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A 15-Year-Old Convinced Verizon He Was the Head of the CIA (newsweek.com)
schwit1 shares an interesting story. Newsweek reports:
A British teenager managed to obtain access to sensitive U.S. plans about intelligence operations in different Middle East countries by acting as former CIA Director John Brennan, a court heard on Friday. Kane Gamble, 18, researched Brennan and used the information he gathered to speak to an internet company and persuade call handlers to give him access to the spy chief's email inbox in 2015. He pretended to be both a Verizon employee and Brennan to access Brennan's internet account.
Astonishingly, Gamble managed to gain access to Brennan's emails and his addressbook, as well as his iCloud storage. He even managed to remotely access the iPad of Brennan's wife... Gamble, aged 15 at the time, also persuaded a helpdesk at the FBI that he was the then deputy director Mark Giuliano... In October 2017, Gamble pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including eight charges of "performing a function with intent to secure unauthorized access" to the computers and two of "unauthorized modification of computer material."
Astonishingly, Gamble managed to gain access to Brennan's emails and his addressbook, as well as his iCloud storage. He even managed to remotely access the iPad of Brennan's wife... Gamble, aged 15 at the time, also persuaded a helpdesk at the FBI that he was the then deputy director Mark Giuliano... In October 2017, Gamble pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including eight charges of "performing a function with intent to secure unauthorized access" to the computers and two of "unauthorized modification of computer material."
The USA government types are incompetent with IT.
By Dr. David J. Stewart | January 2016
I have a classic book in front of me published in the year 1868, titled âoeGOD IN HISTORY and GOD IN SCIENCE,â authored by London Pastor John Cumming (1807-1881).[1] May I say kindly, there's no such thing as an atheist! Some of the world's wealthiest celebrities have the stench of Hell on them, which is where they are all going, blaspheming the very God Who is kind to them. Luke 6:35b, âoe...for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.â
Legendary singer Billy Joel is a professed atheist...
âoeI gradually decided that just because I didn't have or couldn't find the ultimate answer didn't mean I was going to buy the religious fairytale. As an atheist you have to rationalize things.â â"Billy Joel
On page 139 of his book, âoeGOD IN HISTORY and GOD IN SCIENCE,â Pastor John Cumming makes a brilliant observation concerning professed atheists...
Atheism is folly as much as wickedness. But suffer me, before I show this, to say, that it is absolutely impossible that any man can be an atheist, in the strict sense of that word. All that any can say is this: âoeNo spot that I have searched does reveal a God; every organization I have examined does not show traces of wisdom, goodness, and design:â but that individual cannot say; âoeThere is no God;â because he cannot say, âoeI have soared to the farthest star, I have descended to the deepest mines, I have swept all space, and searched all time, and in the realms of infinite space I have not detected any traces of a God.â In other words, to be able to say, âoeThere is no God,â you must yourself assume to be God, which is a reductio ad absurdum, an utter and a complete absurdity.
SOURCE: âoeGOD IN HISTORY and GOD IN SCIENCE,â p. 139; by Rev. John Cumming, D.D.; New York: Published by Carlton & Lanahan; 200 Mulberry-Street; 1868.
What a brilliant observation. How can any man claim to be an atheist unless he has traveled to the farthest place in the universe? The nearest star to the earth (after our own sun) is Alpha Centauri, which is 4.37 light-years away (28,200,000,000,000 miles away!). This is just one star, being the closest to earth besides our own sun, which is 93,000,000,000 miles away. My friend, the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that there are at least 200,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe. And each of those galaxies contains BILLIONS of stars! It is anticipated that when the James Webb Telescope is launched in 2018 from NASA, that it will discover over ONE TRILLION GALAXIES!!!
