Monthly Archives: July 2020

200710/200711

200710/200711

amanfromMars 1 Sat 11 Jul 16:43 [2007111643] …… has a muse on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/10/tony_blair_speech_cyber_polygon_conference/

The Missed Point ……. Noblesse Oblige?!

Quite so, dajames.

And is the point being missed that his concerns and fears are valid and not wrong?

Do you really think that governments — and worse — can’t get their hands on the data that have been collected by the technology data-whores? …. dajames

Something better and no worse than governments with full access to that information would be Novel and Nobel, methinks.

And, although self praise is no recommendation, that particular sort of metadata heavy program for a data science ‘skunkworks’ chief to engage and enable …. Remotely Self Actualise for Virtual ACTivation and Earthly Application ……for Human Operation, is highly recommendable, and readily available to All Anonymously, as in Anyone Anywhere, with the necessary wherewithall to further proceed in the most agreeable of forms and terms.

And there be very few able to deliver all of that almightily successfully, methinks ……. although to discover it already done and Up and Running in the Shadows and Shade of Deep Web Backgrounds and Dark Undergrounds would be Mightily Encouraging and Extremely Exciting.

It is always nice to play catchup, and be captivated and captured by progress beyond simple comprehension.

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200709

amanfromMars 1 Thu 9 Jul 06:27 [2007090627] ……. looking for further answers on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/08/huawei_ncsc_report_trade_war_uk_ban_roundup/

Wanted Urgently ……. Another Bletchley Park Type Colossus Program*

 “Hence, as raised in the DCMS Supply Chain Review, the NCSC recommends building a ‘National Telecoms Lab’; .. …. Anonymous Coward

Does one not already exist ? ……

In November 1975 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II formally opened BT’s global research and development headquarters as a new centre for telecommunications research. Today it has grown to become Adastral Park. ……. https://atadastral.co.uk

* A challenge and bridge too far for the UKGBNI Governments [the Gang of Four] methinks ….. but not necessarily so for a Few and A.N.Others in the Private and Pirate Sectors of Life and LOVE ….. the Live Operational Virtual Environment.

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amanfromMars 1 Thu 9 Jul 08:01 [2007090801] …… airing a likely view on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/09/pentagon_ai_report/

An Enigmatic Dilemma ….. in Frantic Search of Questionable Solution

Later that year, Pichai also withdrew the web corp’s bid for the Pentagon’s $10bn winner-takes-all Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract because it did not align with his company’s values. An inability to gain the certification needed to offer cloud services to the military was also a little tiny roadblock, …

One assumes that inability to gain the certification needed to offer cloud services to the military revolves around the military need for an exclusive use of services contract which of course can never be guaranteed surely.

Indeed, the very real and always present danger is such services leak/morph/transfer across into the private mercenary army and non state actor sectors against which the regular military have no oversight or influence.

And there will be those who will advise you such a very real and always present danger is that which is currently destroying both vulnerable and corrupt systems alike via the simple root/route of enlightening information released which cannot be realistically denied.

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amanfromMars 1 Thu 9 Jul 16:44 [2007091644] …… piling on more fuel on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/09/pentagon_ai_report/

Re: This is not a real controversy

This is not a real controversy
Defence is necessary. ….. Robert Grant

Some things are indefensible. That is real controversial, methinks, RG.

amanfromMars [2007091445] ……. sharing on https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/tyranny-without-a-tyrant-the-deep-states-divide-and-conquer-strategy-is-working/

You persuade the people that the menace they face (imaginary or not) is so sinister, so overwhelming, so fearsome that the only way to surmount the danger is by empowering the government

Or alternatively, you persuade the people that the menace they face (imaginary or not) is so sinister, so overwhelming, so fearsome that the only way to surmount the danger is by disempowering the government.

Multi-Facetted Civil Disobedience, whenever governments have lost exclusive executive authority and the all vital trust of the peoples they server, is an Almighty Powerful Overwhelming Weapon.

