Code dumped online came from “Omnipotent” NSA-tied hacking group

Kaspersky Lab analysis means Monday's leak almost certainly came from Equation Group.

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Studbolt[/url]":3lfdc6p4]Trying to make sense of the last few months' activities on the part of various actors, combined with watching what's posted on Russia agitprop websites like RT and zerohedge, is giving me an old familiar feeling I remember while being taught to hide under my desk during a nuclear attack. For those who weren't alive during the Cold War, a great deal of this must not seem real.

I've come to the following conclusions:

1. The US is being attacked right now by Russia in a way that goes well beyond what might normally shrug off as the normal tradecraft between nations. My guess is that after a great deal of success in Europe, Russia felt confident enough that they could open up on the US at maybe the level they were using on Ukraine in about the 2001-2004 period.

2. The advanced measures include a great deal of agitprop, being released through a lot of websites. I hear versions being repeated word for word out of the mouths of street people and political candidates and everyone in between, from every corner of the political spectrum. Lots of useful idiots and fellow travelers out there right now.

3. There are probably four or five different narratives being pumped into the US right now, causing a great deal of confusion, agitation, loss of confidence in society and/or the government, loss of confidence in democracy, alienation between social groups, and dysfunction in the US political process.

4. Syria is a weapon to pump refugees into Europe and the USA and destabilize NATO countries.

I'm just beginning to be aware of the scope of everything that's happening, but there are lots of other people more paranoid than I who have been aware of what's going on long before I got there. Generally they're people who study Russian history. Some time, when I feel like I have the time to do so, I'm going to sit down and write out the various narratives, strategic goals, and attack vectors, just for organizational edification. That's about all I can do.

I think what's happening right now is the most serious threat to the United States (and Europe) since WWII. I'm amazed at how effective it's been, and how easily it's happened right under our noses. Europe is being divided, and the United States has been effectively neutered.

1) US is doing the exact same to Russia and many other countries (see recent "electsions" in South America for quality US approach).

2) It's not like US media is all objective as holy fuck. Most of americans on this very site are making fun of Fox for being nothing but PR. It's obvious that reality is grey rather than black/white which means there are many points of view and just because you don't agree with them doesn't mean that they are wrong.

3) See 2. Every side is pushing its own narrative. Even inside a same country the stories are different based on who owns the media you are looking at.

4) It is US and its Arab pets that are supporting the Jihadists in Syria and have created the whole war, just like Libya. It is NATO member Turkey that is threatening EU with refugees and has our dear Merkel needing a change of pants.

 

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divisionbyzero[/url]":21obq2pe]Confirmed? Really? Wow. It doesn't take much. You trust Kaspersky?

Umm...

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechcons ... ssian-govt

Another propaganda article from the western mass media.

Here in the West, we don't trust our mass media not to be unprofessional or uninformed, but we do trust them not to be working for the State. If they were working the State, the other press would be pointing at them like Body Snatchers.

Do you really believe the media isn't working with the state in the west? Really?

By and large ... yes.

I will see your response with anecdotal evidence, where western mass media was working with the state, and raise you two examples of the opposite.
(Actually, I could make that ten or more ... I picked "two" out of laziness. )

Remember Sony email hack? The one that showed White House reaching out to media industry to get "correct" narrative in the media? Remember how everyone concentrated on the "NK hacked us, bad NK" instead of on actual content?