Unseen

@TheEncogitationer

It gets hard when the rubber hits the road, doesn’t it?

@TheEncogitationer

Once again, good for you, but like I said, for most Americans, it isn’t going to happen.

BUT NOW…

I have a thought problem for you to see how consistent you are with this never deal with terrorists thing.

You’re kidnapped by a group of masked terrorists wearing black garments with white Arabic slogans and clenched fist…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Yes, I was thinking about that. The FBI or NSA would be unlikely to disclose how that was done. I am speculating here but I suspect that the code used to transfer the funds had a “bug” attached to it that told the FBI the bank (or digital wallet) the bitcoins were sent to. Similar to a bug placed in a briefcase giv…

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@TheEncogitationer

Maybe you’re ready for a cyber attack, an alien invasion, or the zombie apocalypse but the public will never follow your lead in any numbers and the government can’t just throw them under the bus in the name of a principle that works in a far more regimented society that’s nothing at all like America.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Much of the bitcoin ransom paid over the Continental Pipeline attack has been recovered. Next week, President Biden will be telling Putin that he has enough of this malarkey already!

That surprised me. I thought one of the selling points of Bitcoin was that governments can’t touch it. I’d like someone to explain to…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Unseen,

Well LOOK AT YOU!!! Seriously, not everyone is going to be as prepared/paranoid as you. Just fuck ’em, or what?

Now, look, you’re the one who brought up the topic of ransom-hacking of oil and utilities. 😎 I just gave my own reply to the issue. Just one person doing it is starfish-tossing, but many more doing it…

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Cybercurrency is impossible to track, so the government would need a new way to assess and collect taxes.

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Unseen, In my meager 1 bed 1 bath apartment, I have: A 50-gallon water heater and a 6-foot water hose; Several gallons of pre-bottled water under my pantry; A bag of charcoal, sand, pebbles, paper and cloth to make filters for standing water; Aquatabs and Neutralizer in case I have to break into the creek water; A mini…

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_Robert_ wrote:

The billing system for that pipeline was probably some piece of crap 20-year old software running on some desktop PC connected straight to the internet. The pipeline people probably secured that system in less than a week after the ransom was paid. The attackers may have had inside help as well. Time for corporate America to start…

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michael17 wrote:

The military has video of these not only defying physics, but with no visible signs of propulsion and dividing like macroscopic quantum mechanics. Moreover they have appeared at  nuclear installations shutting down operations remotely. But I say yes, they are not aliens. Natural things cannot transverse interstellar space in any…

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While the block chain makes it easier for unidentified terrorists to hold systems for ransom, does it also provide security options we never had before as well?

And I still think that if some hackers are holding my region’s water or sewage system, or some major hospital’s internal network for ransom, there is no real choice but to pay.

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_Robert_ wrote:

1)Mandatory reporting of attacks 2)Laws against paying ransom Bitcoin has finally found a practical use, LOL. Note that the attack on the pipeline was against their billing system. They shut their own pipeline so they could still be paid by their customers. If they are not allowed to pay ransom they will have to make their systems…

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_Robert_ wrote:

The real evidence of all extraterrestrial visits is kept in a box with the bones of ‘Big Foot’. It is a small box. Well, it is infinitesimally small actually. We also keep all the actual evidence of religious prophecy in there as well.

Along with the evidence for the Jersey Devil, the Chupacabra, and the Loch Ness Monster.

Maybe let Michael stew in his juices for a while and talk realistically about UFOs?