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Were Russian Hackers Deterred From Interfering In America's Election? (omaha.com)
"Despite probing and trolling, a Russian cyberattack is the dog that did not bark in Tuesday's midterm elections," writes national security columnist Eli Lake.
This is the assessment of the Department of Homeland Security, which says there were no signs of a coordinated campaign to disrupt U.S. voting. This welcome news raises a relevant and important question: Were cyber adversaries actually deterred from infiltrating voter databases and changing election results...?
In September the White House unveiled a new policy aimed at deterring Russia, China, Iran and North Korea from hacking U.S. computer networks in general and the midterms in particular. National security adviser John Bolton acknowledged as much last week when he said the U.S. government was undertaking "offensive cyber operations" aimed at "defending the integrity of our electoral process." There aren't many details. Reportedly this entailed sending texts, pop-ups, emails and direct messages warning Russian trolls and military hackers not to disrupt the midterms. U.S. officials tell me much more is going on that remains classified. It is part of a new approach from the Trump administration that purports to unleash U.S. Cyber Command to hack the hackers back, to fight them in their networks as opposed to America's.
Bolton has said the policy reverses previous restrictions on military hackers to disrupt the networks from which rival powers attack the U.S. Sometimes this is called "persistent engagement" or "defend forward." And it represents a shift in the broader U.S. approach to engaging adversaries in cyberspace.... The difference now is that America's cyber warriors will routinely try to disrupt cyberattacks before they begin... The object of cyberdeterrence is not to get an adversary to never use cyberweapons. It's to prevent attacks of certain critical systems such as voter registration databases, electrical grids and missile command-and-control systems. The theory, at least, is to force adversaries to devote resources they would otherwise use to attack the U.S. to better secure their own networks.
Jason Healey, a historian of cyber conflicts at Columbia University's School for International and Public Affairs, asks "How much of cyberspace will survive the war?" warning that "persistent engagement" could lead to a dangerous miscalculation by an adversarial nation-state -- or even worse, a spiral of escalation, with other state's following America's lead, changing the open Internet into more of a battleground.
In September the White House unveiled a new policy aimed at deterring Russia, China, Iran and North Korea from hacking U.S. computer networks in general and the midterms in particular. National security adviser John Bolton acknowledged as much last week when he said the U.S. government was undertaking "offensive cyber operations" aimed at "defending the integrity of our electoral process." There aren't many details. Reportedly this entailed sending texts, pop-ups, emails and direct messages warning Russian trolls and military hackers not to disrupt the midterms. U.S. officials tell me much more is going on that remains classified. It is part of a new approach from the Trump administration that purports to unleash U.S. Cyber Command to hack the hackers back, to fight them in their networks as opposed to America's.
Bolton has said the policy reverses previous restrictions on military hackers to disrupt the networks from which rival powers attack the U.S. Sometimes this is called "persistent engagement" or "defend forward." And it represents a shift in the broader U.S. approach to engaging adversaries in cyberspace.... The difference now is that America's cyber warriors will routinely try to disrupt cyberattacks before they begin... The object of cyberdeterrence is not to get an adversary to never use cyberweapons. It's to prevent attacks of certain critical systems such as voter registration databases, electrical grids and missile command-and-control systems. The theory, at least, is to force adversaries to devote resources they would otherwise use to attack the U.S. to better secure their own networks.
Jason Healey, a historian of cyber conflicts at Columbia University's School for International and Public Affairs, asks "How much of cyberspace will survive the war?" warning that "persistent engagement" could lead to a dangerous miscalculation by an adversarial nation-state -- or even worse, a spiral of escalation, with other state's following America's lead, changing the open Internet into more of a battleground.
National security adviser John Bolton acknowledged as much last week when he said the U.S. government was undertaking "offensive cyber operations" aimed at "defending the integrity of our electoral process." There aren't many details. Reportedly this entailed sending texts, pop-ups, emails and direct messages warning Russian trolls and military hackers not to disrupt the midterms.
Clearly, Russian trolls' and military hackers' personal kryptonite is US government pop-ups and direct warning messages.... Just the one question: why did we wait until this election cycle to break out the big guns?
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Clearly, no.
Dims had it all:
- Fake news collusion
- Ballot stuffing
- Illegal votes
The far left and the media have been beating this drum for multiple years.
If one were to take all the claims at face value, you would think that there's Russians in the bloody toaster. They're everywhere! Doing all the bad things, they ran the election, they hacked servers, "they" are every single account on social media that doesn't mean heavily left.
