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Former NSA Spies Hacked BBC Host, Al Jazeera Chairman for UAE (reuters.com)
A UAE cyber espionage contractor staffed with several former U.S. intelligence agents hacked journalists or news executives at Al Jazeera, the BBC, Al Arabi and others throughout June 2017, Reuters reported Monday. From the report: The American operatives worked for Project Raven, a secret Emirati intelligence program that spied on dissidents, militants and political opponents of the UAE monarchy. A Reuters investigation in January revealed Project Raven's existence and inner workings, including the fact that it surveilled a British activist and several unnamed U.S. journalists. The Raven operatives -- who included at least nine former employees of the U.S. National Security Agency and the U.S. military -- found themselves thrust into the thick of a high-stakes dispute among America's Gulf allies. The Americans' role in the UAE-Qatar imbroglio highlights how former U.S. intelligence officials have become key players in the cyber wars of other nations, with little oversight from Washington.
The crisis erupted in the spring of 2017, when the UAE and allies -- including Saudi Arabia and Egypt -- accused Qatar of sowing unrest in the Middle East through its support of media outlets and political groups. The UAE camp demanded Qatar take a series of actions, including shuttering the Qatar-funded Al Jazeera satellite television network, withdrawing funding from other media outlets Doha supports, and cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic movement some Arab governments regard as a threat.
The crisis erupted in the spring of 2017, when the UAE and allies -- including Saudi Arabia and Egypt -- accused Qatar of sowing unrest in the Middle East through its support of media outlets and political groups. The UAE camp demanded Qatar take a series of actions, including shuttering the Qatar-funded Al Jazeera satellite television network, withdrawing funding from other media outlets Doha supports, and cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic movement some Arab governments regard as a threat.
The NSA teaches them how to spy on their own people and then they ply this trade around all the world's slavestates. How is this a surprise?
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We're already one of the world's largest arms dealers. What makes you think we'd want to cut ourselves out of the digital market as well?
It's actually fairly common for Americans to sell out and work for other nation states. It's one of our primary risk factors, HUMINT wise.
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So when Bezo's claimed that he was hacked by Saudi Arabia,
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/31...
it was really US NSA operatives that hacked him.. got it....
not sure if it's all that smart to screw with the worlds richest man.
Just for the record, the whole "Allah's will" bit is a bit overblown. First off, Allah is so other as to not actually have a will. And Allah isn't really a He, not even an it. To put a finer theological point on it, Allah doesn't really have a name which would mean an "it". You'd have to go into Early Christian and Jewish theology to get at the notion. It is more akin to Buddhism without the divine being internal. The way I understand the situation is that Allah is more akin to the fabric of space and time, but not as real, being outside of space and time.
Sound mysterious? It is. Sound like bullshit? I tend to think it is. Most Muslims get it all wrong, so do Christians and Jews. But then the notions are more philosophical than real and most people have no tolerance to argue at that level. They'd prefer a G-d who comes a'smiting this and a'smoting that....or if you are a Prosperity Christian, G-d wants you to be rich so give to your favorite Preacher... a lot...yes it is paradoxical, G-d's one weird dude in modern Christianity. Or if you are an Evangelical, Trump is the new Christ and you can feel secure in hating them foreigners...especially the border hoppers.
Also known as NOC.
"As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds."
Have gnu, will travel.
Showing things from the perspective of the oppressed in places such as Palestine, no doubt.
> Sound like bullshit? I tend to think it is.
And yet you still can't bring yourself to put the 'o' in 'god'. Unless you're being ironic, of course.
Who take all their NSA tax payers skills with them and sell out to random nations.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
at least nine former employees of the U.S. National Security Agency
"former members" of criminal groups are still criminals. It does not matter if they are Mafia, MAFIAA, US spooks or whatever. Whether they wear suits (Al Capones ones did) or jeans and T-shirts, they are criminals of varying legality.
Most gangs are not happy let you really leave. Whether it is a street gang, or the CIA, you are regarded as still being bound by their rules. Some groups promise violence if you try and leave, others just refuse to recognise that if you leave, you are no longer part of them and bound by their special culture. Leavers may be threatened with violence, death, kidnapping and confinement but they don't let you leave.
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
Sure it does when the people in this thread are salivating like the guys are hacking from langley for Singapore. I see no reason a NSA hacker should have access to secrets outside of exploits and wotnot which, have you seen the vault leaks? Everybody knows about them now so...
I'm pretty sure we're the LARGEST arms dealer.
According to the BBC
The US's arms exports are 58% higher than those of Russia, the world's second-largest exporter. And while US arms exports grew by 25% in 2013-17 compared with 2008-12, Russia's exports fell by 7.1% over the same period.
It is Middle East states that have been among the US's biggest customers - Saudi Arabia tops the list - with the region as a whole accounting for almost half of US arms exports during 2013-17.
Why exactly are we arming Saudi Arabia to fight a war in Yemen? Trump says the US cannot survive without arms sales to Saudi Arabia so we must accept all their violations of human rights and war crimes. And yet most Americans can't even find Yemen on a map. I fancy myself to be up on the news, but I can't imagine why the poorest Arab country is of any consequence to us. Is it because Abu Rasasa owns Trump?
And we wonder why we're constantly at war with the Middle East. Maybe it's because we keep selling them weapons! But wait. That's the intent. "War's good business" and "The business of America is business". Grace Slick said the former. Calvin Coolidge said the latter.
Steven won't give his arm
To no gold star mother's farm;
War's good business so give your son
But I'd rather have my country die for me
We should start spelling Allah as "-ll-h". Except then nobody would know what the hell we were talking about.
reporting on the saudi war vs yemen.
Actually, Al Jazeera's "sin" was simply being funded by Qatar, a state that Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, and others are trying to strangle for doing business with regional nemesis Iran.
A UAE cyber espionage contractor staffed with several former U.S. intelligence agents hacked journalists or news executives at Al Jazeera, the BBC, Al Arabi and others throughout June 2017, Reuters reported Monday.
What an irony. After the fall of the Soviet Union, we had this fear (not that irrational mind you) of unemployed former USSR agents selling their (insert Liam Neeson's voice) "very particular set of skills", nukes and shit to whatever rogue state, terror groups or criminal syndicates.
We even made movies out of that shit.
And yet, 2019 comes and says "hi, here you are."