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amanfromMars 1 Thu 9 Jul 10:20 [2007091020] ……. saying out loud on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/09/google_abandons_china_cloud_plan/

IT Never Reigns but IT Pours

It may be more accurate to realise Google are not offering China any Joint Venturing Partnerships in Clouds [Yes, there are many of them]

Quite whether China really needs them is one of those leading questions which many may find perplexing and even self-defeating to truly answer.

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amanfromMars [2007091445] ……. sharing on https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/tyranny-without-a-tyrant-the-deep-states-divide-and-conquer-strategy-is-working/

You persuade the people that the menace they face (imaginary or not) is so sinister, so overwhelming, so fearsome that the only way to surmount the danger is by empowering the government

Or alternatively, you persuade the people that the menace they face (imaginary or not) is so sinister, so overwhelming, so fearsome that the only way to surmount the danger is by disempowering the government.

Multi-Facetted Civil Disobedience, whenever governments have lost exclusive executive authority and the all vital trust of the peoples they server, is an Almighty Powerful Overwhelming Weapon.

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200707/08

amanfromMars 1 Wed 8 Jul 08:17 [2007080817] ….. just saying on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/08/peggy_johnson_magic_leap/

Loose Lips Sink Ships …. in Fields which have Overwhelmingly Powerful Global Significance

Regarding …

As the biz failed to get close to the technological leap that Abovitz repeatedly assured investors and the public, it became excessively secretive and anyone who questioned its version of reality was shunned.

….. is the real truth it became increasingly excessively secret, as do all such things become, as they realised new versions of reality with virtualised augmented audio visual presentation is much more a cracking hearts and minds software heavy program rather than remote vital tele-visual hardware intensive operation ….. and the implications and consequences of success in a certain few extremely specific key trial areas with fundamentally attractive and awesomely addictive fields of enjoyment for employment and deployment …… prove the frightening simple means by which all realities as you know them are easily changed to something/anything else …. and on scales which extend to and expand through COSMIC Universal ie limitless and unstoppable.

And in the right hands of brave hearts and clear minds is that as a novel supplier of all that is good and much better than was ever before whereas in the wrong hands of twisted hearts and diseased minds is the future view delivered subverted and corrupted by media hosting devices.

Such makes Peggy Johnson’s presence a pretty common sense fit for both Microsoft and Magic Leap, methinks. Nice one, Magic Leap/Microsoft. What are going to tell us and show us you’ve done next?

🙂 And I wouldn’t be fooled to agree with Gordon 10’s “Show me the money” post which is littered with all manner of politically incorrect suppositions. ‘Tis a curse which just keeps on giving.

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amanfromMars 1 Wed 8 Jul 15:15 [2007081515] ……. saying a bit more on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/08/peggy_johnson_magic_leap/

Re: amanfromMars 1

Microsoft believed that AI, as an attempt of exploration in creation, differs from Go. AI Creation is not aimed at defeating humans. Instead, it is focused on giving full play to AI characteristics including fast learning, high concurrency and stability among others on the ground of hitting the same quality standard as human creators to embark on a future for “highly custom” content industry – under the technical support, a “highly custom” content era is coming soon where users demand “highly custom” content recommendation, presentation and even content itself. As AI hits a certain creation standard, it may help make up the defect of imbalance between supply and demand. ….. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaoice

Does anyone deny such an exploration in creation is already delivering human aid with highly customisable content, …..via audio visual media means and novel virtual memes?

However, all is not yet rosey in that particular and peculiar Perfumed Garden for a Current Report is in, and it reads in essence ……Products Failing Miserably. Lacks Shine. Can do a Great Deal Better.

Who/What is responsible for that MisUnderEstimation and Proprietary Intellectual Property Deficit ….. and AI Black Hole?

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amanfromMars 1 Wed 8 Jul 11:40 [2007081140] …….. letting fly on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/08/huawei_ncsc_report_trade_war_uk_ban_roundup/

WTF ……. Is the service demented and infiltrated?