If you disagree with anything, you're not real, probably a Russian bot! Or a Nazi, clearly!
They wonder why people are voting differently to how they actually poll publically...
As an ex far lefty, they're getting downright embarrassing.
Posting from Moscow,.... Obviously.
Obviously not. People are so fixated on external influences that they can't be bothered to look at Florida election officials defying court orders.
They have already achieved the goal of helping the most divisive jerk on the planet become POTUS. Now they just have to sit back and watch the US implode in partisan hatred as they slowly fan the flames. After all it is Canada's forest industry that is causing the fires in Malibu and the dreaded "dems" that are responsible for all that is wrong in the US. With the insane divisive statements coming almost daily from POTUS, the Russians can just sit back and laugh, no more damaging work left to do. POTUS is doing it all by himself.
...not if any of these volunteers have anything to say about it:
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"missile command-and-control systems on the public internet?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
It is obvious that the Russians were soundly defeated on the field of Internet Battle! What more proof do you need than the fact that the Democrats performed average in the elections?
Without the help of the Russians, the Republicans could have never won any of those seats, or the 900 state seats, in the first place.
GOP-led voter suppression and disenfranchisement means Russian hackers didn't need to do the dirty work this time around. We will see them return in 2020.
But we're supposed to pretend like it's the Russians who are undermining our democracy.
in the moms we trust. we know who they're aligned with..
Russia had no significant motivation to hack the midterm elections. They're not republicans. They supported Trump to a degree as a practical matter because they have a degree of hold over him. Their ad buys have mostly been centered around stirring up hatred between Americans via conspiracy theories, not about supporting one party or the other. A split government is really the best for them. All that matters is that we keep attacking each other until we're not longer a threat to them.
To be clear, I don't begrudge Russia for it considering how much worse the CIA has done around the world. It's not like they're going after an innocent nation. What Russia is doing is simply trying to weaken a nation which has insisted on making a mission of prying satellite states out of Russia's sphere of influence and promoting democracy to Russia itself. If the USA didn't make a career of threatening Russia, it wouldn't be targeted.
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It is 2016 and Obama is in control, he tells Putin to quit it yet the Russians influenced the election.
Fast forward to 2018 and Trump is in power, and no influence from the Russians.
So - either it never happened, or everyone is lying.
Door #2 yep.
The US is divided like I wasn't since the civil war. Why bother investing any more effort? Every AAA-gunner will tell you, when the enemy plane is already coming down in flames you can stop shooting.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
the entire American Intelligence community is beating this drum. There's no one outside the right wing that isn't saying that Russia interfered with our last election, and virtually everyone (again everyone outside the right wing) says the interference was largely successful.
We're a weaker and more divided nation since the last election. That our President had an advert that multiple networks refused to run this last election speaks volumes to how how much of a mess things are right now.
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Because there were no fucking "hacks" to begin with. At best a misinformation campaign by buying ads. Not a whole lot different than the misinformation campaigns that the US mass media commits without having to buy ads, at least if true there was some balance to the misinformation that the masses were fed.
First we are said without proof that Russians made the 2016 presidential elections. Then we are told without proof that they were stopped from influencing the 2018 midterm elections.
Alternative explanation: Russians try to influence all US elections with negligible impact, and democrats lost in 2016 because they chose the wrong candidate.
Seriously? The super Russians capable of giving Trump the White House just magically stop hacking US at the same time Democrats won some seats?
SERIOUSLY?!
Whatever you guys are smoking, good lord, give me a taste. Because your credibility has gone from zero to negative.
Even though 4 states are about to see their results overturned as Democrat majority precincts continue to mysteriously find uncounted ballot days after the election and in enough numbers to overturn the counts.
Or in Florida where Broward County ignored a court order to allow parties from both sides to see the current counts (which are also changing results)
Naaah - THIS time the elections and results are perfectly accurate and valid and you will accept them citizen.
I'm pretty sure that Russia - which has never abandoned their goal to rebuild the Soviet Union - has no particular interest in any candidate, but desires to cause the maximum in hate, discontent. and confusion. They don't even have to DO anything; just CLAIM that they did.
And members of both parties, but the Democrats especially, are digging as deep a hole as they can. They think that they can make partisan gains by destroying the OTHER party more than they are damaging their own.
stopped agents entrenched in the USA from renting out VMs and dedicated servers to tunnel attacks through locally.
The same policies probably acted as a much better IDS too, stopped payloads in their tracks as they brushed up against the small print getting routed to /dev/null
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
Was super expert last time but not expert this time?
