overlap.
It is an unfortunate part of the structure of human nature, but that's how we roll. We're not Vulcans. Which version of crazy to you want running the country?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Maybe this insightful commentary really comes from McAfee's tax accountant - or from a prostitute in Bangkok... :-D
Isn't it time the tech community wrote him a Dear John letter?
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
So what are your qualifications to diagnose psychiatric conditions, and how many times have you met with Clinton to confirm your observations? I mean, you wouldn't just be some asshole on the Internet googling up WebMD and then simply forcefitting your personal beliefs on Clinton into what really is a very general description from an online site, would you?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
They've completely steamrolled both Hillary and Obama's foreign policy, why would they be afraid of a Hillary presidency?
Iran or North Korea are crazy enough to think Trump will destabilize anything to a significant degree (other than the Good Ol' Boys network as it exists right now).
Will Slashdot please stop linking to anything but this guys obituary (which I will bet good money will come before the next presidency). He was an asshat with questionable morals before he decided Heart of Darkness was a self-help guide and went full-tilt crazy. Seriously, watch Gringo: The dangerous life of John McAfee, there are some striking parallels between McAfee and Kurtz.
Who gives a damn what that flake says?
From a timing perspective, it seems to me that it is either Russia or Wikileaks. The US was threatening some sort of retaliation against Russia for the DNC hacks, and, of course, it is annoying to have one's internet cut-off (Wikileaks).
> Donald is most assuredly a narcissist and again, it's gotten him to the Republican candidate for the President of the United States
Definitely. One staffer who worked directly with three or four presidents said is his book that all four had very similar personalities. The most striking thing was their arrogance, ego. The bastards all thought they could and should be president! Trump is no exception.
> The problem with your attempt to define Hillary as a psychopath / sociopath ... can only be really defined as a disorder when they cause harm.
Certainly you're not suggesting that Hillary's complete disregard of other people's welfare in the face of her own ambitions has done no harm. Ambassador Stevens and the others who begged for proper security would disagree. Certainly the typical "psycho killer" does sufficient harm to others that it qualifies as a disorder, one need not harm themselves directly. Though it seems rather likely that her marriage to philanderer Bill is probably not so much fulfilling as it is a tool of her selfish ambition, so I'm sure thatbtype of thing has done her sufficient personal harm. From what we've seen publicly, it doesn't appear that she's capable of normal close relationships with others; other people are merely tools, means to her ends. That's certainly harmful.
John McAfee should have been Donald Trumps running mate.
Source Address Validation?
Cable modem's have the capability, if big C's s/w asked them to do it.
While Trump is most assuredly a clown, Hillary is very likely a sociopath, so "the only sane one" would have to go to the clown, Trump.
What color is the sky in a world in which running a visa mill, bragging about having sexually abused many women, raping at least one woman, and Trump's typical deliberate corporate malfeasance are not sociopathic behavior? Does photosynthesis work on your planet?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
> bragging about having sexually abused many women, raping at least one woman
But enough about Bill Clinton. How about having a full-time attacking the victims in order to reduce the damage to your husband's political reputation?
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See subject: It truly makes me laugh (& so does anyone else) @ your antics - why? You're not 1/10th as accomplished as he is nor will you EVER be... & you know it.
* Takes a serious scumbag to even attempt to "put down" your betters when YOU haven't done shit...
(He MAY "march to a different drummer" than most do but as the saying goes? "The road not taken" & look where he is + what's he's managed to do in 1 lifetime - THEN, look @ yourself... ok?)
APK
P.S.=> It TRULY must really suck to be like "your kind" (loser "ne'er-do-wells") who apparently are PERFECT & without sin (yea, right... lol)... apk
"Lady Gaga ..."
Yolandi Vi$$er for president!
So clearly it couldn't have been us!!!
"So what are your qualifications to diagnose psychiatric conditions"
Do you have qualifications to make the diagnosis?
Because if you don't, then there is no point in questioning someone else when you wouldn't (by your own logic) have the knowledge to make a diagnosis in that field either. I.e. you wouldn't know if you could or couldn't use "WebMD" to make an accurate diagnosis.
WTF Does he not even consider the possibility that the hacks aren't meant to be truly secret, merely deniable. It would hardly make a very effective threat/warning if the target didn't realize where the attack came from.
It wouldn't make much sense for Putin to say, "Nice democracy you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it," if we believed the DNC hack came from the North Koreans.
Besides, we didn't want stuxnet attributed to us but that didn't able us to guarantee everyone believed someone else did it.
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He's so much of a nut job, if this guy offed a couple folks, he'd be on the same level as Charles Manson.
I'm more concerned over the discussion that the DNC hack is being seen as an attack on America, warranting retaliation. Those who support such an act are as big of a sweaty nut job as McAfee.
To Slashdot: don't feed the troll.
...googling up WebMD ...
How dare you accuse a member of the alt-right of using expert opinion? He would never consult WebMD for what he could pull out of his behind.
This seems unlikely to me.
Considering Clinton supported and is a fan of the nuclear deal Obama made with Iran to lift sanctions, it would appear that she would be the favorite candidate for Iran self interest.
Considering that Trump has said publicly that he thinks that deal was horrible and that he could have done much better getting the US a better deal (presumably a worse deal for Iran), and the hard line he has taken with what he thinks of Iran and nukes etc... I seriously doubt Trump would be a better candidate for Iran's self interest, and can't really believe that anyone within the Iran power structure would think so. Unless of course they think he would be more disruptive to the US than even the damage he might do to Iran.