Back Doors

 

Reprint here - make of it what you will, but it is still apropos. How many updates of programs or apps per week do you get these days? How many are automatic and install themselves without an alert? How many 'back doors' has the CIA or FBI or whatever agency added to programs you use? Why can't you buy an app that is yours forever instead of renting it from the software company who can change anything at any time without your knowledge. This is what was suspected way back then -  

Saturday, February 19, 2005

Conspiracy theory 3 - Microsoft

posted on the original caterwauls blog, Saturday, February 19, 2005.

 

Wasn't it a few years ago that the US Government threatened Microsoft under antitrust laws? And didn't that interest disappear suddenly? Then it came back and they threatened to dismantle Microsoft into 3 separate companies? They feared Microsoft had way too much power because of their monopolistic position in the computer market?

Wait, wouldn't a monopoly be a GOOD thing if a government wanted to control its people and identify where they were and what they were saying and doing and thinking and the road was headed to everyone owning a computer? And most likely to have the Windows Operating System? Isn't Windows on 98% of all computers and XP on virtually every one?

When you go to a website, and then delete or clear all your cookies, and then go back to that website some time later, and they know who you are ... er, didn't Microsoft put a unique number into your operating system under the hype that it was a GOOD thing? Then under waves of protest from the public say that they wouldn't TURN ON that unique identifying number? Or at least YOU could turn it off? And doesn't your hard drive have a unique number too?

Didn't the FBI come out with a sneaky computer spy system called 'Carnivore' a few years ago, that could read the contents of any computer it wanted through your server? Then they changed the name because it seemed too ominous and scary and 1984ish? It could see every single email you sent to whoever and every word you typed into your hard drive or internet browser? Including every password you ever used? And didn't all this happen at about the same time as Microsoft introduced Windows 98? And didn't the US hold these server companies hostage by threatening to shut them down unless they installed Carnivore into their systems without telling anyone? Without telling their customers?
Doesn't Homeland Security have the power to do anything they want without telling anyone about what they are doing? To fight terrorism? Hmm.

Isn't Microsoft starting to add things now to updates of its software without making clear to technical people exactly what those updates are or what they do? In Windows Media player some technicians have compared Media Player 9.0 with Media Player 10.0 and can't find any differences? So why the automatic update?

Would the US government and Bill Gates have made a deal to allow Microsoft to continue as one company, so long as the Justice department had access to the Windows Operating System?
I don't know ... would they?

Er ... would the US government be that sneaky? Oops, never mind, I was here in the sixties. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Revisit July 9, 2012

 Keep in mind folks, this was written 10 years ago, same old same old -

Monday, July 9, 2012

Back to the Future

Canada promised 300 million dollars to Afghanistan a while ago. Last week they pledged another 227 million to aid in the transformation of the country when the Americans pull out. Of course, the Canadians said it was on the condition that the millions were used in the peaceful transition and not to go to the Taliban.
Whoever made that announcement was not asked by our controlled media what exactly our government would do IF it was seen as money going into the enemy coffers. Does Canada expect they will give it back if it disappears into the corrupt Karzai government? Most countries in the so called coalition have also dedicated millions.

Karzai was in exile once, and when the US decided to go into Afghanistan to 'get bin Laden' they brought back Karzai and installed him as a US friendly leader. It has not worked at all. And many expect Karzai to get the hell out of there with the last troops, probably with his pockets stuffed with Western dollars.


After all these years of seeing brave Canadian, British and US soldiers lose their lives in their prime, fighting a lost cause, nothing has been accomplished. The West is barely able to defend itself in the secure zones of the main town of Kabul! The Taliban rules the rest of the country. When there is a concentrated effort against them, they simply retreat, and go somewhere else for awhile. They are not going away and are simply waiting to get their country back. And most analysts, unless they are spinning the preferred line, agree.

Afghanistan is still the world's supplier of heroin. It is estimated that 90% of the drug on Britain`s streets is Afghan. The poppy crops are larger than ever. Despite ten years of 'occupation' by Western troops. Production of the class-A drug by Afghan farmers rose between 2001 and 2011 from just 185 tons to a staggering 5,800 tons. It increased by 61 per cent last year alone! Fueling speculation that it is the CIA that has become the world's largest drug dealer.

Does anyone believe that the women and girls of Afghanistan will continue their emancipation into a fair and democratic society?  Doing all the things other women in the world are able to do? Will young girls in that country continue an education that so threatens the Taliban that they don't hesitate to blow up the primitive schools (built by Canadians) with all those children still in them? 

And just a day ago, a 22 year old woman was publicly executed on the street for adultery amid cheers from bystanders! Keep in mind that adultery in a Taliban world is just talking to or walking with another man. Even rape is adultery. Sharia law is the rule. The future looks bleak in Afghanistan. Some believe that the only reason the US has troops left there at all is to nurture the drug trade. 
Karzai of course, ordered a manhunt for the killer. As if.

So throwing money into the pit of vipers who will use it to attack anyone within their realm is just wrong. So far there is something like 20 billion dollars dedicated to aid Afghanistan. The question of what exactly is aid, goes unanswered.