Time to look for another cyber story?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
they can just get in from the inside now... it's easier that way.
I appreciate that we finally have someone who pushes back.
... is America itself.
I'm a 72 year old retired IT guy and it's all I can do to minimize my goddam footprint on this goddam Internet.
I'm not afraid of obvious threats. What scares me is the boiling frog.
Advertisers are the water and we are the frogs.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
You misunderstood my question (and I am not sure about DNS requiring drivers, but ok). You answered about third party DNS, my question was why not host a custom apk DNS recursor? Then anyone can use that without installing unsigned stuff on their machine, which is absolutely the correct move to take for anyone interested in not getting fucked by some random software.
Doing that will make your name as a cyber security professional. Ranting about how people should install your questionable software will not.
So that means there was no interference. Just like nobody ever interfered with our elections in all of history and fake news didn't exist until 2016.
Beepski - Bopski - Boopski
See subject: Why? They're inefficient & VULNERABLE as hell PLUS they're already out there - but there's no GUI hosts engine in Linux!
NONE in Windows that do ALL that mine does (e.g. tld/gtld validity check (that also stops port filter rumor errors in hosts they can't do afaik) &/or HARDCODED FAVORITE that yes, resolve FASTER (file in Linux IS default 1st check & that IS hosts + Windows = same (all BSD IP stack derived after all)).
* I long ago established 'security know-how' - lookup "HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP" on ANY search engine! Top ones = me.
APK
P.S.=> My ware's audited by Steven Burn of Malwarebytes (who hosts + recommends it https://forum.hosts-file.net/v...
Only other person I've EVER let see my work to stop EFast Chrome malicious dopplegangers (trolls here THREATENED me they would make, right on /., IF I ever released it - too bad - someone MIGHT improve it otherwise)... apk
We are tired of hearing about Russian interference and American elections.
Signed, The Rest Of The World.
All you gota do is find Russian troops in Syria. Ask Russian government if their troops are in that location. They will say no. That is when you drop a 2 kiloton warhead in the middle of nowhere. Keep doing it until they stop lying.
Code signing is a joke https://www.helpnetsecurity.co... I do something BETTER https://it.slashdot.org/commen... even /.ers recognized as EXCELLENT (& can't be stolen + abused like code signing STUPIDITY).
APK
P.S.=> This post & my other ones https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... should put this & YOU to rest (away rather) easily https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... with facts... apk
Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
Gregory: "The dog did nothing in the night-time."
Holmes: "That was the curious incident.
Again, you dodged the question. I am starting to think that you are insane and not actually someone to trust with the security of my personal machine, let alone my company systems.
ALL HAIL APK
To hell with those who oppose you! They are all Luddite cows! Moooooooooo
APK APK APK
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Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any 1 solution (99% of threats use hostnames vs. IP address most firewalls use) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less!
Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" slowing u hosts speed u up 2 ways: Adblocks + Hardcode fav. sites u spend most time @ vs. competition loaded w/ security bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + overheads slowing u (messagepass 'souled-out' to advertisers easily detected & blocked addons + firewall filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploit!
* ONLY 1 of its kind in GUI 4 Linux/BSD & supports port filters!
APK
P.S.=> Protects vs. all speculative execution exploits + scripts/trackers (faster vs. NoScript @ kernelmode level)/ads/DNS request tracking + redirect poisoned or downed DNS/botnets/malware/malcript/email malicious payloads... apk
Why did you sink to personal attacks? And why must people use hosts files instead of a nice DNS recursor? Perhaps it is because you have no fucking clue how anything works and so you learned early in your career what a hosts file is?
See subject: It's probably YOU unidentifiable ac & you're done on code signing https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... & DNS vs. hosts https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
* I never EVER tried to "force hosts down anyone's throat' - up to you but YOU championed "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" & I've "been there/done that" AGES ago as I showed you WITH proof.
APK
P.S.=> No, I KNOW that by now (after what's in those links) that YOU know very little vs. me - after all RESULTS are my friend (as well as /.ers LIKING/USING/PRAISE my work too s://search.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12826443&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=57555741 you've done BETTER? PROVE it (I suspect you can't & it's WHY you STALK ME by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts probing me for WEAKNESS & finding NONE, lol))... apk
While CNN and Fox have USians fighting ourselves, China and Mexico are laughing their asses off.
Your enemy is not the racist republican nor the communist libtard. It is the media, controlled by vested foreign interests that has you hating your fellow citizen. Republicans are not racist, nor are liberal lazy drug users living off the government. Hate those that want you to hate your fellow countrymen. Ask yourself who is to gain from division.
