I saw on Facebook that Snowden is making a “new” product, a device that looks like a phone case that supposedly prevents hackers from accesing your phone as you walk by, and I ROFLd. Why would anyone bother following you around the world, when your Google Android phone is sending every contact, sms, location, bookmarks and all the rest to the Google central servers. In the US of A. Last time I read about it few years ago that Google has a data centre consisting of 4 ACRES of computers.
Russians are creating an Android-like operating system for phones as well, and it’s a smart move. The sooner the better.
Chinese are even going so far as to make their own PROCESSORS. I guess experience with good old Pentium 66 left a bad taste ;)
It is probably not Russian software they are using, but Linux. What this video was pointing out is something 99% of users everywhere need to figure out too, for the same reasons. Why people use proprietary software, when they can be using software available for free with all the code available to inspect or modify for security vulnerabilities or any other reason is absurd. But even this is not enough. The chip manufacturers, Intel, Amd, Nvidia, reportedly have hidden gateways built into the hardware.
The hidden gateways are designed for specific operating systems. Use a different OS or even change chips and gateways are useless. For many years I used Atari 680X0 computers in business and elsewhere. Several OSs worked on these computers. Any gateways were rendered useless by changing the OS. Making chips safe by OS replacement is apparently easy.
Building a secure toolchain would be quite labor intensive. Assembling a primitive compiler manually in a known clean environment. Then building successive generations without an os/sys tools so you can build the os systools.
Any misstep along the way could comprimise the entire project. Ken thompson’s compiler hack all over again
Even the FBI Director covers his webcam with tape. Zuckerberg even covers the microphone.
Comey doesn’t trust his own govt? I sure don’t. Well, good advice, in any case from Comey.
I would advise everyone to do the same. Put double black tape.
Medvedev already selling Assad in an interview(israeli tv) ”we need a transition in Syria with OR without Assad’.After the fiasco in the Ukraine and now in Syria as the country will be divided and the Qatari pipeline will go ahead…I don’t understand the supposed ‘master strategy’ of Putin?With Killary now almost 99.9 pct elected(cleared by the FBI,what a surprise)RF will be banned from swift,sanctions will deny the selling of both russian oil and gas worldwide for an unlimited period of time.Don’t count on european vassals to oppose that move even if they must lose hundred of billions.Why did Putin stop Allepo bombings for 20 days and counting?US militants are starting their attack on Raqqa.
Orange rev will follow as their target was and still is the presidential election of early 2018.
That is the price of being seen as weak in the western banana republics.
Very sad..
Seems the Russians are falling into the same scheme of trying to emotionally enhance their propaganda* with manipulative background music, such as is common in the west. For me, the message of this video would be more effective without the distraction of that music.
*I mean here a neutral definition of propaganda, simply information to promote a point of view, not a criticism of the message. I actually appreciate and enjoy the point of this message, but I would appreciate it more if it was allowed to just stand on its own, without the manipulative background music.
Curiously, or not so, I have also been attacked, along with the Russians…..Hmmm…..
Any other commenter here whose computer had been attacked since almost a year and a half?
Facts about what I can talk:
-First time my computer was infected with a “start hijacking virus” impossible to get rid of even by going into your software programs and disinstall it!, it got through the same moment in time an Oracle upgrade. I passed some weeks after could get rid of the virus by a complicated proccess fortunately also availble through navigating the net. The damned virus made impossible to read any web page by flooding the page with advertisements, which with I was unable to read, and so to comment.
-The rest of times, between 4 or 5, my computer was thrown out of work by Windows Upgrades, my brother changed all my software first, then he made a partition of the hard drive eliminating the damaged segement and last time was needed to remove the hard drive completely. Every time I lose interesting information recruited along these three years of commenting in the net in favour of the Russiian Federation and The Ukraine, included all the good links provided by “old strategist”.
-Right now and since the first day I am online again they remain interferring my daily activity, well just right now they have interrupted me.
Last time I told with the “old strategist”, when I found him in another blog, he told me that I was being monitored…..
