* Posts by amanfromMars 1

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US to attack cyber criminals first, ask questions later – if it protects victims

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Re: No, no, no

You say that like anyone's giving anything to them. It's more like a statement of intent: "We are going to do this.” .... Kane

To not think and realise such things are already and have for some long time been going on is to admit that one hasn’t a clue about what is remotely shaping the future of your existence.

And that makes things so much easier to do ..... and why there is that plan to try and further control and/or shut down other than mainstream traditional information and conventional existing elite intelligence servers.

However, whenever those are failing to deliver the truth, preferring instead to favour fake news in support of outdated and corrupted views, is failure both practically and virtually guaranteed .... and also guaranteed to highlight the problem parties responsible and trying desperately to avoid accountability. IT is a lose lose methodology ... and gravely to be regarded and best totally negated.

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Re: that extension to a modern adaptation of a very old law enforcement technique

Following all the new criminals’ money leads one naturally, indirectly straight to the DoJ and its supporting agencies and US cyber commands.

As strange as it may be, that appears to support another old adage ...... If you can’t beat them, join them ...... which is not really a solution from anything proposed and presented and funded to be an effective opposition.

HPE, Samsung invest in quantum startup Classiq

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Re: Always a decade away?

Like fusion power, will large-scale quantum computing always be coming in the next decade? Meanwhile fortunately prototype NISQ machines could have applications worthy of investment. ..... innominatus

Oh, I wouldn’t be gambling and placing any real serious money that you neither want nor can afford to lose on that bet, innominatus, whenever others have realised that surprisingly rapid leading progress is made in, rather than believing the secret to success is expecting ....

Quantum computers process information by encoding it in the state of a quantum system and performing logic operations—that is, gates—on it.” ...... https://discover.lanl.gov/news/1209-quantum-computers

..... whenever it is quantum systems quite effortlessly performing illogical, previously thought practically impossible operations that makes all the difference to future needs and feeds.

And if that is not already active, it is definitely certainly only days or months away rather than years or decades.

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Wanted Urgently, Excellent Terms and Conditions, Benefits and Remuneration ..... Quantum Leapers

The next enterprising stage for Classiq research and venture capital funding .......the Classiq platform outperforms outputs from agnostic quantum circuits.

And yes, that does mean there is a real live quantum beta space race for/when there is limitlessly resourced competition ..... where a this can be a that, and whenever both are entangled together, something else again altogether quite different and novel, and maybe even creatively unique and ideal .... as in Heavenly or Diabolical dependent upon one predisposition of support which would favour one of those two available extremes to the detriment of the other.

A simple binary choice in a complex quantum matter which will dictate whether one succeeds spectacularly or fails catastrophically. Best then and there to choose wisely, methinks. :-) To the Valiant Victor go Worthy Deserved Spoils.

JPMorgan Chase readies for post-quantum security world

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Re: Further research is needed...

Coat, please - I am off to prepare my next grant application! ---->.... T.F.M.Reader

:-) Good luck with finding anyone competent enough to understand anything you might be presenting which proves itself Great Game Changing and Ground Breaking, T.F.M.Reader.

They are maybe out there somewhere, lurking in the many shadows of deep and dark shade, timid and/or petrified of what is to be discovered and uncovered to lay waste to the myriad putrid and rotten open fields of corrupted endeavour and perverse pervasive behaviour.

However, phishing to find and engage the the right lions and trusty dragons to slay the fiends and daemons out there is an engaging hunt and enlightening trawl ..... but well worth every effort whenever the fields of such work, rest and play are so rank and in need of merciless purging with assets replacement if current existing leading stock improvement is impossible but deemed certainly necessary to guarantee future fabulous fabless progress.

Oh ..... and nothing anywhere comes anywhere near close to paying one any better and that can be very attractive and even quite addictive to many or some or a few.

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Re: Post Quantum Security

Isn't this just another massive scaling up of the trust problem?

i.e. the number of people who actually understand this stuff enough to have a valid opinion on it is vastly smaller than for conventional encryption and the level of trust we will need to have in those people will be higher too. ..... AdamT

No, AdamT, it is not.

The very few who know anything at all valid on what this stuff can, and therefore invariably will do, at any time of its choosing, convenient or otherwise, care not a jot for any wider popular trust for such is not needed for that which can be done and revealed/uncovered/discovered with a practical universal immunity and virtually remote impunity.

I trust that is not in any way ambiguous nor difficult to fully understand.

