The Trump Presidency

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Seriously? We just finished a presidential campaign in which Hillary Clinton’s communications were considered the single most important issue confronting the nation, and three weeks into the Trump administration, White House staffers are already using tools that may help them circumvent the Presidential Records Act?

(Benen↱)​

... right.
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Notes:

Benen, Steve. "White House staffers turn to 'secret chat app' for private messages". msnbc. 14 February 2017. msnbc.com. 14 February 2017. http://on.msnbc.com/2knBHPs

 

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This will be interesting .... hee hee... Chat apps are notoriously hackable, and they must know that everything they are putting through them will eventually become public record either via the Russians, the FBI, CIA or some 400 lb teenager sitting at a desk somewhere having fun...

Congress must consider the Trump team to be a low security risk for them to allow the Trumpians to go on doing what they are doing. Perhaps it is because the Trump team has no valuable info access...

 

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If they use torchat, have fun hacking it. Else, they are stupid.

 

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"In 2015 security analysis[4] of TorChat protocol and it's Python implementation was conducted. It was found that although the design of TorChat is sound, its implementation has several flaws, which make TorChat users vulnerable to impersonation, communication confirmation and denial-of-service attacks. Despite the flaws found, the use of TorChat might still be secure in a scenario where the peer’s onion address does not became known to an adversary interested in attacking the person behind the TorChat address."

and that's just from a wiki..

As long as the user of the Tor regime presumes he is safe ... that is all that matters... ( note the date of the analysis)

Any way, the Trump administration would not even be able to spell "encryption" let alone know how important it would be...

Also just calling up a tor app would raise alarm bells which is why I don't use them...

 

Hm, a Wiki. About impersonation I read in the source:

Have fun factoring the 1024-bit RSA key. Irrelevant. DOS is irrelevant too.

The user interface of torchat is indeed horrible, and requires improvement.

 

and about raising a red flag every time you pull the app?

 

That's not my problem, I don't use it with a phone.

 

hee hee... yep not your problemo...

Do you honestly believe that counter terrorism and other, are not flagging every opening instance of a Tor application with related ISP and other IP addresses? (world wide)? phone or other is irrelevant.

 

So what? In this case, I'm permanently with a red flag. Big deal.

 

well correlate it across an activity data base of say 2000+ columns, including physical surveillance, with a culminate score and hope you have been a good boy..... guess what would happen if you got a score say of 90/100?

This is why I don't bother with Tor or any other "dark" web tools... every one would register a red flag. ( even going to a download site probably)
Same applies in reverse with Anti Virus/hack software. They only raise a hack flag....better not to declare your software at all...and not use it....and think of something else...

 

Example:
quick google ...

Schmelzer,
already associated with illegal porn.

add...
Strong Pro Russian supporter
Uses Tor frequently.
IP addresses generated
ISP log on address...
Physical address.
and a heap of extended data like photos, Facebook, twitter, birth weight, school records and so on...


At least 6 columns in 2000 + have been used.

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and that only took me 5 minutes if that.. fully automated takes a lot less... you don't even have to open sciforums to see it.

But hey I am only speculating....

 

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The Department of Education apologized on Sunday for misspelling W.E.B. Du Bois' name in a tweet posted hours earlier — but its apology contained another misspelling.

The Department of Education's original tweet misspelled the surname of Du Bois—a black historian, sociologist, civil rights activist and co-founder of the NAACP—as "DeBois." It corrected that spelling in another tweet posted three and a half hours later, but did not delete the original post.

(Cribb↱)​

Shortly after, the Department of Education released a tweet reading, "our deepest apologizes for the earlier typo".
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Notes:

Cribb, Esme. "Department Of Ed Fumbles Apology For Misspelling W.E.B. Du Bois' Name". Talking Points Memo. 12 February 2017. TalkingPointsMemo.com. 14 February 2017. http://bit.ly/2lNnn00

 

Aye, but the point isn't to advance the discussion at all.

In the end, there are a couple of criteria I'm watching. At the moment, it's true I don't quite agree with how many people are using the word "treason", according to a simple assertion that it is my understanding that Russia is not presently an enemy of the United States; however, there are some ifs and thens that come down to aiding and abetting and giving comfort to a foreign power in the harming of the American government and endeavor, and Gen. Flynn in, say, the question of the 29 December call, is dangerously close to the line. Did Flynn help the Russians prepare for American retaliation over Russian electioneering? If yes and demonstrable, then treason is within range. Did Flynn in any way aid, abet, or comfort the Russian effort to manipulate our elections? If yes and demonstrable, then treason is within the range.

Meanwhile, Congressman Moulton (D-MA06), for instance, declares Russia an enemy and asserts a less constricted definition of treason, but his description still includes circumstances that, if accurate, would meet my threshold:

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) on Tuesday said that if members of the Trump administration or campaign have been "conspiring" with Russia, "that's the very definition of treason."

National Security Advisor Michael Flynn resigned on Monday after reports surfaced that he had spoken with a top Russian diplomat about the U.S. sanctions against Russia.

“I mean, let’s not lose perspective on exactly who we’re talking about here,” he said on CNN. "Russia is the No. 1 enemy of the United States of America.”

“If members of the administration are essentially conspiring with Russia―either through the [2016 presidential] campaign earlier or now in the administration itself―I mean, look, Wolf, that’s the very definition of treason,” Moulton told host Wolf Blitzer.

“This is a very, very serious affair. The definition of treason is putting our enemy’s interests ahead of our own. That’s what the definition is,” he continued.

Moulton said Flynn's reported talk sanctions with Russia’s ambassador before Trump entered office is the latest example of the administration’s attempts at appeasing the Kremlin.

(Hensch↱)​

But the quote defies Russ' inquiry:

Interestingly, though, I notice a shift taking place. Once upon a time, Democrats and liberals couldn't hedge language enough to keep right-wing potsherds from bawling about how we're accusing this, that, or the other.

But, "That's the very definition of treason"? Yeah, actually, what Moulton describes would qualify.
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Notes:

Hensch, Mark. "Dem rep: 'Conspiring' with Russia the 'very definition of treason'". The Hill. 14 February 2017. TheHill.com. 14 February 2017. http://bit.ly/2l650mU

 

Paddy Power put the odds of Trump's impeachment this year at 4 to 1.

 

Trump's Labor Secretary nominee, Pudzer, has withdrawn. Thank God for that! The guy is a kook! I cannot imagine the guy overseeing the Labor Department which is responsible for so many key labor metrics.

 

And now Trump's choice for the national security job, Admiral Harward, turned him down citing chaos im the White House and unclear lines of authority. OUCH!!!

 

No one in the right mind is going to join the staff of a s(t)inking ship....

 

After 4 weeks Trump's stroking his ego with another campaign event. Somebody needs to tell him it's time to govern.

 

Don't be silly - it's time to run for 2020!

Trump Files Early With FEC For 2020 Candidacy, Outmaneuvers Nonprofits
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-...ly-fec-2020-candidacy-outmaneuvers-nonprofits

 

Colbert has some insightful commentary:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/st...aign-trail/ar-AAn4a89?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=UP21DHP