… from Sputnik News, Moscow
[ Editor’s Note: There is an old story about the fox watching the chicken coup. As some anonymous person once said, “You just can’t make this sh_t up!”
We are led to believe that Facebook, which has long been suspected of close ties to “Israeli friendly” people, and who created WhatsApp, is under attack by the Israel-based NSO group.
In the Intel World, the question being asked would be who is being the beard for whom here? If there is anyone on the planet who does not know that the phrase, “we only use your search data to better assist us in target advertising”, is not fully accurate, then they are too stupid to breathe, as Gordon does so love to say.
The history of all these big data gathering search platforms is that, despite who may have started them, they were all acquired by those who saw “multiple uses” for all the personal search data material for profiling and monitoring.
VT missed this along with everybody else, but what makes us different is we eventually figured it out, given enough history to analyze. But the tooth fairy brought us a present, revealing this scam of the century, when a Google exec told us.
He said, “We are soon going to know what you are going to do before you do.” That hit us like a silver bullet between the eyes. We instantly made the tie in between artificial intelligence and profiling in real time enabled by the AI.
For example look at how valuable this combo could be in testing for political hot buttons among all the voter subgroups, and further, even creating such groups to be able to manipulate without their even knowing it, all by offering something free in return for laying themselves bare, and covered by their terms of service agreement.
As scams go, it is currently at the historical top of the heap. But don’t wait for our law enforcement and security orgs to ride to our rescue. They have been cut in on the scam, and are not about to reveal their own participation.
What takes us from dumb to dumber is that we actually pay those folks’ salaries, benefits and pensions for doing this to us. And whose fault is that? Let me know what you think in the comments… Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … July 20, 2019 –
Israel-based NSO Group became the focus of public attention this spring, when the media reported that its software products are being used to hack WhatsApp messenger, as well as spy on the owners of Android and iOS smartphones.
Spyware from NSO Group can obtain user data from Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft servers, according to an article in The Financial Times.
While NSO has consistently rejected any espionage or hacking allegations, the company has never denied the development of such technology, prompting many questions among experts.
According to the Financial Times, the infected smartphone provides NSO’s Pegasus software with authentication keys for Google Drive, Facebook Messenger and iCloud cloud services. With this technology, Pegasus manages to bypass two-step authentication and email notification.
Users are not notified of suspicious activity.
Some information security experts doubt the effectiveness of Pegasus, but representatives of Amazon and Facebook have already promised to investigate and strengthen the security measures of their cloud services, if necessary.
It was revealed in May that WhatsApp had been targeted by NSO, according to Forbes.
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It’s hard to tell, where exactly the big scam begins.
Anyone, who ever learned about “Entscheidbarkeit and Berechenbarkeit”, a German term about a larger subject: Turing ompleteness, should already know, what to think about the term “AI”.
Programmers like to boost, when it comes from Google or Facebook (a modern way to effectively hide their ture masters), you should awake , Yes, programmers also like to talk about algorithms, each time they don’t want to reveal what kind of mess they really produced.
I come to my own conclusion: Unless in the Theory of turing completeness there is no term “AI”, forget about it.
The boosters do real bad things, no doubt, but their self grandizing makes me laugh. The really bad people there and everywhere else code just like you and me (if you program, of course), what’s different is their intention.
Jack Heart uses to say, there is no good or bad, there is only right or wrong!
I say, these people are a laughing stock for all who know. Don’t fall for false crap, pay attention for the real bad things they do. Jim correctly summorized this here and – as nearly everytime in the past – nobody of the uncountable mindless people will listen. They just have no time, because they have to finish their next message via …
As Gordon says, and so it goes.
At least having an old phone line still requires a warrant to get a tape on your calls. Anything done over the internet is Dodge City. If you grab it it’s yours.
It is clearly our fault because we thought that they give us something for free, while every other thing on this world has its price. Nothing is for free now not even breathing Oxygen in and CO2 out from cradle to gave. You must pay for your own enslavement resp, our parents paid for it in form of a birth certifiacte to the profit of others, But did we know better until now ? No but this is no excuse for the future
It is our own fault to trust people who “always have our best interst at heart” our money and interest on it. We think they are like our parents or mothers but from the moement we leave home of our parents we should trust no one.
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