Everytime you rage against those lazy liberals or those racist republican, China and Mexico gooble up your future.
Dont be like the Native American that fought amongst themselves while the Europeans took over America. UNITE and fight with your fellow citizens to resist the foreign invaders.
Its either that or teach your daughters to speak Chinese or Spanish so they can make a feeble living in a Mexican or Chinese brothel.
.. when there's a racist fascist in the White House?
Because the only way to defend a network is to think like an attacker, and far better, be an attacker. Every time we PWN an adversary, someone will ask, "Would that have worked against us?" And the answer will be, "Yeah, they've PWNed us for years with that."
Celebrate failure, and then learn from it - Nolan Bushnell
All of retard APK's security measures are a joke. Hosts is trivially circumvented since you can't block all hosts from a domain even ignoring all the undiscovered malware hosting domains. The retarded size check that you do with every function call. Your continually setting of permissions in users space on a file every half second. This ignores the bloat in your code as it took you over 14,000 lines to write a file aggregator.
When you do BETTER than this? THEN talk https://search.slashdot.org/co... & that's only a TINY FRACTION of what I could put out vs. your 'talk' talker...
* Your DNS bs SHOT DOWN IN FLAMES (tracking & security issues kill it) https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
(Code signing I did an even BETTER JOB @ BLOWING YOU AWAY chump, lol https://www.helpnetsecurity.co... )
APK
P.S.=> Get this thru your butthurt head - you're NOT in my league (& don't even TRY "advice me" until you SHOW you are), period - I don't take advice from INFERIOR talkers, only DOERS (see this, it'll do you good https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... w/ this "by analogy" as it's a HERO of mine in life (great person graced by God) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... & that's WHY, imHo, God does folks like Marcus Allen (they're out there))... apk
The Democrats won the house so they don't nneed to blsme Russians or funny "misinformation" memes.
Democracy and the Republic is a farce, hoping it's gotten rrid of soon!
These are the publicly known US intelligence agencies:
Twenty-Fifth Air Force
Army Intelligence and Security Command
Central Intelligence Agency
Coast Guard Intelligence
Defense Intelligence Agency
Dept of Energy Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
Homeland Security Department Office of Intelligence and Analysis
State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Treasury Department Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence
Drug Enforcement Administration Office of National Security Intelligence
Federal Bureau of Investigation Intelligence Branch
Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Office
National Security Agency
Office of Naval Intelligence
Just how many of these were actually investigating "Russian Hacking" of Hillary's e-mail servers, John Podesta's Gmail account, or Russian clickbait ads on Facebook???
Here's the answer: NONE. John Brennan (the actual communist that Barack Obama made into the head of the CIA) and his pals Clapper and Comey were all deeply anti-Trump and fully comitted to getting Hillary elected (and their continued job security) and THEY started speading the word that "all seventeen intelligence agencies agreed". In testimony under oath before congress over a year ago, however, Comey admitted that what really happened was that non of those agencies dissented from the claim made by these three POLITICAL APPOINTEES.
The NRO spends its time on watching other countries with spy satellites. Naval intelligence spends its resources watching the Russian and Chinese navies. Coast Guard intel spends its resources watching for seaborne drug and human smiggling activities. Treasury intel watches for international currency fraud activity (like North Korea counterfirring US currency), and so forth. All those agencies are NOT wasting time watching Facebook and anybody claiming they are is doing the same thing as Trump when he says he has "the biggest brain" (political hyperbole and carnival barking).
The Russians have no need for farther intrusions. They successfully installed their trojan horse in 2016 and it's been working brilliantly obstructing, jamming, overturning and breaking administration systems ever since.
The list of people interested in the election results is very, very long. Russia certainly is on that list somewhere, but most likely not near the top. There are many others more interested and more motivated to play around.
Russians can be assumed to not be totally stupid. As such they would understand how much theatre US politics is and how little it actually matters who sits in what chair, a few special chairs exempted. Too many decisions are made behind the scenes anyways, but non-elected officials. Too many decisions are influenced by money and lobbyists.
If I were tasked with influencing politics in Washington, hacking an election would be among the last things on my mind. Buying out or planting my people in some of the large lobbying organisations would be much, much higher. And bribing politicians with pictures of that whore they met, or that gay adventure they had would be far above buying Facebook ads.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
The GOP administration continues to claim that millions of illegal immigrants voted in 2016 without any evidence to back up the claim
The GOP administration continues to claim that millions of Democrats voted multiple times in 2016 without any evidence to back up the claim
The GOP administration continues to claim that dead large numbers of dead people voted in 2016 without any evidence to back up the claim
Why would we trust anything they say about this or any other election?