The only thing that seems sure is that the future of Afghanistan will again be 100 years back.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taliban-execute-woman-to-send-afghans-a-grim-warning-of-life-without-the-west-7923566.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102158/Heroin-production-Afghanistan-RISEN-61.html#ixzz208ZKjsZA

 

So to TODAY, 

We need also keep in mind that the change here in December 2022 is that Joe Biden commanded American troops to leave Afghanistan, quickly to end a war without any forethought of consequences and left about $85 BILLION in US Military equipment and advanced weapons for the Taliban to use which would very likely be against Americans should they come within range. No one in the America government is asking what happened to those billions in 'aid'.

And no sense being aghast at the cruelty towards women then because it is ongoing right now at the end of 2022. The ignorant cavemen are ruling as usual in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. etc. And methinks we, meaning the 'West', is still funneling billions of dollars into these lost causes, while pretending we are helping them, when the truth is the proxy wars keep all the oligarchs happy with yet another way to support the arms industries. Same old same old. The question is who is getting a cut of the action?

When will we ever learn? 

Not much to ad to this except that some Americans sadly sacrificed their lives in a lost adventure. Like Pat Tillman, who left the comfort of his career in the NFL to go to Afghanistan to fight for his country. The young man was heralded by the Military as the poster boy for patriotism.

Even though those who allowed it knew all the time he was only fodder for propaganda and lies. Pat Tillman was 27 when he died in Spera, Khost Province, Afghanistan in 2004. He was like so many brave but duped young American men following an ingrained path to oblivion. All for nothing? He was not fighting for his country, was he? 

So from July 2012 to December 2022 nothing is different. 

Tragic. 

addenda - June 2023 

And in North America, we are ignoring the plight of women in these backward, caveman countries while those in our 'civilized' countries are screaming about a WOKE agenda and pretending THEY are the persecuted ones.

By the way RAPE in Afghanistan is when a woman walks to the store for food for her family, and men jump out of a car and 'sexually assault' her, (North America speak for RAPE because it's not so harsh) When this happens in these countries, the WOMAN is considered guilty because she was alive! And will likely get stoned to death or a bullet in the head. I suspect the latter now because the USA left them lots of ammo to use against their 'enemies.' 

Pay attention!

 

Trust a Website?

 When you decided to sign up for a new website, did you somehow have trust in it before you even joined it? Your buddies were there. So it must be okay. Maybe it was YouTube or Spacedout.url or Tweeter.org or PeanutButter.com etc. But as you sign up, they ask for an email address, which you go ahead and give yours to that new website. So let's say your regular personal email is - billAdams2@gmail.com - and you have the expectation that they will send you messages to your email address. The first one you will get is always a 'welcome' message. So you're in.

Not quite, as soon as you type in your email URL, they ask you for a password. So you expect to make up one that will be your password to the site you are joining. So you think of one, like maybe Bill2guy, and suggest it.

But wait, now they say the email and password are not correct. What? The screen blinks with fake honesty waiting for you to try again. Try again.

Now you realize the email you use for your private email communication is the one they want, your PASSWORD and all. But how did they know your password to your personal email was incorrect if they didn't try using it? So you try another random password and type that one. Nope, they want you to put in your PRIVATE email password which is all they will accept. 

So the site you are trying to join, now has info that may be incriminating, or embarrassing and PRIVATE to you and your family. At least not for vicarious viewing. WTF? All your friends who send you greetings or info about your job, church, neighbors, relationships, funny jokes, political comments etc are now compromised by a new site you know nothing about. And the email addresses of all those friends and associates are in YOUR email folder. Anyone associated with that new site who now has access can READ YOUR EMAILS from everywhere and anyone and can do what they will with them.  Of course you are using the standard answer - 'but I'm not doing anything wrong.'  Does that mean you believe it is okay for strangers to see and record you communications? But you trust Tony Soprano don't you?

 

While the web is full of warnings about email phishing and hacking you just violated the first rule of web safety: DO NOT GIVE ANYONE YOUR PASSWORD! Ever.

You trust their technology not to tell on you? That's feeble. Oh they wouldn't do anything bad. That's idiocy. Google owns Blogger and gmail, they are famous, (notorious) for tracking you, mostly all of them do. Big money in selling info. Don't trust them!

You trust the 'Cloud' too? Sure, and if that website goes down so does your information!  How many times have you read about the Cloud being compromised? How many Clouds have been compromised that they don't tell you about? Your info is secure 'in the Cloud'. Sure it is because someone wrote that in the sign-up page. lol

I joined a website once where you could express opinions about certain events. Yes, gave them an email address (only used for signing up to websites) And I posted an item which expressed an opinion (politely) about a certain event, but the administrators didn't like it. And kicked me off! But they still have my email and password! See, in spite of the warnings we are so desperate to join something we willingly give up our privacy! And we can't make them erase it forget it, unsee it, or not USE it.

You can get a separate hard drive, not too expensive, (I paid $74 for 1 Terrabyte USB drive!) to attach and ONLY plug it in when you want to save something and NOT leave it lingering tantalizingly on your main computer. Copy and unplug.

So here is what I do; Set up a NEW email with whomever, one that you will NEVER use for personal messaging from your friends or anyone else! Use it to ONLY sign up to any new site, and give them that password!  Not the best but at least you haven't given them a fun afternoon of browsing through your most intimate online communications. Let them get their vicarious thrills from elsewhere! 

I know, I know, your IP address on your specific computer is out there first, and anyone can see where you are by Geolocation co-ordinates and unless you're using Tor and a VPN it isn't hidden.  But that's for another time, at least here's a start.

And if you're using social media sites and chattering about your life ... well you're on your own.

Truth Seeking or Truth Seeping