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It's making me fat.

Thanks. I've got folks who've had to unfollow their parents/husbands on social media for stuff like that. Funny seeing it satirized.

So. Whatever was used to get in is going to get burned, or turned over to the Fed for examination and use. Every tool they have is going to get hashed and given to the cybersecurity vendors out there. Be interesting to see if we see any attributable patches to vulns they might have developed. Kinda like WannaCry after the alleged-NSA loss of tooling. Overall...it sucks!

LINEBACKER comes to mind.

Also, this was just updated, emphasis from your site @Seadogs - "Just hours after the deadline for the petition's deadline, The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request by Trump ally Mike Kelly, a Pennsylvania Republican, to nullify Joe Biden’s election victory in Pennsylvania. Kelly argued that virtually all of the state’s mail-in ballots were unlawful. The rebuff came without explanation and with no noted dissents."

Considering Texas modified voting rules and procedures in exactly the same way...it's not surprised indicted felon Ken Paxton is doing this. Probably to get a pardon from Daddy Trump from the FBI investigating deep into his taking bribes and abusing office. So was it: unconstitutionality, or hacking, or fraudulent ballots, or flipped votes. I guess they're hoping something sticks to the wall to disenfranchise millions. Meanwhile Lying Ted Cruz, with the ugly wife and assassination Dad, is offering to argue it.

Oh really? I didn't know that. While I was there he was not liked due to attitude.

Not to brag but - U.S. Cyberforce Was Deployed to Estonia to Hunt for Russian Hackers

What does that mean?

We can have Trump saying crazy shit for years...but now every word is gospel. K.

https://streamable.com/6n72u3 Romain's interview about the accident. He goes into detail.

I know it probably doesn't compare. But I did a new flu vaccine test last year. They tracked me for almost six months, and I had a weekly email to respond to with health status. If I got sick I got some amazon gift cards and...free health care. 😁

So, Here's a cool hack that happened. I think the story illustrates well what I've been trying to discuss in the other threads about capabilities development and utilization. story - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/iphone-zero-click-wi-fi-exploit-is-one-of-the-most-breathtaking-hacks-ever/ Blog post - https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-click-radio-proximity.html (Very long) For those that don't know Project Zero is a Google initiative to get after bugs in software in a very aggressive manner. About page - https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/p/about-project-zero.html These guys are genius level hackers, working with literally unlimited funding going after the biggest names in the business to break their things...and get them patched. The take away - "one person, working alone in their bedroom, was able to build a capability which would allow them to seriously compromise iPhone users they'd come into close contact with." Something to note about software development - having 2 guys work on the same thing doesn't reduce the time by half, or even at all. It can, but is not likely. So, if you're thinking, "Well, the FSB probably has 20 of these guys so they could do it faster." Not really, and they don't have 20 of these guys. There's very few of these guys, and Google pays them 7+ figures. These Project Zero folks are the same people that are trying to get after our voting systems to help protect them, and we have enemies that could be trying to do the same thing to reduce confidence in our democracy. Right now we have no evidence of the later and evidence that they are trying to hack those systems isn't evidence that they have. Cyberops is tied very heavily into Intel, and there's legit concerns about Intel gain/loss and weapons loss that we and our enemies go through. As I said in the other thread, if the National Security Orgs had a wiff of this going on, we'd be hearing something about it. Probably from the President himself, because he can't shut his mouth about it. Think about what would happen the first time this bug dropped, and apply that to the election.

"the ease" is the questionable part. Which adversary has the infrastructure, capabilities, and means to get this accomplished without anyone competent bringing it forward? Pres Trump has now stated Biden can't be Pres if the votes weren't legit...if it was hacked, why would he not push that forward with evidence from any national security agency?

@jazzdude dude hits on my concerns. Our local numbers are not inline with the averages you found @brabus. I'm not saying they're wrong, there's just less hospitals here in the great-wide west, and less that can deal with COVID. Our current numbers - Percent of all non-ICU Bed Occupied 57.1% Percent of all ICU Beds Occupied 85.7% Percent of Referral Center ICU Beds Occupied 88.8% Average and median age for hospitalization have dropped by a year in about 2 weeks. % ICU beds and Referral Center were over 91% during "wave 2" peak. It's only going to get worse. Especially since we had an anti-mask demonstrations, one through a store the other week... On top of the work the medical community is putting in, we've also got demagogues claiming the doctors are getting paid extra to lie about COVID. I know if I was getting slammed at work, being told my work was a lie, and not being listened to when trying to get around the emergency...yea. I'm looking for a way out. But, I don't have the dedication Dr's and nurses do. Nor the student loans.

Come get your man

So, this had to be a thing - https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/12/01/no-kraken-refer-military-intelligence-unit.hmtl Also, Flynn (whose twitter handle is @genflynn...douche) is endorsing: So...yea.

For cyber peeps ADSC was a consideration after a few other factors (shiny penny, training, etc.) but according to my buds at the slaughterhouse it was there. Since our jobs got realigned to more actual Ops...who knows if it's more/less important. But it was part of the vectoring/assignment discussion, sometimes in the shitiest way possible.

