Tiglath
4 years ago
The overlap of those who don’t want to get the vaccine and those who think that Biden is an illegitimate president is nearly complete.
Take the MyPillow guy, Lindell. He did his own research and found a guy who’s offering him something he doesn’t entirely understand, something the mainstream media is desperate to undercut. Lindell found something in which he has complete, unfailing confidence.
Yep, he shows digital garbage as 'proof' of election fraud. Garbage he can't explain. He calls the garbage 'pcaps,' which are the ABC of cybersecurity, text files that record the network traffic blow by blow, that is packet by packet as transmitted by a TCP/IP network. Pcap comes from 'packet capture,' and it reveals the source, destination, and content of network communications. Engineers can read these files as if they were English, and I can tell you most assuredly, Lindell showed no PCAP files. It's all irrelevant digital garbage.
Lindell, who has claimed for months and months that he had definitive proof that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by China, pledged to release that information at a “cyber symposium” that is underway in South Dakota.
This is how all cons end. Things stretch and stretch and stretch until: snap. So instead of presenting your data, you encode it and obfuscate it and promise that there’s actually something there.
If he had any evidence, why didn't he give it to the FBI? Why hold on to it?
If you are trying to prove something, you prove it. This is not how incident reporting works in cybersecurity. You don't encode your 'proof' into hexadecimal gibberish before presenting it. Instead you provide your analysis and the data it's based on in a digestible format so that other experts can verify it.
But what if you’re not trying to prove it? What if you’re trying to make some cash and you stumbled onto a big, juicy mark?
Maybe Biden lacks the killer instinct. Yet you don’t have to be Niccolò Machiavelli to know Trump poses an existential threat to democratic norms. There will be no reciprocal forbearance, no forgiveness, if he gets a second chance, only vendettas, score-settling and ever greater abuse of power.
By refusing to confront his crooked predecessor and bring him to justice, Joe Biden feeds delusional Trump’s sense of godlike impunity, and the dread prospect of a blasphemous second coming. To a watching world, his paralysis smacks of weakness. It puzzles friends. It leads foes to hope that he, not Trump, is the blip.
What other leader in the world would allow serial wrongdoing to go unpunished, would tolerate unceasing acts of subversion and disruption by so prominent and hostile a figure? If he wasn’t already dead, Machiavelli would die laughing.
Too-nice Joe must stop being polite, take the gloves off – and neutralize the Trump variant before it hits pandemic levels. Isolation and social distancing would help. So lock him up!
Take the MyPillow guy, Lindell. He did his own research and found a guy who’s offering him something he doesn’t entirely understand, something the mainstream media is desperate to undercut. Lindell found something in which he has complete, unfailing confidence.
Yep, he shows digital garbage as 'proof' of election fraud. Garbage he can't explain. He calls the garbage 'pcaps,' which are the ABC of cybersecurity, text files that record the network traffic blow by blow, that is packet by packet as transmitted by a TCP/IP network. Pcap comes from 'packet capture,' and it reveals the source, destination, and content of network communications. Engineers can read these files as if they were English, and I can tell you most assuredly, Lindell showed no PCAP files. It's all irrelevant digital garbage.
Lindell, who has claimed for months and months that he had definitive proof that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by China, pledged to release that information at a “cyber symposium” that is underway in South Dakota.
This is how all cons end. Things stretch and stretch and stretch until: snap. So instead of presenting your data, you encode it and obfuscate it and promise that there’s actually something there.
If he had any evidence, why didn't he give it to the FBI? Why hold on to it?
If you are trying to prove something, you prove it. This is not how incident reporting works in cybersecurity. You don't encode your 'proof' into hexadecimal gibberish before presenting it. Instead you provide your analysis and the data it's based on in a digestible format so that other experts can verify it.
But what if you’re not trying to prove it? What if you’re trying to make some cash and you stumbled onto a big, juicy mark?
Maybe Biden lacks the killer instinct. Yet you don’t have to be Niccolò Machiavelli to know Trump poses an existential threat to democratic norms. There will be no reciprocal forbearance, no forgiveness, if he gets a second chance, only vendettas, score-settling and ever greater abuse of power.
By refusing to confront his crooked predecessor and bring him to justice, Joe Biden feeds delusional Trump’s sense of godlike impunity, and the dread prospect of a blasphemous second coming. To a watching world, his paralysis smacks of weakness. It puzzles friends. It leads foes to hope that he, not Trump, is the blip.
What other leader in the world would allow serial wrongdoing to go unpunished, would tolerate unceasing acts of subversion and disruption by so prominent and hostile a figure? If he wasn’t already dead, Machiavelli would die laughing.
Too-nice Joe must stop being polite, take the gloves off – and neutralize the Trump variant before it hits pandemic levels. Isolation and social distancing would help. So lock him up!