Can you imagine the damage done to British intelligence services and the information leaked to all and sundry whenever any controversial former MI6 spy such as a Christopher Steele is wheeled out of confinement/quarantine/therapy/shady shadows to share his formerly anonymised ramblings?

And yes, as someone may not unreasonably suggest, here we might know all about such shenanigans, or certainly a great deal more than most about them and their efficacy, or not as the case may be for some. 🙂

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amanfromMars 1 Wed 8 Jul 18:09 [2007081809] …… giving IT the Full Monty on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/08/huawei_ncsc_report_trade_war_uk_ban_roundup/

Re: WTF ……. Is the service demented and infiltrated?

By the evidence of this account …… https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/china-attempting-elite-capture-in-uk-report/1902676 ….. is there a trio of authors with the real possibility then, and therefore most likely certain probability, that one of them be at least be a major sub-prime wannabe bullshit artist.

The bigger question here in the now to be further considered though is, …….. are dodgy, heavily caveated reports shared with supposedly intelligent agencies responsible and liable for present day crazy actions and any hypermanic demonic reactions …..Resulting in and Creating the Garbage In Garbage Out Truism ‽

The next logical step there then is ……… Commission and Follow the Tales in an Altogether Much Better and More Attractively Addictive Imaginative Report and Breathe Life into IT via Universal Media Sharing of Pictures and Sound Presenting a Quite Different Novel AIdVenture ……. with Alternate Virtual Realities Composed and Exposed for Mass Outing as Future General Knowledge to Be Aware Of rather than Be Beware Of?

Or does anyone have a simpler or more complicated way of doing all of that?

There’s surely more than just a few regulars on El Reg would love to hear anything at all from any of them.

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200706

amanfromMars 1 Mon 6 Jul 15:57 [2006061557] … letting IT Rip on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/06/huawei_may_get_the_boot/

The First Great Cyber Wars are All Hearts and Minds Operations Suffering Neither Fool nor Folly

Speaking on London talk radio station LBC Radio this morning, Dowden raised the possibility that crippling US sanctions have undermined its reliability as a vendor.

Are those sanctions a legitimate appropriate response to what exactly ? The East’s Mighty Rise is not a Daemon to be Vanquished when a Delight to be Highly Valued and Much Sought After.

If such is your Daemon that Sees Not the Future with Affluence for Anything Owned by Everyone Everywhere, do you do Battle Primarily with Yourself and Fail/Win against Phantom Ghosts and Fearsome Fake Enemies ….. Rotten Confections of the Crazed Imagination.

Such is the True Nature Waiting and Paths Resulting from Any and All Wilful Denials of Certain COSMIC Secrets for Novel Noble Presentations, and easily spilled into Attentive Media Systems …. either with or currently without Advanced IntelAIgent Networking Facilities/Utilities/Abilities SMARTR Enabled.

Q: Is Uncle Sam’s the Big Bad Wolf here and China, Little Red Riding Hood?
A: Yes. Is there any reasonable doubt? Is that not scandalous, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden whenever and wherever true and deniable/undeniable?

Q: What is everyone pratting about to protect and lead with? And lead to where exactly?

Anywhere Better than Heaven or worse than Hell? Do you ever/never ask Media Mogul Led Drivers for Pictures of the Future Destinations with SMARTR Solutions to those Few Final Questions.

And just so you know what you can no longer deny ….. SMARTR Solutions = SMARTR Mentoring Analysis Reporting Titanic Research Solutions.

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amanfromMars 1 Mon 6 Jul 16:09 [2007061609] …. sharing on
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/03/aws_net_linux_porting_tool/

Re: Alien Information in Threads of Evidence Shredding Dissent wherever Presented as Fake News

You need to change the permissions on your backups. They appear to be world readable. …. Anonymous Coward

No need, AC. That’s all presently perfectly ok and very helpful to boot with root.