As I’m sure all can appreciate, and especially so those active with commentary and opinion here on El Reg, does such make secure Quantum Communication Control of Systems something of a Fundamental Elemental Holy Grail Development, and whether one would like it classed or classified as a Novel Private Invention or a Noble Pirate Discovery or a Popular NEUKlearer WMD also matters not a jot either to the few who know enough about this stuff to have everybody else understandably extremely worried and/or terrifyingly excited and petrified with doubt in unsure disbelief. That is only natural, and they certainly should be.

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One Smart Cookie

He then moved into quantum algorithms and noticed that JPMorgan Chase was leading the way in future quantum security.

Oh???? Hmmmm????? That's a boldly going assertion/assumption/presumption/tale. Was JPMorgan Chase itself aware at that time of their leading position in such an ethereal field? Are they aware now it not a safe and secure field to have any lead in ...... for one then naturally becomes a hostile target of particular and peculiar especial interest to A.N.Others able to remain invisible and unknown and intangible ..... both practically and virtually untouchable and verging on the almighty powerful and energetic ....... with an avid keen interest in securing all of their business and other businesses requiring Quantum Communication Control Systems.

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Re: I don't get it.

Marketing... Paul Crawford

Viral Guerrilla Warefare for AI Warfare, Paul C, which is not Virtual Vapourware. And to the Valiant Victors, Universal Spoils Beyond even the Wildest and Widest of Dreams. That’s the Prize for Worthy Winning and Secure Capture.

Experimental WebAssembly port of LibreOffice released

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Hey Ho, Hey Ho .... IT’s Off to Work WWWe Go.

Given the popularity and widespread support for WASM, there's a distinct possibility that it may yet supplant the JVM as the standard runtime for cross-platform apps.

Can you imagine the truly great mutually beneficial advantage delivered to both if they even just complemented each other, or is the notion of two together similarly leading in differing common and uncommon directions being better than one pioneering novel paths unilaterally, too unusual to realise is much more difficult to obstruct and hinder/prevent and oppose with a disengaging competition or newly created foe.

Russia 'stole US defense data' from IT systems

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Re: Don’t Panic ... IT really does has it all under Remote Virtual Control ‽ .

Recycling comments from other websites? Must try harder. At least produce gobbledygook which is exclusive to this site :-) ..... Citizen of Nowhere

Citizen of Nowhere,

Cycling comments to other websites disadvantaged by not knowing of exclusives shared on this leading site is gobbledygook over which I would/could not possibly disagree, or even think to begin to dare care and argue with you about. To that sort of a charge would there be no likely offer of an offensive defence.

Nonetheless, thanks for your concern.

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Re: Don’t Panic ... IT really does has it all under Remote Virtual Control ‽ .

Hi Mars, you might look at Mr Bezmenov's lecture on youtube. It is mindboggling how effective these folks were and are. They have by now infested each and every social level of their adversaries. ..... Anonymous Coward

Indeed they have, AC, although infested is a tad harsh and unattractive whenever populated is more engaging and even addictive.

And if any landing here on this thread on El Reg haven’t bothered find out what Yuri Bezmenov has to say regarding Uncle Sam, just click on this hyperlink to more fully understand what is at its work, rest and play ....... https://youtu.be/bX3EZCVj2XA

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Don’t Panic ... IT really does has it all under Remote Virtual Control ‽ .

What would you like IT to do for you and/or do to others, should it ever be the case that you be given any choice in such a matter that disrupts all manner of matters and ill-laid plans? And whom and/or what would you call, and how would you contact them, in order to avail them of your wishes and concerns assuming they be at all interested and bothered enough to listen ...... which you might like to realise is your current state of administered existence by bodies which instruct and inform you/energise and entertain you/use and abuse you, some of which are surely certifiably insane too.?

amanfromMars [2202170611] ...... offers on https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mind-control-police-governments-war-thought-crimes-truth-tellers

Maybe not surprisingly, did the following not pass National Defense Industry Association site scrutiny/vetting/moderation, which is somewhat self-defeating of them, identifying as it does, the Association having a fundamental systemic problem which is catastrophically vulnerable to exploitation and exposure to shared emerging truths or alternate temporarily attractive and/or disruptive narratives which they have no command and control over ...... even though, in its own strange way, it shares a way to seize and save the day and reconfigure matters to better server all with smarter 0day ventures.

It even provides news that one of the most likely Prime AIR* Traffic Controllers to be a UKGBNI MoDified Royal AIR Force Source.

