Why in actual fuck would Russia release THEIR OWN HACKING TOOLS?
Cognitive dissonance. Rather than come to grips with the fact they lost the election, or that they're just maybe not on "the right side of history" the left hallucinates vast conspiracy theories in which Putin can hack all of time and space and the very minds of everyone on the planet (except them) in order to control all things. This is an easier mental leap for them than "gee, maybe I'm not as smart, well-informed, and perfectly morally justified in all my actions as I thought I was."
I see no signs of it letting up. Before long Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, Joe Scarborough, etc, are going to be seen running through the streets, shredding their clothes and clawing open their own flesh because "The Russians are inside of my skiiiiiiiiiiinnnnn!!!!!
You understand there's more ways to leak stuff than WikiLeaks, right? So if you're Russian or Chinese and want to leak stuff, and you try to give it to WikiLeaks and they say "thanks but no thanks" or "yeah sure we'll take it..." and then they never publish it...do you just not leak it? Why not mail it to the NY Times or the Washington Post? Hit up Glenn Greenwald like Snowden did? Or set up a torrent and post links on Slashdot?
I would agree with you if there were Russian and Chinese leaks floating around all over the place that "for some reason" WikiLeaks declines to touch, but that doesn't seem to be the case. There must be some other reason for the lack of Russian and Chinese leaks.
Trump said Sweden was crime ridden due to immigrants. next day Sweden then had a riot, Radio24syv investigates it, finds Russian TV station NTV paid youths to burn a car. Trump supporters cited the riot as proof Trump was right and Swedish media was wrong.
Did they pay for all the grenade attacks, too? Seriously, is there anything Putin cannot hack?! The DNC, Hillary, the elections of every nation, and, unimaginably, he can even hack the minds of peaceful Somalians in Sweden to turn them into violent savages entirely unlike the Somalians in Somalia. Amazing, this Putin.
You start off with "yes there's wiretaps," then Trump says "can you believe these wiretaps!" and then you say "how dare he claim there's wiretaps, what bullshit!" What's your point?
Beats me, but they weren't doing it before, either. Odd. It's almost as if the two party system is a sham, where they rile up the public to fight over tranny bathrooms while the industries that fund both parties capture the regulatory agencies...
As a thought, I'd bring attention to the actual, solvable problems. My impression of Trump is not that he wants to eliminate all regulation, just unnecessary and over-burdensome regulation. I'd recommend the environmental lobby switch from screaming about doomsday shit we can't fix but makes them rich trying (like global warming) and focus instead on practical things we can fix (like unsafe fracking practices).
The fracking issue comes down to conflicting narratives, both of which are true:
Pro fracking: "Fracking is proven safe!" This is true!
Anti fracking: "Fracking is fucking up our water!" This is also true!
The problem is that yes, while fracking can absolutely be done safely, our fracking industry is not doing it safely. The answer is not to ban fracking but to make the fracking companies comply with safety standards and slap them with huge lawsuits should they fuck up.
The CIA's hand crafted hacking techniques pose a problem for the agency. Each technique it has created forms a "fingerprint" that can be used by forensic investigators to attribute multiple different attacks to the same entity.
This is analogous to finding the same distinctive knife wound on multiple separate murder victims. The unique wounding style creates suspicion that a single murderer is responsible. As soon one murder in the set is solved then the other murders also find likely attribution.
The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.
With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from.
UMBRAGE components cover keyloggers, password collection, webcam capture, data destruction, persistence, privilege escalation, stealth, anti-virus (PSP) avoidance and survey techniques.
Uh oh. So combine with:
Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized "zero day" exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive.
Doesn't that make attributing the source of a hack based on exploit fingerprinting essentially meaningless? If a motivated hacker had access to this trove, and therefore Umbrage, and say they wanted to hack the email server of a US political party, could they not simply leave behind a Russian fingerprint in order to implicate them?
Always seemed strange to me the DNC hackers used a Russian VPN. Isn't the first rule of haxx0ring to be behind 7 proxies? And the last of which sure as shit shouldn't be anywhere near where you really are?
Ha, ha, hello CIA friends, I hope you've enjoyed all my ENTIRELY SATIRICAL posts over the years that may have appeared to the slow of wit to be critical of the government and the Agency, but were in fact entirely in jest. I'm sure you had a good chuckle all the times I COMPLETELY IRONICALLY referred to you as lying liars who lie about your lies to bring us into war under war false pretenses...over and over again.
