amanfromMars 1 Tue 30 Apr 08:34 [1904300834] …… musing on
https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2019/04/29/huawei_us_spat/

Re: Why would that be bonkers?

Here’s an Oxford Six, NATTtrash, whose interests ahead of their own government would make for an interesting read …… David Cameron/ Jeremy Hunt/ Philip Hammond/ Michael Gove/ Boris Johnson/ William Hague

Do spooks, by natural wise default, ensure 24/7/365 active secret covert investigation of both past and current serving government officers and prominent parliamentarians? That’s where all the massive hooky crooked action is surely at?

It would certainly be bonkers to discover that there was any sort of gentleman’s agreement which allowed anyone to escape deep and dark webbed scrutiny …… and, coincidentally render intelligence services heads and supporting troupers/hicks/hacks complicit in the madness and truly unfit for popularly perceived good purpose and greater future operations.

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amanfromMars 1 Tue 30 Apr 11:10 [1904301111] ….just saying on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2019/04/29/surprising_infosec_stories_from_ncsc/

The Hardened Battle Lines of the Great Divide

Read ’em and weep and be sure to know they identify a common enemy ripe for attack and destruction?

(1) “Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else.” …. Frédéric Bastiat

(2)”The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” ….. H. L. Mencken

(3)“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”….. R. Buckminster Fuller

(4)”If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.” …… Thomas Sowell

(5)”The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” …. Ayn Rand

(6)”Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.” …. Nikita Khrushchev

(7)”All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news.“– Willi Munzenberg

(8)”It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” – Upton Sinclair

Howdy fishdog,

We can but hope (8) does not apply to El Reg journalists.

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