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Venezuela's Government Appears To be Trying To Hack Activists With Phishing Pages (vice.com)
Hackers allegedly working for the embattled Venezuelan government tried to trick activists into giving away their passwords to popular services such as Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and others, according to security researchers. From a report: Last week, the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido called for citizens to volunteer with the goal of helping international humanitarian organizations deliver aid into the country. President Nicolas Maduro is refusing to accept aid and has erected blocks across a border bridge with Colombia with the military's help. The volunteer efforts were organized around the website voluntariosxvenezuela.com. A week later, on February 11 someone registered an almost identical domain, voluntariosvenezuela[.]com. And on Wednesday, users in Venezuela who were trying to visit the original and official VoluntariosxVenezuela website were redirected to the newer one, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab, as well as Venezuelan users on Twitter.
Btw a great explanation about "the bridge with erected blocks" in portuguese: https://noticias.uol.com.br/in...
The Socialist Utopia in Venezuela crumbles.... Socialism has never worked. Yet we still hear calls for socialist ideas ringning loud and clear.
Those who know history are bound to watch in alarm while those who don't know history insist on repeating it over their objections.
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This sounds to me like the Maduro administration/military has just declared cyber war on its own people.
Could this be the world's first cyber civil war? Or has Syria, Iran, Russia or China already pulled a similar stunt?
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Don't *ever* do business with any company affiliated with Larry Ellison. He's the ***GREEDIEST*** son-of-a-bitch on planet Earth, and if your company has dealings with this man, I hope you ***DIE OF RECTAL CANCER***, because you didn't have the COURAGE to SPEAK OUT.
The previous article (slashvertisment) about minds is being heavily censored.
I've been hitting refresh and the new comment count was -8 at one point, so at least 8 comments have been memory-holed.
Since when did slashdot do such heavy handed censorship?
Republican and Democrat, Trump supporter and Pelosi lover. Invading foreign countries with oil. First comes the "strong condemnation". Then comes the US staged coup. Then comes the US defense of democracy! For freedom of course.
Whenever I see articles talking about countries sending other countries "humanitarian aid," I think back to the articles regarding Russia sending "humanitarian aid" as a cover for Russia sending weapons and munitions into Crimea and the Ukraine. Back then, it was all too easy for the media to claim that the humanitarian aid shipments were munitions for the front line fighters, with maybe a little food and medicines placed on top for border inspectors to see and approve of.
"President Nicolas Maduro is refusing to accept aid" makes it sound like Maduro is a horrible man, blocking humanitarian aid from reaching the poor people inside his starving country. If "aid" is actually guns and ammo for Juan Guaido trying to stage a war to take over the country, then it makes a lot more sense why Maduro wouldn't want those shipments getting in.
China has been doing this for longer than most slashtards have been alive. But, we keep seeing propaganda about how good China and socialism are, so I guess they're winning.
Eak a cock USA. Youre on the wrong side of history AGAIN.
fake news
Elliot Abrams, the recently named special envoy to Venezuela, has a past of using "aid" shipments to smuggle weapons into countries south of the border, weapons later used to massacre countless civilians, and then lying about it in testimony. No government in its right mind would allow such a shipment. The Red Cross and UN have both decried this maneuver by the US as a political stunt. And Venezuela is in fact currently accepting aid, just not from countries which have a record of both using aid as a Trojan horse for contraband and invading countries after dubiously declaring their governments to be illegitimate.
But why should I expect any of this information to be in a Slashdot summary.
I hope you enjoy dying of a treatable cancer when your health insurance company cuts you off. Here in the socialist hellhole of Canada I'll just get treatment. Such hell compared to your freedumbs!
If Guaido is "recognized interim president of Venezuela" then surely he doesn't need any help getting stuff into the country he's interim president of... I mean, doesn't he have the power now that Trump and all the US vassals and sychophants have "recognized" him? Can't he just decree stuff - oh wait no, that's only how dictators do things... can't he just use his presidential power to make stuff happen?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
What's super funny about this is a WHOIS lookup on the phishing domain shows it was owned by a US rightwing thinktank. Now it is privacy guarded, but naturally nobody is going to investigate this horrendously obvious rehash of Chile in 1973. Anyone with an IQ above freezing point has acknowledged this is a poorly executed coup attempt, and the vast majority of Venezuelan people do NOT want Guaido, but want a special election (in which Maduro will likely win again, as the UN has acknowledged had they been allowed to observe the last election; instead they were deterred by guns by the opposition who "boycotted" the election and then whined about how their guy who didn't even run didn't win).
The US will once again install their puppet, privatize the shit out of the country, plunder it's resources, murder thousands of people, Guaido will become forever compared to Hitler (just like Pinochet is now to Chilean people), and the country will (again) only recover by violently ousting the puppet and returning to socialist policies 30 years later.
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The bridge thing is bunk. That bridge never opened because of a dispute with Columbia, and has been blocked by those containers for a while. The "intelligence sources" is CrowdStrike, the firm the DNC hired to keep the supposedly hacked mail server from the FBI.
Starving Venezuela Into Submission
Israel Shamir February 12, 2019 2,100 Words 106 Comments Reply
You are so kind-hearted! I shed a tear thinking of American generosity. “So many delightful goodies: sacks of rice, canned tuna and protein-rich biscuits, corn flour, lentils and pasta, arrived at the border of troubled Venezuela – enough for one light meal each for five thousand people”, – reported the news in a sublime reference to five thousand fed by Christ’s fishes and loaves. True, Christ did not take over the bank accounts and did not seize the gold of those he fed. But 21st century Venezuela is a good deal more-prosperous than 1st century Galilee. Nowadays, you have to organise a blockade if you want people to be grateful for your humanitarian aid.