1. I'm just stating a fact about the way the definition changed under Obama, meaning comparing Obama "deported" numbers to previous administrations' "deported" numbers is meaningless because they changed the definition. If you wanted more deportations, be mad at Obama, and if you wanted fewer deportations, be happy with Obama. Regardless, let's get the definition right so we're talking apples to apples.
2. I don't really care about the statistics of people turned away at airports?
3. I don't know why I bother talking to someone who says "Drumpf." Using that just outs you as an idiot, same as anyone unironically referring to Obama as "Obongo."
even a human search engine would have to pick through all that noisy shit pile of ignorance.
Also, truth is simple and boring. Conspiracy and lies to counter simple truths are complex and abundant.
I wanted to show my 4 year old the moon landing, so I put "moon landing" into YouTube. The first result is the moon landing footage. Everything else was pages and pages of "MOON LANDING HOAX" videos. An uneducated person would assume, just based on volume, that the moon landing was faked. In reality, in support of the moon landing, there's not much to say. "Here's the footage."
I don't think "incorrect information" is even really the problem. There are tons of ways to lie by omission, or to lie with true facts but fake context. This is because people make decisions based on narrative and emotion, and then justify them with facts (while ignoring contradictory facts). Extremely few people start with facts and then form opinions.
A news source that runs articles featuring the odd Somalian immigrant who happens to be doctor or who volunteers at an animal shelter, while at the same time making no mention of grenade attacks or gang rapes by other Somalians immigrants isn't lying to you or dealing in "incorrect information."
Focusing on fact checking (or facts in general) means getting really particular about trees while staying oblivious to forests.
Obama changed the statistics so that people turned away at the border would be counted as "deported." This artificially inflated his deportation numbers. In fact he deported (i.e., removed from the interior of the country, the definition used for "deportation" before Obama) far fewer people than recent presidents.
You do if you can get another comparable job elsewhere that doesn't have the drama currently swirling around Uber.
Regardless of whether it's deserved or not, the media is currently dogpiling Uber. If you're super-committed to the organization and business model, sure, stick around. But if you're just after a paycheck, might as well try to find one that doesn't have a huge target from regulators and the media on its back.
No, it was literally people going through Podesta's emails, finding bizarre things that made no sense in context, and then speculating as to their meaning. One possible explanation to the bizarre content was "pedophile ring," which isn't really that preposterous when you consider all the other high-profile pedo rings that have been exposed like at the Catholic Church, the BBC, UK Parliament, etc.
We still don't know what the true meaning of the bizarre things were. No journalist has ever asked Podesta to explain them for us.
I have no right to demand an explanation. But the fact that the media has consistently made false claims about the nature of Pizzagate is interesting, and I wonder why they aren't more curious. Every piece of mainstream media coverage I've seen about Pizzagate has either claimed that it was a joke that got out of hand or that it was invented out of whole cloth as a smear. Neither of these are true. It developed organically by people asking questions about bizarre things in Podesta's emails, and then strange social media posts by known associates of his. No one was joking, and it did not start with a conclusion to smear Podesta as a pedo. It started with verifiable facts and ended with speculation of the existence of a pedophilia ring.
Wait, do you have some kind of evidence Pence mishandled classified information? Call the press, man, this is huge, way bigger than using an AOL account for some Indiana state business!
So if somebody sent classified info TO me using my own server, I myself would be performing in illegal act JUST by receiving it?
That's not the issue here, but to my knowledge that would only be illegal if you yourself had a security clearance and failed to report it.
Or are you inventing laws out of your anterior end?
No? Clinton had a security clearance, and sent, received, created and stored classified info on her home server. That is not legal.
Further, why would being on AOL versus a generic home server make any difference in existing laws? (Both suck security-wise.)
I don't think it really would. The main difference here is that "Indiana state business" is not classified information. (hell it doesn't even have anything to do with the federal government) and Pence did not have a security clearance, whereas the official correspondence of the Secretary of State is almost all classified information, and I'm pretty sure Hillary had a security clearance at the time. Thank God no longer, eh?
Are you trying to suggest that Indiana state emails are classified property of the United States Federal Government?
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You mean...enacting the agenda on which the President ran, and for which his voters cast their ballots?
Why in actual fuck would Russia release THEIR OWN HACKING TOOLS?
Cognitive dissonance. Rather than come to grips with the fact they lost the election, or that they're just maybe not on "the right side of history" the left hallucinates vast conspiracy theories in which Putin can hack all of time and space and the very minds of everyone on the planet (except them) in order to control all things. This is an easier mental leap for them than "gee, maybe I'm not as smart, well-informed, and perfectly morally justified in all my actions as I thought I was."