I do use a very good antivirus etc by Emsisoft…..no problems last two three years…magazine WEBUSER in UK is carrying current article “use a VPN with zero chance of being hacked”………..download safely this web’s best kept secret….from http://www.tunnelbear.com
Stop webcam spying on you…check out http://www.bit.ly/proc408
I think this may be lots things to check out how to do things, also pcadvisor CV magazine….must be some Spanish magazines with similar as advice? My personal bugbear is CV predictive text which changes words and I can never seem to be able to switch off….maybe it is trying to change words to alert the various dark forces about my web usage……just do not know how far my suspicions are willing to go………take care…..eg why does not here like my initials and I must put dots in front for the format system to recognise me….sighs.Yours
….JJ
I have passed on your technical concerns, which you dedicated an earlier post to, to those competent to answer them. – fk mod
I do not trust any page coming for the UK, but thanks for the advice anyway.
I have noticed another commenter using…J in Scott´s article and was wondering if it was you.
I think it would be great if here somedoy does not try to impersonate others being a bit more creative electing another letter of the abecedary or a name which others have not previously elected before. This conversation is going off-topic. Please move to the MFC if you wish to carry on the discussion. Thanks. Mod.
“Come in and find out”. Have a look… “They” tell you many, many times in open, what it is all about.
BTW: don’t wank in front of your computer! And no: in front of your smartphone ether! -> One camera will catch your horny face, while the other… you can guess it.
… and who or what is VP? Do you mean VVP, and if yes, why don’t you write it, or why don’t you name him Vlad like his real fans do?
No, real fans of President Putin refer to him with respect and either as Putin, President Putin, or V.V.P. Never, ever, “Vlad” which is short for the not so Russian name Vladislav and is more used in neighbor countries. mod-on-duty.
And who or what is CV?
MS SW pirated (and defused) by Russkies was of high quality, but now only the brave Chinese still pirate MS SW, but not so well and user friendly as the Russkies did.
…bp… formerly “… (a name that triggered unwanted consequences)”
saakashvilli has resigned…..maybe he has either fully maxed his illegal activities in Odessa, or like Mariupol going bankrupt, or as fortruss reports today, trouble may be stirring re transnystria, offering more criminal opportunties in this well know for that part of the world…smuggling.
The Real Reason Behind Saakashvili’s Resignation
November 8, 2016 –
Ruslan Ostashko, PolitRussia – translated by J. Arnoldski –
One of the symbols of the “new Ukraine”, the ex-Georgian president, fugitive, and part-time governor of Odessa, Mikhail Saakashvili, has announced his resignation, which came as a shock and to the dismay of Ukrainian citizens, who for some reason had great political hopes for him. I’ll leave aside the discussion of how Saakashvili’s biography, character, and addiction to hard narcotics couldn’t possibly leave anything good to be expected from him. What is more interesting to discuss are the motives behind his resignation and explaining whether this is connected to the American elections.
Before delving into this, let’s immediately eliminate two entirely untenable theories which nevertheless have a number of supporters on social networks.
Untenable theory number one is that Saakashvili has some kind of insider information that the US elections will be won by Hillary Clinton, and that he was warned in advance to secure a good starting position in the new American leadership’s Ukraine strategy. I understand the appeal of this theory, but I can’t agree with it. Saakashvili can hope that Clinton will win, and he can pray for her victory, but he cannot know the results of the US elections or possess any top insider secrets. For those who doubt this, let me remind you of two episodes.
The first episode was in 2008, when Saakashvili was 100% sure that America would completely sign up to back him against Russia. Well, how did that ‘insider knowledge’ work out?
The second episode was just recently, in this year, when he spoke of his future triumphant return to Georgia, apparently hoping that the Americans would falsify the results of the Georgian parliamentary elections in favor of his party. The Americans could have done this, but they didn’t. His party lost the elections by a landslide.
Thus, the image of Saakashvili as a super insider can be very appealing, but it does not correspond to reality.