The Word of God teaches that God made the stars. I love how Genesis 1:16 is written... âoeHE MADE THE STARS ALSO.â It's like the Bible is saying, âoeOh, by the way, God also made all the stars!â Genesis 1:16, âoeAnd God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.â God is amazing, Who knows the exact number of stars that He created, and he calls them each by their own name. Amen! Psalms 147:4, âoeHe telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.â I have just briefly discussed the stars. The world that exists under a microscope is even more amazing, complex and a mystery to mankind. How can anyone reasonably claim to be an atheist when man hasn't even discovered what's in 90% of the earth's oceans? Pastor John Cumming is so right... For anyone to say, âoeThere is no God!,â you must yourself assume to be God! No human being has traveled to the ends of the universe. In fact, no human being has e
Yes, they will accord little to no serious air time to this story. Instead, they will promote the so called [Russian] "collusion", something I have never bought.
But that aside, isn't this rather embarrassing?
No zero-day reward?
Waste of talent in prison
By Karl Marx (they love this guy in China, BTW).
https://www.marxists.org/archi...
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Bruno Bauer,
The Jewish Question,
Braunschweig, 1843
The German Jews desire emancipation. What kind of emancipation do they desire? Civic, political emancipation.
Bruno Bauer replies to them: No one in Germany is politically emancipated. We ourselves are not free. How are we to free you? You Jews are egoists if you demand a special emancipation for yourselves as Jews. As Germans, you ought to work for the political emancipation of Germany, and as human beings, for the emancipation of mankind, and you should feel the particular kind of your oppression and your shame not as an exception to the rule, but on the contrary as a confirmation of the rule.
Or do the Jews demand the same status as Christian subjects of the state? In that case, they recognize that the Christian state is justified and they recognize, too, the regime of general oppression. Why should they disapprove of their special yoke if they approve of the general yoke? Why should the German be interested in the liberation of the Jew, if the Jew is not interested in the liberation of the German?
The Christian state knows only privileges. In this state, the Jew has the privilege of being a Jew. As a Jew, he has rights which the Christians do not have. Why should he want rights which he does not have, but which the Christians enjoy?
In wanting to be emancipated from the Christian state, the Jew is demanding that the Christian state should give up its religious prejudice. Does he, the Jew, give up his religious prejudice? Has he, then, the right to demand that someone else should renounce his religion?
By its very nature, the Christian state is incapable of emancipating the Jew; but, adds Bauer, by his very nature the Jew cannot be emancipated. So long as the state is Christian and the Jew is Jewish, the one is as incapable of granting emancipation as the other is of receiving it.
The Christian state can behave towards the Jew only in the way characteristic of the Christian state â" that is, by granting privileges, by permitting the separation of the Jew from the other subjects, but making him feel the pressure of all the other separate spheres of society, and feel it all the more intensely because he is in religious opposition to the dominant religion. But the Jew, too, can behave towards the state only in a Jewish way â" that is, by treating it as something alien to him, by counterposing his imaginary nationality to the real nationality, by counterposing his illusory law to the real law, by deeming himself justified in separating himself from mankind, by abstaining on principle from taking part in the historical movement, by putting his trust in a future which has nothing in common with the future of mankind in general, and by seeing himself as a member of the Jewish people, and the Jewish people as the chosen people.
On what grounds, then, do you Jews want emancipation? On account of your religion? It is the mortal enemy of the state religion. As citizens? In Germany, there are no citizens. As human beings? But you are no more human beings than those to whom you appeal.
Bauer has posed the question of Jewish emancipation in a new form, after giving a critical analysis of the previous formulations and solutions of the question. What, he asks, is the nature of the Jew who is to be emancipated and of the Christian state that is to emancipate him? He replies by a critique of the Jewish religion, he analyzes the religious opposition between Judaism and Christianity, he elucidates the essence of the Christian state â" and he does all this audaciously, trenchantly, wittily, and with profundity, in a style of writing that is as precise as it is pithy and vigorous.
How, then, does Bauer solve the Jewish question? What is the result? The formulation of a question is its solution. The critique of the Jewish questi
Now that's social engineering!
Hopefully Verizon, et alia, will learn something from this.
This isn't even news! This story came out a week ago.
And Newsweek? REALLY? Can't the "editors" do better than spew fake news outlets?
Keep whining about $100k "Russian manipulation" and ignore Soro's 2.5Billion fund to topple governments around the world.
