Red Star, I've been following the saga you linked to about the 'White Hat' hacker that showed he could hack into the flight controls through the flight entertainment system. This is a big story in the hacking community and the bloke has gone into hiding.
It has been a long time since I worked on computer systems, but I used to be a computer engineer that would troubleshoot down to the component level in complex computer systems. I'm stunned that something like this could happen. Either there are some incredibly incompetent computer designers - OR, this is intentional.
I'm swinging towards a combination of both, but primarily an intentional construction that allows reprogramming all the way into the level of the operating system, the system the computer uses. The Russian anti-virus company 'Kaspersky' has recently divulged discovering this ability.
The psychopaths are known for their ability to be too clever by half. I think this may be such a case.
They (NSA, etc) want to be able to penetrate any computer system, so they strong-arm the manufacturers to allow them the access. Well, aren't they clever! - and just what do you think is going to happen when the opposition discovers the same access...
I figure that the Russians and Chinese have been sitting on this for a long time. For example, the release of the 'Climatgate emails' was released through a Russian source - that put the nail in the 'carbon credit' monetary system that was being set up to replace the existing fiat system.
If they could do what the NSA was doing, the Russian and Chinese would have also been able to monitor all economic transactions and see 'where the money is going'. They would have spotted the precious metals manipulations and started surreptitiously purchasing the metals through various fronts - and it looks like they have.
I don't have enough dots to connect at this point, but this is where my intuition is taking me.
It has been a long time since I worked on computer systems, but I used to be a computer engineer that would troubleshoot down to the component level in complex computer systems. I'm stunned that something like this could happen. Either there are some incredibly incompetent computer designers - OR, this is intentional.
I'm swinging towards a combination of both, but primarily an intentional construction that allows reprogramming all the way into the level of the operating system, the system the computer uses. The Russian anti-virus company 'Kaspersky' has recently divulged discovering this ability.
The psychopaths are known for their ability to be too clever by half. I think this may be such a case.
They (NSA, etc) want to be able to penetrate any computer system, so they strong-arm the manufacturers to allow them the access. Well, aren't they clever! - and just what do you think is going to happen when the opposition discovers the same access...
I figure that the Russians and Chinese have been sitting on this for a long time. For example, the release of the 'Climatgate emails' was released through a Russian source - that put the nail in the 'carbon credit' monetary system that was being set up to replace the existing fiat system.
If they could do what the NSA was doing, the Russian and Chinese would have also been able to monitor all economic transactions and see 'where the money is going'. They would have spotted the precious metals manipulations and started surreptitiously purchasing the metals through various fronts - and it looks like they have.
I don't have enough dots to connect at this point, but this is where my intuition is taking me.