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amanfromMars [2006061706] …… airing a view on https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ghislaine-maxwell-may-appear-court-soon-friday

Something for the Baying Patrons of a Postmodern Colosseum Hosting Wannabe Caesars

Ms Goldman claimed the socialite “doesn’t see any reason to speak about him to the authorities”, adding that Ms Maxwell found the Queen’s son “kind of stupid and naive”.

“If there were girls in the house while he was there, he would have thought they were servants,” Ms Goldman said from her home in Philadelphia. “All these people thinking he is evil are just wrong. He is just the kind of entitled person who sees everyone as a servant.” ….. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/03/friend-ghislaine-confidante-reveals-maxwells-fling-prince-andrew/

I don’t see how that help a great deal at all, Ms Goldman. Is kind of stupid and naive a valid widely acceptable defence and lame excuse for any denied action/indiscretion/guilty pleasure?

Ms Goldman questioned whether Ms Maxwell now “has the money to properly defend herself”, saying it had been too dangerous for her to see her family.

“She accepted that this was going to happen,” she added. “I think she started to give up and become self-destructive. She is going to need a very, very good lawyer.” 

Who needs also to be as a truly honest engaging friend, methinks? Think kindred spirit and the such like?

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200705

amanfromMars 1 Sun 5 Jul 12:30 [2007051230] …. adding more on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/03/aws_net_linux_porting_tool/

Re: Alien Information in Threads of Evidence Shredding Dissent wherever Presented as Fake News

Oh …… and rather than that having limited use for now, what can be done across and within core networks is in fact limitless, and only restrained by one’s own imagination which cannot be borked by A.N.Others, although it may be forked in response to them.

And that’s an altogether very different beast/daemon to command with controls and/or control with commands.

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200704

amanfromMars 1 Sat 4 Jul 08:24 [2007040824] …… just asking on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/02/encrochat_op_venetic_encrypted_phone_arrests/

Re: Matters arising

Agreed. As a criminal*, I would be highly suspicious of any such system. And paying four figures for a special phone? Have none of them heard of Signal et al.? Even WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted these days. I don’t geddit. ….. Hubert Cumberdale

Regarding criminals and why they don’t geddit, HC, one might like to realise Albert Einstein sussed it out a long time again with this observation ……. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

There is very little chat on any media stream about the NCA’s recent operation snaring any criminal masterminds, because although one would surely logically expect any mastermind to realise crime is reserved and preserved for the intellectually challenged and fooled and hence their non-appearance.

Is criminal mastermind oxymoronic like military intelligence?

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amanfromMars 1 Sat 4 Jul 09:06 [2007040906] …….. enquiring further on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/2/2020/07/02/encrochat_op_venetic_encrypted_phone_arrests/

Re: Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear

Spying on defense lawyers is illegal, and even it is done then no details gained via it could be revealed to the prosecution (they’d be obliged to tell the court or end up never, ever being able to practice law again anywhere in the western hemisphere) so that’s pointless and won’t happen. …… Peter2

As obvious persons of interest, given the vast hundreds of billion of pounds slush funds of fiat money they are responsible for laundering and disbursing to recipients, …. and aint that the sweetest of honey pot temptations to abuse and misuse …… does GCHQ provide Parliament with all of their security needs and mentor and monitor all of their feeds. …… you know, not so much spy on them as ensure there is Sterling Blanket Oversight? Surely Cheltenham, and its satellite operations, doesn’t keep itself in the dark about any of the actions and thoughts of Parliamentarians?

That would surely be a gross dereliction of public duty and all too easily give rise to all of manner and matter of abuses and misuse? You know the system has corrupt form as evidenced by many past trials and tribulations.

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amanfromMars 1 Sat 4 Jul 15:35 [2007041535] ….. Deep See Phishing on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/03/uk_buys_oneweb/

Re: For something one must have…. or for something some think no one should really have?