I see no signs of it letting up. Before long Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, Joe Scarborough, etc, are going to be seen running through the streets, shredding their clothes and clawing open their own flesh because "The Russians are inside of my skiiiiiiiiiiinnnnn!!!!!
You understand there's more ways to leak stuff than WikiLeaks, right? So if you're Russian or Chinese and want to leak stuff, and you try to give it to WikiLeaks and they say "thanks but no thanks" or "yeah sure we'll take it..." and then they never publish it...do you just not leak it? Why not mail it to the NY Times or the Washington Post? Hit up Glenn Greenwald like Snowden did? Or set up a torrent and post links on Slashdot?
I would agree with you if there were Russian and Chinese leaks floating around all over the place that "for some reason" WikiLeaks declines to touch, but that doesn't seem to be the case. There must be some other reason for the lack of Russian and Chinese leaks.
Trump said Sweden was crime ridden due to immigrants. next day Sweden then had a riot, Radio24syv investigates it, finds Russian TV station NTV paid youths to burn a car. Trump supporters cited the riot as proof Trump was right and Swedish media was wrong.
Did they pay for all the grenade attacks, too? Seriously, is there anything Putin cannot hack?! The DNC, Hillary, the elections of every nation, and, unimaginably, he can even hack the minds of peaceful Somalians in Sweden to turn them into violent savages entirely unlike the Somalians in Somalia. Amazing, this Putin.
Wait, what's the difference?
You start off with "yes there's wiretaps," then Trump says "can you believe these wiretaps!" and then you say "how dare he claim there's wiretaps, what bullshit!" What's your point?
Beats me, but they weren't doing it before, either. Odd. It's almost as if the two party system is a sham, where they rile up the public to fight over tranny bathrooms while the industries that fund both parties capture the regulatory agencies...
As a thought, I'd bring attention to the actual, solvable problems. My impression of Trump is not that he wants to eliminate all regulation, just unnecessary and over-burdensome regulation. I'd recommend the environmental lobby switch from screaming about doomsday shit we can't fix but makes them rich trying (like global warming) and focus instead on practical things we can fix (like unsafe fracking practices).
SEAN: You have still never answered the waifu question. Who is best girl, Rei or Asuka?!
The fracking issue comes down to conflicting narratives, both of which are true:
Pro fracking: "Fracking is proven safe!" This is true!
Anti fracking: "Fracking is fucking up our water!" This is also true!
The problem is that yes, while fracking can absolutely be done safely, our fracking industry is not doing it safely. The answer is not to ban fracking but to make the fracking companies comply with safety standards and slap them with huge lawsuits should they fuck up.
From the press release:
UMBRAGE
The CIA's hand crafted hacking techniques pose a problem for the agency. Each technique it has created forms a "fingerprint" that can be used by forensic investigators to attribute multiple different attacks to the same entity.
This is analogous to finding the same distinctive knife wound on multiple separate murder victims. The unique wounding style creates suspicion that a single murderer is responsible. As soon one murder in the set is solved then the other murders also find likely attribution.
The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.
With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from.
UMBRAGE components cover keyloggers, password collection, webcam capture, data destruction, persistence, privilege escalation, stealth, anti-virus (PSP) avoidance and survey techniques.
Uh oh. So combine with:
Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized "zero day" exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive.
Doesn't that make attributing the source of a hack based on exploit fingerprinting essentially meaningless? If a motivated hacker had access to this trove, and therefore Umbrage, and say they wanted to hack the email server of a US political party, could they not simply leave behind a Russian fingerprint in order to implicate them?
Always seemed strange to me the DNC hackers used a Russian VPN. Isn't the first rule of haxx0ring to be behind 7 proxies? And the last of which sure as shit shouldn't be anywhere near where you really are?
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/...
Reading list
A list of websites I like to check out to stay up to date and get new ideas:
General
http://reddit.com/r/netsec along with all the other good subreddits (RE, forensics)
http://thehackernews.com/
http://slashdot.org
Forensics
http://swiftforensics.com/
Ha, ha, hello CIA friends, I hope you've enjoyed all my ENTIRELY SATIRICAL posts over the years that may have appeared to the slow of wit to be critical of the government and the Agency, but were in fact entirely in jest. I'm sure you had a good chuckle all the times I COMPLETELY IRONICALLY referred to you as lying liars who lie about your lies to bring us into war under war false pretenses...over and over again.
Anywho, keep up the good work, friends!
