Tuesday, December 15, 2020

hacking everything but the election

China is the backstory of how a corrupt government allowed the release of  Covid, and is now using the marketing of an partially tested covid vaccine in order to be able to pressure poorer countries to cooperate with them.

But the covid epidemic led to the shutdowns, (and an unstable world due to a world wide recession).

and China of course will offer them "aid" by giving them loans to help recover their economies (and if they can't pay the loan back, hey no problem: China will accept your natural resources instead of money).

But we Pinoys know about all of this.

But the US MSM seems a bit naive about China's motives.

Ah but where are the China stories when it comes to  the US election of a man whose son was bribed by China, (Place conspiracy theory here).

So when I read the latest hack of US Government one does wonder

that Houston Chron story points their fingers at China.
Ah, but the AFP story in the local PhilInquirer story has a different take: It was by Russian hackers "according to a spokesperson for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency".
So why don't I trust that story? Because the same story mentions these Russian hackers spied on US gov't sites during the Obama administration (which is probably true), but the story doesn't mention that it was China who hacked the OPM files of myself and a million other gov't and military employees, (italics mine)... so if they got this wrong, it makes me wonder if the reporter is just ignorant, or trying to "gaslight" their readers.


there is a cyber war out there, and it's not just government spies, but hackers seeking profit: other major black hat hackers are Russian gangsters, North Koreans ransom ware and Iranians.

The AFP story quotes an organization that is listed under Homeland security /HHS
and here is their Recent threat list

number one on that list: the
 Solar Wind corporation:


FireEye Advisory: Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to Compromise Multiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor 



  • No, I don't know what all this means.


    aand more about Chinese spying: From John Bachelor:




    U.S. Department of Justice among others announced 23 criminal charges (Financial Fraud, Money Laundering, Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Theft of Trade Secret Technology and Sanctions Violations, etc.) against Huawei & its CFO Wanzhou Meng “The government of China is engaged in espionage overseas, directed through diverse methods via the Ministry of State Security, the United Front Work Department, and People's Liberation Army as well as their numerous front organizations and state-owned enterprises.
    Cleo Paskal, @CleoPaskal, non-resident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang,Daily Beast, in re:: People have looked at this list for months, consider it credible.
    Brave Chinese men and women have risked their lives to release the 1.95 million names of mostly Shanghainese Communist Party names, out of 92 million total membership. We’ve never had anything else like this. Gobsmacked. Consistent and logical with what’s going on in China.
    Most Chinese university students re invited to join the Party, which controls all your opportunities—who you can be. Published also in Australia: brave to do that.
    We’re entering a new era. They believe they're in charge of the universe. List of well-known people. Stunning that someone actually released this. We see that there are CCP cells in major US corporations. What’s really news is that there are cells in consulates—Australia, UK, and US.
    Bok: Political Warfareon how China has been doing this for ever so long, All the allies need to run a training program for our dips before they go to China; this is pervasive.
    New Zealand thinks that when push comes to shove, US Marines will come and save them. Recall Anne-Marie Brady. Excellent people are being tormented at the behest of the CCP, jeopardizing our entire security architecture. https://www.foxnews.com/world/leaked-chinese-communist-party-records-show-ccp-members-employed

     

    This Reuters article from  August discusses how China was targeting the 2020 US election. 

    However, a closer look at the article shows it is gaslighting you, and repeats the lie that Russia interfered for Trumpieboy in the 2016 election and plans to interfere again, without mentioning that their interference in 2016 was ads for both sides and that the conspiracy theory about this interference was fake news: it was hatched by Hillary with Obama and the CIA's advice.

    But did China interfere with the 2020 election?

    Dept AG Rosen gave a speech about this worry back in August noting that outside interference in US elections is nothing new, but with cyberwar abilities that this threat has escalated. 

    And it says a lot about our Silicon valley Lords that when he tweeted a link to that speech recently, that Twitter said it wasn't true.

    Yes, the same Twitter censors who removed the tweets of Chinese dissidents before the Tiannemen Square anniversary (NYTimes June 2019) and then claimed it was not Chinese government interference but they accidentally removed the tweets because it was identified as spam. 