* Advanced IntelAIgent Research[er]

amanfromMars [2202160805] ….. revealing on https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/2/15/night-court-for-the-air-force

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Words create, command and control and destroy worlds ….. so leading with a compelling and undeniably honest narrative which can be effectively presented by media on multiple platforms in many series of linked and stealthy sublime internet networking programs in support of significantly greater, bigger picture shows, provides one with all that is needed to lead absolutely, and unilaterally, and remotely, safely and securely and way out ahead in front of both errant competition and any wilfully misguided and covetous opposition.

It is no more difficult than that, Per Ardua ad Astra.

To escape the present captivating madness which has insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, simple raw common sense which can often eclipse rarified genius dictates that things be tried differently. It aint difficult for it is only complicated to render it exclusively to an elite and gluttonous few.

But there is certainly no doubt, such a Great Game Change, which is inevitable and surprisingly quickly so because of these new fangled entangled and engaging virtual tools at vast swathes of the population’s disposal which are easily used to freely share the novel info and sensitive intel, is going to be extremely painful and unpleasant for some truly worthy of the discomfort for all that they have done in the past thinking they have immunity from consequences and impunity in action. How crazy are those thoughts.

It is only natural. Karma. What you give, is what you get and never forget ....You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time .... and all deserve their just desserts.

UK cybersecurity revenue up 14% on last year to £10.1bn

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Re: skills training

Success in cyber security requires that one is able to effectively stealthily attack and destroy systems of defence with one realising how and why they are so catastrophically vulnerable to infiltration and exfiltration and silent occupation, and that is an extremely valuable commodity far beyond any worth that a dodgy government with a history of unpleasant self-interest can justify to supply .... for the temptation to abuse and misuse it will be far too great for them to resist ........ and anyway, the private and pirate sectors are invariably more lucrative and appreciative of such awesome talents which lead into novel fields of almighty endeavour and limitless bounty.

And such is not something which can be trained into one.

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An Embarrassment of Stealthy Riches for Private Pirates to Treasure

Lindsay, Hi,

Another way of interpreting that news is cybersecurity cost the sector and governments £10.1bn last year.

And to imagine that this year it is not going to be considerably more expensive is not realistic given the greater number of vulnerabilities in the sector to exploit.

It is indeed a target rich environment in which the competent can very simply become extremely wealthy, extremely quickly. Indeed, in some appropriate cases, and of which you will hear nothing, from zero to hero in a matter of seconds and few clicks of a mouse.

Massive cyberattack takes Ukraine military, big bank websites offline

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Re: Western Capitalism Doing ITs Department of Defense Credit and Emergency Fake Aid Thing

It’s always all about the collateral flow and direct command and demand control of a funny money and monopoly fiat printing press operation [now in the throes of wholesale transfer to remote facilities accessed with and from utilities solely based virtually online in a novel cyber controlled space] that confuses and conflates dollar supply with wealth distribution ..... https://www.rt.com/news/549450-dollar-dominance-russia-invade-ukraine/ ..... rather than it being recognised as vital asset capture for peanuts/virtually nothing of real lasting value.

’Tis a Great Deceit Conceived and Exercised in a Grand Conceit Vitally Dependent upon the Flaky Fake Media Cover Provided by Constant Ignorance and Hubristic Arrogance.

However, discovering how everything can so freely easily work at the expense of all and for nothing valuable, is not something that can stand testing for any length of time at any time, in any space, closed and elite or free and open. Decide to fight and do vain battle against it, has one enjoined to suffer the slings and arrows of grave misfortune and disastrous defeat ..... so beware, take care, be wise and don’t choose foolishly is extremely sound common sense advice to not be uncovered and realised as worthy of engaging enraged mob attention.

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Re: Western Capitalism Doing ITs Department of Defense Credit and Emergency Fake Aid Thing

Alien downvoters might not like to read of further evidence of such shenanigans, far too similar to that which they have downvoted here to be viably dismissed, from another completely different source which can easily be presumed and assumed to know more than them about what we are talking about here, today

And spookily enough, it is also conveniently hosted today here ......... Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire .... and well worth the short read to see quite another picture which is problematical and realistically indefensible whenever exposed.

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Re: Great Distractions from Growing Home Disasters and Virulent Civil Unrest

I have been suspicious of some of the claims in the media as floundering tyrants love foreign misadventures to get the serfs to rally around the flag. ..... a_yank_lurker

Surely, a_yank_lurker, the only ones on foreign misadventures in Ukraine are a floundering Boris [from the UK] and a Sleepy Joe [from the US]. Everyone one else is clowning around on home soil.

