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Trump's Second Term

stanfr said:
Meanwhile, our nuclear secrets are being exposed and our personal information being fed to LLMs...fun times! o_O

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"Between January 14 and February 8, servers belonging to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and Fermi Accelerator National Laboratory have been found with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services exposed to the public internet. This grants malicious actors the opportunity to hack into servers hosting sensitive nuclear research data, a golden egg for spy agencies across the globe."

Yeah, sorry, this guy has no idea what he's talking about. First off, all of these government labs do multiple kinds of research besides nuclear stuff, and much of that research isn't even classified. He presents zero evidence that any of the computers visible to the internet have any connection to anything classified. It's all just speculation presented as fact.

They make reference to a supposed DoE server which is vulnerable, but the link they provide to support this claim:
doesn't really seem to support that. There's a text file from the server which claims that it's a federal computer system, and it makes reference to reporting info to the DoE, but doesn't say it is a DoE server. But even more significantly, the site in question is a .com site, not a .gov or even a .us site. This sort of sloppiness undermines the credibility of your source.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
the instructions by the DOJ to the SDNY to drop the Eric Adams case - for now - pretty much spells out that the prosecutors could pick up the case again if Adams doesn't win his election and drops the Sanctuary City status of NY.
This DOJ is in the market for corrupt quid-pro-quos; just wait for all the new cases that "might" be dropped if the target will do what Trump wants.
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As of now, several people including the Trump-appointed acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon have resigned rather than carry out this clearly corrupt order. This is being compared to Nixon's infamous Saturday Night Massacre. I guess we're waiting for the next Robert Bork to step in.
 
Ziggurat said:
This grants malicious actors the opportunity to hack into servers hosting sensitive nuclear research data, a golden egg for spy agencies across the globe."

Yeah, sorry, this guy has no idea what he's talking about.
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Agreed. I worked as a contractor at LLNL under contract from the NNSA. There is a crystal-clear distinction between classified and unclassified networks. They are rigorously air-gapped. When I was there, my unclassified computers on the unclassified network could be set up for Remote Desktop access as long as the access was supervised by LLNL people. Quite a lot of Dept. of Energy work, including at the national labs, is done from remote locations and requires access to the unclassified network from outside. LLNL used multi factor authentication even back then to get into the network.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Vance at the Munich Security Conference:

"The threat that I worry that most about vis a vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within."

"We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can't shoot values."
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Yeah, an absolute lawless git up to his neck in a national socialist betrayal of his own country lecturing us on threats from within. Go ◊◊◊◊ the ◊◊◊◊ off you misanthropic piece of couch ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ sack of ◊◊◊◊ stain on the arse of humanity, Vance!
 
Ziggurat said:
At one point in time it was. Not so much anymore. Low NATO spending on defense is not in our interest now, and it's not even really in Europe's interest. It's in the short term interest of some European politicians, but that's it.
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Defence spending is in no one's interest apart from those whom profit from making weapons. It is a waste of money. If not used they are a waste of resources, if used they are hugely costly in terms of death, injury and destruction. All countries would be better off with less defence spending. Since WW2 it is difficult to think of a war that improved things. Even if European defence spending was lower I don't think Russia is going to try and occupy any European country. Europe doesn't need the type of global offensive armed forces the US favours. Europe needs costal naval forces, air interdiction, local defence. It is does not need air tankers, long range bombers, air transport, a blue water navy.
 
Ziggurat said:
Why would anyone expect the post-WW2 order to last forever? The circumstances that created it are radically different from circumstances now. The world order needs some rearranging.

The US has a trade deficit with the EU. We sell them fewer goods than they sell us. It's already the case that we aren't as dependent on their markets as they are on ours.

For one, US tariffs don't apply to our exports.

For another, have you really thought about the logic of tariffs applied to goods that the government is buying? Let's say a European country wants to buy an F-35 for, say, $100 million (working with round numbers, we don't need accuracy). Now let's apply a 25% tariff, so now the plane costs $125 million. But the tariff portion of that payment doesn't go to the US, it goes to the government that levied that tariff. The government pays $100 million to the US, and $25 million to itself, and it's out $100 million, as if that tariff never existed. Tariffs that a government applies don't actually change the price that government pays for goods. So none of this trade war directly affects European arms purchases from the US.

