"Honey, I took the garbage out like you said, but the fucking Russians put it back!"
We can't comfortably blame China, because we need them.
Anyone will buy into the narrative that "Russia did it."
We knew it was bullshit when the US said, "It's Russia, but we don't know if it's state actors or an individual or individuals."
Any of us can "be" Russia at any time.
--
In any case, the elephant in the room is, "Why can't the US protect the data it owns?"
This Russia narrative directs criticism away from the real problem.
And...
The DNC leak was an inside job.
They only got EMAIL!
Anyone who could have gotten to the other stuff: donor lists, employee personal data, SSN, ground strategy, candid political assessments, etc., would have done so.
Starting with entry-level education, students learn useless shit and if the right wing Evangelical Christians get their way, we'll be teaching Creationism instead of Evolution; anti-climate change, bigotry and misogyny and nationalism.
It's a lost cause for America, anyway.
We lost the middle class a long time ago and we're not going to get it back.
Globalism is out of favour in the future, so we can't even feed into other country's middle class.
I have a Facebook account using my real name and I'm polite as fuck so I don't piss off family or Friends. I post original photos, music, and I inform about the latest hack and how to prevent it.
I provide tech support and historical insight.
I do NOT speak my mind because I would have no audience. I do block insipid assholes who shit on my lawn. I don't allow religion, politics, or racism or gay-bashing.
Facebook is for cat videos.
I have many other Facebook accounts. I have a few Twitter accounts and one Instagram.
On Twitter, especially, I join the shit storm with fact-based logical arguments and I swing a dead cat.
For those social media people who behave as described in this article, (they don't block ads and crap) they have every right.
Slashdot Mirror
But we don't raise hell when LEO can do the same thing with our phones ...
... always blaming Russia.
"Honey, I took the garbage out like you said, but the fucking Russians put it back!"
We can't comfortably blame China, because we need them.
Anyone will buy into the narrative that "Russia did it."
We knew it was bullshit when the US said, "It's Russia, but we don't know if it's state actors or an individual or individuals."
Any of us can "be" Russia at any time.
--
In any case, the elephant in the room is, "Why can't the US protect the data it owns?"
This Russia narrative directs criticism away from the real problem.
And ...
The DNC leak was an inside job.
They only got EMAIL!
Anyone who could have gotten to the other stuff: donor lists, employee personal data, SSN, ground strategy, candid political assessments, etc., would have done so.
Russians my ass.
... proof of concept.
They got their inspiration from Microsoft.
Dissatisfied housewives voted the bastard in.
Sounds logical.
And background processes?
This happened to my wife the other day. She uses a leather wallet case. I suspect she unintentionally launched Siri.
Right here at my desk, I said, "Hey Siri ... call Sarah."
The 5s is at the lock screen and said, "OK, calling Sarah."
My wife answered her phone.
I often wake Siri up during casual conversation.
,,, PUSSY GRABBER becomes President of the United States of America.
Again, you confirmed the argument.
If I know, and you know, if we know, and they know, why the fuck do we need Stephen Hawking to state the obvious?
Agreed, but it's much worse than that.
Starting with entry-level education, students learn useless shit and if the right wing Evangelical Christians get their way, we'll be teaching Creationism instead of Evolution; anti-climate change, bigotry and misogyny and nationalism.
It's a lost cause for America, anyway.
We lost the middle class a long time ago and we're not going to get it back.
Globalism is out of favour in the future, so we can't even feed into other country's middle class.
Rome burned and people still live there.
The USA is on the same track.
Re: Brexit
You make the argument.
Stephen Hawking is not an expert on many of the issues not in his wheelhouse any more than any other celebrity.
RTFA
It's not looting, it's fake news to create a run on the banks.
None of the people you mention are out of jobs.
... Hillary Clinton, you ass wipes.
Karma's a bitch.
Why?
Who gives a flying rat's ass that all these people are tracking us?
Nothing will ever stop it.
Take a deep breath and a Xanax.
... what we're screaming?
The Internet is ruined because, money.
The shareholders want asymptotic profit curves.
That's like saying consumers should be up on current events by intuition, with no need for news sites.
All this shit is computers. Computers should be hardened against this simple crap.
The answer is to prevent this from happening in the first place.
I'd suggest a botnet scanner that gives a heads up about open doors and the presence of malware signatures.
Manufacturers should force password change, or halt installation.
I like the equipment that ships with random username/password on the bottom that can't be changed.
... will they need?
There are construction projects going on all over hell's half an acre at any one given time.
Apple needs to do R&D on their core products. They have way too much cash to be re-inventing the wheel.
This sounds like the cluster-fuck Microsoft is having with smart phones -- too late to the party and they didn't even bring the ice.
... I was a member of a local forum (and I'm all for 'em) and I discovered, by accident, that it was "user-moderated."
If a comment was reported more than three times, the board automatically removed it.
They relied on cookies to determine that I had already reported it so I searched for that cookie.
I'd report a post and then delete that particular cookie and then report it again, about seven times.
The only administrator, a local TV personality (and nice guy) had to field questions about censorship and I'd salvo-report his comments.
Six months after the forum was replaced by Facebook, I called him and told him what I did.
He laughed about it.
But we both agreed I was a shithead.
I can yell at the TV but does it ever listen? No.
Mine doesn't listen.
Equating social media with TV is insane.
I can yell at the TV but does it ever listen? No.
I yell on social media a lot and I get yelled at.
However, I do all that shit with fake accounts.
I have a Facebook account using my real name and I'm polite as fuck so I don't piss off family or Friends. I post original photos, music, and I inform about the latest hack and how to prevent it.
I provide tech support and historical insight.
I do NOT speak my mind because I would have no audience. I do block insipid assholes who shit on my lawn. I don't allow religion, politics, or racism or gay-bashing.
Facebook is for cat videos.
I have many other Facebook accounts. I have a few Twitter accounts and one Instagram.
On Twitter, especially, I join the shit storm with fact-based logical arguments and I swing a dead cat.
For those social media people who behave as described in this article, (they don't block ads and crap) they have every right.
I advise acquaintances to go dark and yell.
We both know that VPN and proxy dodges can be mitigated.
The Internet WILL be transparent to all except for those who demand the transparency.
There's a problem with that, and you allude to it:
For every motherfucker out there with a computer there's another motherfucker out there with a computer.
Know what's smarter than people who control the Internet?
Other people who control the Internet.
... what does the Trump administration have to say about it?
... because they skip right over human fallibility.
Look at Katrina.
Books were written about how New Orleans was a bowl below sea level, years and years ago.
The Army Corps of Engineers, their brothers, nieces, and adoptive children knew the score.
Look at the Mississippi floods. We know it does that and yet people live there.
Look at earthquake-prone California.
In the final analysis, we find that shit happens.
We already got that all that stuff.
I came here to say, "Well, I guess the Ivanka shit is gone."