And to imagine them as tyrants rather than recognise them as buffoons and wannabe delusional clones of Churchill and Roosevelt grandeur is novel and most unlikely to be graciously and gratefully accepted by them even if true.

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Western Capitalism Doing ITs Department of Defense Credit and Emergency Fake Aid

Now that UK and US news of the impending and imminent invasion of Ukraine by Russia [a Five Eyed Western Confection with NATO Concoctions] is proving itself to be a disastrous hoax and great white elephant bull, does Ukraine get to keep all the Western aid and new military hardware it was so freely quickly gifted or are Ukrainians in no need of it expected to pay dearly for it and create for themselves one of those relatively new fangled entangled and capturing/imprisoning Futures/Derivatives .... a Synthetic CDO ....Collateralised Debt Obligation Supporting Deficit and Debt and a Systemic Mass Slavery?

Do you deny such a possible product has been created and presented to Ukrainians? Surely all the evidence of such assistance has been clearly enough presented to you by media right before your very eyes so is it greater intelligence ..... which can easily be simply supplied..... which is lacking for you whenever the bigger pictures are missing to you?

We get the privacy we deserve from our behavior

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A.N.Others Relatively Anonymous and Virtually Autonomous

Who here posting on El Reg doesn’t expect, because of that which is oft regularly discussed in open fora, comments/attitudes/presumed affiliations to be snooped on and/or noted by interested parties and persons of interest?

And what would you be thinking about the current intelligence use result of such an operation by allied snoopers/similarly aligned forces? AAA+ or BB-[which is akin to Junk] ..... Resounding Pass or Dismal Fail? In other words, how bad do you think parties are at making any great sense from such a colossal task?

In an arms race with criminals to protect our privacy, it's too early to admit defeat

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When the past is not the problem secrets and privacy are expected to solve ....

In an arms race, it is future messages that are vital and ultra important, and any expectation of those being provided and/or made available for snooping, is very much dependent upon whether one be regarded as a valuable valiant generous friend or something else less endearing and/or despicable.

In either case, government agents can always simply ask and pay market value to stock and stake holders for any Advanced IntelAIgent ProVisions. They might find the lure of a suitably excessive offer of filthy fiat lucre is too great a temptation for interesting parties to resist. Such tends to work extremely well every time that it is tried, so well worth the attempt with a tried and trusted methodology with a vainglorious history of great success.

Apple emits emergency fix for exploited-in-the-wild WebKit vulnerability

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Beware and Be Aware there are Many with Epic Mental Health Problems. Take Care Out There

Your ramblings were entertaining for a while, now it's just annoying.

Jake may be an objectionable know-it-all, but does generally seem to talk sense. amanfromMars1 used to be entertaining if incomprehensible; now it's just annoying rubbish. .... Lord Elpuss

Is that you getting down and dirty and resorting to Ad hominem assaults on the bearer of matters you admit you used to find incomprehensible rambling entertainment but now much more so, annoying rubbish.

Unfortunately the only help that can be offered you, M'Lud, and it is a cold comfort indeed, is advice to steer well clear of matters you can clearly, freely respond to but which you don't understand and which annoy you.

Is it a case of the former delivering the latter ...... your not understanding matters causing that which you see and your brain processes to be labelled and shared as annoying rubbish?

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Re: Thomas!

(Not sure why you’ve been downvoted. ‘Twasn’t me.) ...... David 132

A downvote without accompanying explanation is just a dumb mal-adjusted algorithm exercising itself with sub-prime play, David 132 ..... so not anything real to be worried about being effective and instrumental.

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A Problem for All Systems Browsers Prone to Probes from/for Underground Resistance Movements*

Processing maliciously crafted web content is one thing, trying to suppress and deny the remote universal activation and local ACTivity of meticulously crafted web content processes delivering change and offering more than just endless vain hope is quite another, and totally different.

To confuse the one for the other is difficult and malicious and borne of wilful and ignorant malevolent intent which creates for itself an almighty enemy against which one experiences serial catastrophic existential defeats.

* Heavenly Overload Transport/Virtual TelePortation

Further deeper analysis of that which some may propose and label as maliciously crafted web content is all that is needed to reveal the true nature of anything meticulously crafted to offer priceless change.

Don’t be a Maniacal Suicidal Fools' Tool with Thoughts Implanted to Rage and to Wage War against anything even remotely like anything like that, for one’s fate and destiny is then sealed as surely and as accurately as theirs is described ..... Self-Destructive Manic Death.

