Feds: Army soldier suspected of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’ The US Army soldier suspected of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump's call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent. The military man even Google searched for "can hacking be treason," and "US military personnel defecting to Russia," according to …
Doesn't the U.S. Army have some sort of minimum "wisdom score" requirement of its cadets? Isn't there a test?
You know, something like, "You walk into a room, and find yourself the sole occupant there. On a table, you see a standard, olive-drab-painted M67 fragmentation grenade. The grenade's pin and handle ("spoon") are nowhere in sight. What do you do?"
Based on his other actions, I don't think this guy would pass the wisdom test.
Reminds me of when I gave someone a similar questionnaire set at work, for "fun". I Knew what I expected the outcome to be and they knew what I was expecting. So they deliberately gamed the answers and the results came back full hard against the stops but in the opposite direction. Which told me everything I expected, just not in the way I expected.
You don't want them wise enough to stay away from situations where they might be shot at, unless there is no less-risky way to achieve their military objectives.
If there is a less-risky way, you want them to be wise enough to take that less-risky way.
As a soldier, you don't want any fools in your vicinity. 'Friendly fire' is not friendly, and many 'accidents' are preventable.
After exfiltrating President Krasnov's phone logs sane people would stay well clear of Russia.
I am always amazed how these dumb criminals commit crimes and then it turns out they have searched on Google for 'How to get away with murder' or 'How to dispose of a dead body' etc.
Even fictional crime shows and movies where they can 'zoom and enhance' on a photo to bring up amazing amounts of detail show that your internet history could be used against you. Yet people keep searching for information about crimes on Google from their own devices.
So if you did use your own device , could you get away with clearing search history , and then incinerating the machine and burying it at sea ?
or does google (or the ISP) log every search with an ip & mac or something and then they find out that way ?
..asking for a friend :D
Considering who created and funded TOR I've always been a bit wary of it.
If you didn't already know, it was written by that subversive group known as the United States Naval Research Laboratory and some of the funding comes from the U.S. State Department.
I'm not saying it is compromised but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's not quite all it seems.
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