"Were cyber adversaries actually deterred from infiltrating voter databases and changing election results...?"
Is there any proof of that ever actually happening? I know there have been some stories that machines were hack-able, or they were hacked at for demonstration purposes at cons, but is there any instances where it was shown that they were hacked "in the wild" and that hack was anywhere near effecting the results of an election? I have little doubt that the odd machine here and there has been hacked in the past, but widespread hacking would likely leave one heck of a lot of proof. The manipulation that does seem to have occurred is that of trying to influence the voters using false and deceptive viral campaigns, this is done both domestically (birther "controversy", "fact" that schoolkids are in more danger than soldiers in warzones, etc) and internationally (hacking the DNC servers for dirt).
See here. Heck, the wikipedia artcile has tons of sources.
And if you think a national election where the winning candidate lost the popular vote by 3 million and won the electoral collect by about 100,000 votes wasn't impacted by a wide scale campaign from an ex-KGB guy who specialized in information warfare, well, I don't even know if I should call that naive. There needs to be a stronger word for it. Perhaps something German?
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Impeach that whiny little bitch!!!!
because nobody expected Trump to win except 538 and a few folks on the far left sounding the gone (notably Secular Talk on Youtube) because of how pissed off the working class was.
Trump was a failed business man (albeit a successful actor). This came out in numerous lawsuits, notably when he sued a journalist who (rightly as it turned out) pointed out that Trump wasn't a billionaire. He had a mountain of lawsuits against him and had made a career of using his brand to sell cheap merchandise and defraud people with his phony school. He had a raft of sex scandals and was running with the party of family values. Finally he had decades of mob ties he wouldn't want drugged out into the light and was likely to run a self destructive campaign.
Trump won because the Dems ignored the working class (same reason Brexit passed). Hilary bought into the "Blue Wall". Meanwhile Trump ran as a left wing populist. That said, the election was close. Damn close. The Dems ignored that. The Russians didn't. The watched the polls and threw in for Trump. It's likely they were a deciding factor.
Don't get me wrong, getting a president as bad as Trump is a total and complete breakdown of this country's systems. But that wasn't lost on the Russians. This time around folks are taking that shit seriously.
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Oh, please. Just like YOU and everyone else, the Russians thought that the Clintons would be returning to power. Their entire motivation was to stir the pot and create an angry cultural/media landscape to diminish the effectiveness of the incoming Hillary administration. This is their playbook in countries all around the world, and has been since Soviet days. They didn't start spending a handful of cash more seriously until AFTER the election was over, when they did some immediate hard changes in their tone and direction ... because they were just as shocked that the Clintons they actually wanted (weakly) in power lost despite all of the structural, financial, and media advantages they assumed - just like you and everyone else - would be unstoppable. Your TDS is preventing you from any sort of rational processing of events.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Were not Russian trolls. It was anybody who could access the metadata within Facebook of who was connected to whom. That was the atomic bomb of information campaigning. And take note of when it was bad all of a sudden - when it was against Democrats.
We got exactly what we wanted.
if your side (in whatever) loses, the other side cheated.
if your side wins, it was an honest competition.
hasn't it always been that way among those who can't handle the results? those who are too weak to be a fair sport?
--XYZZY--
Don't wake them up from their NY-programmed dream of Russian Untermensch 2.0.
The more they consider Russia some sort of Nigeria, the better for Russia and a less unipolar world.
Little guys will be sent to the slammer for a decade, if they send a Top Secret email over their private account.
You say it should have ZERO consequences if the person in question is member of the Clinton dynasty and in hock to Soros, Rothschild and Goldmann-Sachs.
This rottenness has been voted against.
Now look at these supervillian Russki Messages:
https://medium.com/@ushadrons/this-space-is-a-repository-for-content-from-the-russian-social-media-account-americafirst-a4081efeb761
(Funny how common sense has become "divisive". The logic of Uljanov and his relatives, who now inhabit NY)
See subject: Obviously yes, as CODE SIGNING gets STOLEN & ABUSED in malware https://www.helpnetsecurity.co... period - you lose.