The second untenable theory is that Saakashvili left for internal Ukrainian reasons or was forced to leave by ‘disgruntled Odessans.” Contemporary Ukraine is a territory full of national injustice. Local, regional, and national authorities couldn’t care less about dissatisfied citizens, whether in Odessa, Kiev, Zaporozhya, and so on. They also don’t care about their approval ratings. Saakashvili was given Odessa to “eat up,” and the people who took this decision to quarter a US mercenary in Ukraine are clearly not the ones sitting in Kiev.
Given this, it can be supposed that the version that the former Georgian president, famous for his greed, left his post because of tensions within Ukraine is in the least a strange theory.
And now about Saakashvili’s gesture. Apparently, he really needed to officially distance himself from Poroshenko who, from the point of view of many Western experts, has fulfilled almost all of the tasks in Ukraine that he was given. Even better was Saakashvili putting the emphasis on conflict with Poroshenko.
The new US president, whoever it will be, will be forced to do something with this situation, and the fact is not too far off that the decision will be made to do some behind-the-scenes spanking.
The scenario of backstage spanking, reducing salaries, and rinsing dirty laundry in the media is the best thing that could happen to Poroshenko under any new American administration.
Saakashvili is pretending that he has nothing at all to do with what has and is happening in Ukraine. For him, it would be ideal if Washington believed that he has no relation to Poroshenko, doesn’t know Kolomoysky, and has never seen Yatsenyuk, but had instead been somehow dragged into the mess created by the US’ political puppets in Ukraine.
Under these circumstances, distancing himself is a good strategy, but Saakashvili has run into an obstacle. He should have distanced himself earlier. Now this trick might not work.
The former Georgian president is now demonstrating a kind of behavior which is really familiar in Russia and which is difficult to be misconstrued. What does a regional official who has thieved or failed at an important project do when he learns that a check up is soon coming from Moscow? The pattern of behavior has not changed since the times of the USSR, believe me. This official immediately flies to the capital and tries to, so to say, resolve issues in a small circle of interested associates. Saakashvili and his team have failed in two spheres of work, the Georgian and Ukrainian ones. In Georgia, he lost elections, and in Ukraine he failed to create a success story out of Odessa. The Americans needed such success stories and Saakashvili 100% promised them something of the sort.
Now Saakashvili is covering his weak spots and unleashing into the information field the theory that he failed as governor only because of corrupt Kiev and interference by Poroshenko himself and his entourage.
Surely, Saakashvili has already written something in this spirit to Washington and is now simply publicly confirming his position and line of defense. If he gains the nerve, then he could try to ask the new US administration (and he has friends among both the Republicans and the Democrats) for a promotion, to let him steer something in Kiev, or participate in a new political project in Ukraine.
Considering that the Americans love to arrange political shows in which some political puppets are replaced by other political puppets under cries of fighting against corruption, then this might just work out for him.
Saakashvili’s actions are a very bad sign for Poroshenko. Poroshenko has no good way out of the unfolding situation. It may very well be that he has been left with only two paths: one to Rostov and the other to the gallows.
Saakashvili’s actions are also a possible sign that the Americans will radically shake up the Ukrainian political elite and bring real freaks and misfits to the forefront. For us, this is more good than bad. Any sudden movements could finish off the government system in Ukraine and lead to the delegitimization of the regime in Kiev, especially if outright Nazis come to power there.
I agree,and think that should be a “high priority” action. As the video said it should have been “done yesterday”.
I saw on Facebook that Snowden is making a “new” product, a device that looks like a phone case that supposedly prevents hackers from accesing your phone as you walk by, and I ROFLd. Why would anyone bother following you around the world, when your Google Android phone is sending every contact, sms, location, bookmarks and all the rest to the Google central servers. In the US of A. Last time I read about it few years ago that Google has a data centre consisting of 4 ACRES of computers.
Russians are creating an Android-like operating system for phones as well, and it’s a smart move. The sooner the better.