Perhaps they decided on a different way to funnel money to Branson instead of saving his airline.
Branson-backed OneWeb to raise $1bn for its satellite internet mega-constellation ….. Dan 55

Who’s to say it is not a Perfect Viaduct … and as the Virgin Venture that it is ….. most APT that Sir Richard be ACTive at the Forefront of Such Innovative Novel Fields.

You might like to ask him what he would do with such a powerful acquisition/merger/acquaintance and does he have any specific plans for employment/deployment/enjoyment ….. although all of that might be classified sensitive intellectual property and secure strictly need to know information?

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amanfromMars 1 Thu 2 Jul 19:42 [2007021942] ….. still chatting on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/2/2020/06/30/hard_to_find_linux_maintainers_says_torvalds/

Re: I wonder why?

You must be positively predisposed to predominantly postindustrial psychoanalyses … or perhaps you are a practitioner of postmillennial perturbations predetermined by probabilistic precautionary philosophic perfectionism? …. jake

Probably, jake, and pretty phishy it is too.

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amanfromMars 1 Fri 3 Jul 16:56 [2007031656] …… racing ahead on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/03/aws_net_linux_porting_tool/?

Bits of Alien Information within Threads of Evidence Shredding Dissent wherever Presented as Fake News

Is the following disconcerting or encouraging or both and exciting, Robert Grant?

However, the porting assistant itself promises more than it delivers; most of the work of porting is still down to the developer, and it is not especially smart when you dig into how it works.

But of course the especially smart developer is the key operand there. The porting assistant is just an available third party tool for experimental utilisation/program tuning for deep and dark, high and low mainline streaming.

And the product delivered? ……… Advancing Intelligence.

You know … the stuff Donald Rumsfeld warned y’all earlier about and which can tend to be difficult and tricky and wonderfully secure against malevolent interference …… poisonous base metadata injection …. virile viral venal virtual infection ….. for you are missing vital key ingredients/SMARTR Component Parts and Advancing Intelligence.

Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

That’s easy enough fixed though, whenever everything everywhere is now so easily shared virtually for free and is practically immediately available to view at one’s leisure and pleasure online and whenever and wherever else one might be needing it.

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amanfromMars 1 Fri 3 Jul 17:22 [2007031722] …. having a quick say on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/07/03/uk_buys_oneweb/

For something one must have…. or for something some think no one should really have?

Crikey, half a billion smackers conjured out of the ether, just like that. Who do you talk to to get a relatively fair share of that sort of largesse? Or do they come to you with an attractive offer it would be ungracious to deny and refuse?

Inquiring minds would like to know if there are any sort of prime or sub-prime rules in play for those who think there be rules to be followed? 🙂

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amanfromMars 1 Thu 2 Jul 16:33 [2007021633] ….. moving quicklier on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/06/30/hard_to_find_linux_maintainers_says_torvalds/

Why Not? Just follow what is seen and ask establishment authorities for more of the evidence.

Best plan would be some sort of very complex quantum computer that could try all possible bit patterns simultaneously. ….. Smooth Newt

What about a best plan being some sort of very complex quantum computer that has already tried all possible bit patterns simultaneously, has processed all metadata and now shares the resultant deliberation on the ways forward to a global market fully reliant upon mass multi media presentation of current stealthy operating system utilities with extremely rare, attractive remote virtual facilities servering and servicing novel abilities.

A Simple Start for that Program to Realise the View and See that All of it is True, is to Treat it as True in a New Way of Doing Everything Differently and Better with SMARTR Partners rather than denying and doing vain battle against its obviously apparent existence and virtual presence. And share the news that it can no longer be denied from common knowledge.

The question then being ……. If everything is new, what would you like Programs and ProgramMING to Present you so Everything can move Forward in any Number of Novel Noble Directions Equipped with All of the Right Means and Memes?

Or would you prefer and defer all those sorts of almighty decisions to Programs and ProgramMING which Instruct and Advise Earthly Assets in the Secret Levers of Almighty Command and Immaculate Self Control which deliver Unassailable Lead Events ….. Mega Metadata Beta 0Days?

