After Ukraine…

Posted on February 23, 2014 by hanshowe

“Orange Crush?” What’s next? Moscow?

 

[in Sic Semper Tyrannis]

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“What we are risking is a great power confrontation. The various Russian strategic thinkers have already said that NATO bases in Ukraine would be a serious strategic threat to the existence of an independent Russia. So, if Ukraine moves into the EU and then NATO bases are on their way, there’s no doubt whatsoever that southern and eastern Ukraine are going to split off, and I just don’t believe the Russians are going to give up their naval base on the Black Sea. So, if the Americans push too hard, and by Americans I mean Washington, of course, it’s going to be a great power confrontation. Very, very serious thing… I mean what in the world do you think Washington cares about democracy in Ukraine? They don’t even have any in the United States! We have a police state that spies on everybody, the whole world. The media is a propaganda ministry. It’s worse than it ever was in the Soviet Union. People have no idea of what’s going on and what they’re told about the Ukraine is a fabrication.” Paul Craig Roberts quoted in the Voice of Russia

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If you are Russian, it is very easy to see what has happened in Kiev as a neocon inspired US plot for which the “second act” will be an attempt to foment  a similar uprising in Russia itself.  This belief is reflected in the article quoted above.

Paul Craig Roberts and Phil Geraldi make strong cases for the continued influence of the neoconservatives.  As a conspiratorial “vanguard” the neocons think nothing of changing their official party identity in pursuit of power.

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Americans should ask themselves if people like Victoria Nuland and Michael Rubin are dragging the United States toward a crisis and possible conflict with Russia.

The neocons gave us the Iraq war.  What a triumph that has proven to be.  What new mischief will they heap upon the heads of the American people?  pl

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2014/02/17/diplomacy-is-a-four-letter-word/

http://voiceofrussia.com/us/2014_02_22/Former-Reagan-Asst-Sec-Washington-neocons-behind-Ukraine-protests-7567/

http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2014/02/httpvoiceofrussiacomus2014_02_22former-reagan-asst-sec-washington-neocons-behind-ukraine-protests-7567.html

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un-fkn believable…Schneier on Security: Another Credit-Card-as-Authentication Hack

Posted on January 31, 2014 by hanshowe

my head hurts…
you’d expect shit like that from GoDaddy, but paypal too furchristsakes…

“This is a pretty impressive social engineering story: an attacker compromised someone’s GoDaddy domain registration in order to change his e-mail address and steal his Twitter handle. It’s a complicated attack.

My claim was refused because I am not the “current registrant.” GoDaddy asked the attacker if it was ok to change account information, while they didn’t bother asking me if it was ok when the attacker did it. […]

It’s hard to decide what’s more shocking, the fact that PayPal gave the attacker the last four digits of my credit card number over the phone, or that GoDaddy accepted it as verification.

The misuse of credit card numbers as authentication is also how Matt Honan got hacked.”

Bruce Schneier

 

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Hilarious…

Posted on October 18, 2013 by hanshowe

schneier bruce headshotfrom Bruce Schneier… [https://www.schneier.com/]

“D-Link Router Backdoor

Several versions of D-Link router firmware contain a backdoor. Just set the browser’s user agent string to “xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide,” and you’re in. (Hint, remove the number and read it backwards.)

It was probably put there for debugging purposes, but has all sorts of applications for surveillance.

Good article on the subject.”

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