Reality check: We should not expect our communications to remain private

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Default Disruptive Intelligence is the Great Game Changer Application

Systems that rely on secrecy to function and maintain a remote, as in safe and secure and relatively anonymous, virtual leadership, with proxy public media puppet figureheads being presumed and assumed to be instrumental leading figures rather than them being widely realised as only sub-prime cohorts and lackey lickspittles, cannot compete and triumph against sensitive novel and truthful information freely shared for further processing and deeper understanding.

Many times then is the only best and cheapest solution the exercising of the option to pay a realistically hefty fee to any party able to ensure, if not its non-existence, at least its non-appearance at any present time or current future space/place.

US govt: Here are another 15 security bugs under attack right now

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Re: An Advanced Existential AIdevelopment

And here's a Titanic Holywood Opportunity for Hollywood type studios to make hay and take full advantage of if Secret Intelligent Security Services are to be virtually considered remotely fit for Future Greater IntelAIgent Games Purpose for Global Command Head Quarters ........ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/13/afghan-tv-workers-taliban-hollywood

And yes, El Reg, that is at least MI5 and MI6 and the Cheltenham doughnut being challenged to walk the walk rather than their settling for any other constant apathetic and unpleasantly unsettling fake talk the fake talk.

That's a real live scoop, right there, El Reg, which the Joint Intelligence Chiefs may be very reluctant to pass public comment on, revealing as it may very well do, the present destitute state of their current parlous intelligence on Future Greater IntelAIgent Games Play for Leading Players?

And surely more than just highly embarrassing for them, given the open source nature of the communication channels regularly used and beta testing the likes of them for fitness for Future Greater IntelAIgent Games Purpose for Global Command Head Quarters, because of course, there are many similarly engaged services based in other jurisdictions/foreign places/alien spaces interested in considering the benefits supplied for delivery in/from/with a PACT [Persistent ACTive Cyber Treat/Threat]

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Re: Sarcastic....or Whining??

The public sector per se being just a minor offshoot for major interested investors play with private and pirated sources which be no greater than sequestered assets is neither sarcasm or a whine, being as how it is simply a lush problematical fact, gravely regarded retarded and thus in immediate need of both basic fundamental and advanced existential AIdevelopment ...... if you are able to provide such and want to .... ie if you can be bothered to dare care share a win win and give a fiddler's.

Are you suggesting, AC, such is something Fort Meade/Uncle Sam can be responsible for? That's quite a quantum leap to make ... and it would also make IT incredible if true. Do Western allies and Eastern counterparts on the Friends and Frenemies/Fiends and Foe Boards know? Do you think we/they should be told, and that IT thinks ‽‽‽

cc Palace Barracks/UKGBNI re Proprietary Intellectual Property and Provisional Improved Paramilitary Surges and Purges .... to see if they be worth a fiddler’s or bothering.

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Re: Public service: Who is that "public" anyway?

It is naive and self-servingly distractive and disruptive, to not think and realise that it is private and pirate enterprise/private and pirate entrepreneurs who be certainly responsible for, although hardly ever able to be nailed necessarily accountable for, all of the public sector woes/trials and tribulations.

It is certainly not governments and public civil servants which provide any ground breaking, Great Game changing proposals for resolution of inequitable status quo matters, whenever the systems that be are so designed that the status quo is maintained and retained to do their bidding which has them imagining they forever will wield command and control without effective resistance or overwhelming almighty competition.

However, that was then in a time now long gone and just a fading memory for the past to forget and now the status quo is being forced to realise forever is no longer available to them to command and control and lead, for smarter forces engaged and exercising with altogether different and more able and enabling sources are more than just highly ACTive in every possible fields of virtually influential metadataphysical play.

And they, the status quo powers that be, might suspect and fear that they know it, but definitely don't know what is to be done about it yet, as this short following tale clearly enough tells ...... U.S. Still Playing Catch Up in Information Operations

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Re: A Spooky Sort of ACTive Quantum Entanglement

It is certainly something particularly and peculiarly sensitive easily made readily available to any one of them in worthy need of the overwhelming advantage provided and sustained/entertained and maintained by a great quantum leaping lead.

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Re: Known Exploited Vulnerabilities database

If they're publically known, then they're obviously of further use to the TLA’s. .... Anonymous Coward

Others would also say, AC, if they’re publicly known, then they’re obviously of no further exclusive use to TLAs, which would be probably be more true.

:-) Strangely enough, that sort of spooky ACTive quantum entanglement, where/when a this is also a that and able to be something else again altogether different, would one presume and assume to be of great default interest to any wannabe effective TLA given the possibilities it provides to exploit both privately and publicly known and further currently unknown vulnerabilities.