1. I'm just stating a fact about the way the definition changed under Obama, meaning comparing Obama "deported" numbers to previous administrations' "deported" numbers is meaningless because they changed the definition. If you wanted more deportations, be mad at Obama, and if you wanted fewer deportations, be happy with Obama. Regardless, let's get the definition right so we're talking apples to apples.
2. I don't really care about the statistics of people turned away at airports?
3. I don't know why I bother talking to someone who says "Drumpf." Using that just outs you as an idiot, same as anyone unironically referring to Obama as "Obongo."
even a human search engine would have to pick through all that noisy shit pile of ignorance.
Also, truth is simple and boring. Conspiracy and lies to counter simple truths are complex and abundant.
I wanted to show my 4 year old the moon landing, so I put "moon landing" into YouTube. The first result is the moon landing footage. Everything else was pages and pages of "MOON LANDING HOAX" videos. An uneducated person would assume, just based on volume, that the moon landing was faked. In reality, in support of the moon landing, there's not much to say. "Here's the footage."
I don't think "incorrect information" is even really the problem. There are tons of ways to lie by omission, or to lie with true facts but fake context. This is because people make decisions based on narrative and emotion, and then justify them with facts (while ignoring contradictory facts). Extremely few people start with facts and then form opinions.
A news source that runs articles featuring the odd Somalian immigrant who happens to be doctor or who volunteers at an animal shelter, while at the same time making no mention of grenade attacks or gang rapes by other Somalians immigrants isn't lying to you or dealing in "incorrect information."
Focusing on fact checking (or facts in general) means getting really particular about trees while staying oblivious to forests.
Obama changed the statistics so that people turned away at the border would be counted as "deported." This artificially inflated his deportation numbers. In fact he deported (i.e., removed from the interior of the country, the definition used for "deportation" before Obama) far fewer people than recent presidents.
A prized professor should be on an O-1 visa for "alien of extraordinary ability."
and even considered whether or not it would provide any valuable insights before posting it.
Swing and a miss.
If you remove the popularity aspect of things from social media it would be a great place.
Social media without likes, upvotes, indications your post has even been read? So...4chan?
You do if you can get another comparable job elsewhere that doesn't have the drama currently swirling around Uber.
Regardless of whether it's deserved or not, the media is currently dogpiling Uber. If you're super-committed to the organization and business model, sure, stick around. But if you're just after a paycheck, might as well try to find one that doesn't have a huge target from regulators and the media on its back.
According to research, men can't get it up in microgravity
This is serious problem that must be solved. WTF are we even paying NASA for?!
Trump has never lied about having contact with Russians. You gotta stop listening to that fake news, friend.
But what's a "map handkerchief that might be pizza-related?"
No, it was literally people going through Podesta's emails, finding bizarre things that made no sense in context, and then speculating as to their meaning. One possible explanation to the bizarre content was "pedophile ring," which isn't really that preposterous when you consider all the other high-profile pedo rings that have been exposed like at the Catholic Church, the BBC, UK Parliament, etc.
We still don't know what the true meaning of the bizarre things were. No journalist has ever asked Podesta to explain them for us.
I have no right to demand an explanation. But the fact that the media has consistently made false claims about the nature of Pizzagate is interesting, and I wonder why they aren't more curious. Every piece of mainstream media coverage I've seen about Pizzagate has either claimed that it was a joke that got out of hand or that it was invented out of whole cloth as a smear. Neither of these are true. It developed organically by people asking questions about bizarre things in Podesta's emails, and then strange social media posts by known associates of his. No one was joking, and it did not start with a conclusion to smear Podesta as a pedo. It started with verifiable facts and ended with speculation of the existence of a pedophilia ring.
Why is the media reporting it incorrectly?
Wait, do you have some kind of evidence Pence mishandled classified information? Call the press, man, this is huge, way bigger than using an AOL account for some Indiana state business!
So if somebody sent classified info TO me using my own server, I myself would be performing in illegal act JUST by receiving it?
That's not the issue here, but to my knowledge that would only be illegal if you yourself had a security clearance and failed to report it.
Or are you inventing laws out of your anterior end?
No? Clinton had a security clearance, and sent, received, created and stored classified info on her home server. That is not legal.
Further, why would being on AOL versus a generic home server make any difference in existing laws? (Both suck security-wise.)
I don't think it really would. The main difference here is that "Indiana state business" is not classified information. (hell it doesn't even have anything to do with the federal government) and Pence did not have a security clearance, whereas the official correspondence of the Secretary of State is almost all classified information, and I'm pretty sure Hillary had a security clearance at the time. Thank God no longer, eh?
Are you trying to suggest that Indiana state emails are classified property of the United States Federal Government?