Write up by the guy who wrote the spiderfoot tool that was so widely hailed as "proof" from the failed Trump Campaign. Guess if he agrees more with COL Cybersecurity Expert, or your lowely, local cyber guy. https://medium.com/@micallst/misusing-osint-to-claim-election-fraud-cfb89c858c3a Relevant quote -

Apparently they're asking about Russell's availability. Also, you guys should check out https://old.reddit.com/r/formula1/ It seems to avoid too much stupid drama in the main comments, and has really quick updates. Right now there's a photo of the Haas survival cell on the front page.

I love it. You're "just asking questions" with some video of a cybersecurity expert for the disaster that is campaign trump, and I try to figure out if he's actually one because his claims are amazing. I watch the video and tell you it's bullshit, and what he's briefing doesn't make sense. Also, he's presented zero actual proof for what he claims. There's no information online about his expertise, and his background, as he presented it, sounds mad fishy. Spent a hour trying to find information on him, and listening to the video. But I'm just diminishing someone's career. Well played, troll. We're done.

As a D, why would you lose seats in the house, and not guarantee at least 50 in the senate? Are they in Ohio? I didn't see any lawsuits there after checking a few "legacy media" sites (and wiki).

No, that wasn't my point. I've got my quals/creds in my resume, online in various job search engines, in LinkedIn exactly where I worked and what positions. I've been featured in a magazine for an award or 2, and even a couple of newspapers (gasp...I'm old!). I was known by my community (as fledgling as it was), and could be found in various groups that you can google (or my preferred - duckduckgo). This dude isn't active anymore, and is working for a political campaign, so we can probably assume that he's not still a spook. But nothing of his cred is online, not a PME paper, not a twitter handle, not a FB, not a LinkedIn, not previous work, not where he currently works that would employ him as a cybersecurity expert...and want to highlight that. He apparently doesn't have his own company he's pushing either. He's cited as a cybersecurity expert, but he's not in any of the circles I can turn to in order to evaluate (not prove) expert. I can't even find out when this dude retired, which would inform me if he was slinging bytes or simply signing paperwork approving the next "digital weapon buy" for random-three-letter-agency. His career-progression makes sense, as there's a lot of Army O's the crossed -- my exp has been mostly Artillery O's. But did he cross as a O5? He legit could have crossed as a O6. Would he be smart on cybersec, for sure. Would he be an expert...no. But, I don't know because we're unable to validate anything about him. Look, this is exactly the same as you zipper-suited Sun-Gods bitching about rando general having 69hrs of flight time in a platform and not being qualified to speak on X in platform (Phoenix Program comes to mind). Like everything else about the Trump campaign - lies, disinformation and utter failure at their mission. //BREAK BREAK// I actually just watched the video of the entire testimony from PA, and looked at spiderfoot. Here's a link to spiderfoot overview...it does not appear to do what he claims it does. That's as nicely as I can put it. Yes, their main webpage was connected to the internet on voting day, same as it is now. I will also give him the benefit of the doubt that he's speaking, unsworn, to legislatures...but he called his people, for his unnamed company "white hat hackers." dude is sus. Found his whole testimony here, he claims to have done the following in the last 1/2 of his career: "info warfare as - psychological operations officer, information operations officer, doing computer network operations, electronic warfare and special electronic warfare, deception, counter-deception, OPSEC, and a couple other specialties." Simply...bullshit. "One of our white hat hackers (sus) previously discovered malware that's present on 'the servers.'" - This is a crime. As an "expert" he should know you can't do that in our country without prior approval. Did they have approved access to get on those systems and evaluate them to discover that malware? Which servers, the webservers, the voting servers, development servers, update servers, etc? "No audit trail." Except those paper ballots they hand over, and can you know...audit with. Here's a guy on twitter breaking down the AZ testimony as the utter bullshit it is as well. You can check his quals in his twitter bio, like a real world expert. EDIT - Found out he retired in 2017 as a Col. Assume 3 years for in rank retirement he pinned on in 2014. Looking at some dates, Cyber Mission Force achieved IOC in Oct 2016, and FOC (right before I was there) in 2018. USCC elevated in 2018. I'd put good money on this dude commanding a battalion/brigade that supplied operators that actually did everything he claimed to do to USCC/3LA and being a staffer that pushed to get the CMF stood up. That's it after listening to his testimony in PA. To be clear, he claimed to do all the following jobs the last 1/2 (15 yrs) of his career - 29A MOS, 35G MOS, 30A MOS, 37A MOS, plus whatever job deception/counter-deception are rolled into. Overall, AF Intel manages their officer (and some enlisted) career paths extremely carefully to build expertise within certain areas, build credibility and ensure people have accesses throughout. We hated it as cyber guys for 2 reasons - fucked us for opportunities, fucked us for employing their people the way we wanted. They were especially stringent at O4 and up. My (limited) experience was the same for the Army (outside GO ranks...because they'll put a Infantry officer anywhere they fucking want in command). So...simply, no. TL;DR - This dude was minimum exaggerating his experience, and not credible about what he was briefing.

Sounds like politics to me. "Oh, if only we had more time!" Like every single Trump lawsuit. If only the legislature could have done that before the election since they already passed other laws on how their state was going to administrate the elections. Convenient of them to do that after they lost. Also, misleading of you to post it without the context of it not getting heard/passed. I googled this guy, but could find nothing supporting these claims. Go with creds you have, otherwise I'm going to assume he's as credible a cybersecurity expert as Rudy.

Romain's update on Insta - https://www.instagram.com/p/CIL-IOZJ7Xm/?igshid=eyhf0s4kdrsu