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It's categorically false to say intel agencies (or the slight "these people") never deal in truth. That is not how misinfo/disinfo works. Additionally, intel agencies play an integral role in providing truthful and accurate products, for govt and industry partners.

again, what specifically would the US be trying to justify with such a false narrative around rew's? Not seeing the cost/benefit.

This presumes a conspiracy amongst officers forced into early retirement to create a convincing false narrative.

What reason would the USIC have for lying about this? It seems unlikely that we would ever retaliate in kind, especially not after bringing attention to these incidents.

Biotech will see big innovations in the next 50 years. Infotech may not, however, see the same growth that it's seen in the previous 50 years.

If I were starting from scratch as a kid, I'd focus on mathematics and biology in addition to computers/engineering.

The claim is that the attacks also occurred in Russia, China, and other undisclosed locations.

There's been much skepticism in recent years about whether microwaves were the cause of these officers' conditions.

This news confirms that govt agencies are taking the microwave theory seriously as a confirmed explanation for these conditions. It's reasonable to agree with the conclusion at this point.

more interested in snowden's bitcoin and other altcoin holdings. "till the sun goes out" he said. that tells me hes a cryptocurrency billionaire.

just asking so I can forward this to the Russian mafia to give to Putin. Putin will want his half of all of Snowden's cryptocurrency holdings. Thus, all who donated to Snowden likely donated to Putin.

OT, but does anyone know how much bitcoin, ethereum, and/or other cryptocurrencies Snowden is holding?

Harder to hack with device in hand, e.g. by replacing with compromised components or accessing secure data

Counterpoint: We're all safer by using devices that can't be repaired/tampered with by end users.

Take a peek at the Honolulu Rail Transit project on O'ahu. Boondoggle plagued with fraud, waste and abuse.

Someone might add "beaver" as a suitable diversion for their covert fiber tap mission.

Ah, cool. Sounds like there's no excuse. My mistake.

I mistakenly assumed you'd need some kind of cryptographic key signing handshake via active electronics from within the keyfob to achieve secure comms with the host vehicle, and that such a requirement may have been some kind of implementation limiting factor, security-wise.

You'd think keyfob security would be worked out by now (just look at the prevalence of skeleton key software defined radios amongst the grayhat crowd). There's probably a limitation in security complexity due to limited power availability in the keyfob.

Unscientific dogma: Mother nature is telling us through Taiwan's drought to slow down and redesign chips to be secure.

My late model American vehicle is my home. Earlier this week, the locks kept popping open when I was trying to go to sleep. Nobody else besides me has a remote entry key.

Maybe this (and other work) will eventually lead to a Professional Engineering standard for software dev

thanks. may i ask for a source or are you speculating?

My youtube feed had been purposely curated to two science topics for weeks prior. How does the suicide of a friend factor into an "interests" algo that all of a sudden overrides my customizations? I was not doing any searches etc for suicide at that point but I did learn of the suicide via SMS from someone who uses an Android phone. (likely infiltration point for google to initially gather the data point User.FriendsSuicide.WasInformed)

I'm willing to accept the innocent explanation but not on conjecture. This was blatant and fucking hurt me badly and I haven't recovered since. It was the worst possible gaslighting.

Recently: tweeting about my suicidal ideations and having twitter respond with personalized trends such as "He's dead" and "Rope" while shadowbanning me doesn't look good.

Also recently: Facebook showing me a long string of county sheriffs as "people you may know" when a guy i knew long ago was scheduled to be released from a long term federal stint, doesnt look good either. Makes it clear that I've been on a "associate of bad guy" list since Season 6 Ep 12. Is it possible that some kind of social credit algos have been deployed by American tech companies, in a limited fashion? I suspect the architectural arrangements at big tech companies offers compartments for performing limited use-case experiments totally out of view of the rank and file engineers. By design, those ouside that clearance zone won't even know it exists. "CIA middleware" might be appropriate

It seems unlikely to me that the google incident was just a random fluke based on my "interest" in learning of the suicide of a childhood friend. However, only google has the logs, data, and algorithms. I find it unlikely that Google will ever give a straight answer but to me its evidence that Google's data and algos need to be turned over to the justice dept. A big part of Google's power is their impunity to perform such experiments with total deniability. They are worth a trillion dollars yet any damage, incidental or intentional, inflicted on a user goes totally unchecked.

Google is loyal to google/shareholders. They dont give a fsk about me, and I fully expect that no response is forthcoming. There's no accountability, and these services start to look more like public utilities. If it isnt transparent then any such malice can easily be played off with statements claiming that some kind of intelligence is needed for an algo to be malicious

An algo doesn't have to be "smart" to gaslight a person. All you need is their personal data, especially intimate data such as:

* Childhood bully's name

* Subsequent taken name of your ex wife who you were heartbroken to lose

* Suicide of a childhood friend

* Other personals such as siblings' names

Worse yet is rumors. An algo can use info related to rumors to gaslight a person. Just use keywords from the rumors for personalized content. None of this requires any complex algos. Just incompetence and/or malice.

A childhood friend committed suicide, I found out, then the next day or so my science-curated youtube feed suddenly showed me a totally out of context video in the top spot with content that mocked my friend's life.

It appeared as though google/youtube algos used the data point about my friend's suicide to perform a psychological experiment on me. At the least, this was amoral, but appeared malicious to me. I fail to see how it is ever appropriate to customize content based on the suicide of a friend.

I would like to ask anyone here on hn who has the appropriate authority at Google to briefly investigate this incident: Why did google/youtube use the suicide of a childhood friend as a data point for personalizing content, what was the intention, and whether this has changed. Or, perhaps it would help to have an explanation as to why my understanding of this incident is incorrect.

Youtube's algo gaslighted me about the suicide of a childhood friend, by picking content that mocked his life after I learned the bad news.

I had already curated my feed to two specific science topics, and the top rec was a blaring million IQ evil AI punching me in the gut with an Iron Fist. I've never been the same since. Florence Nightingale effect.

People such as Wojcicki have poor moral compasses, or they aren't accountable.

One of my first purchases with the first $1,200 stimulus check last year was birdseed.

The thing is, I used a debit card linked to my name. An hour or so later, I was on (redacted) and my post to an image board was greeted with an image meme making fun of birdseed purchases. It was almost certainly auto-generated. For add'l context, the site was located overseas, so it fell under jurisdiction of our intel agencies.

It's difficult enough to be happy while destitute and homeless, but you should never mess with a man's birdseed. He might get rowdy and cause a commotion, make you regret interfering with his ornithological aspirations.

caffeine, aspirin, and ephedra - while ephedra is banned, this combo has been long known for fat burning properties. it is unsuprising that strong coffee also works.

If China takes Taiwan, that would shift the balance of power due to Taiwan's role as the leading global chip fabricator.

The most recent episode of the podcast ChinaTalk, "China's Chip Dreams", dated March 26, 2021, is relevant.