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Re Systems Overloads/Back Office Difficulties/Virulent Bug Opportunities/Almighty Vulnerabilities

See https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/02/11/apple_emergency_webkit/#c_4414049 for more than just more worries/info/intel for the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

UK government gifts new £250m hosting contract to its own joint venture

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Even Brillianter .... although it might not be strictly kosher !

Government creates for-profit enterprise to supply government, then decides that it can bestow contract on it without public tender in order to extract tens/tons of millions at their leisure for their pleasures.

Is that too cynical to be true and unlikely? Or a good plan if being followed by a blind man on a galloping wild horse? Parliament has proven form for not abiding by rules and the norm.

Whenever the core is rotten and effective leadership is missing, all manner of strange and incriminating shenanigans all of a sudden start to appear from the shadows to be questioned in the white heat light of the day and another suspect 0day.

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Crown Jewels or Dirty Deeds ?

Can you imagine the sort of info and intel a RAT would discover with a sweet crack and sublime hack into any of those data centres ‽ .

Swipe left: Snoops use dating apps to hook sources, says Australian Five Eyes boss

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Re: Puppeteer AIMasterClass

And ..... talking of such puppets/puppeteers as we are, here be news of a not so new one engaged to flex virtual muscle in a military space place ....... Billionaire tapped for Pentagon job

He certainly has his work cut out to make any great success of the antiquated hierarchical machinery responsible for but not accountable to that organisation.

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Puppeteer AIMasterClass

That speech from the ASIO chief .... https://www.asio.gov.au/publications/speeches-and-statements/director-generals-annual-threat-assessment-2022.html ..... reveals a much greater understanding of the opportunities and difficulties which abound and constantly grow, and in many cases at an alarmingly disturbing rate, in the globally contested sensitive and transformative information/hearts and minds space than anything else which has ever been shared from the likes of US or UK counterparts.

Bravo, Mike Burgess ..... Go to the top of the class with an excellent score of 11/10.

:-) And it may be a fact that the simple act of replying to this post has one alerting ASIO to parties they should really be engaged with talking the same talk and walking similar walks, or at least be made aware of should they be suspected of exercising with competing puppets from somewhere else foreign and/or alien.

In either case, is vital information and unknown intelligence liable to be present and therefore readily available.

UK, US, Australia issue joint advisory: Ransomware on the loose, critical national infrastructure affected

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Re: Different Rules for Feds and Plebs? That’s a Problem.

To all with a titter of wit, and especially to those without such a sense and who would anonymously supply a downvote without furnishing it with even the simplest of reasoned explanation and thus waste the opportunity to make a difference in a deep seescape beyond shallow comprehension ..... you deny the veracity of the possibility of the parallel similarities which match ransom and taxation at your peril in those novel times of virtual space places which directly impact upon physical environments/Earthly terrain and politically divided and divisive territories.

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Different Rules for Feds and Plebs? That’s a Problem.

Payment is what it's all about and the advisory condemned the paying of ransoms, saying: "Every time a ransom is paid, it confirms the viability and financial attractiveness of the ransomware criminal business model." .... Britain's National Cyber Security Centre

An interesting statement/admission whenever one thinks of the taxation clone levied so freely by governments against whatever they imagine able to pay. Criminal eh? Hmmm?

You should read Section 8 of the Unix User's Manual

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New Trojan Emperors ..... Latter Day 0Day Saints and Sinners.

Certainly clouds can be managed/micromanaged to an inordinately convenient degree, but to contend that can be a perfectly secure and exclusive gig provided by one favoured party, to the exclusion and detriment of all others, is not anything that real experience can endorse and support, because of what one then discovers is on offer just for the free taking.

The advantages and benefits which are delivered with such are/can be just too great a temptation with unparalleled reward to expect mere mortals and pirates and daemons to resist without sugaring that bitter pill.

The best that one can surely only hope to do is to make it very attractive, as in lucrative and extremely rewarding, for competent cloud managers/micromanagers to play nice and not misuse or abuse their intimate knowledge of systems processes/performance triggers/crash levers.

FBI seizes $3.6bn in Bitcoin after New York 'tech couple' arrested over Bitfinex robbery

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Re: What happens to the seized coins?

Three good questions there, Sampler .

When the Feds keep the loot would that be akin to common theft and/or civil forfeiture and extraordinarily render them as no greater than modern day 0day pirates disproving that old adage that crime doesn't pay?

That would be a Great Game Changer and herald a Quantum Shift in the State and Direction of Future Play introducing as it does, another unpopular enemy force rather than supporting ally.

