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FBI Investigating Fake Texts Sent To GOP House Members (wsj.com)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating fake text messages sent to some House Republican lawmakers from someone impersonating a top aide to Vice President Mike Pence, WSJ reported. From the report: Several House Republicans have received the texts, and at least one member has been repeatedly engaging with the imposter, who posed as Alyssa Farah, Mr. Pence's press secretary and a former House staffer, one of the people said. A person familiar with the fake texts said the messages sought the whereabouts of certain lawmakers and their availability for meetings. Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.), the House Republican conference chairwoman, has been made aware of the fake texts and referred the matter to the House Sergeant at Arms office, a spokesman for Ms. Cheney said.
End the onslaught! BUILD! THE! WALL! Or pull it out of my dead cold hand!
I'm glad Moscow Donald betrayed America, because uneducated racists will rule the world forever.
I'm not worried at all that Putin's puppet's co-conspirators are in jail, and that his many treasonous crimes are moving through the system.
In fact, support Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shutting down the government in retaliation for Moscow Donald having been caught red handed committing high treason.
Paywalled
A phone number and redirect any two-factor notifications?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
But do we dare? lol
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5hats the code. I'm activating my agent on the inside with this message
Like I give a crap about these racist backwoods hillbillys and their coal.
but her emails
FAKE NEWS! The MSM doesn't want you to know there is already a wall.
doesn't seem like such a winning strategy
Some things really are "totally faked and rigged". It's not just a cliche after all.
Table-ized A.I.
The above message was brought to you by the Chinese Ministry of State Security.
Remember: the Democrat Party is totally NOT bankrolled by the Chinese state. Totally not!
I'm sure they'll do their best, in between stints driving for Uber and Lyft during the shutdown.
#DeleteChrome
Whomever it was that decided that hooking an essential communication system like phone or phone testing up to the internet produced one of the stupid ideas ever.
Spam texts, fake texts, SWATting, and other sorts of false and annoying tactics can only happen because the internet allows for anonymous communications to the phone system. Blocking that would block SO much of this annoying crap... but since it would cut into telecom profits, it'll never happen.
In fact, support Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shutting down the government in retaliation for Moscow Donald having been caught red handed committing high treason.
Were probably never going to get a conviction on treason. It's defined too narrowly in the constitution, though the Mueller report isn't in yet, so nothing is certain there. If you go by the more common definition, then yes it is high treason to every principle America stands for.
We are all held hostage by Mr. Trump as he steps on the gas and plunges the ship of state for a course right off the nearest cliff. Even the shutdown thing is more hostage taking. "Do what I say, or these peoples lives get destroyed." The fact that he said most of them are Democrats, as if it is okay to destroy their lives because, you know, Democrats aren't actually human makes it so much worse.
His tweet that said, "HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA! 2019 WILL BE A FANTASTIC YEAR FOR THOSE NOT SUFFERING FROM TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE RIDE, GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING FOR OUR COUNTRY!" sounds to me a lot like what a rapist would say during the act. Hell he combines in the suite words to dehumanize and marginalize his victims and even destroy the fourth estate on top of it.
Jon Stewart used to talk about bullshit mountain, with Trump being one of its kings. That is the problem today of so many things. Bullshit is more effective at getting power and control than ethical leadership. It's not just in government. It is widespread. Solve that and we stop the next Donald Trump early, but sadly I don't know how to solve that.
The TDS is strong with this one. Also the smell of bullsh*t.
Dah! Chinese are danger to Amerika. Not good friends like mother Russia.
-signed, your fellow Amerikan friend, Ivan Pavlovich Smith
#MAGA
Yuri,
The above post is good English for hated Amerikans, yes?
Da comrade tovarische.
Several House Republicans have received the texts
So the texts are real then. The may be fraudulent, or misrepresentation or whatever, but they seem to definitely exist, were sent and received and all that so the texts themselves are indeed, texts.
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Historically, the one form of government that seems to get the most good things done is "Benevolent Dictator".
"Good" is a question of perspective. There is really no such thing as a benevolent dictator. The term itself is an oxymoron. Never has been and probably never will be one. Just because a dictator gets a lot done that is good from the perspective of some does not mean it is a net benefit to all or even most.
Unless you can come up with a way to maintain a party system akin to the Roman Senate at its peak
I suspect you may be hugely overestimating the integrity of the Roman Senate due to a lack of data. We tend to have a very idealized notion of the Roman Senate being this perfectly functioning system when the reality was far from that. History tends to suffer from a lot of survivorship bias in the telling of what happened. It's why people tend to think things were better "back in the old days" even when they objectively weren't.
Besides, even if you've got a one party system, there are still going to be factions within that party, just as today's parties have their Tea Parties, Brexiteers, Hardliners, Reformists, or whatever other name they might want to go by. It might be "The Party", but it's still going to be multiple parties in practice.
Coalitions within a party are not even remotely the same thing as multiple parties. Coalitions might shape the party doctrine to a greater or lesser degree but at the end of the day they generally lack the power to oppose the party without outside help. That difference is not insignificant.
...at least one member has been repeatedly engaging with the imposter, who posed as Alyssa Farah...
I hope somebody bothers to tell him that she isn't really interested in him before he tells his parents about the engagement.
Incipiamus, fratres, servire Domino Deo, quia hucusque vix vel parum in nullo profecimus.
No China are all Communist and think and do exactlly the same thing, it's in their name!!
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WindBourne
They might eventually do something about it.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
And so tech stupid and insecure about their tech ignorance and gullibility
Since cellular security has been a joke for a long time, maybe this will finally lead to the replacement of SS7. The carriers haven't done it themselves, in spite of the known problems. So the question is: Will there finally be outside pressure?
Upgrades cost money, so we're still running a protocol designed in the 80s. A protocol which has been demonstrably broken for over a decade.
The fact that this happened isn't surprising in the least. The fact that we haven't taken steps to prevent it... well, that's just embarrassing.
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Who would bother to send real texts to them?????