APK
P.S.=> My method https://it.slashdot.org/commen... CAN'T be stolen & abused thus - gosh I wonder - which is the MORE SECURE METHOD? apk
"classic Windows hosts trick to block the Coinhive or Crypto-Loot domains" - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-new-player-joins-coinhive-on-the-browser-cryptojacking-scene/ - BLEEPING COMPUTER
ZD NET http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-a-hosts-file-to-improve-your-internet-experience/ "Hosts files really shine by letting you block ads, spyware sites, malware sites, & tracking sites"
SANS ("A related approach to the DNS issue is to create a hosts file on each system that sends requests for spyware to some place else" hosts by myself & RAMU right @ START of "malware explosion" mid 2005 on) https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di...
Aryeh Goretsky/ESET/NOD32: hosts = good security https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7442373&.cid=49747129/
Oliver Day (SYMANTEC/SECURITYFOCUS) http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491/
Spybot S&D uses hosts.
APK
P.S.=> Malwarebytes' hpHosts hosts & RECOMMENDS my program forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4290
You are essentially saying that the people should vote for the interests of the 1% elitists who run finance and the large corporations. They should vote for the woman who helps Google to buy Motorola, extract the patents and ship all the Moto jobs to China.
Thank god the American Republic works as designed and corrects this Gigantomanic shite.
"It's working: Neville... it's working!" See subject & results from the past 2-3 months https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... & https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://search.slashdot.org/co... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... that's only recently while I've been on Linux (few months now only) & 100's of times vs. MANY other botnets/malwares etc. in the past circa 2006-early 2018 while I was on Windows: CONCRETE VISIBLE UNDENIABLE REALITY (see those links as proof).
P.S.=> ... & that's ONLY what /. reported on (there are FAR more)... apk
Just look at
https://medium.com/@ushadrons/this-space-is-a-repository-for-content-from-the-russian-social-media-account-americafirst-a4081efeb761
If it is actually from Russia, they do every human a great service. Because all they do is sponsor common sense as opposed to the rabid Marxist craziness of "we do not need borders, just make our country the third world" and "Mohammedists are just like us".
Aussming for one second Russia tipped the scale for Trump - then they also tipped the scale for the continued existence of the United States instead of a One World, One Nation, Third World Communist-Mohammedist Dystopia.
So Russians are at bay and the Dems can return to their usual election stealing practices. Good, business as usual.
Exactly! Bullshit is today's obvious big seller! People that vote for democrats OR republicans are assholes! And they're fucking up the world for the rest of us! How do we protect ourselves?!
See subject: Hope you're RIGHT (considering I'm only sure hosts stop portsmash vs. Spectre/Meltdown) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
I pity c6gunner caught impersonating me (his name's the submitter signing "APK") https://linux.slashdot.org/com...
* He tried to INSULT me & so I made him a COMPLETELY FAIR CHALLENGE he couldn't meet or beat by showing me he's done better work in the past prior to his impersonating me there.
(You shouldn't throw stones when you live in a glass house boys - especially vs. me: RIGHT, ZIP? https://developers.slashdot.or... )
APK
P.S.=> Hosts stop portsmash (by blocking download sources of its mailcious exes doing it) https://it.slashdot.org/commen... not Spectre/Meltdown AFAIK @ least - & YOU FAIL THIS PORTFILTERING TEST liar https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... (my program won't allow that error) so cut your lies as you IMPERSONATE me you pitiful loser... apk
DNS requires larger rules tables & dns wildcards CAN cause false positives & DNS = moving parts for exploit (kaminsky redirect poisoning flaw OR DNSChanger) + uses more resources (has drivers iirc hosts don't require as the IP stack itself uses hosts as a built-in filter - hosts even have THAT over firewalls (require layered filtering driver) + has complexity that often LEADS to EXPLOITATION.
* More "moving parts" != GOOD engineering.
APK
P.S.=> There's a patch for DNS - 99% of ISP DNS don't use it!
You don't think I don't use DNS - I DO (OpenDNS as a defense in depth SUPPLEMENT to hosts & they ARE patched vs. kaminsky + filter vs. threats)!
I know WHERE I spend most time & I resolve those places faster LOCALLY via hosts by keeping my 100 fav sites @ TOP of hosts resolving FASTER from local RAM as kernelmode diskcaching subsystems come in & it AVOIDS DNS REQUEST TRACKING LOGS TOO (bonus/anonymity) - & CHINA COPIED THIS FROM ME https://theregister.co.uk/2017...
In other countries? Is that a joke? You mean like how most of the planet (albeit mostly third world shitholes) is run by non-Caucasians.
You are either too funn for me to understand or too stupid.
Do you bother kneecapping someone whose head you just blew off?
... how often do you beat your wife?