Good point... An ambassadorship to Afghanistan at our soon to be built embassy in the Hindu Kush.

Just bought the doctor ordered

he would do well...Afghanistan, a graveyard of empires, perfect for wood.

It could make him more powerful

can he be prosecuted? i mean the secret service must be going insane.

it may be a good thing...let him loose, take Afghanistan for real this time.

Imagine being a secret service Sargent, getting up in the morning reading the paper....and its just....always 2 levels down from yesterday...

Linwood might be mistaken for a young lad and utilized in Bacha bāzī.

Chide boy Wood

lol

After all this is 4718 it's been a hell of a year.

I cant wait til ccp gets 5G up around here

Huawei dead and buried. Trump did a good job on that one. didn't think i would say that...He was able to "convince" Europe in following the lead.

What ya mean ive been out of the loop on that one

Oh damn i thought they had signed with. Huawaei

Hauwei are world leaders in 5g...massive contracts throughout the world. Trump convinced allies & others that Hauwei was a national security threat along with tiktok. British intelligence disagreed and continued with the contract. Trump kept banging on about it and loud enough...next thing you know Britain & other European nations end contracts with Huawei. Nice move in my opinion.

downside is, we are far behind in 5g infrastructure.

That tech gap js concerning. But especially after the solar winds incident, I am very concerned about the vulnerability and fragility of our power grid

i agree, power grid is vulnerable. it always was since the release of stuxnet. we literally gave them the tools. China, Russia, Iran...major cyber adversaries.

not sure how we'll narrow the tech gap.

Whats that?

Stuxnet

Virus malware developed by NSA & Israeli's to cripple the Iranian nuclear power plants. Game changer malware. i'll send you some material, very interesting malware.

https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-gb/security-awareness/ransomware/what-is-stuxnet.html

Nice thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikzAcK0l-ZM this is a good watch.

Yup watching that.
Have you been keeping up with the solar winds hack? Last I saw, some users who were targeted had to do full hardware swap

yes. pretty much. I heard the feds literally through infected devices out.

we don't know the full extent of the hack....Russians are good, i'm waiting for us to respond in kind.

Do you work in that field?

I have exposure, work with a lot of tech guys.

Thats crazy, what would a response look like if you were to guess? Economic? Cyber ? Both?

most likely both, definitely not military. I'm sure the NSA already has options, the issue is POTUS not even acknowledging it was the Russians, or anyone for that matter. Mind you, i haven't seen any conclusive evidence it is the Russians...but all signs point in that direction (Security firms, governments, hackers all on the same page with this one).

i hope we cripple ther infrastructure.wishful thinking.

one option is to release dirt on Putin, "his ego won't recover from such attack" i'm not so sure lol

here we go.

i was reading this guys comments from last night, i don't know if he's being serious or what.

@SANCTIONED the way that the whole thing dropped out of the press so fast leads me to believe that the NSA is working it and asked trump and reporters to forget about it while for operational sake. But idk how to conduct cyber ops lol

@PatriotPlaya You *really* need to understand this concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer-expectancy_effect