Chinese are even going so far as to make their own PROCESSORS. I guess experience with good old Pentium 66 left a bad taste ;)
It is probably not Russian software they are using, but Linux. What this video was pointing out is something 99% of users everywhere need to figure out too, for the same reasons. Why people use proprietary software, when they can be using software available for free with all the code available to inspect or modify for security vulnerabilities or any other reason is absurd. But even this is not enough. The chip manufacturers, Intel, Amd, Nvidia, reportedly have hidden gateways built into the hardware.
The hidden gateways are designed for specific operating systems. Use a different OS or even change chips and gateways are useless. For many years I used Atari 680X0 computers in business and elsewhere. Several OSs worked on these computers. Any gateways were rendered useless by changing the OS. Making chips safe by OS replacement is apparently easy.
Building a secure toolchain would be quite labor intensive. Assembling a primitive compiler manually in a known clean environment. Then building successive generations without an os/sys tools so you can build the os systools.
Any misstep along the way could comprimise the entire project. Ken thompson’s compiler hack all over again
Even the FBI Director covers his webcam with tape. Zuckerberg even covers the microphone.
Comey doesn’t trust his own govt? I sure don’t. Well, good advice, in any case from Comey.
I would advise everyone to do the same. Put double black tape.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3790585/FBI-director-covers-webcam-TAPE-says-doing-stop-hackers-spying.html
You just reminded me to put the folded 3×5 card over my laptop camera!
a big binder clip also works well
Medvedev already selling Assad in an interview(israeli tv) ”we need a transition in Syria with OR without Assad’.After the fiasco in the Ukraine and now in Syria as the country will be divided and the Qatari pipeline will go ahead…I don’t understand the supposed ‘master strategy’ of Putin?With Killary now almost 99.9 pct elected(cleared by the FBI,what a surprise)RF will be banned from swift,sanctions will deny the selling of both russian oil and gas worldwide for an unlimited period of time.Don’t count on european vassals to oppose that move even if they must lose hundred of billions.Why did Putin stop Allepo bombings for 20 days and counting?US militants are starting their attack on Raqqa.
Orange rev will follow as their target was and still is the presidential election of early 2018.
That is the price of being seen as weak in the western banana republics.
Very sad..
Seems the Russians are falling into the same scheme of trying to emotionally enhance their propaganda* with manipulative background music, such as is common in the west. For me, the message of this video would be more effective without the distraction of that music.
*I mean here a neutral definition of propaganda, simply information to promote a point of view, not a criticism of the message. I actually appreciate and enjoy the point of this message, but I would appreciate it more if it was allowed to just stand on its own, without the manipulative background music.
I enjoy these videos, very sharp and too the point.
With the open threats of cyber attacks – these issues should be a priority. I too wonder why Russia doesn’t think ahead
Curiously, or not so, I have also been attacked, along with the Russians…..Hmmm…..
Any other commenter here whose computer had been attacked since almost a year and a half?
Facts about what I can talk:
-First time my computer was infected with a “start hijacking virus” impossible to get rid of even by going into your software programs and disinstall it!, it got through the same moment in time an Oracle upgrade. I passed some weeks after could get rid of the virus by a complicated proccess fortunately also availble through navigating the net. The damned virus made impossible to read any web page by flooding the page with advertisements, which with I was unable to read, and so to comment.
-The rest of times, between 4 or 5, my computer was thrown out of work by Windows Upgrades, my brother changed all my software first, then he made a partition of the hard drive eliminating the damaged segement and last time was needed to remove the hard drive completely. Every time I lose interesting information recruited along these three years of commenting in the net in favour of the Russiian Federation and The Ukraine, included all the good links provided by “old strategist”.
-Right now and since the first day I am online again they remain interferring my daily activity, well just right now they have interrupted me.
Last time I told with the “old strategist”, when I found him in another blog, he told me that I was being monitored…..
Where it says “in favour of the Russian Federation and the Ukraine” should have been said “The Russian Federation and Donbass”, of course.