    SHANGHAI — Three days before the most sensitive political anniversary on the Chinese calendar, Twitter suspended the accounts of Chinese political commentators in what it said was an accident. The move showed starkly the global political ramifications of Silicon Valley slip-ups

    but the censorship of stories before the election by the MSM and other social media sites who labled any claim about Biden's son's connections with China as untrue make one wonder...

    especially when one finds out that the FBI had Hunter's computer for over a year, and that it showed links not just with China but with the Ukraine when Trumpieboy was impeached for asking the Ukraine to check out the story. Uh, why didn't the FBI say anything back then? Maybe the same reason we are just now hearing they have Seth  Rich's computer.

     and the gas lighting continues: And the silence about the "Fang Fang" story suggests it's not just Biden's scandals being kept quiet to get rid Trumpieboy, but a covert censorship of negative China stories by big media...

     reminds me of Chomsky's complaints about greedy capitalist media censoring stories, except in this case it is media with links to China that wants them as a market so is biasing news in their favor.

    so fast forward to the election where Trumpieboy's objections via tweet are being called absurd and a lie.

    Well, it's a long tried and true custom by corrupt city political machines of both parties to include  illegal voters (dead, underage,non citizen), stuffing the ballot box (and double voting), throwing out ballots to make sure your candidate wins, etc.

    heck we see this in the Philippines all the time ("hello Garci") and we also know about CIA distortion of our elections by bribes and by manipulating or having their frontmen buy news organizations. 

    but what has changed this time is that there is a lot of suspicion out there about computer shennanigans in the last US election that are "HUGE": but the MSM refuses to cover these allegations seriously, or denies them without evidence to the contrary.


    Gateway Pundit article from Nov 12 lists questions about the election that any decent news organization should have started checking, but somehow did not.

    So the next time you read the conspiracy theories by Trumpieboy that China rigged and helped Biden steal the election (i.e. maybe not Biden cooperating but because China knows Biden won't be as hostile against them as Trump), just ignore the story and move on, folks, nothing going on here.

    uh oh: Gateway pundit reports that Solar wind has been raided by the FBI...

    This was only the fifth Emergency Directive issued by CISA under the authorities granted by Congress in the Cybersecurity Act of 2015.

    CISA reported a breach of the SolarWinds Orion products.

    This Emergency Directive called on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products immediately.

    00:2001:35

    So guess who uses SolarWinds?

    Dominion Voting Systems uses SolarWinds products.
    It’s right there on their website.

     BREAKING BOMBSHELL: MI Judge Grants Attorney Matt DePerno Permission To RELEASE Results Of Forensic Examination On 16 Dominion Voting Machines In Antrim Co. 

    that last story can also be found on the PJMedia site LINK: 

    The Antrim County, Mich., forensics report undertaken by Allied Security Operations Group was released to the public on Monday by order of a Michigan judge. The report concluded that “the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results” and “the results of the Antrim County 2020 election are not certifiable.”


     


    h< 


    Huh? You mean there might be something behind Trumpieboy's conspiracy theories? Who wudda thot?


     


    I am sorry to find all this news on "conspiracy sites" but one problem is that the MSM not only hides a lot of stories but asks you to pay for the stories, so I have to find them on secondary sites.

    ?
    update
    ConservativeTreehouse explains the links between the SolarWind raid and huge hacking of government computers.
    another summary at the Spectator.

    ======

    Austin Bay discusses the newest concept of Robo ships (but doesn't discuss if they could be hacked by China).

    But one reason I link is because the article also mentions China's aggression in the West Philippine sea: it's aim is not just the Philippines.

    . Gaucher told the conference, "I want to be able to put an unmanned surface ship inside the adversary's denied areas." His word choice sent a message. China boasts that it can and will deny the U.S. military access to the South China Sea. That is China's operational intent. Its strategic intent is political control of the region and, I think, control of Singapore.


     


    again I refer you to the map of the sea-lanes:

    if the Chinese takeover of the West Philippine Sea means making shipping to Japan and Korea and Siberia more expensive because the ships would have to detour to the west of Luzon, the takeover of Singapore (which is often called the "fourth China" because of it's large Chinese population) would essentially cut off traffic, which would have to bypass through Indonesia.
     LINK.

    Link 2:

    The Malacca Strait is a narrow 550 miles and is the shortest route between the Pacific and Indian oceans. It links major Asian economies such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. The Strait of Malacca is the world’s second-busiest waterway, with more than 83,000 vessels traveling this route each year.

    again, a lot of this is technical and outside my area of expertise. But a lot of modern shipping is via cargo ships, which need a deeper sea. I remember working in Liberia when our hospital would evacuate sailors off of huge tanker ships that had to go around the Horn of Africa because the Suez canal wasn't large enough for them... and because the (artificial) port of Monrovia was also too small, it meant that we had to take a tug boat out to the open ocean to do the evacuation. (but that's another story for another day).


    .

    No comments: