Cyber-warfare: Hacking and cyber-security are increasingly becoming a concern for politicians, academics, and even everyday people

[Bob]

Motherboard’s former editor Ben Makuch, is going to explore the future of hacking, spying and online warfare in a new series called CYBERWAR.

The series will explore Chinese and Russian hackers, the cyber mercenaries who sell spying tools to repressive regimes, and some of the most important and shocking hacks of the past 10 years.

I've noticed on cable, VICE channel (271) at 10PM Ben Makuch's series presents an episode which explores how future wars might be fought and whether it's OK to write code that can kill.

The next episode follows, Crime and Government: Russian Hackers - and is called a DOCUMENTARY - It is from 2016, and Ben Makuch is behind the presentation.. It is further exemplified, "Russian CyberCrime IS big business"

example snippet:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kIkl3SFSSTc

reference: https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video...4084e32a41b549

recall Donald Trump's observation that hacking threat could come from someone sitting in their bed (with the right tools)..

"A couple of guys in a basement who know what they're doing can really do a lot of damage," he says. (Reporter Ben Makuch)

http://www.toronto24hours.ca/2016/07...us-says-expert

Gabriella Coleman, a professor at McGill University and the author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous, appears in Cyberwar as a source and worked on the series as a consultant. She’s spent a lot of time analyzing the legacy of Anonymous and says the group has set an example for other groups of hacktivists.

“Prior to Anonymous, the technique to infiltrate a system through hacking for the purposes of leaking and whistle-blowing was actually remarkably rare,” she says.

“There were a lot of data dumps, breaches, website defacement and DDOS-ing.

That had been going on for 20 years.

But it was only when Anonymous came along and started to hack law firms and security companies, by getting e-mails and throwing them up online, that other groups – some political, maybe some nation-state hackers – started to do the same.”

While Anonymous is often considered a controversial group, its members have never been overly vilified as cyber terrorists, says Coleman, who commends Mr. Robot for lionizing hacker culture.

“I think shows like Mr. Robot are incredibly important in this regard,” she emphasizes. “Because they capture the spirit and continue to disseminate it.”

But don’t expect all real-life hackers to look like the hoodie-wearing Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) in Mr. Robot, or other fictional incarnations we’ve seen in pop culture.

[lucidity]

Is this part of the propaganda campaign to associate Russia with hacking ?
To create a pretext for further attacks on Russia ?
To heat up the cold war until we see some firery red flames under this conflict ?

We're living in an age of hyper-bullsh!t...
The 'real' hackers are the Yanks and the Israelis.
Wasn't it the Israelis who attacked the computer infrastructure
at some nuclear installation in Iran ?
Wasn't it the Yanks who installed millions of 'spy-able' hard drives
in computers across China ?

[Bob]

Probably - see post https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1121415 which I found the particular "spin" was located saying it's Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear doing the "dastardly deeds.."

The series startup's timing appears to coincide with the "news" when it was first presented.

Note in the https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1121415 post, the reference to the FBI's attempts to "notify" (ah hummm) DNC.. and got a private contractor (they say) in IT..

And Trump asks, how come they only made a stink about all this when Hillary lost the election? If they were supposedly all on this "hacking" for years.. and did and said nothing...

What the NY Times pushed was this:

According to the New York Times, the Obama administration was slow to respond to the hacking threat, underestimated its seriousness and fluffed several opportunities to stop it. The resulting email furor damaged Clinton’s election prospects and helped Trump to victory, as the Kremlin had almost certainly intended.

The NY Times it appears has continued to push the above and more.. "the Russians did it" is the beat of the drum to which we should all take them at their (MSM's) word..

And of course, the person who received that datapack that WikiLeaks used says this (contrary to the NY Times rendition/(read spin):

Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a close associate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, said in the report by the Daily Mail that he flew to Washington for a clandestine handoff with one of the email sources in September.

He said he received a package in a wooded area near American University.

“Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,” Mr. Murray told the British newspaper. “The source had legal access to the information.

The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.”

WikiLeaks published thousands of emails stolen from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, providing a steady stream of negative news coverage of the Democratic presidential nominee during the final weeks of the campaign.

Mr. Murray said the leakers were motivated by “disgust at the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and the tilting of the primary election playing field against Bernie Sanders.”

Believe Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, or believe the NY Times?

Let's see what Ben Makuch has in store for us all..

[Cidersomerset]

Is this part of the propaganda campaign to associate Russia with hacking ?
To create a pretext for further attacks on Russia ?
To heat up the cold war until we see some firery red flames under this conflict ?

All the above are possible sub plots in the current atmosphere . The situation is fluid at the
moment the PTB and intel agencies plus most of the liberal elite and some republicans
( neo - cons and neo - Dems ) are in a panic. The plan was Hillary to continue the current
policy of trying to contain Russia and China . Carry on proxy wars where possible to keep
every one in their place and possibly threaten either Iran , Russia or China to keep the
military ind complex and drug economy intact , basically keeping the status quo.

Trump coming in has thrown everything into chaos from their point of view , especially
as he has not accepted their daily intel propaganda briefings. Also his open approach to
foreign affairs which may or may not change the geo political atmosphere, which the
west has cultivated over the past few years in particular against Assad and Putin.

The cyber issue has been going on for decades with the west being the main culprits
from GHQ Cheltenham and of hubs set up during and after the cold war. Snowden
showed how invasive the NSA is.....

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ce-revelations

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9KyltHXrxVk

The US politicians and mainstream press are going crazy over Putin , Hacking , cyber attacks and threats....