I do use a very good antivirus etc by Emsisoft…..no problems last two three years…magazine WEBUSER in UK is carrying current article “use a VPN with zero chance of being hacked”………..download safely this web’s best kept secret….from http://www.tunnelbear.com
Stop webcam spying on you…check out http://www.bit.ly/proc408
I think this may be lots things to check out how to do things, also pcadvisor CV magazine….must be some Spanish magazines with similar as advice? My personal bugbear is CV predictive text which changes words and I can never seem to be able to switch off….maybe it is trying to change words to alert the various dark forces about my web usage……just do not know how far my suspicions are willing to go………take care…..eg why does not here like my initials and I must put dots in front for the format system to recognise me….sighs.Yours
….JJ
I have passed on your technical concerns, which you dedicated an earlier post to, to those competent to answer them. – fk mod
Much appreciated…thank v much for noticing my concerns!Seems to recognise me now as ….JJ as this comes up in the name box now….hhmm
I do not trust any page coming for the UK, but thanks for the advice anyway.
I have noticed another commenter using…J in Scott´s article and was wondering if it was you.
I think it would be great if here somedoy does not try to impersonate others being a bit more creative electing another letter of the abecedary or a name which others have not previously elected before.
This conversation is going off-topic. Please move to the MFC if you wish to carry on the discussion. Thanks. Mod.
okdky, thank mods!
Windows. Bill GATES. Windows & Gates…
“Come in and find out”. Have a look… “They” tell you many, many times in open, what it is all about.
BTW: don’t wank in front of your computer! And no: in front of your smartphone ether! -> One camera will catch your horny face, while the other… you can guess it.
I think VP highlighted this issue more than a year ago….trouble is in my limited experience, so many Russians use pirated Microsoft software…….?
… and who or what is VP? Do you mean VVP, and if yes, why don’t you write it, or why don’t you name him Vlad like his real fans do?
No, real fans of President Putin refer to him with respect and either as Putin, President Putin, or V.V.P. Never, ever, “Vlad” which is short for the not so Russian name Vladislav and is more used in neighbor countries. mod-on-duty.
And who or what is CV?
MS SW pirated (and defused) by Russkies was of high quality, but now only the brave Chinese still pirate MS SW, but not so well and user friendly as the Russkies did.
…bp… formerly “… (a name that triggered unwanted consequences)”
check out these vids in a similar vein by well known ukraine commentator too
eg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz65jLrh9GE
re Saakashvilli, poroshenko etc
saakashvilli has resigned…..maybe he has either fully maxed his illegal activities in Odessa, or like Mariupol going bankrupt, or as fortruss reports today, trouble may be stirring re transnystria, offering more criminal opportunties in this well know for that part of the world…smuggling.
The Real Reason Behind Saakashvili’s Resignation
November 8, 2016 –
Ruslan Ostashko, PolitRussia – translated by J. Arnoldski –
One of the symbols of the “new Ukraine”, the ex-Georgian president, fugitive, and part-time governor of Odessa, Mikhail Saakashvili, has announced his resignation, which came as a shock and to the dismay of Ukrainian citizens, who for some reason had great political hopes for him. I’ll leave aside the discussion of how Saakashvili’s biography, character, and addiction to hard narcotics couldn’t possibly leave anything good to be expected from him. What is more interesting to discuss are the motives behind his resignation and explaining whether this is connected to the American elections.
Before delving into this, let’s immediately eliminate two entirely untenable theories which nevertheless have a number of supporters on social networks.
Untenable theory number one is that Saakashvili has some kind of insider information that the US elections will be won by Hillary Clinton, and that he was warned in advance to secure a good starting position in the new American leadership’s Ukraine strategy. I understand the appeal of this theory, but I can’t agree with it. Saakashvili can hope that Clinton will win, and he can pray for her victory, but he cannot know the results of the US elections or possess any top insider secrets. For those who doubt this, let me remind you of two episodes.
