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Re: Putin on the Ritz

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Post by sitkack »

bluedino wrote: post #46
rmc wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of these security reasons make sense. I've heard whenever a US embassy needs equipment (e.g. a photocopier), they get it delivered from the USA, rather than use a local supplier. The USA used to set up fake local suppliers and was able to get a compromised photocopier in a Soviet embassy.

And the USA snuck a printer into Iraq in the first Gulf War with a virus on it, or was that a hoax?

Some hackers p0wn3d printers at the Navy and sent duplicates of all print jobs overseas. Seems like a great hack.

Re: Putin on the Ritz

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Post by coldtea »

aaronem wrote: post #89
coldtea wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first part might be true for the Aliens/Elvis Alive/Illuminati kind of conspiracy theories. But conspiracies happen all the time, and expecting them is not a "theory", it's a fact of politics and government, since before there was Machiavelli. Everytime a government decision is taken behind closed doors for things that affect politics/the public/etc, it's a conspiracy. It can be as simple as a few party heads dec…

Oh, conspiracies , sure. You'd think that something called "conspiracy theory" would have more to do with them, wouldn't you? But the sort of person who, when presented with a big list of interests, would briefly consider checking the "conspiracy theory" box and then not just refrain from doing so in case the Men in Black might notice, but actually feel himself quite wise and clever for having entertained this train…

The problem is there's also the inverse sort of person, who casually dismisses stuff that happens as "conspiracy theory".

The NSA eavesdropping on Americans? Conspiracy theory.

The head of FBI blackmailing politicians? Conspiracy theory.

And then, when such things came to light, there's this other person (ofter the same as the one dismissing them before), saying:

"Well, duh, we knew all along that something WAS happening, nothing new here...".

Between them it's nearly impossible to get a better understanding of the kind of shitty stuff governments and big corporations do.

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