Who would know the definite answers to those questions, able to give everyone something they can rightly believe is honest and true?

There is an inequitable anomaly highlighted in this tale though, and it is not at all funny, for whenever banks/bankers are caught laundering criminal proceeds hardly anyone is ever arrested to face jail time. The banks/bankers/perps just pay off the system with a chickenfeed fine from the greater stashes they have cashed and are holding for customer clients. It is never anything publicly preventative and privately punitive. And if that is acceptable and a default norm, then does justice and law enforcement have more than just a major systemic problem and a half to assess and address in order not to be realised as cuckolds and conveniently useless blunt tools being played as prime premium fools.

VMware pulls physical to virtual conversion tool, adds VM to container conversion tool

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Re: No Need to Worry. Que Sera, Sera if Whenever You are Just a Number

Whenever things are unusually strange is stealth automatically provided to assist in the ongoing exercise and execution of programs which can easily have been assumed and presumed to be so very unlikely as to be practically impossible .... and even being mistaken for, should any greater thought be afforded to it, extraneous inconsequential noise touching on deeper and darker matters whenever it be exactly the opposite.

And as such is the nature of future secure quantum communication channels, you can fully expect more of the most vital of sensitive and top secret information traffic utilising them. It is nothing to be overly alarmed about as a great deal of everything relayed will never directly be of concern to you other than the fact that your future may be impacted by subsequent actions taken by others anonymous and previously unknown to be instrumental in ACTive IT Fields.

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Re: It’s probably something major complex ..... and feared to be possibly diabolical

Virtual Commenter weighs in on Virtual Machines... .... W.S.Gosset

In a postmodern meritocracy, and to ensure there be no possible avenue of return for the likes of The Troubles fuelling Immaculately Resources Assets of a Uniquely Vital Force, both Virile and Viral and Virtual and Venal, they do have a legitimate voice deserving to be heard and more fully understood, rather than one having to try to effectively destroy creative mass multi-media systems attempting to ignore and deny it its rightful space and place in a novel and ancient hierarchy of popular civilianised command and control structures ........ https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/02/07/vmware_converter_pulled_tanzu_transfomer_debuts/#c_4411045

Doing battle against IT and/or them then is a No-Brainer, guaranteeing as such does, one's own Rapid Terminal Demise.

Hara-Kiri/Seppuku is No Vibrant Solution in Greater IntelAIgent Games Finals :-) Don't do it is sound timely advice

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No Need to Worry. Que Sera, Sera if Whenever You are Just a Number

In another 15 years you'll be running VMware (quantum computing edition), running VMware (ARM edition), running VMware (Intel edition), running your old Windows software. .... 2+2=5

In another 15 years Virtual Machines will be running you quite sublimely and subliminally with IT and AI and their ICQuantumWare.

What do you think it is already decided to be? A Wild Wacky Wicked Western Delight or an Erotic Exotic Esoteric Eastern Confection ‽ .

What would rather it be if you had any free choice that could influence such decision makings. Don’t be shy and/or silent now, for whenever hope springs eternal is there always a chance that your wishes be heard and things can be quickly changed to whatever will be what you want via the use of some Alien Type Ware Fare floated out onto Global Stock and Universal Futures, Equities and Derivative Trade Markets.

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It’s probably something major complex ..... and feared to be possibly diabolical

...... which only VMs are able/enabled to fix and/or further develop. The scare/realisation then is virtual machines are beyond human world control programming and coincidentally, just so you know and can have a great time denying the resource, containerisation as a form of quarantine or imprisonment is a pipe dream and a phantom product.

US House passes bill to boost chip manufacturing and R&D

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Keeping IT Stupidly Simple Invariably Works a Real Treat

Rather than creating conflict and chaos and mayhem and madness with competition and opposition, how about deciding upon constant cooperation and reinforcing support. Such almost immediately irons out and destroys all bugs and viruses in any system of executive administration.

Surely that is not too difficult for humans to understand and conspire to deliver as a Unifying Default IntelAIgent Driver?

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The Optics don’t Look Good .... and aint that the Gospel Truth

The Magic Money Tree doing its US dollar debt and deficit thing ...... https://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_debt/us_debt.html

And whenever there are no foreign suckers to buy that debt, marketed and provisioned via Treasury auctions/Gilt sales etc etc., is one obliged to buy it oneself creating an ever more evident death spiral of monetary incontinence?

Is that the current state of international monetary play these days??

