Donald Trump

[stevebrooks]

Trump on massive security breach:

Mr Trump added that it was “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one”.

These sorts of incidents have sent other people, serfs, people who don't matter to these idiots, to prison for years, as for being the only glitch, who the fuck knows if it is, this time it was a reporter who reported it, last time it could have been Musk, a Russian friend of Tulsi Gabbard, no-one knows. But the fact is, it's not a glitch, that's just downplaying it. There are security rules set in place in the US government specifically designed to prevent such "glitches," this sort of thing should only be discussed in a SCIF, this is why they exist, and you don't connect a chat on an unsecure phone on an unsecure chat program featuring national security issues and classified info to someone in fucking Moscow.

Fact is it's a major security disaster plastered across the world and every other security agency in every western country is looking at the US and, if not laughing, at least deciding that secret info will never be passed to the US again, because if they can fuck up this hugely in 2 month imagine what they can do in 4 years. If they get away with calling this a glitch and nothing happens, they will continue doing this sort of thing, and now foreign actors know they are using unauthorised and insecure phones and chat programs to do it there will be a push to gain access to apps, hackers are now alerted.

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-ame ... 5192cdbe4f

Oh look, what a surprise! Americans are now less safe due to this blunder!

British security officials have “deep-rooted fears” about sharing intelligence with the US following a leak of classified information by Donald Trump’s national security team on an unsecured messaging app.

They say higher restrictions are now likely to be placed on some intelligence material sent to US counterparts which will be distributed on a strictly “need to know” basis to trusted contacts, rather than more widely circulated.

https://imgur.com/gallery/consequences-pwhpYxw

[pipbarber]

This doco is from a few years ago, perhaps it did the rounds here or on the old forum but i only recently watched it. It's about systemic voter suppression, especially in the southern states, especially in Georgia, all of which is even more out of control than it was when the movie was made.

There isn't really all that much that was new to me but seeing these hero people trying to fight this, and getting some background on this detestable Brian Kemp creature was worth the watch alone. Some really enlightening historical analysis too, which was educational to me, so some new stuff, i guess. I recommend it. (It is on youchoob, unfortunately...)

https://www.watchvigilantesinc.com/

[stevebrooks]

There may be hope if democracy in the US can last until the midterms, yes a big ask, the only other option of course being revolution, but a red state in Pennsylvania that last elected a democrat in 1889 and has been red ever since, just elected a democrat in a special election! Can only wait and hope, maybe more special elections will go to the dems in the meantime!

[stylofone]

Hegseth and some of the other clowns, like millions of other internet users, have had their details stolen in previous mass data leaks. And they kept using the same compromised accounts now that they are in the US cabinet. The contacts include mobile phone numbers, gmail and whatsapp accounts. Apparently there are also passwords in the leaked databases. Presumably the clowns at least changed the passwords since then. But they didn't burn the accounts, even after getting their new jobs in the Trump circus. Even as a retired nobody, I've recently started using an email alias generator to sign up for things. The US Defence Secretary has more lax security standards than me.

The German news outlet, Der Spiegel, reportedly found private contact information for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and national security adviser Mike Waltz, who were involved in the Signal group chat security breach.

The news site’s report said each individual’s email address and phone number were readily available on the dark web, according to a Wednesday report.

Hegseth’s mobile number and active email address were sent to Der Spiegel by a commercial provider of personal information for marketing purposes.

Their search of the leaked user data revealed that the email address and, in some cases, even the password associated with it, could be found in over 20 publicly accessible leaks and traced back to a WhatsApp account for the Defense Secretary that was recently deleted as reported by the outlet.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... fo-online/

[stevebrooks]

Hegseth and some of the other clowns, like millions of other internet users, have had their details stolen in previous mass data leaks. And they kept using the same compromised accounts now that they are in the US cabinet. The contacts include mobile phone numbers, gmail and whatsapp accounts. Apparently there are also passwords in the leaked databases. Presumably the clowns at least changed the passwords since then. But they didn't burn the accounts, even after getting their new jobs in the Trump circus. Even as a retired nobody, I've recently started using an email alias generator to sign up for things. The US Defence Secretary has more lax security standards than me.

The German news outlet, Der Spiegel, reportedly found private contact information for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and national security adviser Mike Waltz, who were involved in the Signal group chat security breach.

The news site’s report said each individual’s email address and phone number were readily available on the dark web, according to a Wednesday report.

Hegseth’s mobile number and active email address were sent to Der Spiegel by a commercial provider of personal information for marketing purposes.

Their search of the leaked user data revealed that the email address and, in some cases, even the password associated with it, could be found in over 20 publicly accessible leaks and traced back to a WhatsApp account for the Defense Secretary that was recently deleted as reported by the outlet.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... fo-online/

They said that foreign powers could have used this data to hack the phones of the Trump gov idiots, I posted elsewhere that if these details were available publicly and online for any length of time then that's not, "could," it should be "have," because this is exactly the sort of blunder that foreign powers, China, Russia etc scour the net for, it's like honey. They would have been on to this the moment these people were appointed, basically scouring the internet for any info available on them and this would have been front and center!