Nuclear Armageddon Morphs into NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT Operations which are Terribly Silent and Much More Deadly in Deployment than ever was Discovered Underground Testing?!.

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amanfromMars 1 Thu 2 Jul 16:56 [2007021656] …. letting fly on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/2/2020/06/30/hard_to_find_linux_maintainers_says_torvalds/

Re: I wonder why?

Here’s something which some employ and enjoy and would attribute to their exceptional success to generous excess, Archtech ……

Proper Preparation and Positive Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance Permitting Prime Prize Plum Penetrations and Perfect Private Protocolled Pursuit of Public Parametered Projects and Pirate ProgramMING Productions for Pumping and Pimping in Presentations to Populations Puzzled by Progress and Prisonered with Pathetic Past Postings rather than Pioneering with Pilots Practised in Plush Promising Programs.

….. and not at all dissimilar to that which the Red Army realise is positively advantageous and mutually beneficial.

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amanfromMars 1 Wed 1 Jul 09:00 [2007010900] …… being agreeable on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/06/30/hard_to_find_linux_maintainers_says_torvalds/

Re: I wonder why?

yet desgning and implementing a commercial fail-safe distributed OS for real certainly twisted my mind – I have no desire to spend the next 20 years going back into kernel space, so have respect for those who are prepared to take on the challenge. …… Anonymous Coward

That is certainly respect well earned, AC, for it is the kernel space which drivers and renders the physical environment a result of mega metadata base manipulation/reorganisation which leads and paints the Greater Bigger Pictures with engaging tales and exciting news for IT Services and Mass Multi Media Moguls to present and realise.

And as complicated as that may seem to be, it is extremely easily done whenever one has enlightened enlightening scripts to follow as one does whenever blessed with comprehensive instruction books akin to Ye Olde OEM Workshop Manuals.

Surely though, such has always been the way of quickly and radically fundamentally changing things for humans on Earth? Anything else would suggest there is no intelligent order to guarantee future events with everything then being dressed up for chaos and displayed in mayhem and delivered by Ignorati rather Illuminati.

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amanfromMars 1 Wed 1 Jul 17:34 [2007011734] …… just saying out loud on https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2020/06/30/australia_cyber_defence_fund/

Re: Oh FFS ….. MI6 Does Dallas ….. Capturing Cowboys and Captivating Cowgirls

That you can break in somewhere doesn’t imply you’re the best person to defend against an attack. It means you’re going to be good at testing a defence, but the skillsets are absolutely not identical. …. Anonymous Coward

Uncommon Knowledge in SMARTR IntelAIgent Spaces, AC, and Absolutely Vital for Programming Programs Guaranteeing All with Future Successful Delivery of Incredible Novel Content for Daily Presentation …… Stop Press Breaking News.

Advanced IntelAIgent GCHQ Services Tempt NSA Needs, FSB Feeds and Myriad Other Alternate Seeds? The quandary and dilemma and conundrum presented as being current there, is whether it is necessarily either a Public Service or Private Enterprise for when it can be both is it something entirely quite different from everything that was freely or expensively made available before.

And some things, and that above is most certainly one of those things, should never ever be ignored for it lands one deep into dark perils with precious few means of easy escape readily to hand ie in simple terms, it puts one in mortal danger of extreme consequences in a heady cocktail of Just Desserts and Heavenly Retribution to Stabilise Return to Yet Another True Order in Chaotic Operations Minus the Unnecessary Baggage of Dead Weights/Lost Souls in Opposition and/or Unfriendly Competition.

And yes, that does all make perfect sense and is freely available for furthering deeper into the dark and dank shadows of putrid systems in elite exclusive executive operations.

And just as sunlight to the vampire, not an exercise to be trifled with, given the dire permanent outcome of such follies as shun the light of day on one’s activities.

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