(Conspiracy Nation, 09/19/05)
-- A report from latimes.com suggests a levee break in online computer
transactions.
This editor, opening a savings account recently, asked the bank
officer, "How secure are the online transactions?" She replied, "There
are passwords."
In the mid 1980s, this editor studied computer science. One
instructor, a former wrestling coach, was fond of saying, "For every
move, there is a counter-move." This was in regard to hackers versus
anti-hackers.
There are passwords. There are encryption schemes. There are
code-crackers just as there are safe crackers. For every move, there is a counter-move.
According to the LA Times report, dated 9/18/05, "We are seeing
explosive growth in 'crimeware.'" Insidious programs track your
keystrokes and transmit passwords to criminals. Keylogging programs
"can install themselves after computer users open faked e-mails,
instant messages or even advertisements on mainstream websites. Then
they record everything typed on a computer — or just what's typed
during user visits to specified financial sites." ("Now, Every
Keystroke Can Betray You," by Joseph Menn)
Recently "thieves have been working to automate more of the process,
potentially enabling attacks on thousands of accounts simultaneously."
Bill Clinton warns, ""What Americans need to understand is that ...
every single day of the year, our government goes into the market and
borrows money from other countries to finance Iraq, Afghanistan,
Katrina, and our tax cuts."
"We have never done this before. Never in the history of our republic
have we ever financed a conflict, military conflict, by borrowing money
from somewhere else."
Clinton added: "We depend on Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Saudi
Arabia, and Korea primarily to basically loan us money every day of the
year to cover my tax cut and these conflicts and Katrina. I don't think
it makes any sense."
Why is Bill Clinton piping up now, suddenly belaboring the obvious?
And why is Time magazine also
this week coincidentally waking up and smelling the coffee?
Is the levee break in the
online security? Or is it in exponentially unsustainable debt?
"It is clear the eminent domain is being used as a means of
transferring wealth to developers; a wealth redistribution scheme for
the rich," writes Noose Papier (pseudonym). "The Supreme Court, in
their recent decision concerning a case in New London, Connecticut, has
endorsed this. An AP report quipped, 'Cities may bulldoze people's
homes to make way for shopping malls or other private development, a
divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday [June 23rd, 2005], giving local
governments broad power to seize private property to generate tax
revenue." ("Eminent Domain and the New Orleans Land Grab," Portland
Indymedia.org, 9/17/05)
Coincident to the recent Supreme Court decision, New Orleans has
"broad power to seize private property."
"They say," according to one website (http://judicial-inc.biz/katrina_Drug_trade.htm),
"We gave them a bus ticket, a $2000 debit card, and some MRE's. They
aren't welcome back." This refers to urban renewal now commencing in
New Orleans. Those poor people, mostly black, are being relocated. This
has happened before, though not on such a scale. For instance, in the
1960s, a neighborhood on Chicago's near west side was renewed. Jane
Addams Hull House is all that remains.
"Their neighborhoods were destroyed. They have relocated... If they
try to come back, FEMA will give them a bill for the toxic clean-up."
A speculative fever has overtaken America. There are bets on
housing, bets on gold, bets on "Fed" interest rates. There is also a
roving swarm of outright gambling, now poised to further envelop New
Orleans. Underlying these things is the new "digital money," computer
blips and bleeps noticed by J. Orlin Grabbe in the 1990s.
The blips and bleeps are vulnerable to hackers, yes. Will they be
blamed when the dice roll "snake eyes?"
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