Keep pretending you represent "Human Rights" when you're balls deep working for Saudi and Israel. Turn a blind eye to kids being blow up in Gaza and Yemen.
Keep ignoring the fact that it was the US that gave chemical weapon to Iraq in the 90s, that it was the US that trained Bin Laden. That the US dumped millions of tons of chemical weapon onto Vietnam.
How do you fuckers even live with yourselves?
Israelis Sniping Palestinian Children:
https://cufpa.wordpress.com/20...
Yes, it's rather embarrassing this is being posted now 4 months after his trial and 2 weeks after his sentencing as reported by the mainstream media.
And they say kids have no ambition these days.
join the army or prison
Is this implying that the CIA director keeps secret information on things like ipads and non-secure cloud storage????
Kind of burying the lede in your comment there.
HUH, Brennan's wife was aged 15 at the time.
Just come up to New Hampshire an partake in the Free State Project.
What our actual enemies are doing.
How incompetent are these companies?
Or the kid would have access to that big red button on the big boy desk.
Yes, they will accord little to no serious air time to this story. Instead, they will promote the so called [Russian] "collusion", something I have never bought.
Of course, why wouldn't they? One issue will have an effect on a tiny group of people over their lifetimes while the other issue has the potential to impact just about every person on the planet. Also, even if you don't believe it, you should see this how the president does, "think of the ratings!"
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
If this: "military operations and intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran" ...is the kind of thing that John Brennen keeps on an ISPs servers, instead of secured government systems, then he needs the cell right next to Hillary.
Oh, right. They are our betters. Laws don't apply to them.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
Iâ(TM)m not overly surprised by this; the verification process used by Verizon tech support is basically your address and whatever else you can verify; additionally Iâ(TM)m not sure if youâ(TM)re aware of this but Verizon outsources the majority of their phone work and the folks you call are often not even in the US. The technical ability of the Tech Support folks is usually just a 6 week course that outlines how to troubleshoot no route, no sync and email issues etc... They usually donâ(TM)t cover much information about social engineering etc. I know this because I used to be a technical trainer for one of Verizonâ(TM)s outsourcing partners.
Is that a new way of spelling "Russian"?
15 year old cons yahoo or whoever into giving up an email account. Wrong person is going to jail.
Why would a Verizon person have access to such information in the first place. I smell a fake story here, or at least one where the information wasn't that high in classification.
It had better be a lot more than "embarrassing."
It would appear that critical elements of our governance are kept safe not by end-to-end competence, but by the public's general disinclination to attempt a breach.
Of course, foreign intelligence institutions, as well as foreign and domestic criminals, have no such inhibitions. This story will be seen, to them, as an open invitation.
Assuming, of course, that they haven't already done all the breaching and stealing they care to.
Yes, they will accord little to no serious air time to this story
Good job denying reality. It's on literally every main stream media site.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
They should be grooming him to work for the CIA.
Talk about classified sensitive stuff, hmm?
R.I.P. Mr. (not real name) Brennan.
Good job denying reality. It's on literally every main stream media site.
You have grave comprehension skills, don't you?
You will benefit from a class in the art of English comprehension. To this end, you could perhaps explore availing yourself to some of these classes. You will not lose.
The keyword in my statement is *air time* - meaning coverage on the airwaves. Not snippets of the topic on websites that not so many visit.
"Encryption is bad. We need backdoors." And now you know why this is bad idea. If a 15 year old got in, RU already did. You can bet on it.
Just Verizon as an Internet provider to sell browsing history or provide the keys to cloud services. Funny how laws and loopholes work. Ain't that right Ajit Pai, aka "Piece of Shit."
You're kind of right in that it's hard to find much (any) air time being given to this story, but there's plenty written about it by the US MSM.
I can't figure out what "collusion" has to do with the story. Do you mean you think the MSM should focus on Kane Gamble instead of Donald Trump?
I can't imagine that maintream media find Gamble all that interesting. The kid got into some private accounts (like AOL) and an unclassified FBI site. It's somewhat significant but not very significant. No classified info was accessed. It's kind of a "meh".
verizon hired yet another person from india that was...gullible...its their customer service...thats where it starts.
something I have never bought.
