* Posts by doggod42

3 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Aug 2013

SolarWinds: Hey, only as many as 18,000 customers installed backdoored software linked to US govt hacks

doggod42

The Russians! The Russians! The Russians!

Am I the only one who is getting tired of bad things getting blamed on "The Russians" or "The Chinese" (or whoever is the enemy-du-jour) based on zero evidence whatsoever?

It's always the opinion of some bureaucrat or politician which then gets picked up and tossed around the echo chamber until, before the day is out, it's treated as axiom.

Sure, it MIGHT be the Russians, but until someone steps forward with some actual EVIDENCE, why not proceed with caution and skepticism, considering all the actors who could benefit from such a thing and investigating them too.

First on my list would be the NSA or CIA. They have the means, a motive and certainly the opportunity. Means and opportunity need no explanation, but what's their motive?

They, along with their "defense" establishment buddies, have a dread of anything resembling peace breaking out. Which is why, over the years, they have meddled in foreign governments, overthrowing those whose election they don't approve and, most of all, lying, lying, lying (see Iraq and Syria for two recent examples) about whatever it takes to sustain their narrative of Us (the good guys) vs. Them (the bad guys) and how we need ever more spying and death hardware to keep us safe from them.

Until someone shows up with some convincing evidence to the contrary, they're going to have the top spot in my list of Usual Suspects.

Kaspersky claims to have found NSA's 'space station malware'

doggod42

This goes way beyond computers

The problem is when you give a group of people this much power ... the ability to snoop anywhere on anyone and not get caught ... you've given them everything. No one, not Parliament, not Congress, not the President, not the courts, dares to defy them because they control the architecture of everything that matters. They can destroy, they can promote, they can reveal, they can hide. You're now a slave.

But who are "they"? Yes, now it gets really interesting because supreme power lies in a shadowy underworld. No one knows, and no one can know what or where the real levers of power are.

You would think the politicians, the powermongers par excellance, would have thought of this and would have done something to stop it. I believe they have thought of it. I believe they know the only way to stop it is to shut off the money, but you hear few if any politicians proposing to do that. Because, well, you catch my drift?

Larry Ellison: Google is ABSOLUTELY EVIL, but NSA is ESSENTIAL

doggod42

This would be an excellent time to short Oracle. These statements of his are going to be poison.