The first episode was in 2008, when Saakashvili was 100% sure that America would completely sign up to back him against Russia. Well, how did that ‘insider knowledge’ work out?
The second episode was just recently, in this year, when he spoke of his future triumphant return to Georgia, apparently hoping that the Americans would falsify the results of the Georgian parliamentary elections in favor of his party. The Americans could have done this, but they didn’t. His party lost the elections by a landslide.
Thus, the image of Saakashvili as a super insider can be very appealing, but it does not correspond to reality.
The second untenable theory is that Saakashvili left for internal Ukrainian reasons or was forced to leave by ‘disgruntled Odessans.” Contemporary Ukraine is a territory full of national injustice. Local, regional, and national authorities couldn’t care less about dissatisfied citizens, whether in Odessa, Kiev, Zaporozhya, and so on. They also don’t care about their approval ratings. Saakashvili was given Odessa to “eat up,” and the people who took this decision to quarter a US mercenary in Ukraine are clearly not the ones sitting in Kiev.
Given this, it can be supposed that the version that the former Georgian president, famous for his greed, left his post because of tensions within Ukraine is in the least a strange theory.
And now about Saakashvili’s gesture. Apparently, he really needed to officially distance himself from Poroshenko who, from the point of view of many Western experts, has fulfilled almost all of the tasks in Ukraine that he was given. Even better was Saakashvili putting the emphasis on conflict with Poroshenko.
The new US president, whoever it will be, will be forced to do something with this situation, and the fact is not too far off that the decision will be made to do some behind-the-scenes spanking.
The scenario of backstage spanking, reducing salaries, and rinsing dirty laundry in the media is the best thing that could happen to Poroshenko under any new American administration.
Saakashvili is pretending that he has nothing at all to do with what has and is happening in Ukraine. For him, it would be ideal if Washington believed that he has no relation to Poroshenko, doesn’t know Kolomoysky, and has never seen Yatsenyuk, but had instead been somehow dragged into the mess created by the US’ political puppets in Ukraine.
Under these circumstances, distancing himself is a good strategy, but Saakashvili has run into an obstacle. He should have distanced himself earlier. Now this trick might not work.
The former Georgian president is now demonstrating a kind of behavior which is really familiar in Russia and which is difficult to be misconstrued. What does a regional official who has thieved or failed at an important project do when he learns that a check up is soon coming from Moscow? The pattern of behavior has not changed since the times of the USSR, believe me. This official immediately flies to the capital and tries to, so to say, resolve issues in a small circle of interested associates. Saakashvili and his team have failed in two spheres of work, the Georgian and Ukrainian ones. In Georgia, he lost elections, and in Ukraine he failed to create a success story out of Odessa. The Americans needed such success stories and Saakashvili 100% promised them something of the sort.
Now Saakashvili is covering his weak spots and unleashing into the information field the theory that he failed as governor only because of corrupt Kiev and interference by Poroshenko himself and his entourage.
Surely, Saakashvili has already written something in this spirit to Washington and is now simply publicly confirming his position and line of defense. If he gains the nerve, then he could try to ask the new US administration (and he has friends among both the Republicans and the Democrats) for a promotion, to let him steer something in Kiev, or participate in a new political project in Ukraine.
Considering that the Americans love to arrange political shows in which some political puppets are replaced by other political puppets under cries of fighting against corruption, then this might just work out for him.
Saakashvili’s actions are a very bad sign for Poroshenko. Poroshenko has no good way out of the unfolding situation. It may very well be that he has been left with only two paths: one to Rostov and the other to the gallows.
Saakashvili’s actions are also a possible sign that the Americans will radically shake up the Ukrainian political elite and bring real freaks and misfits to the forefront. For us, this is more good than bad. Any sudden movements could finish off the government system in Ukraine and lead to the delegitimization of the regime in Kiev, especially if outright Nazis come to power there.
For us, this collapse of the administrative system and the delegitimization of the government in Ukraine is good, even if Saakashvili earns something out of this. ”
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/11/the-real-reason-behind-saakashvilis.html