And lastly, European nations will keep buying stuff like the F-35 because 1) we make really good weapons, 2) economies of scale mean that we're competitive on price, 3) defense products are often in service for decades, one presidential term isn't going to be the deciding factor.

They need to ramp up their own defense regardless.

HE DID! He spent his whole first term telling them to ramp up defense spending. And did they listen? No, they did not.

They should have listened the first time. Will they listen now?

I'm not sure you understand what Putin wants. It isn't actually territory.

Whatever Putin wants? Hardly. Putin doesn't want Trump to push for more European defense spending. Putin really doesn't want the US to increase fossil fuel production. And yet, that's something Trump has consistently pushed for.
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Europe does not need the F35, it is not useful for Europe. Europe could make do with the Typhoon and future Eurofighter when that comes on line.
 

Lewis Kamb (@lewiskamb.bsky.social)

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
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CDC source:

“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.

They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
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The Don said:
I take it that the threat to Europe is the threat from within due to Islam.

I mean Russia has launched an actual invasion and has directly threatened Finland and Sweden but I guess that's no biggie.
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It threatened but never did, when Sweden and Finland were out of NATO.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
The Ukraine war has made people think seriously about whether they could fight a protracted war, and about security of supply if they do. How many weeks of a hot war could their stockpiles supply, and what do they do then? Not an issue for the US which, even if it adopts a foreign-designed weapon, always licenses domestic production. Others do the same where they can, but the economics don't always make sense and nobody else is going to build F35s. Russia has changed the calculation a bit for the US's European customers. If some hostile power was willing to take heavy casualties until your stockpiles were exhausted, you'd be entirely beholden to the US to be a willing supplier of more. So the US gets to choose whether you fight on or not.
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I think this is the real lesson. Stockpiles of munitions need to be maintained and you have to subsidise manufacturers to have capacity to ramp up production. Cheap drones that part time sofa warriors can learn to fly are probably more cost effective than warthogs for ground support.
 
Apparently a CIA manual from WW2 on resisting racism is becoming a 'best seller'.
www.404media.co

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
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Having read some of this I think it is probably the basis for training NHS mangers.

  • “Insist on doing everything through ‘channels.’ Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.”
  • “Make ‘speeches.’ Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate ‘patriotic’ comments.”
  • “Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.”
  • “Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.”
  • “‘Misunderstand’ orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.”
  • “In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.”
  • “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
  • “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
  • “Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.”
  • “Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.”
  • “Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job”
  • “Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.”
  • “Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.”
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Gulliver Foyle said:
Yeah, an absolute lawless git up to his neck in a national socialist betrayal of his own country lecturing us on threats from within. Go ◊◊◊◊ the ◊◊◊◊ off you misanthropic piece of couch ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ sack of ◊◊◊◊ stain on the arse of humanity, Vance!
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I feel a part of my soul die whenever true artistry is censored.
 
Ziggurat said:
"Between January 14 and February 8, servers belonging to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and Fermi Accelerator National Laboratory have been found with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services exposed to the public internet. This grants malicious actors the opportunity to hack into servers hosting sensitive nuclear research data, a golden egg for spy agencies across the globe."

Yeah, sorry, this guy has no idea what he's talking about. First off, all of these government labs do multiple kinds of research besides nuclear stuff, and much of that research isn't even classified. He presents zero evidence that any of the computers visible to the internet have any connection to anything classified. It's all just speculation presented as fact.

They make reference to a supposed DoE server which is vulnerable, but the link they provide to support this claim:
doesn't really seem to support that. There's a text file from the server which claims that it's a federal computer system, and it makes reference to reporting info to the DoE, but doesn't say it is a DoE server. But even more significantly, the site in question is a .com site, not a .gov or even a .us site. This sort of sloppiness undermines the credibility of your source.
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You are correct, that link does refer to a .com site that seems to come from some random It dude. So I am skeptical of this source and probably would not have linked it if I had dug further. There are other links to .gov sites however. I am more concerned with the use of AI these DOGE minions are using, and you can see how ridiculous it is simply by going to the doge website.
 
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