Robert Steele: DHS and DNI Statement on Russia and Electronic Electoral Machine Hacking Has Errors of Fact — Did White House Write This to Help Hillary Clinton? UPDATE 1: FBI Refused To Sign This False Flag Propaganda

IO Impotency
Robert David Steele
Robert David Steele

UPDATE 1: FBI’s James Comey Opposed Naming Russia As An Election Meddler, Source Confirms

The Joint Statement from the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security, contains errors of fact.

The USIC and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assess that it would be extremely difficult for someone, including a nation-state actor, to alter actual ballot counts or election results by cyber attack or intrusion.

The fact is that George Bush defeated Al Gore by combining electronic electoral fraud made possible by Diebold, and Jeb Bush disenfranchising over 30,000 pro-Democratic voters in Florida. More recently, Hillary Clinton stole multiple state presidential primary elections from Bernie Sanders with electronic electoral fraud (in those states that do not have paper ballot back-ups) and she assuredly plans to do the same again against Donald Trump.

The electronic machines can be manipulated internally to divert votes from one candidate to another  (e.g. instances where multiple votes for John Kerry are tallied for George Bush). Some, not all, machines can be accessed remotely by anyone including Dutch teen-agers, with similar vote manipulation possibilities. All electronic voting machines lack sufficient integrity to be trusted by the public.

Continue reading “Robert Steele: DHS and DNI Statement on Russia and Electronic Electoral Machine Hacking Has Errors of Fact — Did White House Write This to Help Hillary Clinton? UPDATE 1: FBI Refused To Sign This False Flag Propaganda”

Mongoose: $540M for Fake News? How Much Open Source Intelligence Could That Buy for Special Operations Forces?

IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Military
Mongoose
Mongoose

Pentagon paid PR firm 540mn to make fake terrorist videos

The Pentagon paid a UK PR firm half a billion dollars to create fake terrorist videos in Iraq in a secret propaganda campaign exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.   . . .    The firm created television ads showing Al-Qaeda in a negative light as well as creating content to look as though it had come from “Arabic TV”. Crews were sent out to film bombings with low quality video. The firm would then edit it to make it look like news footage.   . . .   The firm also created fake Al-Qaeda propaganda videos, which were then planted by the military in homes they raided.

Continue reading “Mongoose: $540M for Fake News? How Much Open Source Intelligence Could That Buy for Special Operations Forces?”

Stephen E. Arnold: US Government’s Flawed Content Management Procurement

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Phi Beta Iota: Above is our editorial title. The author's original title is below.

What Content Management Systems Ring the Chimes of US Government Procurement Teams?

The answer to this question does not require a consultant in content management or, as the insiders term it, CMS. Navigate to Digital Gov’s run down. The list is, like many things about the US government, “unofficial.”   . . .   The list is a sure fire guide for those who want to sell CMS consulting services to government agencies. Any notion of standardization or buying US software seems to be out of fashion.

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: US Government's Flawed Content Management Procurement”

Stephen E. Arnold: US Government Struggling with IT — 77% of funding consumed by O&M — while Palantir sues US Army for business….

#OSE Open Source Everything, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

US Government: Computer Infrastructure

Notice that the US Federal government spent $0.68 cents of every IT dollar on operations and maintenance in 2010. Jump to the 2017 estimate. Notice that the status quo is likely to consume $0.77 cents of every IT dollar.

Bam! Pow! Zap! Palantir Steps Up Fight with US Army

I recall one Master of the Universe telling me, “Keep the client happy.” Today an alternative approach has emerged [and is being pioneered by Palantir]. I term it “Fight with the client.” I assume the tactic works really well.

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: US Government Struggling with IT — 77% of funding consumed by O&M — while Palantir sues US Army for business….”

Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir Attacks US Army, Geosparsing, DoD Buries In-Q-Tel, Digital Currencies Neither Anonymous nor Reliable

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

A Congressman Seems to Support Palantir Gotham for US Army Personnel: I was disappointed that a reference to the F 35 was not included. From my vantage point in Harrod’s Creek, the F 35 program is a more spectacular display of procurement goofs.

Geoparsing Is More Magical Than We Think: The article acts as a promo piece for the GeoDoc application, however, it does delve into the details into how geoparsing works and its benefits.

Improvements in News and Military Technology Coming: DoD looks out the windshield of innovation and In-Q-Tel looks at the world via a rear view mirror.

Digital Currencies: Anonymity and Trust Not Working at Peak Efficiency: Other major issue with Bitcoin is that it is unregulated. It can lose its entire value in a single day.

Yoda: Riot Not Slack (Open Source Tool Integration)

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency

yoda with light saberWould you buy a C4I system from the same people that built the F-35 and the USS Gerald Ford? Of course you would. That's why you are  dysfunctional.

Riot (formerly known as Vector while it was running in Beta) is a new UK-borne app. It’s aiming to bring conversations and productivity tools together, across different apps, and providing the ability to tweak and host your own version by being open source, while also being secure. Riot is built on Matrix, an open standard for decentralized persistent communication. Riot lets teams share data and collaborate on projects across different communication apps and third party tools. It uses Matrix to bridge to external networks such as Slack, IRC, Twitter and Gitter.

Continue reading “Yoda: Riot Not Slack (Open Source Tool Integration)”

Berto Jongman: FBI Pays $1.3M for a $100 Hack

Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

The FBI spent $1.3M to crack the iPhone — this hacker spent just $100

A security researcher has demonstrated that the passcode of an iPhone can be cracked using off-the-shelf components which cost just $100 — a tiny fraction of the $1.3 million the FBI paid a third party to do the same thing in the case of an iPhone 5C belonging to the San Bernardino shooter earlier this year. In a video posted on YouTube and an accompanying paper describing the technique, University of Cambridge associate researcher Sergei Skorobogatov showed how a four digit passcode could be revealed in less than two days using a technique known as Nand mirroring.

noble gold