This is not a problem. The US-UK duo did it in Iraq, as marvellous Arundhati Roy wrote in April 2003 (in The Guardian of old, before it turned into an imperial tool): After Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved, half a million of its children killed, its infrastructure severely damaged the blockade and war were followed by you guessed it! Humanitarian relief. At first, they blocked food supplies worth billions of dollars, and then they delivered 450 tonnes of humanitarian aid and celebrated their generosity for a few days of live TV broadcasts. Iraq had had enough money to buy all the food it needed, but it was blocked, and its people received only some peanuts.
And this was rather humane by American standards. In the 18th century, the British colonists in North America used more drastic methods while dispensing aid to disobedient natives. The Red Indians were expelled from their native places, and then they were provided humanitarian aid: whiskey and blankets. The blankets had been previously used by smallpox patients. The native population of North America was decimated by the ensuing epidemics from this and similar measures. Probably you haven’t heard of this chapter of your history: the USA has many Holocaust museums but not a single memorial to the genocide near home. It is much more fun to discuss faults of Germans and Turks than of your own forefathers.
First, you starve people; then you bring them humanitarian aid. This was proposed by John McNaughton at Pentagon: bomb locks and dams, by shallow-flooding the rice, cause widespread starvation (more than a million dead?) “And then we shall deliver humanitarian aid to the starving Vietnamese”. Or, rather, “we could offer to do [that] at the conference table.” Planning a million dead by starvation, in writing: if such a note would be found on the ruins of the Third Reich, it would seal the story of genocide, it would be quoted daily. But the story of the genocide of the Vietnamese is rarely mentioned nowadays.
They did it in Syria, too. At first, they brought weapons for every Muslim extremist, then they blockaded Damascus, and then they sent some humanitarian aid, but only to the areas under rebel control.
This cruel but efficient method of breaking nations’ spirit has been developed by lion tamers for years, perhaps for centuries. You have to starve the beast until it will take food from your hands and lick your fingers. ‘Starvation-taming’, they call it.
The Israelis practice it in Gaza. They block all export or import from the Strip, interdict fishing in the Mediterranean and drip-feed the captive Palestinians by ‘humanitarian aid’. Jews, being Jews, make it one better: they made the EU to pay for the humanitarian aid to Gaza AND to buy the aid stuff from Israel. This made Gaza an important source of profit for the Jewish state.
So in Venezuela they follow an old script. The US and its London poodle seized over 20 billion dollars from Venezuela and from Venezuelan national companies. They stole over a billion in gold ingots Venezuela had trustingly deposited in the cellars of the Bank of England.
Well, they said they will give this money to a Venezuela
There seems to be a few shills for Venezuela on /. too.
...he's a hacker, she's a hacker, wouldn't you like to be a hacker too?
Let me just ask all Slashdotters, please post your account name/passwords for all your online sites?
IM such a 1337 Haxor!
The part governments never understood was that the NSA, GCHQ, CIA and MI6 had the top mil/gov commanders communications networks.
Calls got made and the CIA made offers.
Freedom, no war crime investigation, cash to stand down.
Counter intelligence never seemed to get a recording, never stopped such calls.
The military and police command stood down. The color revolution using protesters could move on.
What the more skilled counter intelligence services have finally worked out after decades is just how active the CIA and NSA are on their now nations secure mil/gov networks.
The new way around such attempts is to flood networks with calls in accents offering inside information and a way out to mil/gov command level staff.
The staff then have to state an instant yes/no to a CIA offer. Freedom/cash or stay working for the gov?
The ability to turn an entire nations command staff has now gotten more difficult as counter intelligence is now making the same offers on the same secure and private networks.
Add to that social media push back countering think tank, NGO and professional protest movements.
Color revolutions only work if the police and mil stand down and for protesters to take over a gov during the US news cycle.
Every police and mil officer now has to wonder if they said Yes to standing down and who the call was really from.
Do a full Tiananmen square?
Go full East Germany and the Stasi after getting direct reassurance from another nation?
Counter intelligence is finally not waiting for NGO, think tanks to hand out the protest stickers, banners, to fund protesters. Not allowing global social media to arrange protest locations.
No on location TV to get the optics of a "large" protest and police commanders doing nothing.
The mil in the side streets will not react the same way East German troops did.
Communications is now a counter intelligence trap. Every phone call, every social media message to protest is a trap.
A very different approach from the 1980's Stasi long term undercover investigative approach that allowed large protests to build and take place.
For the import and spread of campaigning banners, stickers, slogans, the free use of social media to pre position protesters.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Why would anyone immediately assume that hackers fighting the illegal coup attempt in Venezuela would be working for the Venezuelan government? What exactly could the government do with that information? Being an IT professional and knowing that many in my profession have a heightened sensitivity to economic and political crises around the globe, I would assume that the hackers are working to expose the criminal activities of the US, OAS, and EU in attacking the legitimately-elected Venezuelan government.
The hacker group Anonymous has engaged in similar activities in the past when an obvious wrong is detected. The threat to Venezuela, a crime that could result in the death of thousands of innocents as has happened in Honduras, Syria, Ukraine, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, and elsewhere because the US or its allies do not like the results of a free and fair election in foreign nations can and should be stopped.
I hope you enjoy dying of a treatable cancer when your health insurance company cuts you off. Here in the socialist hellhole of Canada I'll just get treatment. Such hell compared to your freedumbs!
LOL.. You DO understand that there can be no limits to health insurance coverage now in the USA right? It's literally illegal to write such a policy now.
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