The Houthi's are small players so they probably didn't have access, but if they use these channels to try and plan against China, Russia etc, well they will know the US's plans before the US does!

[stylofone]

Hegseth and some of the other clowns, like millions of other internet users, have had their details stolen in previous mass data leaks. And they kept using the same compromised accounts now that they are in the US cabinet. The contacts include mobile phone numbers, gmail and whatsapp accounts. Apparently there are also passwords in the leaked databases. Presumably the clowns at least changed the passwords since then. But they didn't burn the accounts, even after getting their new jobs in the Trump circus. Even as a retired nobody, I've recently started using an email alias generator to sign up for things. The US Defence Secretary has more lax security standards than me.

The German news outlet, Der Spiegel, reportedly found private contact information for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and national security adviser Mike Waltz, who were involved in the Signal group chat security breach.

The news site’s report said each individual’s email address and phone number were readily available on the dark web, according to a Wednesday report.

Hegseth’s mobile number and active email address were sent to Der Spiegel by a commercial provider of personal information for marketing purposes.

Their search of the leaked user data revealed that the email address and, in some cases, even the password associated with it, could be found in over 20 publicly accessible leaks and traced back to a WhatsApp account for the Defense Secretary that was recently deleted as reported by the outlet.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... fo-online/

They said that foreign powers could have used this data to hack the phones of the Trump gov idiots, I posted elsewhere that if these details were available publicly and online for any length of time then that's not, "could," it should be "have," because this is exactly the sort of blunder that foreign powers, China, Russia etc scour the net for, it's like honey. They would have been on to this the moment these people were appointed, basically scouring the internet for any info available on them and this would have been front and center!

The Houthi's are small players so they probably didn't have access, but if they use these channels to try and plan against China, Russia etc, well they will know the US's plans before the US does!

Yup, if the Atlantic editor can find out by accident, imagine what the malicious black hats of Russia, China and North Korea could do, with a lifetime of experience and a crack team going hell for leather 24 hours a day. They could crack a crypto account and steal over a billion dollars, these Trumpy clowns are easy pickings by comparison.

[pipbarber]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... iversities

I'm just a tad shocked by the lack of response to the active 'disappearing' of people on US streets. First it was 'illegal' immigrants' (though no evidence of illegality was demonstrated and no legal process was followed) but now it is students who have valid visas but do or say something maga doesn't like. No one knows where they are, no one in the administration seems to know either, or rather they can't be arsed finding out.

So we've gone from illegal immigrants to international students in a pretty short space of time. Next? Obviously tourists (cleaning your phones and laptops should be a travel warning to the US). Once all the foreigners are out of the way, who's next? Activists, protestors and prominent critics seem the most likely, and who knows after that. The point being that disappearing people is a terrible line to have crossed because there's no real moral or legal difference between one and one thousand, or ten thousand.

You'd think universities would be outraged, you'd think they'd be resisting and protecting their students and employees, but you'd be wrong. They are rolling over to keep their funding. Institutions like universities need to resist, it is actually in their long term interests to do so, they aren't seeing that way at the moment, or so it seems and that is disturbing.

[stylofone]

Note also the description of Molotov cocktails as "weapons of mass destruction"and those who wield them as "domestic terrorists". Even Attorney-General dropout Matt Gaetz would have a hard time topping that.

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-ame ... 8081357146

[pipbarber]

Note also the description of Molotov cocktails as "weapons of mass destruction"and those who wield them as "domestic terrorists". Even Attorney-General dropout Matt Gaetz would have a hard time topping that.

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-ame ... 8081357146

This is so insane. I saw Musk in an interview say that he (the FBI and the maga state) will not just stop at the individuals that vandalized terrorized (?) Tesla cars but the 'propagandists' that encouraged them. That would be critics of Musk, who astonishingly are now terrorists.

It's easy for me to say, not being in the US, but Musk is a demented fascist pig who is dismantling American democracy and ruining millions of peoples lives. He is grifter, thief and bigot, he is one of the most destructive humans on the planet right now. If you are not ashamed to drive a tesla car, you're a fucking idiot.

That'd make me a terrorist propagandist in the US?

[stevebrooks]

Being abducted of the public street by masked men in black cars who present n ID's or warrants and whisked off to detention centers thousands of miles away is now becoming common on US streets, it's everything the so called second amendment fanatics claimed they needed to keep their weapons ready for, where are they? Cheering on the masked men, that's where!

It was just a regular Tuesday evening for Rumeysa Ozturk, who was walking alone from her home to a nearby restaurant to meet friends.

That is, until the 30-year-old student was surrounded by a group of plain clothed federal police officers in Somerville, Massachusetts.

CCTV footage shows the moment Ozturk screamed and was grabbed around the wrists by an officer who was dressed in a hoodie and hat. Many of the officers had covered their mouths and noses with cloth, and some donned sunglasses.

They knew where and when she could be found, they must be tracking people they are going to kidnap, it's the Stasi come to the US, supposedly the land of the free but now the land of fear and loathing!

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-ame ... c9255bea59