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Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by ficklepickle »

walrus01 wrote: post #36
tenebrisalietum wrote: post #35

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> There's absolutely no reason that Windows installs and Linux distros should offer unencrypted storage as anything but a hidden option for experts. People unfortunately have been coddled by consumerism, or are coddled by job titles like "director" and "officer", and expect to be able to get passwords reset and access recovered by someone if they forget. The correct way to do disk encryption is to not store the passw…

> subordinate-to-revenue-generation IT departments If your company is large enough to have an IT Department , even if it's just one person with a sufficient amount of clue, they should know how to set up FDE with a recovery key manually stored in a secure location (even printed on a piece of paper locked in a safe of the CEO, or something). https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio...

I did this for my moms work when I was a teen. I didn't really know what I was doing but I figured it out. Backup keys in the fire safe. It all went smoothly.

Then a month later HQ relented because too many branches couldn't figure it out. These were financial advisors offices, in the days when client data was stored locally. Brokers being too lazy to enter the passphrase trumped information security I guess.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by cafard »

joshka wrote: post #100
hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #92

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As an Aussie, it feels like a tone set in American film and tv which consistently paints Russia as a frenemy which probably influences the writers. I’m sure the Russians are fed the very same sorts of propaganda tho.

(Another Aussie here). How do you feel about Canberra is ... instead of the Australian Government is ...

I have read that in the 1930s, the city of Rome, Texas, sent a letter to the New York Times to protest that it was not the Rome that had just invaded Ethiopia. I guess this could be an apocryphal story.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by eps »

cpursley wrote: post #105
hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #92

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As an Aussie, it feels like a tone set in American film and tv which consistently paints Russia as a frenemy which probably influences the writers. I’m sure the Russians are fed the very same sorts of propaganda tho.

As an American living in Russia, not really. Russian people overall have a very positive attitude towards the US and Americans and are able to differentiate people from their government. Even the official Russian propaganda (Channel 1, etc) has a less harsh depiction of America compared to how US media portrays Russia. All the Russia hate in the US right now doesn't even make an effort separate the politics from the…

You are living in a bubble. General prevailing opinion of Americans - the proverbial stereotype - is that they are arrogant cowboys, and that being put mildly. You ain't likely to hear that directed at you, but it slips through the cracks all the time. You just need to pay a bit closer attention.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by SpaceRaccoon »

eps wrote: post #123
cpursley wrote: post #105

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As an American living in Russia, not really. Russian people overall have a very positive attitude towards the US and Americans and are able to differentiate people from their government. Even the official Russian propaganda (Channel 1, etc) has a less harsh depiction of America compared to how US media portrays Russia. All the Russia hate in the US right now doesn't even make an effort separate the politics from the…

You are living in a bubble. General prevailing opinion of Americans - the proverbial stereotype - is that they are arrogant cowboys, and that being put mildly. You ain't likely to hear that directed at you, but it slips through the cracks all the time. You just need to pay a bit closer attention.

Your claim about the prevailing opinion is not what is being discussed here which is how regular Americans are portrayed in Russian media, which is favourably.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by SpaceRaccoon »

godelski wrote: post #117
type0 wrote: post #87

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There is a distinction https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossiyane

Well TIL that there is a Russian ethnicity. But I will add that colloquially no one says that.

Ignorance is not an excuse.

In mainstream American discourse being Russian is a crime.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by [deleted] »

garyrichardson wrote: post #34
Johnie wrote: post #29

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It’d be very easy for a foreign agent to sneak in with the crowd. In one of the latter videos on that thread, it looked like she was directing/encouraging people to push forward.

Twitter tells me: "This is not available to you." Anyone know why? Was it deleted? Suspended? Region locked (I'm in Canada).

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Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by michaelmrose »

nitrogen wrote: post #61
michaelmrose wrote: post #32

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You mean except for the fact that her participation in the invasion of our capital, attempted overthrow of our government, and theft of intelligence was live streamed for literally the entire nation to see. The only assertion we are relying on from the ex for is the fact that after committing multiple felonies on camera she was planning to commit one more. Furthermore although she is entitled to assumption of innocen…

Furthermore although she is entitled to assumption of innocence in a court of law we are required to provide nothing of the sort. Must disagree with this statement in the strongest possible terms. Twitter mob justice is just as undesirable as any previous form of mob justice.

You are entitled to the strongest possible presumption of innocence because the government can take away your freedom or even your life.

We are able and ought to use our functioning brains to arrive at merely the most likely conclusion.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by fuzxi »

eps wrote: post #123
cpursley wrote: post #105

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As an American living in Russia, not really. Russian people overall have a very positive attitude towards the US and Americans and are able to differentiate people from their government. Even the official Russian propaganda (Channel 1, etc) has a less harsh depiction of America compared to how US media portrays Russia. All the Russia hate in the US right now doesn't even make an effort separate the politics from the…

You are living in a bubble. General prevailing opinion of Americans - the proverbial stereotype - is that they are arrogant cowboys, and that being put mildly. You ain't likely to hear that directed at you, but it slips through the cracks all the time. You just need to pay a bit closer attention.

Arrogant cowboys are a good deal better than the truth.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by kingofpandora »

ProblemFactory wrote: post #99
swirepe wrote: post #91

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I agree that saying "the Syrians" feels incorrect, but how do you feel about saying just the name of the country as shorthand for the country's government? For example America donated fidget spinners to Syra vs The American government donated fidget spinners to the Syrian government (but not 'The Americans donated fidget spinners to the Syrians')

The classical news terminology is to use the name of the capital city to refer to the government of a country. Washington donated fidget spinners, Damascus invited experts from Moscow to inspect the latest advances in ball bearing technology.

Some newspapers explicitly advice against this practice in their style guides.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

ABeeSea wrote: post #119
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #19

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We Russians are go-to Hollywood villains because no Russian is ever offended by this portrayal of Russians in media. Also, we are simply always up to no good. I've been influencing the US presidential elections for a few years, with mixed results.

It might be because the country is run by a dictator who is intent on crippling the US’s diplomatic and economic power.

You are a propaganda victim. He never intended to cripple the US, he simply lacks enough power to do it. Why would he want it, anyway? It's a county where his children will likely live (like children of most Soviet leaders since Stalin), his assets are stored in US currency, too.

I guess he is quite happy with people like you believing in his overinflated image of a powerful adversary to the US, but in reality he's just a crook who is profiteering while he can. Everything else is just a sideshow.

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