Hello, the evidence is right out there in the open.
The dutch were so deep in Cozy Bear's systems that they were running facial recognition on everybody coming and going into the building. Even william gibson thinks its exactly like a william gibson novel. The dutch were able to watch the DNC hacks from inside Cozy Bear in real time.
But wait, there's more...
Papadopoulos was speaking with people he believed to be working for the Russian MFA, according to his own plea deal.
But wait, there's more...
Carter Page is listed on a 2013 FBI affidavit against SVR officers as having been targeted by them, (he also confirmed this to HPSCI according to his own transcript)
But wait, there's more...
Don Jr in response to an email suggesting a russian government official wanted to give him dirt on Clinton "as part of the Russian government's support of your father", he writes "I love it" and invites Kushner and Manafort to that meeting. according to his own twitter post
But wait, there's more...
Mike Flynn talks to the Russian ambassador and then lies about it in an interview with the FBI where he was told lying was a felony. According to his own plea deal
We are a long way past 'there is no smoking gun'. If the existing 21 gun salute doesn't do it for you, nothing new will.
I know they knew this guy was a perp and gave him what he wanted. The CIA has advanced brain enhancement techniques & training. They would only give people sensitive information when they intended to do so.
https://www.trumpsweapon.com/
He must get medal and reward for demonstrating vulnerabilities of the system.
yup, Trump had nothing to do with Russia ever.. except maybe..
2008 Trump "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia" http://time.com/4433880/donald...
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I could really fill a volume here there is so much out there.
If America want's to represent Democratic values i.e. capitalism, rule by the people for the people, on a world stage, with the willingness to represent and defend those people who cannot. Then we must as a nation defend those things. We have a president who will not or cannot defend those things that have been so sacred to our institution. The rule of law over government, the desire to promote the will of the people over tyrannical leaders, the hope that all of us will have some say in our own lives, and the willingness to defend others. That is the America I fight for. Not Nazi's, not white power, not America first. https://www.snopes.com/dr-seus...
once more into the breach
Right, so you'll be monitoring each media channel closely to see how much airtime they each give it?
Or will you discount that as "not serious air time"? Or will you take the word of some pundit on (media channel of your choice) who claims to have done this study in a weeks' time? Or will you just take it for granted that you were right, you must have been because your understanding of the universe requires it, and therefore no checking is necessary?
Verses differences. Static and Automated.
Given a person with the brain of an 8 year old convinced 46% of voters he is qualified to be president, anything is possible nowadays.
OK, so if he has limited understanding of English, why didn't you at least try to explain it in a simpler way?
Maybe your understanding of communication is not as good as you think it is.
You will benefit from a class in the art of English comprehension. To this end, you could perhaps explore availing yourself to some of these classes. You will not lose.
Pro tip: writing english good isnt about how many fancy words you use.
The keyword in my statement is *air time*
Eh not my fault that you're unable to make yourself understood. Air time is used to describe amount of coverage, in much the same way we refer to newspapers as "the press" even though even print news papers haven't used actual presses in a rather long time.
Plus if you're going to be excessively pedantic, most of us get our news over wifi, so air time works perfectly.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
You have grave comprehension skills, don't you?
Lol. I'm pretty sure he's not a zombie, so I doubt he's very skilled at comprehending graves.
Why would someone who is able to rise to CIA director have anything interesting on Verizon's servers?
Why is it interesting that a 15 year old was able to do this?. This seems like 12 year old or less territory.
Definitely give the kid a scholorship funded by the ex-director and the VZ management chain in charge.
You're wasting your time with facts and references. For Trumpeters, anything that doesn't fit 'the narrative' is 'fake news'. They'd rather die than admit Trump and his cronies are up to their necks in Russian shit.
.....they are going to stuff him in some super secret prison strapped down to a chair, and forced to wear a
Hannibal Lecter mask for the rest of time, right?
Or.....maybe they can hire him to ferret out holes in their security (keeping a close watch on him while he is doing
it, of course)
Haha.