I really felt internally motivated to do away with this morning's post about Adam #Zarnowski. I started off my opinion piece talking about former NSA official Wendy Noble. I don't generally like discussing anything much about No Such, online... I have not generally done this since the Snowden years (post-2013). That was a real burn for Edward #Snowden of course, since he was effectively forced into exile in Russia for leaking intelligence documents. Also the Snowden revelations were a real burn for several of us technology people who often have to navigate a fine line between functioning computer tasks and the required planning that goes with that, on the one hand — and mitigating and understanding information security on the other hand.
Everything is diffuse in this so-called modern era of ours. It's hard for ME to separate the facts from everything else, these daze.
Adam #Zarnowski is more or less on his own. US Congress gave up on the American public to install a true "carnival barker," failed businessman, and disgusting pedophile who sexually assaulted a young teenager during the 1990's to the highest executive office.
I would like to give a hearty fvck you to all of the Republican insurrectionists burrowed in the US Congress — who do absolutely nothing except impede investigations into the big-time loser Donald J. Trump. No. 47 started his little Iran War for entirely false reasons. I feel that he launched this war so that the Saudis could maintain and then advance their presence as a nation-state economic proxy and get in front of Iran, Israel, China, Qatar, and UAE's control of all the other oil that's left in the Middle East. The Saudis may make twice as much money with their 142 oilfields likely increasing production by the end of this fiscal year — in 2026. We will probably never have a more transactional and also corrupt president than our imbecile billionaire President Donald J. Trump.
Here's something a little more relevant to #infosec instead:
https://wapo.st/4bQisX5
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" As the war in Iran erupted five weeks ago, social media sleuths across Western and Chinese platforms flagged a wave of viral posts detailing equipment at U.S. bases, the movements of American carrier groups and granular breakdowns of how military aircraft were assembling for strikes on Tehran.
The intelligence came from a fast growing new market: Chinese firms — some with links to the People’s Liberation Army — marrying artificial intelligence with open-source data to market information they claim can “expose” the movements of U.S. forces.
Beijing has sought to distance itself from any direct involvement in the Iran war, but the firms — many of which have emerged in the past five years as part of the government’s push to harness private AI for military use — are capitalizing on the conflict.
U.S. officials and intelligence experts are divided over whether Chinese firms’ publicly marketed tools pose a genuine threat or are being credibly used by U.S. adversaries, but say the surge in private-sector offerings points to a growing security risk and reflects Beijing’s intent to project the strength of its intelligence capabilities.
Beijing has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into supporting private firms developing AI with practical defense applications under its civil-military integration strategy, and last month announced plans to supercharge those efforts as part of a broader five-year national strategy... "
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Wrapping up my comments:
When the WaPo reporters write "Beijing" — I immediately think of the lowbrow Chinese company named #Huawei, who used to literally sell wireless Internet routers to the American public with secret programmable back doors so that China's military intelligence people could digitally break in to US companies' I.T. networks and the average US citizens' home networks through any Huawei router, manufactured during specific years. The goal of these corporate thieves was to build dossiers on the economic potential of America's enterprises by collecting as much information as they could get away with at the time. ⬆️ This crap being mentioned in the #WaPo article is what those corporate Chinese hackers are all up to, at this time.
Huawei is a terrible company who should be wiped off the map, economically. At the least, Huawei should be sanctioned even more by the US. The U.S. Department of Commerce added Huawei and its subsidiaries to its "Entity List" in May 2019, citing activities contrary to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests — specifically, evasion of sanctions by doing business with the #Iranian government.
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