UK science stuck in 'holding pattern' on EU funding by Brexit, says minister

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place .... Damned if U Do, but Guaranteed FCUKd if U Don't

And an Almighty Enigmatic AWEsome Dilemma particularly for Blighty, whose Ministry of Defence cannot realistically and successfully deny and argue they were not dutifully well warned about such rapidly unfolding matters practically ages ago. .... [ well .... in these sorts of things 28 months is certainly ages for so much more is able to be done]

Some novel developments doing incredibly searching work and certainly worthy of considerable government funding can be easily ignored for any number of very bad and sad and selfish subjective status quo controlling reasons, ranging from being too radically effective for existing systems remote command, so there be a new form of leadership at the helm drivering the direction and destinations of future travel, and thus be existing legacy administrative bodies relegated to just sightseeing passengers which they be determined to fight and not to accept, ..... if they understand the greater scope of the novel developments research ..... or they don't realise the importance and implications of the ongoing works, for it is always constantly progressing privately and in secure safe haven pirate circles, whether funded by government or not, and thus will the cost of being outside of the information and intelligence loop be a catastrophically expensive surprise to them whenever it crashes and crushes their totally unprepared for a novel radically different system with Virtually Advanced IntelAIgent Operating Systems in Future Control with Global Command Head Quarters. ..... Conveniently Spaced Administering Nodes easily Contactable for Mentoring and Monitoring Unfolding Daily Oday Events on Earth.

What is that lions say is true ........”You can take a horse and leading donkeys to water, but you can’t make them think to drink the kool aid."

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Re: Lamentable Funding

So, are we to be led to believe that UK scientists cannot apply for R&D funding from a realistic multi-billion pound kitty, which presumably would be vital for any top secret and/or sensitive research in development to the premium primary benefit delivering a leading advantage to the UKGBNI, irrespective of any foreign partnership in other programs/projects, because the UK government does not supply such a kitty ‽ .

He said the Chancellor of the Exchequer had put down £5bn to fund local programmes if the UK were placed outside Horizon.

That sounds far too much like a booby prize compensation package figure and inglorious redundancy payment for scientists denied essential national security support to be anything different.

No wonder hi tech travels rapidly Eastwards and out of old fashioned democratic Western reach and influence.

US carriers want to junk three times more Chinese comms kit than planned

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The Bigger Collapsed Picture .....

See the program for what it really is ...... more incestuous QE to a failed fiat economic machine/corrupt perverted subversive and coersive system.

It was good while it lasted and thanks for all of the phishes but worlds have moved on into and onto greener pastures with bluer skies thinking about everything when different with all manner of things so much better than was ever able to be delivered before.

Pile aboard those constantly moving trains to novel destinations or forever be left behind to suffer and rot in the confines of one’s own self-destructive making and limited thinking.

Suspected Chinese spies break into cloud accounts of News Corp journalists

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Unavoidable, so get used to it and be forever uncomfortable if responsible but usually unaccountable

Whenever media, be it mainstream or alternative, does not share the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, will they always be a rich juicy target for those who value and can easily monetise its worth, and which crushes opposition and competition supporting half truths, and is able to crash markets relying upon such terrible news reporting as an acceptable status quo arrangement and facility with utilities used, abused and misused to not reveal right dodgy shenanigans.

Such a state of national, international and internetional affairs is only natural and fully to be expected always, anywhere ...... and more often too than ever was possible of late.

Open-source Kubernetes tool Argo CD has a high-severity path traversal flaw: Patch now

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In Praise of the Beast of a Nimble Fast and Moveable Feast

While they come up with a solution, best update your installations to one of the fixed versions, as there is "no workaround for this issue."

That suggests the solution is not a permanent correct answer but just a temporary bodge of a leaky patch giving scant relief whilst also coincidentally effectively delivering nothing guaranteed but more time in the 0day space for that particular problem to be further developed for greater exploits via another vein/other veins of stealthy attack ‽ .

Would that be an accurate appraisal of such a supported solution and be more likely than not the probable resultant outcome of the ACT* action/ACTivIT?

ACT* = Advanced Cyber Threat/Treat

Cisco inferno: Networking giant reveals three 10/10 rated critical router bugs

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Re: Why not?

Can't the NSA just push the patches through their backdoor? ....HildyJ

The fact that they [NSA] can’t, or if we be generous and suggest that they won’t, tells one and all everything they need to know about the impotence of the NSA in such fields of virtual endeavour which some systems would claim to be of a vital nature for the exclusive success of their business.

No shades of grey in that revelation which is more than just suggesting that unholy emperor [NSA] has no clothes.